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!
If you will look closely at the pictures you will notice the Google copyright somewhere very close or in or partially obscured by the blob on EVERY one of them. My guess is that the problem is caused by the software used to put the Google watermark on each picture.
It’s a piece of mist or dust on the lense of the camera
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its obvious what it is. just dirt on the lens that eventually fell off or was nocked off. thats why its in a straight line and thats why it doesnt appear on all pictures. aliens….pah![/QUOTE]
Yeh dust in space…bullshit!!
I saw a ufo it was flying oh about 7ft south 13fteast it was round and it was like nothing i ever saw befor
Get with the program people- Light from Venus refracted by pockets of swamp gas triggered the formation of ball lightning in a lenticular cloud causing a flock of geese to disperse formation. I can understand some might mistaken this for a weather balloon…
Very imaginative people !
You random the net but u don’t cross the good ways
What r u tellin’ about those “bubbles” ? No aliens and no water Tour … Those spheres are nothin’ but antigravity “B2 spirit” bomber flyin over cities. Supersonic engines make a kind of “electromagnetic bubble” (transsonic area) by translation over the sound speed.
You can see this plane here
Lon: -118.081944
Lat: 34.637500
on Lancaster BaseAFB.
and more information on this hightech aircraft :
http://www.galleryoffluidmechanics.com/conden/b2bg.htm
I hope i don’t broke ya dreamz of martians.
Peace on earth
Human
Still going with the sh!t ont he lens theory?
im not gonna say that its a UFO, but for one, dirt doesnt have a blue to silver gradient shade to it, and it DEFINATELY isnt water… water would refract the light and still be somewhat transparent. most of them are opaque.
furthermore, anything as close as a lens or shield (like, within 2-3 feet away), would NOT be in focus as the orbs are. it would simply appear to be a blur. of the whole shot, that is. think of looking through binoculars while focused at an object quite a distance away, and when someone walks in front of you, theyre WAY out of focus.
i know the dots have a bit of a blur to them, but the focal ratio for 2 feet away to 17,000+ feet away wont give you anything near that sharp.
I haven’t been back to this forum for several months. I have returned now out of curiosity to see if anyone has solved the mystery of the Google “blobs” since I left. I am rather surprised that there is still some discussion going on, but I guess that this indicates that no one has yet come up with a solution that satisfies everyone. I personally gave up, because, while no explanation that had then been put forward completely convinced me, I was almost certain that these things must have some mundane (but unfortunately obscure) origin, and eventually I lost interest in trying to discover what that might be. Since then and now, however, I have (coincidentally and without looking for it) come across some stuff which maybe might be of interest to those of you who have stuck with it here. I have a whole collection of Martian blobs (from Pathfinder to Rover), which I haven’t had time to organize on Flickr yet, and the following is a photo from the GOES weather satellite which appears to show some Google type blobs, only from a greater distance.
[IMAGE][1]
I think we can rule out condensation on the lens (in space?) or gunge on the scanner (which is in the satellite). Any other ideas?
[1]: http://static.flickr.com/42/80411340_50932ce7d7_o.jpg
The only mundane explanation that I can think of to explain the blobs (or would “dots” be a better term here given their size?) in the GOES satellite photo is that they are caused by data holes (i.e., pixels for which for some reason there is no data available), which are given a vaguely spherical appearance by the JPG compression process. However, they also look very similar to the small blobs in the Mars photos below, and these seem (as far as I can tell) to appear only in the sky and not randomly across the photos.
[1]: http://static.flickr.com/39/81934828_e66ef72184_o.gif
[2]: http://static.flickr.com/42/81934827_dd5e226938_o.gif
[3]: http://static.flickr.com/37/81934826_6551f3e53b_o.jpg
[4]: http://static.flickr.com/41/81932673_04f40a7c2a_o.jpg
[5]: http://static.flickr.com/36/81932674_6e54eb4842_o.jpg
[6]: http://static.flickr.com/42/81932675_82285861a3_o.jpg
[7]: http://static.flickr.com/40/81932672_13626510a5_o.jpg
[8]: http://static.flickr.com/39/81932671_a8c3654591_o.jpg
[9]: http://static.flickr.com/38/81932670_2bef616c34_o.jpg
Does anyone know what these are?
I think someone needs to drive to the location that is obscured by the blobs, and let us know what is being hidden! I think they are hiding something from view so that it cannot be located from the images.
Pygar, what the heck are those????
well, i’ll just chalk all this up to the aliens while y’all lose sleep over it… eheheheheh
Has anybody tried using WorldWind? WW is NASA’s free satellite imagery program, but they do not use the same images as Google. IN fact, you can choose from several different SATs, like the GEOSats.
Just a suggestion, good find.
Not all balloons are yellow.
http://www.pci.uni-heidelberg.de/pci/e_index.html?http://www.pci.uni-heidelberg.de/pci/vebert/e_veoverview.html
http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/research/balloon/photo_e.html
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&q=research+balloon
Such translucent balloons would leave very little ground shadows.
i think these are signs of coming storms, are earthquackes. even wildfires.
human hit the nail on the head. the chances of that happening are very slim but it happened! even a f-16 or any other supersonic aircraft could do the same thing.
here are some pics for evidence:
http://users.hfx.eastlink.ca/~sryan/gallery/f18%20super%20sonic.jpg
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/PointMugu2004/Highlights/F18VaporCone.jpg
http://www.voodoo.cz/tomcat/new/f14303.jpg
Now that I see them I remember that one day last year I saw those things in the air. I work on hollywood and my office faces east. I counted 6 or seven of then and they seem to be moving slowly across the sky. At first i just thought they were balloons but then they seem to just disappear. Before they were gone I tried to take some pictures of them. but they were hard to find in my viewfinder and I didn’t get any on my digital camera.
Now I’m freaking out!!!!!!!!!!
3 of the so called “8″ sites over florida are exactly the same image. The “thing” (whatever it is) is probably the result of artifact from a lens or angle defect.
I keep reading that people think that this is some sort of plane breaking the sound barrier. here is a clip of that. http://www.fracpilot.com/videos/F14%20Breaking%20Sound%20Barrier.wmv
I saw these orbs with my own eyes. they didn’t seem to be moving all that fast and they all were arround about 15 minute. so either they were planes that maintained the sound barrier speed for fifteen minutes and were stationary OR they were just orbs hoovering in the air.
This really isn’t much of a mystery.
1) This is aerial photography, not satellite photography.
2) What you see in Google Maps/Earth is a mosaic of many photographs taken from a plane flying a collection grid.
3) The fact that the anomalies show up in a straight line is proof that they are associated with the flight path of the airplane, not anything on the ground or flying below.
4) Anything associated with the flight path of the plane must have something to do with the camera, since there would be no part of the plane below the camera mounting, or at least not within the field of view.
Therefore, a drop of water behind the lens is the only rational explanation. Sorry all you consiracy theorists, the truth is always simpler.
While I find it improbable to assume that the object is an extraterrestrial spacecraft there have been a series of UFOs seemingly fitting the image of this ‘craft’ captured in a video posted on compfused.com — http://www.compfused.com/directlink/801/ — the video presents a man with the ability to ’summon’ such space crafts, but before you disregard it, the video doesn’t look doctored and even leaves the news crew that presents the video baffled. I definitely see a connection between these sightings and the “UFO” captured on google maps — which is a little freaky — but I was wondering if you guys concurred
does anyone know what the hell this is? 26 miles wide very clear on google earth
27°44′25.31″N
22° 3′12.00″E
I think people need to curb wishful thinkings when they find something that they havn’t seen or don’t understand.
I think the most likely explaination is secret experimental vehicles or things of that nature. Just because you havn’t seen it and don’t know what it is, doesn’t mean the military didn’t already build it 30 years ago and simply hid it from the public.
Or it’s UFOs sent to spy us from the secret alien base inside the hollow moon which is really a flying fortress built to spy on humanity.
What’s more likely?
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Man Basically there was something wrong with the sat or somthing. People are too paranoid now a days. You figure that the same sat takes the pictures of all the places that were shown with the “UFO”. The same peice of trash or what ever it was happend to be on the lens of the sat. The sat happend to take pictures of all those place in the area.
I’ve added a kmz file to my blog that will pull most of these spheres into google earth.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
To me i doesn’t really look like it can be a UFO. It looks more like there was something on the lense, it also look like it can be a water spot.
Umm….yeah. This is just for homework or what not, but if you really want my opinion, then…I think the stupid marks are just some blurs that happened to be on the camera lens at the time, and once the pictures were developed, people blew the BLURS wayy out of proportion.
or it could always be a doctored picture that people wanted to freak other people out with.
—–H.Lohr—–
to be honest i think thats its just a wrapper that was sitting on the floor or something.and like the sun is reflecting on it so when the satellite took this picture thats what it showed.or also it can be like a smudge on the film or something.ok there.now give me my grade mr.teacher.
~A.Ramos~
yeh im just like whatever i dont realy think its a ufo, its probly like just a reflection of light or something.
what is this?
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
See the Glacier National Park site (http://www.nps.gov/glac/webcams/mgcam.htm)
for their explanation (”… reflection of the light on the front of the camera on the glass window of the housing …”) for the “orange spot” visible on the shoreline view of Many Glacier Lake. If you blow up a ’snap any area’ view (as with MWSnap), the similarity is too striking to ignore. - blzbob
Anything in connection with UFO is totally blured… Got to know…
sorry, a error.
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Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth