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.
If you look at all the various photos from LA and FL, each orb is reflecting light differently, according to the angle of the sun as shown by the shadows cast from the trees and buildings underneath. Furthermore, if this object is in the sky, it would make sense that the light reflecting off of it opposite the sun is BLUE light; that’s the color of the atmosphere. The side facing the sun is reflecting white light; it matches.
That tells us clearly that this is not a digital artifact from the image matching software. It also tells us that it is not a “water droplet” that formed on the lens; those camera’s are not your off the shelf Nikon hobby units. These are highly specialized, very expensive pieces of hardware that are thoroughly inspected before each run - they have to be because it’s expensive to run a flight (remember - it’s a business).
These are satellite images. Not from planes, let me explain and illustrate. During approach line up, planes in Phoenix that land at Sky Harbor fly over the Phoenix Mountains in north Phoenix (Squaw Peak, Camelback Mtn.) In that pattern they are no lower than 6,000 feet. Here is a picture of a plane doing exactly that:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Now, here is a photo of a plane just after take off:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Compare the 2 images of one plane at about 6000 ft and the other at only 500ft. They are the same size. That would not happen if the image was captured from only 17k-ft. It would only happen from orbit.
Now, these images are showing up in perfect/and lightly random patterns. What could that mean considering the arguments I’ve presented concerning the nature of these objects?
Well, consider this: If these UFO’s were from ET origin, how can we place any expectation on what their flight patterns would look like to us? Seriously. In fact, wouldn’t something from “out of this world” behave in such a way that would defy common sense? It seems these images do.
PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPlasma………………….orb
2 more in one frame.
Click on the next link, zoom out to level 3 to see another 2 objects in one frame.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Captured here
http://flickr.com/photos/47503838@N00/14454659/
lenticular clouds
After seeing UFO video at http://www.laufo.com/tableofcontent.html I say this thing is real. That video explains (no, man, it DOESN’T EXPLAIN it just SHOWS) how that orb changes it’s transparency, color and shape. Ain’t that what we see in our case?
As for this one:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
I guess it was caught in the movement (note the shape of that thing, just like in above mentioned video)
Apparently someone in NZ has photographed something like what we are seeing in these google images. Check it out….
http://rense.com/general65/sim.htm
Exactly, man! That’s the same kind of thing we’re talking about here!
It’s a dry cleaning bag filled with swamp gas.
Sparky! Sparky! get the frishbee !!!!!
Maybe one of GWB Weapons of Massive Destruction??
Hey, I don’t see anything wierd…….. ACHOOOOO! Oh crap! Hang on there’s more dude!
Hi, these are AERIAL PHOTOS at this level of zoom, not satellite imagery. These are simply the rounded, white plastic coated, heads of thumb-tacks used to hold down the photes while they are mosaiked and filmed!
Steve
Looks like some kind of cloud formation
Can someone make a Flickr map of the LA “ufo’s” like Tensuns did for the Florida ones?
I know what this is! I was wondering how far it would get. That is the blue silver party ballon that got away from me at my kids birthday party. The house on the right corner is mine. I swore it hit that plane!
Ping pong ball….yeah, definitely a ping pong ball.
Homerun!
“I’m guesing it’s a bug in the software that google uses to put the satellite images together into a map.”
I tend to think that is the most likely scenario.
I also think that these images are SAT images not from a plane. Not sure why people keep saying they are taken from a plane…..do you not think that the satellites can zoom in that far? If thats what you are thinking you are crazy, they can get in much further than that, but normal civilians are not allowed to see those images.
This is not an orb. if you look close enough you can see that it is not to far from the camera. The outside line of it, it is blury and that is because it is to close to the camera. If you look at the houses they are to small, that means what ever this object is, it would be so big that every one would be out side looking at it. This object is between 30,000 and 50,000 feet maybe more, that is if it isn’t a hoax. Part of this picture is missing, there should be more to it.
UFO or Weather Balloon …
This is definitely a UFO and seems like its shape resembles a Sontaran Spaceship like the ones in Dr Who, Yikes The Alien Sontarans have finally found Earth.
As much as they always say that UFO people “want” these things to be UFO’s, I find the same is true for debunkers. They “want” things to be terrestrial and explainable so much that they will stretch their earthly explanations as illogically as those they claim do the same to say these things are UFO’s!
And that is no spot on the lense.
Logic tells me that UFO’s and aliens are a possibility.
How anyone can look back 150 years ago and then add up all the incredible things we have discovered about our world and the universe since then and then be so close minded to the possibility of thousands of other previously unknown wonderous things being revealed to us…is just irresponsibly ignorant and insecure.
Theres my wife’s diaphram, I’ve been looking for that. Thx!
Do they even launch weather balloons anymore? What with all the new technology…I wonder if they are still used. Anybody know?
Maybe Google did it on purpose as a hoax to draw attention to their website. I would if I was Google; wouldn’t you? Pretty clever if you ask me.
Here’s my on-line directory/archive of similar objects
http://www.abidemiracles.com/images/65contact/ORBS/
Have at it, Guys. These have been showing up all over the place.
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Could they be GPS satellites? I know that in order for coordinates to be resolved accurately, the satellites would have to be on a grid of equal spaces.
They aren’t GPS satellites. GPS satellites have lots of odd shapes on them - solar panels, antennas, etc.
Looks like a “good old-fashioned job of superimposing” to me!!!!
J Parker: you know that for a fact? Guess not. Why’d you say it? No hostility, really, your post is just another example of people making stuff up and prefacing it as a known.
Then there are all those that think they have clever one liners without bothering to read and see that they’re only the fourth or fifth one to come up with the same lame shinola. Thanks for taking up space and contributing to our body of knowledge.
The geometric spacing eliminates any balloon-like craft or atmospheric phenomena. Further consideration of weather balloons as the source of the image is futile.
Artifact of the photographic process is certainly possible, though I can’t imagine what it might be. Some of the self proclaimed experts have assured us it’s water in liquid or solid form but can’t seem to make up their minds which (the optical properties are different). Pushpins… hahahaha…. I don’t think so.
One thing that has not been mentioned: *whatever* is taking the pictures, plane or satellite, is moving quite fast. If the object is physical and, as the blur SUGGESTS, is closer to the camera than the ground, then the object appears staionary with respect to the camera (i.e. the object is moving with the camera) or there would be a direction and gradient to the blur. Consider also that the apparent diameter (at least on the ones I’ve seen) is pretty much the same. This implies the object maintains a fixed location relative to the camera. Across the continent. Interesting.
I think the Google hoax is the best theory so far.
Its definitely a contact lens floating in space. Thats why they make sure pilots and astronauts have good vision.
This object looks just like one I saw in New Mexico a few months ago. I was driving east just before you get to Santa Rosa and saw this object in the air. At first I thought it was a baloon, but I watched it for around 200 miles until it got dark. I turned north at Tucumcari on 54 and watched it until dark. The sun was reflecting off of it also. I figured it had to be a huge object very high up in the air to be able to observe it for so many miles. I tried to find some information about it, but no luck. As soon as I saw the photo, I recognised it as the same thing I saw except mine view was from the ground.
Bill: thanks for the great one-liner. I lost my bowels on that one! You work clubs with that shtick, no doubt.
Another thing is that the illumination angles only *sometimes* match up with the objects on the ground and not all that closely. This argues against a real physical object, I think, unless the object is very close to the lens where lens aberration might distort angles.
Well, we really don’t know what Vogon ships look like, now do we?
I wonder these “U.F.O.’s” might have to do with
http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon1.htm
Oh well.
I wonder how many of these “orbs” are appearing lately. Because we launched the Cassani craft toward Saturn.
Anywhere to get a record count?
I am sure that is the continuim transfunctioner