UFO Updates
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!
Whats a HAARP?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haarp
I think it’s a google viral marketing campaign and it will turn out to be part of some kind of puzzle!
When Google pays for the satelite service the “UFO’s” will be removed.
I found this over my hometown in Brooklyn. I know for a fact that this is not some water tower or any other structure. There are just homes there.
I was surprised to find this on the Google satellite image.
here is the link:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
found this over my hometown.
I know there’s nothing there but homes.
But this is strange
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Poeple are complaining that we are saying they are UFOS just because we cannot identify them. Welll…..
a UFO is an Unidentified Flying Object.
That is exactly what is is. lol.
something different, are you talking about a round object with a black center and a pointer at the bottom? That looks like some sort of a marker at 2050 ocean pkwy, kind of like this one
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2050+ocean+pkwy,+brooklyn,+ny&spn=0.007660,0.005354&t=k&hl=en
Not sure why they would have a left-over marker in the image, but Google maps is a beta product. Maybe the final will be cleaned up.
Machine translation!!! (I do not speak English, I am French):
Final proof that these objects are not related on the landscape but well to the system which scan them later on: One can note that on the series of image 7, 9,10,11,12 and 13 one finds same dust and that this dust is at the same place compared to the “UFO”. Coordinated: X1 = - 290 pixel Y1=-135 pixel and X2=+285 pixel Y2= -110 pixel on the basis of the center of the “UFO”. This correlation shows undoubtedly that this object and related on the system which scan these images and not to the landscape.
This is not even an unidentified object.
It is clearly:
A. Attached to the ariel camera: The plane would make a flight from west to east then loop back and make a flight from east to west, the anomaly is likely close to the edge or the lens.
B. Or it is on the scanner. Same premise, the plane sweeps west->east then east-west. the image rotation would be done on the computer so again the anomalies would appear near a stitch so they would be close together and upside down.
QED: Not a ‘UFO’ (Extraterrestriall or Terrestrial)
NOTE: It is not the people who won’t say this is a UFO that are the ones denying the truth, its you people who want to desparatly to believe that the ariel photos caught a UFO. You are refusing to believe the truth.
I wish I would have found this sooner because it was obvious from the start. It was amusing watching you guys wish it was a UFO though, thanks for the laughs!
The original “UFO” in Florida is definitely NOT from the photo itself. Upon close examination, you will notice that the lighting for the artifact is from the southwest, yet the shadows cast by the trees and structures are all lit from the southeast.
When you input slightly different coordinates for the map, say from just southwest the pointer shadows the artifact lining up the shadows/lighting perfectly with those of the artifact in question, as does the balloon until you close it. This would indicate that the artifact is a remnant of the rendering interface, not the photograph.
As the Sherlock Holmes in the 21st Century cartoon says, “Eyes and brains.”
David Patrick’s point is further evidenced at Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
So David Patrick is pointing out that there are some round things with shadows on them in other Google images?
Astounding! Real round objects!
Interestingly, you would think at the site below where someone in another post spotted a plane would cast a shadow but it didn’t. Maybe the rough terrain in a mountainous zone was enough to disperse the shadow?
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
I think it has something to do with ‘Australian Avenue’ dont you!
I also bend spoons in my spare time on the sheep station.
well, it’s definetly a flying ninja
Robin van Spaandonk… that proves nothing.
the google is a watermarked.
if you look, ALL of the google watermarks have transparency to them.
they put that layer of all the logos ontop, and voila!
it just so happens it landed on part of the orb in the picture, and since the background is so abstract, it comes in clearly.
Hello,
are there lakes at these places ?
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
I think these things should be called Goo-F-O’s.
In reference to the following post…
mountain jack Says:
June 8th, 2005 at 10:05 pm
I found an artifact, that is if nobody else noticed it. Of concern now is spheres and commas showing up in Google Maps. However, in the links provided by mountain jack, there is a sphere in the Google Maps link (as known) and a comma in the Keyhole map!
Here is the sphere…
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
The comma is in the river, by the bridge, of this keyhole screenshot…
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/Veto1024/keyhole.jpg
I didn’t see it mentioned, so I wonder if it is of any importance…
NEW ORBS! - This time Peru, Nazca desert.
Unfortunately not in high res, but you can see a number of them.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
These are less convincing due to the lo res:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
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Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
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I’m a ufo buff, but i would have to say these are condensation droplets on the lens of the camera. To say that a UFO would be dumb enough to hover between a major city, and an airplane at 17,500 feet is dumb.
I’ve seen an actual UFO about 10 years ago. Something i will NEVER forget and opened my eyes to what is really out there. To the disbelievers, if you ever have the insanely good luck to witness a UFO you will understand.
Here’s an interesting photo from the Mars Global Surveyor:
http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/fullres/divided/m15012/m1501228a.jpg
I’m sure it’s a natural formation but it does look a bit like a goo-f-o.
Guys I found the SOLUTION to this problem. I read it in Laputan Logic’s blog.
It’s actually low-orbit robot sentinels deployed by Google! to map the area:
Doesn’t accept pic links? Here’s the picture of the orb.
Hello,
I found a more significant sphere than Papapenguin’s ones.
There is a BLUE sphere on the archeologic site of Nazca !!!
Not in high res…, but that seems to be the same thing as in Miami or Los Angeles.
Is there somebody to explain that ??? Isn’t it necessary to draw an assessment from all these discussions after these new discoveries?
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Back to square one:
These white objects are surveillance craft from another world. They are piloted by the Greys. The greys are bio genetic engineered beings that serve a higher purpose.
Alien abductions have been going on from the beginning of civilization, and these orbs, are part of the ongoing genetic experiment between our race and extraterrestrial civilizations, helping Homo Erectus move onto Homo Sapiens, and from Homo Sapiens to Homo Universalis.
The Intergalactic Federation is HERE in PEACE.
Klatu Barada Nikto
OPEN YOUR HEARTS AND MINDS
Please, let us remain with the facts (PHOTOS) and leave side the great and smoky theories…
Some of you might get a kick out of this explanation provided by Andrew and Robert over at MuggleNet.com: http://www.ccel.org/a/aquinas/summa/SS/SS040.html
What we are seeing is actually evidence of evil muggle-baiting wizards who have made random points Unplottable, just to drive us crazy (and the votes are in - it’s working).
Google,
Why not take more pictures of different areas with the lense and if the Unidentified Objects still appear in the same space relative to the other pictures then its rather likely its condensation since it would be in about the same position in relation to the lense.
They could also be a mirror effect. I’m not an expert or anything on apperture, topology, or photographic technology but it looks like that kinda blurring coulda been caused by a kinda mirror effect like glare from the sun. Perhaps a solar pannel?
Perhaps it is just some kind of weird side effect from pasting all the images together into a coherent map. It happens…its technology.
Eh still… thatd be awesome if it was a UFO…
That’s my Katamari! I was busy getting drunk with my wife and I just threw it down to earth. Roll it up!
And here is where the aliens are going to stop for a while….
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
all of them are centered perfectly….so easy to see…
Obviously, those are missile launching zones, there is always a huge terrain besides without any house, there is a lake, a dump zone…
Too near to Old Cuban missiles…
what about planes over match 1?