To Peggy & Fossett Family members,
In this difficult time, try to reflect on the positive. I know what it is like when a member of a family is missing. Keep the faith. I am holding out hope that they will find him, too. You know he loved flight. I am a private pilot. When I am flying through the air I think about what if I went down, and it does not frighten me. I would do everything in my power like every pilot would, to survive, but if not I always tell my family and friends, just know that at age 58, I have had a good life and have been blessed and just loved flying. We are on this earth for a predetermine time. Dry your tears and embrace your life together. Share that with us. When did he first get interested in flying? How did you feel? This will calm you, until he is found. To everyone blogging, always tell your family and friends that you love them, because today may be the last chance to say "I Love You".

Claudia, Palm Desert, California, USA

Eacylt how 'these resources' could be used to find missing kids is something that Skeptic does not bother to explain. Most Google Earth images are far from current anyway. A missing nuclear warhead would be searched for somewhat differently but some people will believe any conspiracy theory.

Roger Tilbury, Worthing, England

**To Skeptic**
I dont think your wild conspiracy theories are very helpful at the moment.

I'll be sure to sign up to Google Earth this evening, every little helps. I hope Steve is found alive and well, he's good competition for British speed-demons

Phill Barlow, Heswall, England

If his emergency beacon and wrist watch alarm were
not activated, perhaps he suffered a sudden heart attack or stroke and passed out before he could send out
an alarm. The plane might have continued on until it
ran out of fuel, as others have been known to do, and
it may have crashed hundreds of miles from the ranch.
Limiting the search to the nearby areas may be a
mistake. It should include the whole area within the
range of his plane's fuel supply.

Ray Sutton, N. Vancouver, B.C., Canada

All this could have possibly been avoided if he had filed a flight plan, Cannot understand him, being as experienced as he was. Perhaps a bit cocky and arrogant?

Jim McDonald, Calgary, Alberta CANADA

If there was ever a superman, it is Steve Fosset, no one has done so much to advance our world, as Mr. Fosset, and obviously not for the money, Mr. fosset understands sacrifice, unlike most selfish americans, that only watch ( on T.V.) as things get done. I would trade my life for his, even today if it could truly be done. Steve will be missed if he's not found, spend all it takes to find him, his family deserves it, the world needs him. Mr. Fosset we love you and thank you for all you have done. My chidren know every thing you have done, I won't let them forget you ever!!!!!! P.S I will donate 1 month wages to his search & rescue, I won't starve I live in America...

Dan Brizendine, hutchinson, kansas

The Google Earth images that you can look at it are from last Saturday. Oh! maybe a nuclear cruise missile simply fell off a B52, a thousand miles off the B-52's flight plan and aliens have taken over the Democrat party and Karl Rove blew up the Twin Towers and Bigfoot is alive and well in government custody.....

Cram Grebsivlas, California, USA

Look far to the East - Wendover, Utah area where large flats can be found. Check Bonneville as well. Nevada's large flats are not to the West but to the East !

Bill Scott, Springboro, Ohio

I really hope that we find Steve Fossett one way or another. He is just about the last great American adventurer. We need people like him to brighten our lives and give us hope. We need some kind of closure on this. I don’t suppose it’s possible that he strayed over one of those “Area 51” sites and is now in the clutches of some black ops psycho ?

Marc Ransom, APTOS, CA

How can you find a child on a satellite picture, Skeptic?

Name Withheld, Lancaster,

Interesting that publicly we're led to believe the images from Google Earth are up to 3 years old. While I am glad this initiative is happening to find Mr Fossett, how stunningly convenient that satellite imagery happened to be taken of eactly the right areas at exactly the right time. Google has strong CIA connections (like it or not, it's a fact), and I'm willing to bet this is CIA or other imagery that is being passed off as being from the satellite sources Google Earth normally uses, to enable this search to happen. It's a good thing, but please - we weren't born yesterday.

Alex Kerr, London, UK

Do you honestly believe the government would want civilians in on a search for a missing nuke? Sounds like a Charlie Sheen hallucination to me.

I agree about the waste of resources. Disgusting. The guy died doing what he loved. Let him rest in peace. I doubt his last wish was to have non-stop video of his cadaver all over CNN and FOX, which is exactly what will happen if they find him.

Nathan, Wells, MN

Too late

This became a recovery effort Wednesday

An old man with no rescue gear or H2O has NO chance of survival

Nic K. , Denver, CO ,

My understanding is that Steve was looking for a place to attempt a new land speed record. If that is true, is i possible that he headed toward Gerlach, NV. ??? There's alot of history regarding land speed attempts there and it may have been a prime location to survey... Best wishes and good hunting!

Ron Duran, Merced, USA

I would love to put my hours on the computer to some worthwhile use. I am especially interested in trying to be of some help to finding Steve Fossett.

Sandra G. Rice, Bellevue, Nebraska, USA

Ok article. Needs a link to the Amazon search.

DONSCYCLEWARE.COM, IRONTON, USA

why cant we do this for every air craft or ocean going vessel?lets call it a C.F.A (cyber fossit allert ).

toby taylor, bend, oregon

GOD Bless Steve Fossett and everyone helping in the search to find him. I Hope he's still alive, well and gets found soon!

Chris, Milton Keynes, England

erm, have you never noticed that some of the Google earth images (e.g., the south of England) are years old, never mind months?

atm, Brussels,

Don't worry the nuke is harmless unless you have this top
secret code:09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Scott , Burnaby, BC Can

What they should do is have the new and old images compared and look for any crashed planes that have appeared recently. This would get rid of most of the false alarms.

Jonathan, Earth ,

This is sick. You can bet that there are thousands of parents of missing kids that would rather use these resources to find their kids. Money can buy you anything.

I've heard that this is also a front for a search for the missing nuclear warhead from that plane that flew last week over the US.

6 missiles were reported on the plane when it took off, 5 were reported on the plane when it landed.

Could this search for Steve be a front for a search for a missing nuclear weapon?

Skeptic, Vancouver, Canada

maybe fosset only flew a mile or less out before he was forced to land from his take off point and everyone is looking hundred miles out

mhodges, edgerton, wis

No signal from the SRB means he likely went down in a ravine/gully/arroyo deep enough to block the signal.

I hope they're focussing the search on high-relief areas.

Best of luck

john drobe, Vancouver, Canada (BC)