Navy to 'Camouflage' Swastika Building

When it was finished in 1970, officials realized a building at a San Diego Navy base looked like a swastika, the Guardian reports. But after images of the building from Google Earth sparked outrage, the Navy has decided to do something about it. The Navy will spend $600,000 to “camouflage” the building with landscaping and solar panels, it announced yesterday.

In a pre-internet era, it didn’t seem like a big deal to add extra L-shaped barracks to the one originally planned. The architect insists it’s not a true swastika. “It's four L-shaped buildings,” he said. “Looking at it from the ground or the air, it still is.” But no denial will quell the conspiracy theorists swarming around the story. (More Google Earth stories.)