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.
Jocko,
I don’t know if is a montage, but this “montage” is in googlemaps. I think that this site isn’t the author.
Personally I think that is an error of the satellite.
it looks to me like golf ball. Someone up there is playing golf.
The light hitting the orb shape is not necessarily sunlight - could be any kind of light, even light reflected off something else nearby.
What if, for the sake of argument, you remember that the lense has to be really powerful to magnify the details in that satalite picture, and then perhaps that a speck of dust could be lit up like that. Indeed, could not a speck of dust look like that when magnified? Or how about a drop of water or ice? If ice were on the lense because of an event of any kind, then the ice would melt if sunlight hit it due to the way sunlight is so hot in space (no atmosphere see?) and would freeze where the sunlight would not hit it (no heat in space when no sunlight because space is a vacuum see?)
I wish it was a conspiracy but I think that it is more likely to be something more banal.
Not sure what this can be…we live in 33432 and would love to have them “Beam us UP”……That’s all we have to say about that ..!!
Why couldn’t it be a chip in the lens from an encouter with a rock? Keep in mind that two tons of rocks and dust hit the Earth every day.
I used to drive to work on Austrialian; had a friend whose mother lived on 36th (and briefly, when she was ill, he lived there for awhile). While I officially believe in the “marker” theory (either to line up or for copyright purposes), my knowledge of the area gives me a different theory to espouse:
It’s smoke from the damn good mobile BBQ pit that sets up near there every day. Mmmm…
Looks like a “lenticular cloud” photographed from above to me.
http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/env/clouds/
http://www.crystalinks.com/lenticular.html
in that white house satelite picture, what is the blurred image just to the right of the that?
ITS A WATER TOWER GUYS!
growing up in FL we have these everywhere bc water cannot be stored underground as the water table is too high
I have to apologize with all of you for kicking “that” day the ball so high up there! Gomen nasai!
Look at this shot with a plane in it…
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
The imager is doing two exposures in different spectral bands hence the moving aircraft can be seen with a blue ghost (and its shadow shows an absence of the blue ghost as you would expect)
This suggests to me where the blue coloration comes from, but I can’t work out how a perfect circle is formed by overlapping the two exposures.
The source of the mystery dot is definately not Google. This image data comes from the USGS, and can also be downloaded via http://seamless.usgs.gov (along with other imagery for the area that does not depict these dots).
(FWIW - You’ll also notice that the White House, Executive Branch building, Justice Department Building and US Captial are also altered in the source data)
Perhaps lower orbit satellites caught in snapshots as they move across the earth?
An example is the above post of a plane taking off from the Atlanta airport herePlacemark: as the satellite snaps consecutive pictures / Google Earth.
I’ve just submitted this story to Slashdot and blogging the best factual expert comments here.
it’s a ping-pong ball
When they told us they had spent millions of dollars constructing and sending into orbit a super telescope (Hubble) and that it had a flaw in the lenses,
we beleived them?
Not that we should beleive that in fact what it was was they saw hundreds
of planetary systems around near every star they could point it at.
So here it is years later and they’re slowly aclimating the sheeple to the truth.
When the un-encrypted video feed from the space shuttle showed the weird activity of nearby objects, we just forgot about it, meanwhile all of a sudden NASA needed to encrypt the video downfeeds “for privacy reasons”.
Everyday people publish new images and film of odd disc shaped or triangular or cigar shaped craft flying at impossible speeds around our atmosphere yet somehow we still don’t beleive.
But the damning evidence is the cattle mutilations. On and on they go, hundreds of thousands of mutilated cattle.
Why, there have even been a few documented cases of mutilated humans.
One in Puerto Rico near a large public water reservior.
I even wrote a song about it , wanna hear it here it goes:
We got these people living under the ground
they get more free beef than anyone around
Mutilated cattle!
(somewhat Zappa-esque music this is to).
I think this is what it comes down.
We all want to see a live alien in a zoo cage
with a caption on it
‘Zeta Reticuli ‘Grey’ Sapien Sapien’
‘Homo Unterrapublicus’
And we want to see him do something cool
like Juggle three running chainsaws while
reciting Robert Frost.
One night I was out in Coral Springs smoking a cigarette
outside my friends house when I looked up and saw
4 stars in the sky. And then oddly enough these 4 stars
started moving to the south together in a formation
and then they turned south-westerly and seemed to become
three stars as they headed too far away to see.
They appeared to be very high up in the sky and did
look exactly like the other stars in the sky.
It appeared that they kept formation as they moved
although it kind of looked like they where held together
with elastic bands..they might have moved closer and
further away as they moved slightly. I couldn’t really tell.
But I did think they where headed for that airforce base
on the south west tip of florida.
I’ve decided on two possible explanations:
One is that they where four birds. Might be.
Could be. Possibility. Maybe.
Except I’ve never seen birds look like stars.
Ever.
And the other possibility is that it was some kind of Alien
craft, or maybe even ‘our own’ TR3 or whatever they
call that huge triangle shaped craft with lights on each
corner all these conspiracy pages say we have.
I’ve heard it sometimes seems to have 4 corners
and sometimes seems to have 3 as if some kind of
other weirdly geometric distortion is involved.
I just want to be able to say I’ve seen at least
one UFO. Everyone else seems to have seen one.
It is obviously one of the the new Republican vote stealing satelites. That is why you find them over Florida but not other states. I think you would find them over Ohio too. Efficient but expensive, they are only positioned where the margin is close enough that an election can be swung with a few thousand votes.
Thanks Derek!!!! I was able to track down the original source of the image! It comes from AerialsExpress.com. That’s right folks- AERIALS.
According to them the images were shot from an altitude of 17,500.
More info after I get out of work…
Dang, I can’t believe missed that in the meta data - Aerials is listed as the source. I can’t wait to hear their explaination.
Interestingly, if you go through Aerials Express’s web interface, they also seem to be the source for all the Washington DC data. None of the building data (White House et. al.) in seems to be redacted, leading me to believe this was done at the USGS.
Maybe this is another hiring scheme of Google? They are famous for having those billboards with puzzles or equations on them. If someone is able to solve them, and they notify Google, they can get hired. It’s Google’s way of finding intelligent individuals to work for them.
Is this possibly another one of those schemes? Maybe…
Wow way too cool!
Is that ET?
If you look, this “Grid” is centered around an airfield, common launch points for weather balloons. What I think is more interesting, however; is this thing i found just north of these balloons: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Racetrack, or secret supercollider research facility?
Zoom levels are limited to distant blurry old photos.
My guess is one of the Surveillance Blimps deployed after 9/11 that were used around the Super Bowl and Baltimore/DC area.
The second guess would be one of those surveillance BLIMPS used by INS/Customs to monitor the borders between the US and Mexico, Cuba et al.
I figure they have to be somewhere’s up there around the Weather Balloon altitudes and are probably bigger with a longer duration of flight.
For one thing, that is not satellite imagery. Some stuff is satellite (low rez) and some stuff is shot with an airplane (that’s the high-rez clear stuff over major cities and certain areas). That image is from the airplane data so you guys gotta think closer to the ground.
Looks like a cloud to me, but more likely is something on the lens. A small whisp of cloud in between the plane and the ground would be totally out of focus as this is.
It’s a water spot on the lens of the camera
I believe that it is a message from the Penguins. As you may know, Penguins are a benevolent race of trans-dimensional being who are here on earth to gently guide mankind towards a better future.
Gruntie
It was touched on upstream but let’s repeat it:
1) weather balloons are small on the ground, but they are huge in the upper atmosphere. If anything these objects may be too small.
2) IIRC they go up to 100k ft or so. (It’s been a long time since I worked at NOAA). That’s about 20 miles, vs. maybe 150 miles for a photo satellite. That may be high enough for them to be out of the focal plane. We need to know how large a single swatch is - this may be a relatively modest blurring that’s notable because of high magnification.
3) the Google watermarks are added later as an “alpha” layer to an image. They stand out here because the objects are so uniform in color and intensity. (I’m not sure where the “distortion” somebody mentioned is.)
On the flip side, why are they so regularly spaced?
BTW there are light clouds over Mt. Rushmore.
BTW2 look at National Parks. I can see hiding Washington landmarks on the street maps, but Yellowstone and Mt. Rushmore? Disney World? The images aren’t blurred, but you have to “fly” to them.
It could be lenticular cloud or the top of a thermal.
99% of weather balloon is just hot air
This is obviously not a case of two random points in space forming a line as was suggested above.
or see the text graph below for a poor representation.
Chart the points in Excel (or ooCalc
Sorted by lat, the points occur at:
26.748651 -80.074550
26.748651 -80.189370
26.901956 -80.074550
26.901956 -80.245299
26.901956 -80.302420
26.901956 -80.357441
27.002249 -80.245299
Two points at exactly 26.748651, and four points at 26.901956. In the Longitude column we have two points at -80.245299 and also at -80.07455. These are pretty exact locations for “random” points in space. Furthermore, I wonder what balloons can fly with this kind of precision (i.e. none). It is interesting that these points do not occur in other locations (i.e. washington state) for them to be some software/mapping artifact.
* == “UFO” location
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 27.05
-+-+-+-*-+-+-+-+ 27.0
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 26.95
-+- *-*-*-+-+-+ *+ 26.9
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 26.85
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 26.8
-+-+-+-+-+*+-+*+ 26.75
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 26.7
-80.4 -80.05
Stupid font messes up the spacing. Sorry that the lon’s are in reverse order.
The board deleted my asterick where
asterick == “UFO” location
Since this object appears in a grid (well spotted! excuse the pun) I assume it is moving with the camera, as these photos are methodically taken in grid fashion. Probably the best photos are used from several different shoots, mentioned earlier, so not all photos in that area have it as it’s a composite of the best shots. Its probably dust or water condensation up to a foot away from the lens of the camera on a sheet of glass. Also, if it’s water it may have eventually evaporated and therefore not appear after a certain time. If it is a satellite photo, not just an aerial shot, maybe these satellites have small particles floating around in space a short distance away from the lens.
Has Art Bell been notified? I’m sure he can explain everything.
this is no weather balloon!, i have studied weather conditions with balloons for many years now and i can see this is a very large object that appears to be closer to earth than the satilite that supports the camara.
i think we should enjoy these pics now before NSA takes them away.
Can’t we approximate size of the object by calculating relative size of light reflection? I think bigger the object is smaller the relative size of light reflection….
or may be we can approximate distance between the object and camera using its fuzzyness and then we can calucate approximate size.
No, not a weather balloon, just one of those metal mylar things you can buy at the grocery store. It’s probably tied to the plane and getting dragged along.