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UFO Updates

Posted by James Turnbull, Wednesday, 18th May 2005

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Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visible on Google Earth or Google Maps.

Thanks to everyone who commented on the original UFO find, although we’re still not sure what they are, there’s been some interesting developments.

Ian Pottinger and jher were the first to find that there are in fact eight of these UFOs over Florida, at the following points

One - Two - Three - Four - Five - Six - Seven - Eight

and Tensus used keyhole to map the points showing that they make a very neat grid.

Yoshino and jher later noticed that the UFOs are not limited to Florida but can also be found over L.A.

One - Two - Three - Four - Five - Six - Seven - Eight - Nine - Ten - Eleven - Twelve - Thirteen

and Tensus again mapped the points, which appear in an almost straight line.

Things the UFOs are definitely not…

Space debris or another satellite?

Derek & Tensus discovered that the close-up images of Florida are taken by AerialsExpress.com at an altitude of 17,500 feet so are aerial photos and not satellite images.

Marks added to obscure famous peoples homes?

While there’s no doubt the whitehouse photos were processed for security it is very unlikely these UFOs are intentional ‘cover-ups’ due to the neat grid layout.

Water towers?

The UFOs are just too big to be water towers (and there’s no shadow).

Anomaly produced by the stitching software?

Shi Ju says

Definitely they’re NOT marks for picture stitching. In most stitching software (like for making panoramas) the algorithm comes down to finding sharp and contrasting details and aligning those spots with each other.

Things the UFOs still could be…

An alien spacecraft?

It’s still possible!

A weather balloon?

Tm says

The “Grid” is centered around an airfield, common launch points for weather balloons.

Although Klem says

All currently used radiosonde devices (weather balloons) are latex, yellowish beige to transluscent

and Jello adds

The object in question here does not cast a ground effect, therefore does not exist in the air.

A ‘lenticular’ cloud?

Patrick was the first to float this idea and the images he posted do look similar to the UFOs, although it is unlikely clouds would form in neat grids.

Condensation on the lens?

Possibly the current forerunner for most likely explanation, Stuart said…

Condensation inside some sort of housing would be my guess. If the drop were directly on the lens it would be effectively invisible. Put it a few inches/feet away and have the camera shooting with a very deep depth of field (as you would with a small aperture) and it would look just like that anomaly.

Something else?

Possibly one of: Peppermint, baseball, Vogon ship, crop circle, planet, thumbtack, ballbearings, smoke, pond, swamp gas, golf ball, satellite, flying ninja, space junk or contact lens as others have suggested!

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  1. 316. okachan says:

    Ninja, Its definatley a ninja.

  2. 317. Xertus says:

    Stardust - I have seen them too :) not on memorial day. When we pulled over to get a better look, it vanished.

  3. 318. Simon says:

    Glories?

  4. 319. Xertus says:

    morning glories ? :)

  5. 320. xy-bande says:

    Its a burning house.

  6. 321. Jonny Yeah says:

    It’s a drawing pin (thumb tack) stuck in the picture.

  7. 322. Wilhelm Reich says:

    It’s a Rorschach test. There are no wrong answers, just a lot of crazy ones.

  8. 323. John Dayton says:

    Um, what if the object is moving in the same direction as the plane taking the pictures? That would cause it to show up in the mutiple pictures. The entire state of florida is not taken in one giant picture.

  9. 324. macro says:

    Don’t you see that the object always appear in the exact center of the image, never in a more random position? I’m sure this is an artifact of the camera or the assembling algorithm

  10. 325. Watcher says:

    If you want those blobs to disappear, call this guy:

    mms://wm-ondemand.abacast.com/prophet_yahweh/ABCnews1.wmv

  11. 326. Simon says:

    Uh-oh! This one’s gettin’ away!

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  12. 327. Mark says:

    I think it is a software artifact. Notice on the final approach to the Las Vegas airport (from the east) there is a very-low-res tile in the image that fades into the hi-res map. Such fadepoints may be left behind when hi-res tiles are stiched back into the database.

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  13. 328. Junkero says:

    Two words…Sun Dog…A Sun Dog is a reflection of the sun off water vapor below an aircraft, or even a Satellite
    Notice in the Glendora Ca. (LA Photos) that the “orb” is following the track that sun takes durning certain times of the year. The streets run north and south east and west for the most part, in this area. Seeing as there is always a nice marine layer here in Southern California putting water vapor above these areas, and the fact that the shadows of the buildings and trees show the sun to be pretty close to behind the picture taker, I say Sun Dog
    The Orb/Sun Dog changes position with time as the photograph taking divice changes position.
    Funny thing is that most people want to see a space ship.
    that is my theory.
    thanks
    junkero

  14. 329. Maitreya says:

    Follow me

  15. 330. bob says:

    did it ever occur to anyone that this is a huge marketing scheme made by the makers of the upcoming movie “war of the worlds” years ago the infamous radio broadcast spooked the world that there was an alien invasion. now the internet is being used.

  16. 331. izzy says:

    Things the UFOs are definitely not…

    Anomaly produced by the stitching software?

    Shi Ju says

    Definitely they’re NOT marks for picture stitching. In most stitching software (like for making panoramas) the algorithm comes down to finding sharp and contrasting details and aligning those spots with each other.

    ———————————————–

    So, just because Shi Ju says so, it is fact? Besides, Shi Ju said they are not marks FOR picture stitching, not produce BY the stitching software.

  17. 332. Michael says:

    Can anyone explain what this is? It looks like an explosion:

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  18. 333. xy-bande says:

    Its ignition of atomic test in Las Vegas.

  19. 334. mountain jack says:

    It appears to be a small lake in Idaho, about 30 miles due South of Boise and 5 miles NW of the Snake River. It is inside the Ada County National Guard Firing and Maneuver Area. It’s also inside the Snake River Birds of Prey Wildlife area. Not sure what the box around it is, but the topo map says it’s a lake. Here is a satellite picture of it.
    http://home.supernet.com/~jacksmountain/images/Lake%20in%20Idaho.jpg

  20. 335. mountain jack says:

    Sorry, I meant to say 5 miles NE of the Snake River. Zoom out the google image and you can see the river to the SW.

  21. 336. Xertus says:

    Hopfully this will post, for some reason , my other post vanished.

    Under the Freedom of Information Act the Echo has received details of all official UFO sightings reported to the military over the past five years

    http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=156393&command=displayContent&sourceNode=156123&contentPK=12545359

  22. 337. Xertus says:

    and another :
    http://www.rense.com/general65/pop.htm

    - we are not alone !!!!

  23. 338. Eli Lilly says:

    The “sun dog” theory makes the most sense to me. I live within a couple of miles of the Florida spots, and the areas with the spots are extremely humid and swampy. Those areas are right on the edge of the Everglades and there’s so much humidity that we need gills, not lungs.

  24. 339. Shi Ju says:

    izzy has a point. i did mention that they are not marks FOR picture stitching, but I never said that they were produced BY the stitching software.

    still i really doubt that such an artifact had been caused by some stitching soft. in that case it wouldn’t be THAT rear only to appear in FL and LA.

    after reading hundreds of posts discussing that thing i say let it be whatever it is.

  25. 340. Steve Lawrie says:

    I agree with Zertus, these things have something to do with what Prophet Yahweh is summoning up!! See his videos, these are the same orbs

  26. 341. Xertus says:

    Steve -
    i will have to round up the links i posted yesterday -
    You ever read up on ENOCH ?

  27. 342. Steve Lawrie says:

    Hi Xertus, I have so far escaped reading The Keys buy I intend to do this someday. I am currently hoping that something will come of all this exponentially increasing buzz, here and elsewhere. I’ll keep in touch tomorrow, time to pick up the kids now!

  28. 343. Stardust says:

    The orbs you see in googlemaps were recently captured on video. it’s not an artifact, condensation, sun dogs, sun spots, software anomaly, dust, hair, bugs, and morning glories. It is a UFO.

    http://wm-ondemand.abacast.com/prophet_yahweh/ABCnews1.wmv

  29. 344. Lonny says:

    this one seems to be very blury and not mentioned anywhere else

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  30. 345. mountain jack says:

    Lonny, I noted that one in my May 22 post, above. Search this page for “faint orb”

  31. 346. mountain jack says:

    The blurry white dot in the sky “summoned” by Yahweh is quite different from the Google orbs in Florida and California. The Google orbs are lit from two directions, the top and bottom. The Yahweh dot is lit only from one direction. See this comparison:

    http://home.supernet.com/~jacksmountain/images/yaweh%20vs%20orbs.jpg

    Furthermore, the Yahwet dot jumps all over the sky, whereas the Google dots are arraged in a fixed-spacing grid. See

    http://home.supernet.com/~jacksmountain/images/Florida%20Orb%20Grid.jpg

  32. 347. Mr. D says:

    I live right below those photo anomalies. There has been no unusual U.F.O. activity here lately. :) Thank you UFO conspiracy folks for giving my Mythbuster high school class a myth to crack. This is great stuff and right over my neighborhood.

  33. 348. anonymous says:

    Its the Tesla Globe.
    That things dont have a mass.
    They consist of concentrated Electromagnetic Energy and Plasma.
    Read about what the Government dont want you to know
    http://www.cheniere.org/books/ferdelance/s55.htm

    or use the search button and search for “tesla globe”
    http://www.cheniere.org/search.html

    It IS SHOCKING

  34. 349. Squiggy says:

    Stardust, thank you for the news video link. It’s enjoyable to see those smug, smirking, “news” personalities obviously embarassed by the reality of what their own cameraman is recording and their own smart-ass cub reporter is witnessing. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the “Google spheres” and that phenomenon are related, but at the very least it should serve as a reminder that our comfortable notions of physical lawfulness do not always apply on this strange planet.

    Regards,
    Squiggy

  35. 350. Steve Lawrie says:

    That’s right Squiggy!, start looking into it deeper… there’s a whole world out there, many, if fact.

    best regards to all of you
    Steve

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