Denver International Airport: Home of New World Order?

I already thought I had seen Hell on Earth. And that place was Manila Airport. I cannot well repeat how there I entered, so full was I of slumber at the moment.

Midway upon the journey of my life, I found myself within a terminal dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. There didn’t appear to be an entrance nor an exit. It was more a case of just joining the throng of the shuffling crowd and praying that fate would guide us all through the nine circles of the screening process.

It was a place of lost souls and lost luggage and lost hope. I felt at one point as if I was doomed to repeat the same checkpoints over and over again whilst missing out some of the important ones that would guide me to the next level of this limbo. When I wasn’t being asked to take my shoes off yet again, or getting frisked by an angry man with a gun, I was being harassed by a grumpy staff member who told me that I hadn’t filled in the necessary documentation which should have been given to me at a checkpoint that I had yet to visit.

It came as a great relief when I was finally guided into the hidden road and returned to the bright world, from thence I came forth to rebehold the stars. I also had a bad experience in the local branch of ‘Lucky Chicken House’ but that’s another story.

But it would seem that whilst Hell on Earth is indeed an airport, it’s not the one in Manila. There are even more sinister forces bubbling beneath the surface of Denver International Airport, Colorado. The largest airport in the West — and the second largest airport on Earth after King Fahd International Airport in Saudi Arabia — sits on 54 square miles of land and played host to over 69 million passengers in 2022.

So it seems a strangely busy and conspicuous place to choose as the location for the secret headquarters of the New World Order. And it seems an odd place to hide an underground labyrinth of mysterious tunnels which serve as both a prison camp run by our reptilian overlords and a nuclear bunker reserved for the world’s elite following the planned mass extermination of the peasants. You know the kind of people I’m talking about when I refer to the world’s elite.

Hillary Clinton. Bill Gates. Celine Dion.

David Hasselhoff. But I doubt there’s a ticket reserved for me or you in the ninth circle of Hell.

And oh, you may scoff at the very idea that the New World Order would plant their biggest secrets within one of the most hectic places in the world, but there’s a whole raft of compelling evidence which suggests that the conspiracy theorists may be right on this one. It’s there for anyone to see with their own eyes. And I’m not even talking about photoshop trickery or fabricated anecdotes.

Here are just some of the sights a passenger may have genuinely glimpsed over the last few years during their visit to an airport which is often referred to as Area 52: A demonic sculpture which took inspiration from Frankenstein’s monster by killing its own creator. Heartwarming murals depicting dead children, soldiers in gas masks, and an imminent apocalypse. A runway layout shaped in the design of a Swastika.

A humanoid with a lizard’s head patrolling the secret underground tunnels. And a talking gargoyle which may have let the cat out of the bag when it proclaimed to startled passers-by “Welcome to Illuminati headquarters.” Come on people, this is far from normal.

You don’t get any of this nonsense in Newquay Airport in Cornwall — and they’re shooting satellites into space and losing them. So what’s really going on at Denver International Airport? And will we ever find out the truth before the dawn of the apocalypse?

Build Me Up Buttercup

Denver International Airport has been the subject of conspiracy theories ever since the 1960s, which is a bit odd as they didn’t even start building it until 1989. When the idea was first proposed, the main point of opposition seemed to be that Denver was already serviced by Stapleton International Airport which had been running mighty fine since 1929, just 16 miles away from the site on which the replacement airport was destined to be built. Not only that, but Stapleton Airport had six runways, whereas the proposed replacement would have only five.

Why on Earth would you tear down a perfectly good airport, and then spend billions of dollars on building an inferior version with fewer runways and reduced capacity? It just didn’t make sense from the start. Unless of course there was a devious ulterior motive behind the construction of this unnecessary monstrosity…

Well, there was nothing particularly devious about the need to knock down Stapleton Airport and start breaking new ground. The old airport had been gradually expanding since 1929 to the point where it was now bursting at the seams with zero scope for the vital further growth required to allow access for new airlines. There wasn’t much further for the airport to stretch as they were largely boxed in by nearby communities who had a habit of filing lawsuits against the airport for noise pollution.

The only realistic option left on the table was a potential extension into the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, but that was dropped following legal threats from The Adams County. As for those impressive six runways, they were configured in two sets of three parallel runways which crossed each other, so only three could ever be used at the same time. And the poorly designed runways were so close together that it made safe landings impossible during slightly inclement weather, leading to frequent long delays for the frustrated passengers milling around a cramped airport, and a chain reaction which disrupted travel on a national scale.

You can begin to see why someone eventually figured that the only way forward was to build a new more efficient airport with proper runways and plenty of room for future expansion, far away from any urban developments populated by annoyed residents eager to file their next lawsuit.

But it took a while for the new airport to get off the ground. The idea was first put forward by Denver Mayor Bill McNichols in the late 1960s, but it wasn’t until Federico Peña was elected mayor in 1983 that the plans finally began to gather pace. After several years of wrangling, he struck a deal with Adams County leaders to back a proposal to annex 54 square miles of land on the remote northeast edge of Denver, miles away from even the most sensitive of urban ears.

But the construction encountered a few unexpected bouts of turbulence along the way. It was originally announced that the new Denver International Airport would be open for business in 1993, but it was delayed for 16 months. And when it finally opened to the public in February 1995, it was revealed that the total costs for the project had racked up to $4.8 billion — almost $2 billion over the original budget.

There were all kinds of excuses for the heavy delay and mushrooming budget. A cutting-edge underground automated baggage handling system had proved trickier to get working than first thought — more on that disaster in a moment or ten. It was also reported that progress had been hampered by bad weather, last-minute design changes, financial problems, and frequent contractual disputes which led to a constantly changing crew of contractors working on the project. And of course those secret underground headquarters and prison camps and survival bunkers were never going to be particularly cheap, although at least the lizard guards were happy to accept payment in mealworms, slugs, and alfalfa sprouts.

But all this led to suspicious questions from more inquisitive minds who were keen to look much deeper than the fancy new runways and the check-in desks. Why had it been necessary to build a new airport on a site that was twice the size of Manhattan? What were they doing with all that extra space, and why was the construction so heavily delayed and shrouded in secrecy?

Were the construction crews constantly rotated so that nobody working on the project could comprehend the full scope of the architect’s vision? Could it be that the true purpose of the project involved far more than the public were ever allowed to see, and these mysterious design modifications were the reason why the project ran so massively over budget? Not that the budget would be too much of a problem anyway if the bill was being footed by The New World Order.

One of the biggest conspiracy theories relating to Denver Airport is that it was all paid for by The New World Order and constructed to their strict specifications. And they’ve probably got a bob or two to spare. The New World Order is supposedly made up of an elite group of movers and shakers who one day plan to take over the world and create a single totalitarian global government, but the slightly concerning element of their grand scheme is that they first plan to commit mass extermination by reducing the population to just two billion people on the grounds that a vastly reduced population would be a bit easier to control.

Slight variations on this theory suggest that Denver Airport was funded by The Illuminati — originally a genuine secret society founded in 1776 in Bavaria to “put an end to the machinations of the purveyors of injustice, to control them without dominating them.” Religious critics alleged that the society was entirely responsible for The French Revolution. But whilst the real group lasted just a few years before they were hounded out of existence, some believe that The Illuminati are still quietly going strong today, planting secret agents in governments and mighty corporations and lemonade stands in a bid to influence global events.

Or it could be The Freemasons at work behind the scenes at Denver Airport. Dating back to the 13th century, the guild of stonemasons has long attracted its own share of conspiracy theories relating to plots to take over the world. The fraternal organisations made up of entirely independent Grand Lodges certainly seem a bit weird to the outsider with their private rituals and ceremonies and secret handshakes.

Some groups still impose a strict no-women policy on the Lodge door, whilst their male members are required to profess belief in a Supreme Being or Masonic God. It does make you wonder why stonemasons can’t just hold regular office parties or have Bingo night or something. Back when I was a postman, I don’t recall having to perform secret rituals in the sorting office or being required to worship at the Temple of the Mailbox Lord, occasionally offering up a postal sacrifice of some non-believer’s benefits cheque.

I suppose there’s no reason why the real entity behind the construction of the airport couldn’t be a committee made up of various members of The New World Order, The Illuminati, The Freemasons, and maybe a few reptilian overlords thrown into the mix for good measure. It’s a committee which theoretically could include the likes of Barack Obama, Beyonce, Colin The Concrete Guy, and Son of Godzilla. But it’s also a committee which may have made a few indiscreet slip-ups or even purposefully planted a few clues as to the true purpose of Denver International Airport.

It’s time we had a good nosy around the place to see for ourselves what exactly is ringing so many alarm bells. So please remove your shoes, belts, watches, and pacemakers as we dive in for a deeper look at what Denver International Airport is hiding in plain sight…

Highway to Hell

It has to be said that the very first thing that welcomes you to the airport as you make your way along Peña Boulevard is pretty damn freaky. I’m not really sure what kind of sculpture I’d expect to see loitering outside the entrance to an airport. Maybe some kind of reassuring scene of a happy family in flip-flops and shades, gazing upwards in wonder at the prospect of the thrilling yet perfectly safe journey ahead.

Or a smiling pilot looking calm and relaxed in the cockpit as he flicks through a newspaper and takes another hearty swig from his hip flask. I’ll tell you what I wouldn’t really expect to see: A sculpture of a massive demonic rearing blue horse with surprisingly detailed private parts and Satanic glowing red eyes that look as if they’re about to shoot firebolts from Hell at you.

This terrifying 32-foot-high sculpture is made from fibreglass and weighs in at over 9,000 pounds. Although its official name is ‘Blue Mustang,’ it’s more commonly known by locals as ‘Blucifer’ or ‘Satan’s Steed’, and depending on your viewpoint, it’s either a strangely sinister mascot for Denver International Airport, or it’s a cursed beast guarding the gateway to Hell. It’s tricky to pick out the weirdest thing about the rearing mustang. Should it really be blue?

Why was so much attention paid to the generous genitals and prominent anus? And why do the neon red eyes of the horse light up at night to bathe passers-by in their eerie red glow? Actually, all of these questions pale into insignificance when you hear Blucifer’s darkest confession. He killed his own creator before he was even finished.

Although ‘Blue Mustang’ wasn’t installed until 2008, it was originally commissioned back in 1992. Luis Jiminez was an American sculptor of Mexican descent who had grown up working in his father’s neon sign shop. When first approached by the City of Denver to create an art installation for the new airport, he had originally proposed a sculpture of a buffalo stampede, but later settled on a rearing mustang as a tribute to an earlier form of long-distance travel harking back to the days of the wild west.

Early design sketches reveal that Luis had been tinkering with the idea of sculpting a pink mustang before settling on blue, possibly inspired by his own blue roan appaloosa which went by the name of Blackjack. But Luis didn’t half take his time in delivering the goods. After a long chain of missed deadlines, the city gave up hope of him ever completing it, and sued him for $165,000, but the subsequent mediation resulted in Luis agreeing to finish his work as soon as possible.

However, the continuing delays were to take a tragic turn when Blue Mustang turned on his creator. By 2006, Luis was 65 years old and had been working on the sculpture for around fourteen years. But that work came to an abrupt halt when a big section of the 9,000-pound sculpture fell on him and pinned him against a steel support beam, severing an artery on his leg.

By the time he arrived in hospital, Luis Jiminez had already died from blood loss. Blucifer had claimed his first victim. (Actually, Blucifer had claimed his only victim to date, but that sounded quite dramatic, didn’t it?)

The sculpture was swiftly finished off in less than a couple of years by his sons, other family members, and friends. Maybe Luis should have roped in them from the start, he might have got it finished about ten years earlier. The decision to complete the statue after the tragedy may have been inspired by a desire to honour the legacy of Luis Jiminez, or it may have been inspired by a desire to avoid the City of Denver asking for their money back again after the artist’s failure to deliver on a contract.

It was only during these latter stages of development that the mustang was given those eerie red glowing eyes, and this was just meant to be a tribute to the neon signs shop in Mexico where Luis had first learned his craft when he was a kid. But Blucifer certainly attracted controversy after it was first installed in 2008, with some claiming that the sculpture was cursed. Others believe that Blucifer is intended to be the mode of transport used by the fourth horseman of the apocalypse from The Book of Revelation, and that the sculpture is a stark warning from Denver that the end of the world is nigh.

There have even been high-profile campaigns for the disturbing statue to be removed immediately, although some locals have threatened to chain themselves to Blue Mustang if that ever happens. I have my doubts over whether Blue Mustang is likely to be straddled by the fourth horseman of the apocalypse at any point in the near future. But even so, it’s an unusual choice of sculpture to be leading the charge into Denver International Airport, and I’m not convinced that any nervous passengers will have their fears allayed by the less than welcoming sight of a blue horse with giant ball sacks fiercely gazing down at them with eyes of electric flame.

Still, perhaps it could have been worse. They could have gone with an art installation featuring various bits of aircraft hanging in the trees of the Amazon rainforest.

Perhaps things perk up a bit when you actually get inside the airport. Although that might depend on how much you like gargoyles. I don’t mean of the talking variety — we’ll come to those later.

But I mean the silent bronze variety which are poking their grotesque heads out of bronze suitcases positioned above the east and west baggage claim areas. Some passengers have admitted to feeling a little perturbed about having such monstrous creatures looming over them menacingly as they’re trying to sort out their baggage. We often associate gargoyles with creepy castles and haunted cathedrals in classic horror films, rather than baggage claim areas of airports.

Could these agents of the devil be another blatant clue that unseen darker forces are lurking somewhere beneath Denver International Airport? Largely inspired by the breathtaking gargoyles on duty at Notre-Dame de Paris, the sculptures were created by artist Terry Allen who named his new artwork ‘Notre Denver’. Although the faces of the gargoyles may look a little disturbing, the horned demons were traditionally always on our side and they were placed in churches and monasteries to ward off the baddie evil spirits.

The idea behind their installation in the airport is to serve as friendly guardians over the passengers and ensure the safe arrival of their baggage. They’re just meant to be a playful bit of fun. And at least you can’t see their genitals or anus.

However, it’s a little more difficult to find quite so much fun in the nearby murals. Two giant 28-feet murals are sprawled across the east and west side of the baggage claims area, both of which were created by artist Leo Tanguma. And they have quite jolly names, too.

One of them is called ‘In Peace and Harmony with Nature’ whilst the other is called ‘Children of the World Dream in Peace.’ Both murals are kind of split into two halves by access doors. And at least half of each mural is quite uplifting.

For example, one half of ‘In Peace and Harmony with Nature’ depicts young happy children dancing around a sunny landscape with frolicking animals of all breeds in what appears to be a joyous celebration of all things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small. All things wise and wonderful, the Lord God…sorry, got a bit carried away there. But it’s the second half of the same mural that punctures the mood just a little bit.

This half depicts a scorched Earth scattered with dead bodies and dead animals. In one panel, a weeping boy holds a dying squirrel in his hands whilst looking down at a young girl — maybe his sister? — who is lying dead in a glass coffin. Anyone still breathing in the mural is fleeing for their lives from the swelling flames of a planet finally boiling over with rage.

It’s all a bit grim. It’s as if a TV production company decided to make a reboot of ‘The Animals of Farthing Wood’ but decided that it needed to go a bit darker than the original. And it seems to suggest to some observers that the mural is depicting an inevitable future of global destruction and mass extinction.

Still, half of the other mural ‘Children of the World Dream in Peace’ might cheer you up a bit as you’re waiting to see how much of your baggage has gone missing. Here we can see children of many different cultures coming together to lay down the weapons of their ancestors and celebrate a new era of mutual understanding under a glorious rainbow of peace. Hooray for the future of humanity!

But the other half of this mural? Not so chirpy. Here we can see a soldier in a gas mask whose uniform bears a resemblance to that worn by the Nazis.

He’s brandishing both a machine gun and a sword, the latter of which he uses to slice up a dove of peace as terrified children cower helplessly beneath his feet. This half also recites a genuine bleak poem written by child Czech poet Hanus Hachenburg who was murdered at the age of just 14 in Auschwitz Concentration Camp in 1943. Throw in an image of what may be an American child clutching a teddy bear and working under instructions from a Nazi soldier, and this had led some theorists to speculate that this nightmarish mural represents an imminent genocide architected by The New World Order during which America will have no choice but to submit to the rising of a new Nazi world power.

But perhaps it might help if we weren’t looking at the whole thing backwards. The murals are meant to be absorbed in the order that a passenger would typically pass them, from right to left. So in the first mural ‘In Peace and Harmony with Nature’, we’re supposed to be looking at children expressing despair over the current pollution of the planet and extinction of life, but it ends on a high note as humanity comes together to solve the problem and rehabilitate the Earth.

Meanwhile, ‘Children of the World Dream of Peace’ is meant to show progression from a historic world that was once gripped by brutal war into a future world that has discovered how to live in harmony. It’s all right there in artist Leo Tanguma’s statement inscribed on a plaque beneath the piece which reveals that the mural is an expression of the artist’s desire to abolish violence in society. Unless of course Leo Tanguma was paid off by The New Order to say that.

I can’t help feeling that even when you’ve heard this more rational explanation for the mural designs, it still seems a bit macabre. Is this really the kind of thing you want to be observing in an airport of all places? We’ve only been wandering around for about ten minutes, and so far we’ve seen a demonic horse from Hell, a few leering gargoyles, and some pretty murals depicting Nazi soldiers with machine guns, the world on fire, and young dead girls in glass coffins.

Who in their right minds would commission quite so many sinister installations to bombard the weary traveller as soon as they dare set foot in the airport of doom? Well, the capstone of a time capsule inside the airport may reveal a few clues as to exactly which organisations were really piloting this enterprise…

Time After Time

Whenever I hear of time capsules, I immediately think of the fiascos that were the ‘Blue Peter’ time capsules. Back in 1971, the jolly presenters of the long-running children’s TV show ‘Blue Peter’ buried a time capsule just outside BBC TV Centre with the intention of digging it up again on the very same show nearly thirty years later to honour the millennium. A thirty-year wait might seem a tad ambitious considering the lifespan of a typical children’s TV show, but ‘Blue Peter’ had been showing us things to make and do since 1958, and is still knocking around the TV schedules today, although it’s as not as big a deal today and the glory days are long gone.

I’m obviously far too young and tender to have been around when the time capsule was originally planted, but I was still very much aware of it, and it seemed like quite an exciting televisual moment when those three presenters from 1971 reunited in the year 2000 to finally dig up the capsule. I’m not sure why we were all so excited, really. This supposedly historic cache of goods chosen to represent 1971 amounted to little more than a selection of photographs of the presenters, a copy of the 1971 Blue Peter Annual, and a few decimal coins which had been introduced that year, and some of which were still in circulation in the year 2000.

The good news is that none of the presenters had died in the interim, so it was a very happy reunion. The bad news is that it was a massive anti-climax, as most of the stuff inside was dripping wet and filthy. The presenters tried their best to mask the obvious crushing disappointment as they pulled out strangely brown items whilst wrinkling their noses in disgust and trying valiantly not to puke from the rancid smell which was not entirely unlike rotting cheese.

Blue Peter didn’t fare any better with the other time capsules they planted over the years. A later capsule planted in 1981 was finally unearthed in 2021 after forty years under the soil, but it was a similar story when it was discovered that the metal lining in the capsule had completely corroded everything in the capsule.

Perhaps Denver International Airport will have more luck with their own time capsule which is on display near the south entrance, but is intended to remain sealed until the year 2094, a whole century after it was first put there. Dedicated to the people of Colorado, the capsule is said to contain such historic examples of 1990s culture as a credit card, a baseball from the first Colorado Rockies game, a fistful of tokens from The Black Hawk Casino, and a Viewer’s Guide to Beavis and Butthead. There are also said to be a few other little surprises tucked away in there for the benefit of any of us who might still be clinging onto life in 2094, assuming that we haven’t all perished in the apocalypse by then.

But it’s not so much the time capsule itself which has fuelled further conspiracy theories, but rather the dedication marker which has been laid over the top of it. This capstone contains intriguing inscriptions which reveal a little more detail on the identities of the mysterious figures behind the airport project. The bottom of the capstone makes reference to ‘The New World Airport Commission’ — an entity which does not actually exist — whilst further up the marker is an engraving of a Freemason symbol, accompanied by descriptions of the self-proclaimed “Most Worshipful” grand lodges which were responsible for laying the stone.

So! We now have compelling proof that the Concrete-God-worshipping Freemasons were making secret handshakes with the forces behind the airport since before the very first check-in. Not only that, but the date inscribed on the capstone — 19th March 1994 — reveals another connection to the madcap rituals of the Freemasons.

Conspiracy theorists have noted that if you add up the numbers that make up that date — 1+9, 1+9, and 9+4 — you end up with the number 33. This could be a reference to the ‘33rd Degree’ — a supreme honour bestowed only on those who have demonstrated outstanding service to the Brotherhood, and pretty much the pinnacle of Freemason perfection. Meanwhile, it seems a bit baffling that an entity which does not officially exist — The New World Airport Commission — seems to be trying to take some of the credit for building the airport.

Could this fictional organisation be a not-particularly-subtle nod to The New World Order who are really pulling the strings alongside their wacky mates from the Most Worshipful Grand Lodges?

The New World Airport Commission is actually quite challenging to explain with a definitive rational answer. Some have suggested that it’s supposed to be a reference to ‘New World Symphony’ — an 1893 piece from Czech composer Antonin Dvořák which later made it all the way to the moon thanks to its inclusion on Neil Armstrong’s funky mix-tape. But it’s hard to see any real logic in that.

It’s more likely that it was just a very temporary name cobbled together to describe the various businesses and local politicians who put their hands in their pockets for the construction. Rather than describing an entity known as ‘The New World Airport Commission’, the name was probably meant to describe a group of people who were behind the newest ‘World Airport’. Still a bit strange to put such a vague and now meaningless name on top of a time capsule which was destined to hang around for a hundred years.

The Freemason angle is a lot easier to explain. For starters, the whole date thing is clearly just a load of Most Worshipful Bollocks. It just happens to be the date on which the time capsule was installed, and there are a whole bunch of different ways to add up the numbers and get a different result which doesn’t tie in with The 33rd Degree.

The sum we described earlier doesn’t even take into account the month of the year. And as for the involvement of the Freemasons, whilst some have speculated that the capstone is proof of the guild’s secretive role behind the scenes, there’s one point which seems to have been forgotten by many: The capstone was crafted by the Freemasons because this is exactly what stonemasons are supposed to be doing when they’re not busy worshipping supreme beings. The airport has never denied that the capstone was created by the Freemasons, but they point out that it’s not so extraordinary for masons to do a bit of masoning from time to time.

Hmm, I suppose that’s fair enough.

Incidentally, one further theory about the time capsule relates to a small braille tablet positioned just above the dedication marker which features the same Masonic symbol engraved on the capstone. Legend has it that if you move your fingers across the raised dots in a very specific sequence, you either open up a secret entrance to the mysterious tunnels below, or you release a toxic gas from the time capsule which kills everyone in the airport. I’m not entirely convinced by that one myself.

But according to one former employee of the airport, visiting members of the Freemasons have been known to discreetly take out their Masonic membership cards and swipe them across the braille tablet, just to see if anything interesting happened. Bit of a dangerous thing to experiment with if you’re half-expecting the release of toxic gas, but those Freemasons have a reputation for spicing up a party.

Speaking of toxic stuff floating around in the air, a tiny mural which probably gets missed by most passengers is thought by some to be a stark warning of the imminent release of a deadly strain of hepatitis across the globe. You have to look hard to find it. The mural can be seen in a single small tile on the floor right next to Leo Tanguma’s mammoth tribute to genocide and dead squirrels.

The simple design depicts a mining cart alongside the letters ‘Au Ag.’ And you know what ‘Au Ag’ stands for, right? Of course you do.

It’s an abbreviation for Australian Antigen, a strain of hepatitis which could potentially be used as a biological weapon in the wrong hands. The mural is clearly prophesying the use of Australian Antigen as the latest stage in biological warfare overseen by The New World Order to trim down the population a bit. They’ll probably even release the strain from the airport itself, the cheeky scoundrels.

And here’s a further little coincidence to chew over — Australian Antigen was first isolated by the American Nobel Prize winner Baruch S. Blumberg who is also widely rumoured to have been a major investor in the construction of the airport. Could Baruch be dishing up a tantalising clue as to how he plans to exterminate us all?

Well, very probably not. For starters, although some people abbreviate Australian Antigen to ‘Au Ag’, it’s more commonly known by its scientific abbreviation ‘HBsAg’. And it would be a pretty lame choice for The New World Order to unleash as a deadly biological weapon, as an effective vaccine for the strain was first developed as far back as the early 1980s.

Maybe the mining cart in the mural presents a small clue as to what the mural really represents. The tile is just one small segment of a wider floor mural presented in traditional Native American designs which depicts the four rivers of Colorado’s Great Divide. But this tile in particular is surely a nod to the rich mining history of Colorado, and the letters Au Ag are actually just the atomic symbols for the silver and gold that have been mined there since the 19th century.

That would make more sense, wouldn’t it? The conspiracy theory might have made sense if the letters had been accompanied by a picture of a dead kangaroo or something, but I think the mining cart really gives the game away on this one.

We Don’t Need This Fascist Groove Thang

Some of these conspiracy theories may have been bordering on the ever-so-slightly tenuous, but here’s something that is staring even the most hard-nosed cynic in the face: When viewed from above, the layout of the runways resembles a big-ass Nazi Swastika. Well, it’s not an absolutely perfect resemblance, I’ll grant you that. It’s a bit lumpy and misshapen and appears to have an extra leg.

Some have suggested that it resembles more of a pinwheel shape, whilst one sharp-eyed observer noted that it looks like someone has tried to create a picture of a Swastika on an Etch-a-Sketch after a few too many disco biscuits. But there’s no denying that it still looks a bit like a Swastika from aerial views — and that surely must have been intentional. It’s yet another subtle indicator of the rise of a new Nazi world power, the seeds of which are being planted right now in this secret hub of operations masquerading as a fancy airport.

This kind of thing can’t just be a mirthsome accident. Am I rechts? Well, as we discussed near the beginning, a big part of the reasoning for replacing the old Stapleton Airport in the first place is because the poorly designed parallel runways limited the number of aircraft that could take off at the same time, and everything ground to a crushing halt at the first sign of a spot of rain.

In contrast, the new runways at Denver are more cleverly spread out across perpendicular planes which ensures that flights can all take off simultaneously without risk of getting in each other’s way — even during Denver’s notorious high winds — and also allowing for the addition of new runways in the future. The downside to this is that the layout does look a little bit like a Swastika from above, but it was a design built on the concept of maximum efficiency and scope for future expansion rather than a deliberate attempt to create an aerial view of a hate symbol for shits and giggles.

Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft

The biggest mystery of all lurking deep beneath the surface of Denver International Airport is hiding in that secret network of tunnels which are strictly off-limits to the prying public. Some of you may have already guessed that these have got something to do with the failed automated underground baggage system we mentioned — but it would appear that this doesn’t adequately explain the whole mystery. We’ll return to the tunnels in a moment, but I just wanted to very quickly rattle through a couple of the other outstanding conspiracy theories we haven’t yet covered.

We’ve not talked much about aliens yet, which is surprising as alien language is scattered all across the floor. Well, maybe not entirely across the floor. It appears in a single mosaic.

And the phrase ‘DZIT DIT GAII’ might not necessarily be words from an alien language pointing to the presence of an alien base beneath the airport. It could just be words from a secret language cooked up by The New World Order who have now taken to communicating with each other via the medium of floor mosaic. Then again, a little more digging reveals that ‘DZIT DIT GAII’ are actually words from the Navajo language spoken by the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States.

And they roughly translate as ‘The Mountain That is White’ rather than anything a bit more shifty like ‘Resistance is useless, human scum.’

Hmm. Okay then, but what about the alien connection to ‘Close Encounters of The Third Kind’? In Steven Spielberg’s classic 1977 movie, the aliens communicate a set of coordinates to the humans — W104’ 44’ 30’ N40’ 36’ 10’ — which correspond with where their craft will be touching down for selfie opportunities in Devil’s Tower near Moorcroft, Wyoming.

It’s a little puzzling as to why Spielberg didn’t use the genuine coordinates for Devil’s Tower. But it’s believed that the coordinates referenced in the movie actually correspond to the exact location of Denver International Airport. So what this clearly means is…hang on, let me get my own spinning head around this…what this clearly means is that in 1977, Steven Spielberg — who let’s face it, is probably a member of The New World Order, I mean look at that beard — became aware of the coordinates of the past or future landing spot of visiting extraterrestrials, and these just happened to match the remote location on which it was decided to build Denver International Airport.

In order not to arouse too much suspicion, Spielberg changed the venue to Devil’s Tower in the movie whilst still keeping the real coordinates in there for anyone to check at their leisure.

As far as close encounters go, this one is pretty wide of the mark. To be precise, it’s about 51 miles wide of the mark which may not seem that big in the grand scheme of things, but it’s a long walk for UFO spotters who pitched up on the wrong site with their binoculars and flasks of weak lemon drink. In real life, those coordinates point to neither Devil’s Tower nor Denver International Airport. They actually just point to a largely empty field about 51 miles northwest of the airport.

Still, a largely empty field makes a perfect spot for a discreet flying saucer landing.

Okay, so those theories were bordering on the bizarre and perhaps slightly lunatic, but before we hit the tunnels, let’s look at a slightly more rational one that doesn’t involve aliens. Much. Did you know that in 2007, the windscreens of no less than fourteen different aircraft at Denver all shattered simultaneously?

It’s absolutely true, and it sounds a little freaky to me. This led to speculation that the aircraft were caught up in some kind of military or alien experiment, and that the windscreens were shattered by mysterious electromagnetic pulses from above or below. The slightly less interesting reality all boils down to that volatile Colorado weather again.

On that day, Denver was hit by particularly strong and dry winds which hurled rocks and stones all over the place, simultaneously damaging fourteen of the windscreens of the unfortunate planes that had either just landed, just tried to take off, or had been waiting at the gate. Apparently, cracked windscreens on cars are a regular hazard in the Denver area whenever a strong wind starts breathing around the arid, rocky landscape, and not many aggrieved drivers immediately start suspecting that it must have something to do with electromagnetic pulses. Besides, electromagnetic pulses aren’t even capable of shattering glass which kind of blows that theory right out of the holes in the window.

Heigh Ho!

So it’s finally time to venture down into those tunnels to see what exactly The New World Order are hiding down there. Oh, but if only we were allowed access to this secret underground lair. They’re more than happy for you to enjoy the taunting carnival of nightmares on show above ground, but taking a trip downstairs is harder than bagging the 33rd Degree from The Supreme Council of Freemasons.

The airport freely admits that there are ‘several’ subterranean levels lurking beneath the surface, although we don’t know for sure just how deep they run. Details of the length and width are also a bit vague, although it’s often reported that the labyrinth of tunnels stretch for at least 470,000 square feet. And if that’s true, it’s a quite staggeringly huge area to have excavated.

I mean, it’s always handy for architectural plans to leave a bit of space for a boiler room, but how big a boiler are you going to need? The sheer immense scope of this vast underground project must have raised a few quizzical snorts from the ever-rotating construction workers, but it’s argued that the very reason they were rotated is to avoid any one of them ever seeing the full picture. One group of workers may have assumed that they were developing an unusually secure lunchtime ping pong room for lucky airline employees, whilst several layers beneath and several miles in the other direction, another group of workers believed they were working on the exact same thing.

So why would an airport need to have such a large wine cellar and what breed of creature can be found down there today?

One theory is that these tunnels are home to the shape-shifting lizard people who plan to take over the world, although if they were that good at shape-shifting, you wonder why they wouldn’t just take on the form of humans and lounge about in the cafes above ground. At least one such lizard person has indeed been spotted and photographed sneaking around in the tunnels, but we’ll return to him in a moment. A far more popular theory is that the tunnels lead to a doomsday bunker — or a Noah’s Ark if you will — in which the elite of the world’s population — including politicians, business leaders, and KFC employees — will safely retreat following either a global catastrophe or a planned population cull carried out by agents of The New World Order.

Some suggest that the bunker is located directly underneath the airport, whilst others have speculated that the tunnels are merely a gateway to North American Aerospace Defense Command where genuine survival bunkers are known to exist underneath the Cheyenne Mountain Complex. The latter theory sounds like a bit of a stretch, as the airport and the Cheyenne Mountain Complex are separated by around 120 miles. I mean, there could be a whole underground railway thing going on, but you’d think it would be easier for the chosen ones to just meet up for registration outside the mountain complex rather than setting up the initial assembly point 120 miles away underneath a bustling airport.

If the tunnels are linked in any way to a top-secret doomsday bunker, it would seem more logical for such a bunker to be hidden away underneath the airport rather than those tunnels just forging a very long-winded path to a bunker in the far distance that we already know about.

Maybe that’s why President Obama decided to go and hide in Denver International Airport when he thought the world was going to end. Yes, according to some admittedly woefully misinformed conspiracy theorists, Obama was concerned that Comet Elenin was going to crash into the Earth on October 16th 2011, sparking a giant catastrophe that would culminate with the planet Nibiru emerging from the celestial heavens to herald the dawn of Armageddon. It’s little wonder that Obama chose to be in Denver on that day, supposedly on official business, but more likely to bag a good spot in the underground bunker and check out if the vending machines were going to get him and his cronies through the next few years of post-apocalyptic oblivion.

There’s not much theory to cling onto here, though. Quite aside from the fact that planet Nibiru does not exist, Elenin was a largely insignificant little cloud comet which missed the Earth by 22 million miles and quickly broke up into chunks of dust and ice. Oh, and just a little bit of digging reveals that Obama wasn’t even in Denver on that day.

He was in Washington D.C, attending a dedication ceremony for Martin Luther King Jr.

There’s a bigger fuzzy dust cloud surrounding the idea of the legendary five buried buildings. According to the widely-circulated claims of a whistleblower who supposedly worked on the construction, a total of five massive multi-storey buildings were built very early on in the process, but then someone high up the chain suddenly decided that they weren’t quite right and needed to go. Instead of demolishing the failed buildings as you might reasonably expect, the order was given to just bury them under the airport, leading to suspicions that the buildings were always intended to be sealed underground to serve as shopping malls and private gyms and waffle houses for the chosen survivors.

Not being a construction worker myself, I’m not sure how you’d even go about burying five massive buildings. An interesting point is that Denver International Airport doesn’t ever appear to have officially denied their existence. But the testimony from the whistleblower — who also claims to have witnessed the construction of bunker entrances — is a little dubious as he or she never appears to have given their name, and it’s never been proven that they were ever involved in the construction at all.

So it could potentially be on about the same level of credibility as all the stories dished up from anonymous Reddit users claiming to be former employees who lost their jobs after taking a wrong turn downstairs and accidentally stumbling into a magical underground kingdom populated by little green men riding around on hoverboards.

Another point that the airport never seems to have bothered to deny or debunk relates to the size of the six fuel tanks that are scattered around the outskirts of the main site. The airport actually seems quite proud of their mighty fuelling system, noting that it’s “Capable of pumping 1,000 gallons of jet fuel per minute through a 28-mile network of pipes. Each of the six fuel farm tanks holds 65,000 barrels (2.73 million gallons) of jet fuel.”

That’s all fine and dandy, but why would they need quite so much? The tanks hold at least 40% more fuel than any other airport, including King Fahd International Airport in Saudi Arabia — the biggest airport in the world. Some might say that the tanks are holding a frankly absurd amount of fuel for the needs of any commercial airport — unless of course the tanks are also doubling up as a power source for the underground bunkers to ensure that the Armageddon Disco Hall doesn’t get plunged into darkness on the opening night.

I would hazard a guess that in line with pretty much everything else at Denver International Airport, the idea was just to go for the supersize option which could effectively serve a potentially greatly expanded airport in the distant future. Or maybe they just took advantage of an unmissable “Buy Four Fuel Tanks, Get Two Free” deal.

To try and make sense of what we do know for sure about the partial purpose of the underground network of tunnels, we need to look back at the disaster that was the automated baggage system. This was supposed to be the dog’s bollocks. In a plot to improve efficiency and eradicate any scope for errors from foolish humans, the plan had been to construct an entirely computerised baggage handling system which silently ran like clockwork in the bowels of the airport.

From the moment your luggage was checked in, it would be placed onto an underground voyage of carts and conveyor belts, where it would be moved along miles and miles of twisting underground track, rolling smoothly from check-in counters, and from plane to plane, until it was ready to cruise to its final destination of the baggage claim area. All this was naturally going to cost a fortune to implement, but it was going to be worth it in the long haul when the revolutionary system was up and running.

Unfortunately, it ran into several teething problems which were destined to play a huge part in the airport’s ever-ballooning budget and the continual delays to the opening date. By 1994, the airport was finally confident enough in the new state-of-the-art system to provide an exciting demonstration to the media of how all baggage will be handled in the thrilling world of tomorrow. However, tomorrow looked a bit more shambolic than you might have expected.

The press reporters sat back and chuckled as they watched a comedy demonstration of technology gone bad. As the carts whizzed merrily along the conveyor belts, they continually spat out their loads onto the floor, collided into each other, or came careering off the tracks, resulting in a chaotic scene of empty carts, flying luggage, and discarded underwear strewn across the underbelly of Denver. I mean, even EasyJet does a better job of taking care of your luggage than this.

The public embarrassment led to yet another frustrating and expensive pushback on the opening day. And whilst a smaller and simplified version of the automated baggage system did eventually swing into operation, this light at the end of the tunnel was still continually dimmed by maintenance issues until the plug had been pulled on the whole thing by 2005.

But that still doesn’t resolve the entire mystery of the underground labyrinth. The failed baggage system of the future still only really accounts for a relatively small amount of the space that is reported to have been excavated, and is unlikely to have dragged across every inch of every subterranean level. The airport’s official stance is that baggage is still very much at the heart of what’s going on beneath the surface.

But instead of relying on rogue technology, the humans have wrestled back control to deal with the baggage in a slightly more traditional manner. They claim that over a thousand employees work in the underground spaces which only extend to the perimeter of the airport rather than all the way to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex. The majority of these workers are manually ferrying luggage through the tunnels, although there are other things going on down there too.

Apparently, some of the tunnels are used for workshop areas, printing facilities, and storage space. You’re also likely to see miles and miles of plumbing and electrical cabling which would have looked a bit messy upstairs. I’ve not heard anyone mention a private employee’s bar down there yet, but I would have voted for that.

After a hard day moving around luggage, it might have been nice for the employees to celebrate the end of another dark shift by popping into “The World’s End” for a refreshing Lounge Lizard Cocktail.

From 2016, the airport has even attempted to prove that that there’s nothing too shady going on down there by holding occasional guided tours for reporters and curious members of the public. It was during one such special tour that a humanoid with a lizard’s head was spotted scuttling across the tunnels, and subsequent undoctored photographs of this were enough to send conspiracy theorists into nuclear meltdown. However, it turned out to be a very human employee in a lizard mask who was just larking about.

It’s apparently not that uncommon for more mischievous workers to pull pranks like this on unsuspecting visitors or new employees who are still learning the ropes and finding their webbed feet. Putting aside these comedy stunts, the relatively small number of people who have been lucky enough to get a guided tour have usually reported back that there was no sign of suspicious activity in the tunnels. All the plumbing and electrical installations appeared to come to a natural stop on the lowest level they were allowed to see, indicating that it’s highly unlikely that there were any deeper levels.

But they still weren’t allowed to see every single nook and cranny. Media Relations Chief Heath Montgomery explained to ‘Thrillist’: “Even when we take reporters or TV crews into the secured parts of the building, you just can’t take people everywhere. It’s either not safe or there’s a security reason. So, no matter what, there’s always something you can’t show somebody.

And that doesn’t help the case.” That does kind of make the whole guided tour seem a little bit pointless if the secret passageways to the underground bunkers and alien prison camps are deemed off-limits for security reasons. Perhaps what we really want to see are the architect’s blueprints for the entire airport. It’s rumoured that these are stashed away in that time capsule which will remain sealed until the year 2094.

Let’s hope they don’t go the way of Blue Peter.

In the meantime, I suppose we can’t definitively disprove the idea that Denver International Airport is sitting on a big secret — just as I can’t definitively disprove the accusation that I’m operating a lucrative gold mine beneath my house which is staffed by mutated laboratory experiments. I can show you around you my house and point you in the direction of the cellar, but unless you’re given the freedom to smash everything to bits with a sledgehammer, you’re probably still going to suspect I’m hiding something. Governments around the world have been known to hide secret military installations underground, and it’s not entirely out of the question that the US military may have decided that all that space underneath the airport would be a handy spot to hide something useful.

It might even be the case that the whole automated underground baggage system was a giant red herring which was never designed to work; it was only meant to serve as a smokescreen to deflect attention away from the true purpose of the network of tunnels. I’m not saying that this is a likely scenario. And I’m not saying that the military would necessarily be hiding anything particularly sinister or apocalyptic.

I’m just saying that such an idea might not be so massively outlandish or unthinkable — although I still think that there must be far less conspicuous places to bury a secret than underneath the second biggest airport in the world.

But I’m pretty sure we can conclusively rule out any suggestion that the airport is serving as a secret headquarters for either The New World Order, The Illuminati, The Freemasons, or The Jaffa Cake Fan Club. Most of the dubious theories just seem to be clumsily stitching together a series of almost comical misunderstandings of artworks, abbreviations, symbols, and language. I’ll admit that some of the art installations are weirdly dark in tone for an airport, but it’s a massive leap to assume that a few unusual art choices are clearly heralding the imminent rise of a new Nazi World Power.

And whilst a runway layout that resembles a wonky Swastika from above might be considered a tad unfortunate, I would have thought that the pressing priority during the design phase was to create highly efficient runways rather than just trying to shape them into a Swastika and keeping all fingers crossed that the planes didn’t constantly crash into each other every day. And why would The New World Order dish up such a big clue anyway? If you’ve just spent billions of dollars on hiding a doomsday bunker in a location which must be kept secret at all costs, the last thing you’d want to do is scatter a trail of fun clues across the entire airport to see how many people can figure out what you’re up to.

If that’s really how The New World Order goes about trying to keep a secret, then they’re all as doomed as the rest of humanity, and I hereby cancel my subscription.

Epilogue: The Last Laugh

Although we might associate Denver International Airport with a gruesome gallery of grim imagery, more recent years have also revealed a fiendish sense of humour running through the rudders. And we’re not just talking about naughty employees sneaking around the tunnels in lizard masks. We’re talking about playful chuckling that can be traced all the way to Head Office.

You might remember near the top of the video we mentioned a talking gargoyle who appeared to be welcoming passengers to Illuminati headquarters. But this wasn’t just a slip of a forked tongue. It was one of many little stunts orchestrated by Senior Vice President of Communications Stacey Stegman.

When Stacey first joined the crew in 2012, she decided that Denver International Airport should stop fighting against the rumours and conspiracy theories with such lame tools as truth and logic. Instead of getting all stuffy about it, why not just embrace the strangeness and have a little bit of fun with it?

You could initially see traces of this humour peeking through the official website which went to great lengths to debunk some of the wilder conspiracy theories before then cheerfully admitting: “Our underground tunnels lead to secret meeting facilities for the world’s elite. Yield to the aliens!” During relatively recent construction work, signs were positioned around the airport which invited passengers to guess the reason why some parts of the airport had been temporarily sectioned off. You were even given multiple choice answers.

“What are we doing here?” one of the warning signs asked. “A. Adding amazing new restaurants and bars.

B: Building an Illuminati Headquarters. C: Remodelling the Lizard People’s Lair.”

But Stacey Stegman really ramped up the weird in 2018 when she oversaw a marketing campaign which was rooted entirely in the myths and legends of Denver International Airport. The ads joked about building breeding grounds for gargoyles and meeting halls for Freemasons, whilst one in particular depicted red laser beams shooting out of the eyes of Blucifer whilst pondering: “Are we creating the world’s greatest airport? Or preparing for the end of the world?”

Despite the fact that there was barely any mention of what a passenger might typically expect to experience during their visit to the airport, the campaign was reported to have pulled in millions of dollars’ worth of revenue. The following year, Denver International Airport solemnly declared that it had become ‘Supernatural Sister Airports’ with none other than Roswell International Air Center. The official agreement included pledges to work together to promote business, commerce, trade, and tourism, and to enhance industry best practices, but it also included a special clause in which the two airports agreed to share their extraterrestrial combat plans.

Not all of Stacey’s schemes came to fruition, though. A proposal to decorate the whole of the airport exterior in crop circles sounded good on paper but was ultimately deemed far too expensive. And whilst the installation of a talking animatronic gargoyle in 2019 proved to be a big hit with some passengers, it didn’t go down well with everyone.

The creepy gargoyle named Greg — short for Gregoriden — would randomly spring into life every now and then to heartily welcome everyone to the Illuminati headquarters. From time to time, it would also make cheeky comments on the passengers wandering by or deliver an occasional golden nugget of gargoyle philosophy. But some people found it a little too creepy, whilst others complained that it felt satanic and was scaring the children.

I suspect the children were actually enjoying it far more than some of the spoilsport adults, but the decision was eventually taken to replace Greg with a much more subdued gargoyle who wasn’t so keen on striking up a friendly chat.

Sadly, the airport seems to have dialled back on the kooky marketing over the last couple of years, partly over fears that some of these New World Order and Lizard People conspiracy theories are now judged by some to be anti-Semitic, harking back to earlier theories that Jewish people were secretly controlling the world’s banks and media. But it was fun while it lasted. And it was refreshing to see a mighty corporation actually lean into the silliness rather than getting all po-faced about it all.

Or is that just what they wanted us to believe? We might have been looking at this all wrong. You have to admit that it would be a pretty clever move to rip the credibility out of a real conspiracy at risk of being exposed by just constantly banging on about it, planting a trail of red herrings all over the place which are easily debunked, and then ridiculing anyone who’s silly enough to take it seriously.

Or maybe that’s still not quite clever enough. Perhaps the real conspiracy here was the fabrication and fuelling of all these New World Order theories by the City and County of Denver itself in a bid to deflect attention away from the fact that the project went billions of dollars over budget. If everyone is busy gassing on about lizard people and nuclear bunkers and cursed demonic horses, then you won’t have to field too many awkward questions as to why so much money was pissed away on things that never worked.

I’m not sure that cooking up so many bizarre theories would have been worth all the effort for the City and County of Denver, though. I mean, ambitious construction projects go way over budget all the time. It’s expected.

Most rational people would just accept it, shrug, and move on. It’s not like it’s the end of the world.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the significance of the sculpture ‘Blue Mustang’ at Denver International Airport?

The sculpture ‘Blue Mustang,’ also known as ‘Blucifer’ or ‘Satan’s Steed,’ is a 32-foot-high fibreglass sculpture with glowing red eyes. It is notable for killing its creator, Luis Jimenez, when a section of the sculpture fell on him. The sculpture has attracted controversy and is often associated with conspiracy theories about the airport.

Why was Denver International Airport built instead of expanding Stapleton International Airport?

Stapleton Airport had limited space for expansion due to nearby communities and legal threats. Its runways were poorly designed, making safe landings difficult during inclement weather. Denver International Airport was built to provide a more efficient layout and room for future expansion.

What are the murals in the baggage claim area of Denver International Airport about?

The murals, created by artist Leo Tanguma, depict themes of environmental destruction and global conflict. One mural shows a scorched Earth with dead bodies and animals, while the other depicts a soldier in a gas mask with a machine gun and sword, slicing up a dove of peace. These murals have been interpreted by some as warnings of impending doom.

What is the significance of the time capsule at Denver International Airport?

The time capsule, dedicated to the people of Colorado, contains items from the 1990s and is intended to remain sealed until 2094. The capstone of the time capsule features inscriptions and symbols related to the Freemasons, which has fueled conspiracy theories about the airport’s construction.

Why do some people believe Denver International Airport has a runway layout resembling a Swastika?

When viewed from above, the layout of the runways at Denver International Airport resembles a Swastika. This design was chosen for efficiency and future expansion rather than as a deliberate symbol. The runways are spread out to allow for simultaneous takeoffs and landings, even in high winds.

What is the story behind the automated baggage handling system at Denver International Airport?

The automated baggage handling system was intended to improve efficiency but faced numerous technical issues. A public demonstration in 1994 showed the system malfunctioning, leading to delays and embarrassment. A smaller version of the system was eventually implemented but was discontinued by 2005 due to maintenance problems.

What are the conspiracy theories surrounding the underground tunnels at Denver International Airport?

Conspiracy theories suggest that the underground tunnels at Denver International Airport are part of a secret network used for various purposes, including a doomsday bunker for the elite, a prison camp run by reptilian overlords, or a headquarters for the New World Order. The airport has held guided tours to dispel some of these theories, but the full extent of the tunnels remains unclear.

What is the significance of the gargoyles in the baggage claim area of Denver International Airport?

The gargoyles, part of the artwork ‘Notre Denver’ by Terry Allen, are meant to serve as friendly guardians over passengers and their baggage. They are inspired by the gargoyles at Notre-Dame de Paris and are intended to be a playful bit of fun, although some passengers find them disturbing.

What is the story behind the ‘DZIT DIT GAII’ mosaic at Denver International Airport?

The phrase ‘DZIT DIT GAII’ is from the Navajo language and translates to ‘The Mountain That is White.’ Some conspiracy theorists have suggested it is an alien language or a secret code, but it is actually a reference to a mountain in Colorado.

What is the significance of the fuel tanks at Denver International Airport?

The fuel tanks at Denver International Airport hold a large amount of jet fuel, more than any other airport. This has led to speculation about their true purpose, with some suggesting they are part of a doomsday bunker or a power source for underground facilities. The airport claims the tanks are for future expansion and efficiency.

Sources

• Original Decoding the Unknown video: Denver International Airport: Home of New World Order?
• Hero image source by takatajeon / openverse, by-sa.