Category: Military Planning

• Interstate Highway Runway Plot

  This theory claimed that every fifth mile of the U.S. Interstate Highway System had to be built straight and flat so aircraft could use the roads as emergency runways, and that the real beneficiaries were hidden military or elite evacuation plans rather than ordinary citizens. In stronger versions, the highways are treated as a covert continental airbase network disguised as civilian transportation. The documented record strongly supports that the interstate system had defense significance and that airplanes have occasionally landed on highways in emergencies. It does not support the claim that federal law required one mile in five to be straight for aircraft use or that the highways were systematically designed as secret jet runways.