the seychelles community in the us is concentrated in the sun belt – florida. in the 1960s, 1970s because of the strategic location of seychelles, the us built one of their satellite tracking facilities on mahe at la misere, which was nicknamed "the golf ball" because of its unique dome shape. there were several leading united states air force contractors, philco ford, pan am, nasa, loral corporation and johnson instruments, ibm, including base defence, military, intelligence personnel.