UFO
Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visible on Google Earth or Google Maps.
Tensuns says:
I have no idea what this is. I can’t find anything similar on any google map referenced sites. It doesn’t show up on terraserver and I live nearby so I know there are no towers in that area. It has the same shadow as ground objects and when you zoom out it appears to be too small to be something really close to the satellite.
Well we’re completely stumped. Any clues anyone?
Update: See the UFO Update entry.
Mentos, the Freshmaker!
it looks like a plume of smoke.
It’s a small pond or drainage area of some type….notice the shadow in the top right cutting across the surface, also notice what appears to be a sand shoreline in the top right quadrant at the edge and it appears to have the start of considerable weed growth or an algae bloom at the bottom.
Nothing to see here…move along.
Mars attacks!
Know of many perfectly round ponds that bisect homes in subdivisions, do you?
While I’ve seen some highly convincing evidence for UFOs and am actually one to believe in them, this just appears to be a weather balloon or something similar (and hey, I’m not the FBI saying that, so I swear there’s no agenda!).
One thing to keep in mind, though, or so I think, is that our military, for better or worse, is always experimenting with new devices; sometimes we become aware of it by a fluke of timing. Where I live currently, we are having daily sonic booms that rattle our houses; we’re just a tiny town in the mid-south. Nevertheless, the military or some other government facility has deemed this place as appropriate for such testing. It’s hard to say what sort of balloon, if a balloon, that is. It doesn’t remind me of any of the research reports (from more stable people, mind you, haha) that go into detail about UFOs. The design tends to be sleeker.
Duh, it’s just swamp gas.
Hey everyone,
some thoughts about the air baloon theory: if you compare images of airplanes photographed by this sat, their size is at most half of this baloon’s diameter, meaning that if this object is at the same altitude as airplane is, its at least twice bigger. In order to appear this big on this picture, the object has to a) either really be very big, or b) be astonighingly close to the lense. Given that this sat should orbit at around at least 150km and atmosphere ends at about 80-90 km, I’d say this object must be at least about 50-60 km from the lens.
If anybody knows anything about sat optics and can suggest whether or not a 2m diameter weather baloon can appear this big from 50km distance, plz comment!
After an EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH of the ENTIRE AREA, I found one more point. I’ve logged all of them and grabbed a 90×90 framegrab of each spot, merged all 8 points together into a single image and plastered it on my flickr account. Have at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44276669@N00/13645955/
One thing is certain: it’s not condensation on the lens; one of the nice thing about space is it’s vacuum property. And the satellite’s internals were no doubt vacuum sealed on earth (otherwise there’d be a serious pressure imbalance up there). So yeah, no water molecules in the way.
if its on the lens, its moving. You can see that in some pictures it is cut off meaning it is at the very edge of one picture half out of the picture. This would mean it would have to be far to the side of the lens although in other picture it is clearly right in the middle of the photo and therefore the lens
Given that at least a couple of them seem to be partially obscured by trees I’ll go with an anomoly produced by the photographic production process. No way it’s a map alignment thing else they’d be found elsewhere.
…or. This is the beginning of a radioactive grid being placed near the surface via an elaborate underground network of Muslim extremists determined to slowly wipe out the Jewish and infidel population in Florida so it can be populated by flying students.
Swamp gas from a weather balloon got trapped in a thermal pocket and refracted the light from venus.
¡¡VAMOS A MORIR!!.
WE ARE GOING TO DEAD!!
Does anyone know if these photo’s where taken by aircraft or by a satalite? And if so, what type of aircraft-mounted camera was used?
I’m thinking there might be something close to the camera, that is interfering in some way with the lens, or something. Just like the VHS-cameras that all showed footage of flying saucers, and later they found out it where reflections on the shutter of a perticular type of camera, producing the same ‘UFOs’ all around the world on peoples home-video’s.
That combined with the effect seen in some quicktime VR’s, where if you look all the way up or down, you’d see some blurry circle because there’s no image of that spot…
No… probably just weather balloons.
Tensuns used Keyhole to make a [flickr map of the area][1] pin pointing where each ufo is found.
Using this map I’ve [found a hidden message][2] (click for full size). Now where is he pointing?
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[1]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/48556057@N00/13647471/
[2]: http://googlesightseeing.com/wp-content/alien.jpg
As was mentioned, these are flyovers. It is most likely condensation.
In [this one][1] you can see part of the normal Google copyright notice in the blur of the anomaly. Implies it was pasted in from another image, if you ask me. Whatever it was, someone wanted it to appear there. Fits in with the marker theory, although what kind of markers and why they look like that is still a little mysterious. For anyone still thinking weather balloon, check their positions:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48556057@N00/13647471/
They’re not flying objects or they wouldn’t be in such perfect alignment.
[1]: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
They are swollen earth-nipples. Gaia is pregnant with another moon. Venus knocked her up again. Boy, will the sun be pissed!
> Prettier than Vogon ships, anyway.
:))))))
There is at least one other recorded instance where an aerial survey plane has photgraphed a “ufo” by accident. In 1971 over Costa Rica…
http://www.ufoevidence.org/Photographs/Photo303.htm
coult it be some remnant of “cloud removal” - multiple photo runs merge ? I haven’t seen any clouds anywhere in the maps.
Didn’t you read what he said? WE ARE GOING TO DEAD! Head for the hills!
IVE JUST LOOKED AT COSTA RICA PHOTO 1971,ITS ON THE WATER,PROBABLY MAN MADE(PROTOTYPE BOAT ect)
Jan, obviously they’ve picked photos where there aren’t many clouds (wouldn’t be much to look at otherwise…) but there are still quite a few around, like [these ones in Nebraska][1].
[1]: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Like I said before this is a blatant advertisement for Mentos. I mean come on they are the fresh maker! Start looking for the guy to pull out the pack of Mentos, and then watch him give that dumb grin like its all ok
Look as the The Govinator of Kalifornia I just want to say that it looks like a tumor to me. I think Peyomp has the right idea but Gaia is not pregnant it is a tumor. Gaia has a TUMOR!
Has anybody (site admins) considered contacting google / earthsat for the comment!?
Kudos to GUDlyf for the nice “Real Genius” reference
Has anyone considered that these are areal photos (taken from a plane, or helicopter) and that it’s just a drop of water on the lens. I know it says satellite, but really, they’re just pictures from a plane flying overhead. (Further zooms out are satellite, I think)
is a reflective sphere over a checkered grid,
a cliche from the raytracing world
I think it’s the camera operator’s finger drooping over the lens.
I WANTO TO BELIEVE….
The truth is out there….
Hmm…this is interesting. Time to call my contacts at CIA and MIB and see what they think…:P
I think it is some sort of marker system, or some objects that couldn’t be shown for some reason. Case in point, try to use google satellite to see the White House, pentagon, Area 51, etc.
could it just be i dont know someone famous that doesnt want their house to be on google maps