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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. 421. Antonio says:

    Are you stupid or what? They are just parts that for one reason or another cannot be shown. In Madrid, Spain, the house of the king is covered by your “strange flying pans”… Imagine why?

  2. 422. Tu puta madre friki says:

    Sois todos unos putos frikis d mierda, eso son gilipollezes de tontos k se aburren y komo los yankis os aburris mucho pues sois todos muy tontos. Menos mal k no ay extraterrestres pork si no los bombardeariais en nombre de la paz, no?. Cerdos gringos m kago en vuestra puta madre k es kalva y eskonde una sorpresa pork por las noxes el k muerde la almohada es vuestro viejo. Y ahora komo sois subnormales y no abreis entendido nada k no sea en ingles me voy a kagar en vuestros muertos y multiples kosas mas aprovexando k sois retrasaos mentales. Bien gringos de mierda, ijos d puta, k no sois mas k unos putos gordos descerebraos, eso si kon muxo miedo, a los terroristas, a los negros y a kualkier kosa k joda vuestra puta sociedad, k si los negros t roban y son muy malos, k si los terroristas lo son mas, putos yankis, kon todo el miedo k teneis a todo komo os podeis ver komo los guardianes d la libertad, ijos d puta, a ver kuantos niños afganos o irakis tienen aora la libertad d ir a jugar al futbol sin temer ser kosidos a balazos por los defensores d la paz, antes en kambio estos niños si podian ir a jugar, pero klaro estaban siendo esklavizados por el mismo satan, abia k liberarles. No kiero decir nada sobre la aktuación de los israelis kon palestina y vuestro apoyo a esas aktuaciones. Kon esto no kiero decir k los antiguos gobernantes fueran angelitos, pero estos paises estan muy lejos de vuestra kerida amerika, el mundo se os keda grande, meteos en vuestros asuntos y nadie se metera en los vuestros. K agusto me kedao.

  3. 423. ramakandra says:

    The blue part is a reflection of the sky and the white is a reflection of the clouds

  4. 424. Caleb says:

    Despite it would be great they were UFO’s, the most logical reason is that are marks created for hid important places.
    Think a while…
    If they were UFO’s why haven’t seen it before? they’re smarter don’t?it would be very idiot to reveal on a simply searcher as google xD.
    People who lives near that spots, may post and told everyone who is hidden beyond that spots.Then all conspiracy theories will loose their meaning

  5. 425. Chris says:

    hmmm… maybe its a hype scheme, so that people will check out the google maps beta. word of mouth

  6. 426. Dream says:

    Están aquí. No hay duda. Es una prueba irrefutable. ;-)

  7. 427. MG says:

    Hm, sounds interesting. I’m don’t know what is this, but I’m thinking that Aliens can’t be stupid. Nobody, who’s normal(from another planet), can’t give us a pleasure to see him… But if Aliens will kill us all, I’m sure that they will started from our powerful and greatful America. Just like in these stupid Science-fiction films ;-)

  8. 428. Mick D. says:

    You’re all nuts :)

    Ever notice that there are very few clouds in the images. That’s because they select images where the skies are clear then go back and overlay them over the cloudy images. When these clear images are overlaid the edges are feathered out. When 4 clear images are overlaid over 4 cloudy images you get “fringing” in the tangent where the 4 come together.

    What you are seeing is essentially a hole in the images, with feathered edges, where you can see the older cloudy images underneath. This stitching happens in a grid. This is why the anomalies appear to be regular.

    That is all. Relax.

  9. 429. cabrones says:

    jodidos yankis es un puto ovni de mierda ke os va a conquistar y os va a joder a todos cabrones

  10. 430. Un españñññññol says:

    nos van a invadir !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    HIJOPUTASSSSS MARCIANOSSSS O YANKISSSSSS

    Spain Power

  11. 431. YoW says:

    search “area 51″
    buscar area 51

    suerte que tenemos a will smith que nos salvara de esos extraterrestres malos malotes… yankis pringaos, ojala os tiren un pepinazo estelar y os vallais a tomar por culo… ala wapos 1besito….

  12. 432. urban says:

    I don’t know why some spanierds are so proud of american people, or “yankis” as we call them. Tíos, tan resentidos estáis que desahogáis vuestro estúpido odio ovisceral contra aproximadamente 200 millones de personas en un foro de google? Anda y que os jodan paletos, así está nuestra querida “Spain”. Hay que joderse, ojalá vengan todos los chinos y se vaya todo a tomar por culo. Yo, a aprender chino. Obviously, the States won’t stay for long with all those people who desire to destroy it all.

  13. 433. Ed Muller (Austin, TX) says:

    The Human Race will not survive unless people learn to live and love one another…

    The Intergalactic Federation is coming in PEACE

  14. 434. strange says:

    wtf is this?? Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  15. 435. jorge putino says:

    puto el que lee esto!!!, son todos una manga de putos

  16. 436. Xertus says:

    city of Guadalajara witnessed undoubtely the most spectacular UFO fleet sighting in known history

    http://www.rense.com/general66/uupd.htm

  17. 437. jose says:

    vayanse todos pa la verga partida de locos

  18. 438. emily says:

    hello everyone,i’m a chinese girl.i’m very interested in ufo or sth like this,i believe that there must be some “human-being”in out space.we want to konw them and they want to know us too,right?Tks googlemap and tks the boy who show me the picture.

  19. 439. ivan says:

    hi, I’m spanish and I not that to believe, but i found this in the map:

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    the truth is out there, but which is the truth?

  20. 440. DiLuX says:

    Yo iba en mi nave espacial volando por florida cuando notè que me sacaron una foto…
    Soy el de la derecha de la casa que tiene pileta.

  21. 441. pablo says:

    yo pienso k las manchas son las corridas que he ido dejando por el mundo muchas gracias

  22. 442. Gus says:

    One thing that I noticed and as far as I read in this orum nobody mentioned, is that almost all of these spots look very similar. Does this mean that only one race of aliens is watching us? Does it mean there is only one model of UFO shared by all possible races ‘ who come and visit us ‘ ? Not for me.
    Except or this picture I found mentioned in this forum Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth they are all the same. I therefore conclude they are not spaceship but something else. What else I don’t know, but definitely not spaceship - unless we start finding different spots.

  23. 443. Xertus says:

    ivan - thats pretty interesting. !! I had a boo around the area .. where is this ?? and check out this little compound — Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  24. 444. Xertus says:

    So i had to look into this a bit more…
    http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/libya_pol93.jpg
    looks like its Jalu, there seems to be alot of oil fires in that area and cool looking compounds here and there

  25. 445. mountain jack says:

    here’s some more of those central-pivot irrigation wheels at al-kufrah, libya.

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  26. 446. Gus says:

    Some people have been conspiracy-theorizing with this pic Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
    These ‘dots’ are undoubtly sedimentation tanks used in water purification such as these (empty and seen from inside)
    http://www.water-technology.net/projects/sulaibiya/sulaibiya2.html
    and the sketch found here under ‘continuous mode’
    http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/entoergy/water/paper/drinkingwater/simplemethods/technologies.html
    And this water goes to this structure Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
    Following the road to the north and then west along the coast you will find more tanks and a small city - so these tanks are not in the middle of nowhere.

  27. 447. mountain jack says:

    Gus, those aren’t wastewater tanks, they are irrigation wheels. And they are in the middle of nowhere, i.e. the sahara desert. Libya is undertaking a huge water transport network to bring water from acqufers deep in the sahara to the population centers on the mediterranean sea. The project is called the “great man-made river.” The water is also used to grow crops in the desert using center-pivot irrigation wheels nearly a kilometer in diameter. A well drilled in the center of each circle supplies water to a rotating series of sprinklers. That’s what we see in Ivan’s url south of Jalu, and in the url I referenced near Al-Kufra (aka Al-Jawf). Here’s an example of what I’m talking about.

  28. 448. secol says:

    ASMODEUS718
    you put this link
    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
    and if you zoom the map you can see this text
    RMK TOP15 145841
    in a first view i belive said BMK TOP15 145841, i make a google search but google said “you mean RMK……..” so i check again and its correct, but the search dont show nothing, but why google recognize that???
    very weird

  29. 449. JaSoN says:

    i tink about:

    because google no say anything about.

    hasta el mausan ya hablo de esto, que diablos es y porque solo sale en california.

    JaSoN
    Sociedad del cisma
    team

  30. 450. due2001 says:

    In Madrid (Spain) we also have ufo’s
    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  31. 451. mountain jack says:

    asmodeus, try a google search on “rmk top15″ that’s the model number of the aerial camera that was used to take the pictures google maps shows. the 145841 is probably a frame number, so including that makes the search turn up nothing.

  32. 452. Xertus says:

    http://www.rense.com/general66/3mps.htm

    Three new MPEGs from Santiago featuring the amazing fleet of UFOs seen over Mexico, as presented on Mexican television, one of which features the “Big Disc” that appeared to be the “leader” of the pack .

    Did anyone hear about ‘Steven Spielberg “baffled” why the number of UFO sightings has decreased in the last 20 years, even though the ability to capture them has increased’ ? I wonder where he gets his info ? (http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/48372004.htm) in my opinion I think the sightings have increase 2fold over the past 20 yrs. What do you guys think ?

  33. 453. Jose Antonio Paredes Estrada says:

    JaSoN:
    jajajajjaja que tonto eres

    EL MAUSAN TIENE RETRASO MENTAL, NO SÉ COMO PUEDES CREER ESO

    THAT UFO THINGS ARE GIANT PEPPERMINT

  34. 454. Rui says:

    This is in Vigo, Spain. The left part of the image doesn´t match the right part. You may follow this line to the north or to the south for some kilometers.
    Have you seen the same in other place(s)?

  35. 455. Rui says:

    The link: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

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