First of all, the satellite photo is so dark it's a strain to look at, but beyond that everything there is perfectly explainable without referring to anything exotic. The small dark dots that cover most of the area are vegetation, probably Great Basin Sage (Artemesia tridentata) in this area. The light evenly spaced dots are in all probability Prairie Dog burrows - see this post.. The larger oval feature looks like a dried up seasonal pond. The evenly spaced dash-shaped are likely from seismic surveys searching for natural gas. The longer trenches are also some sort of survey activity probably. And the "underlying pattern" is slightly rolling terrain. Nothing too mysterious.