“In an email to NPR, the Pentagon declined to confirm the location of the selfie, saying only that it was taken "over the central continental United States."”
A Y-shaped channel, Lock 24 on the Mississippi and a bend in U.S. 61 put the U-2 over Bellflower, Missouri, population 325. Brumfiel did it with Google Maps and a line drawn between two landmarks. Another Twitter user got there hours earlier. The Pentagon still won’t confirm what anyone with satellite imagery worked out in an afternoon.