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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. 631. jack says:

    hi i would want a picture of a ufo plese

  2. 632. Atlantian says:

    Cesar Revilla

    “WAS IST THIS:

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    That would be the secret location of atlantis… oops - did I say that too loud?

  3. 633. Cesar Revilla says:

    here goes again, but close!

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    is not Atlantis ;)

  4. 634. jack says:

    It is probably just a mark added in by Google used to help keep track of the spacing between separate pictures. Either that or condensation which is also very probable, and has been mentioned a lot.

  5. 635. Xcalon says:

    This was another side affect of the Matrix being assimilated by the Borgs. The breakdancing competition was owned by the Borgs though… See pg 10 of “Alien-Civilazation”. Also posted by me.

  6. 636. Lynn Nagrone says:

    It seems everyone is always looking to take away from what is clearly there. As far from normal as it seems,these are photos of UFO’s,and if you look around,all around,you will see more and more.These things are landing everywhere. If you’ve noticed alot of “helecoptors” around lately,they’re not .They are UFO”s in disguise.You”ll notice them going down where there are no airports,but when you get to where you know they landed you”ll only see a car.Check out that car.you will notice it slowly transforming into that car. The lights will be messed up,the car itself will be slightly off,just watch it.Also pay attention to cars on the freeways,you”ll notice a bunch of trucks and/or SUV’s hanging together and you can’t get up to them because other “cars”won’t let you by until the transforming is done then they all seperate and you’ll notice one or two very small cars that are very slowly getting bigger. As crazy as it sounds,it’s true.That’s why we seem to have so much more traffic in the last few years.We are my friends slowly being invaded,and I’m trying to spread the word.Maybe theres still time to do SOMETHING to help ourselves. Do some reading, UFO’s,Cydonia,and the Bible is very informative. Many things under just “UFO,s. The publisher of “PARANOID TIMES” has ALOT to inform us about !Edward Nembulas. I’m not sure of the spelling.Please people,this is no joke,check things out,all around you,and you WILL notice very strange happenings.I could go on for hours with tons of info. but I’m just trying to alert yiu right now.I’m just trying to get the word out. I have alot of video taken with my security camera,I wish I had the money for some good equiptment that would show things much clearer. I’m going to be working on that. Thanks for listening,Lynn in California

  7. 637. Cornfused says:

    Shoot, my car is shrinking. Sometimes, though, it seems like it was made on some other planet. I just wish it would stop trying to mate with the neighbor’s backhoe. Makes an awful noise.

  8. 638. OurTerry says:

    Is it just me or is that bird Lynn barking mad.

  9. 639. Donkey says:

    It’s interesting that in this instance

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    the map is available at the highest zoom level south of the sphere but is not available north of the sphere.

    It appears to me that the freeway happens to be a border between maps that probably have difference sources and therefore different resolutions.

    My guess would be that the spheres are either a digital artifact or some sort of foreign matter at the very edge of the image. As opposed to alien craft from the planet Zontar…

  10. 640. Anthony Spears says:

    I think some dumb idiot jerk was throwing aerogel at the satellites. That’s what I think.

  11. 641. Will Samson, Ph.D, LLNL says:

    As many would guess, light does not follow a straight line in a gaseous medium. This creates an effect (especially at a great distance) that results in a murky, transparent haze around objects. Take the anomoly photographed (by airplane) near the edge of a forest. Notice how the southernmost edge is cut off? This is due to the fact that the trees are highly offset from the surrounding elevation. (this is not observed in other areas since the difference in distance from the airplane to ground and buildings/trees is relatively too small to see this effect– it is assumed, as the resolution would suggest, that the plane was particularly low here, making the difference in distance from plane to ground and plane to trees relatively large) .Judging from the proportional thickness and transparency of the cornea around the solid medium of the anomoly, this object is not an “object,” but a mist of condensation created by a rapid depressurizaton of a socket of air directly below the plane. In military photography, this anomaly is frequently observed: as a plane (especially large, bluntly streamlined carrier service planes or long distance photography planes) travels through the air, sockets of high and low pressure air follows it as a result of innate imperfections in aerospace design. Simply stated, turbulance creates air to compress/decompress. As we all know, gasses cool upon depressurization. the rapid depressurization of atmospheric gas results in a rapid cooling, forcing suspended water vapors to instantaneously condense (snow producing machines use much the same effect–low pressure created by a fan with small nozzles feeidng atomized water into the colder stream of low density air). This theory finds further support in the fact that the sockets of turbulance-tossed air are found in lines. This means that they formed under the aircraft at different times along its straight flight path.

  12. 642. Pradeep says:

    Humans can’t seem to learn from their own inventions – they report sightings of UFOs which invariably are very brightly lit up. Our own spacecraft have few or no lights at all, and our lunar module landers certainly didn’t. As if ET will like to advertise its presence in an alien world so blatantly! Further, our scientists claim to be sending alien civilizations signals in the hope that they will recognize them and contact us, so that we may extend a “hand of friendship to our neighbours”. If ET has been following the movements and mindset of humans, they would know that humans can’t even be friends with themselves, their environment and even those animals around us who we condescendingly call ‘lesser creatures’. ET would certainly not risk making friends with such a vile, destructive, egotistical, undependable race of beings.

  13. 643. Xorgon of Jhelth says:

    You are not the boss of me! I will light up my ship in any way I please, whenever and wherever I please. Monkey Brain.

  14. 644. Ben Moss says:

    The comment about no shadow on the ground is erroneous, at this height, the shadow, if there is one, could be far off to one side, and who knows what angle the sun is at. It is interesting to note that they very much resemble the famous “Foo Fighters” of the great wars, an anomoly reported by the best trained obsevers out there, Military Fighter Pilots. I believe that since Google, for now at least, is still in the public forum, that these uncensored pics simply re-enforce what NASA, The Hubble telescope, and many Mars pics are showing us and hiding from us: Clear cut evidence of someone unearthly out there. NASA keeps doing a lousy job of covering up their “airbrushing” of Mars and Moon pictures (especially the Clementine missions pics), and when uncensored technical observations are recorded, thse anomolies show up all over the world. Sadly I predict some branch of government is already seeking to quash this type of info.

  15. 645. otto says:

    hey…so following the idea that there may be more wierd stuff on film that is already out there…i randomly googled Mexico City, Mexico and just looked around for awhile….you will have to convert this to the satellite setting…but there are some Really bright lights…i would say saucer shaped and the biggest has what looks like a beam shooting out of it into a house….whatever it is it is cool…you might have to really look for it….it directly to the left of a soccer field by about a block…they don’t have the street names on the google map but here are the coordinates…use the whole thing….http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Mexico+City+Mexico&ll=19.276734,-99.142883&spn=0.003291,0.008814&t=k
    happy hunting….What do YOU think it is?….

  16. 646. fadinescence says:

    You know planes when they reach the speed of sound, they make an egg-like cloud, as we can see in this photo : http://www.csun.edu/~adg45981/F18_ShockWave.jpg

    It can be this too..

  17. 647. bryan says:

    this is weird

  18. 648. MarkM says:

    There’s another UFO, like a pink amoeba, in this Google satellite image near my home. Cannot work out what this is!!

    http://tinyurl.com/lrgp9

  19. 649. Man says:

    This is the place where you live man

  20. 650. Moonboy says:

    The spheres were laid out in a grid and the will act as relay stations for this.
    http://members.aol.com/phmikas/infos/blue_.htm

  21. 651. Ted Oliphant says:

    Is there any way to view Moing PIctures and/or higher resolution images? I’ve been examining images for about 16 years and love problem solving.
    tedoliphant@hotmail.com

  22. 652. Luis says:

    I found more strange things like UFOs, in Europe, concretely in Bilbao. You can see the images here: http://www.bidaiak.info/blog/?p=20
    Sorry, the text is in Spanish, but you can see the images and follow the link to the real google maps website.

  23. 653. Mezcaltim says:

    How about a copyright mark installed by Google?

  24. 654. David H. says:

    you know there are spy probes around the world that look nothing like airplanes?

  25. 655. irthmonkey says:

    ok,…Ive looked at all the photos…most of the LA ones …well…had nothing…dunno what we’re supposed to be looking at in those..anyhow
    I for one am sure of “visitors” from “somewhere” else have been and are here…
    check out the Brazilian Govt’s recent release of once top secret reports and photos…then tell me you still have a doubt.
    i’m also an amateur photographer and a “student of light” and it’s effects
    and unfortunately what i see is [and im 99.9% sure] condensation on the “window” of the plane that these were taken from…aerial /weather/research planes have windows on thier under bellies ..from which cameras shoot thru etc.

    how i know this is a] ive been in one of these planes..[they are usually old military planes]…and
    b] the top or “crest of these UFO’s are all dark…while the rooftops etc below are very bright…probably a high sun around 12pm - 3pm
    even though the “sides” of these objects show the light source coming from the same direction as well as shadow…they arent as bright as they should be in that area of the spheres….and the tops being “shadowed” or darker than the illuminated side…this would be from the inside of the plane being dark..

    not to burst bubbles… i wanted to see UFO’s as much as anyone…but in my opinion [which is all this is] condensation on the outer /belly “glass”

  26. 656. AcesHigh says:

    Ah, these UFO believes make me laugh. No we are not alone in the universe. But we are not being visited either. Not by humanoid creatures who appear all over the world all the time. Evolution makes it impossible for beings born in other planets to be so similar to us. They would have to evolve from extraterrestrial apes, which would have to evolve from some other kind of mammal, etc.

    The size of the galaxy and the universe also makes rather impossible for us to be visited. What a huge coincidence that from billions of star systems in out galaxy, the aliens find us just 100 years after our first radio emissions (meaning they are not more than 100 light years away)! And what a coincidence that the universe is so big, but only one species (these stupid humanoids) found us, and that they look so similar to us.

    No, its all nonsense. UFO belivers want to believe in alien UFOs, so anything they cant explain becomes an alien UFO sighting. And in fact, they cant explain anything. They dont know nothing about science.

    There are hundreds of scientifically plausible explanations, but they think its the most improbable one. If you dont udnerstand something, it doesnt know specialists who studied YEARS dont know what it is.

    Someone mentioned earlier that people who give other explanations rather than UFOs come and never return, and might be agents paid by the government to hide the truth. LOL, come on!!! Conspiracy theorists!

    If you think I am a conspiracy agent, you can find me in the http://www.skyscrapercity.com forums. I use the same nickname there. I am from Novo Hamburgo, Brasil. Ok? I WISH the Illuminattis were paying me lol.

  27. 657. Ian says:

    Simple reason for straight lines:

    Whatever it is - probably weather balloon was photographed several times on different dates - so you’re just seeing the path of the object - i.e it’s the SAME object woving in a straight line, blown slowly by the wind.

    So there you go.

    Ian

  28. 658. green_meklar says:

    I haven’t read all 657 comments, so I’m not sure how which parts of this have been discussed before, but here’s what I make of it.

    We have to consider that some of those photos, especially the Los Angeles ones, were taken in broad daylight and cars can be seen on the roads underneath them. If the cameras taking the pictures could see the objects, then people on the ground could too, and there were plenty of people there. Yet they saw nothing. This pretty much rules out any large object, which leaves only two options: Small objects close to the camera and things that aren’t objects at all.

    The first of those include water droplets on or near the camera lens and small UFOs, balloons and ballistic ping-pong balls. However, ping-pong balls would not follow the airplane to make those nice lines, and balloons would go too slowly to. That leaves water droplets and miniature UFOs.

    The latter includes watermarks or masks placed there deliberately by Google, glare off objects on the surface, imaging artifacts (such as defects in the camera lens or software problems) and ghosts. However, glare wouldn’t form straight lines and probably wouldn’t look like what we see in the pictures, imaging artifacts would presumably either only happen once or go on happening for a lot longer than these things did and Google watermarks wouldn’t be specially gathered over certain cities.

    That leaves water droplets, UFOs and ghosts. I think we can determine which one is most likely. Unfortunately, water droplets don’t do a very good job of explaining what is, to me, one of the strangest parts of the pictures: Florida image number four, which is partially obscured by a row of trees. Perhaps the picture just underneath it was taken at a different time and/or by a different plane, and then automatically blended with the upper picture by computer?

    Conclusion: Water droplets.

  29. 659. Jon the 3D animator says:

    Several people have come up with the correct answer but it’s still being treated like a mystery.

    It appears to be moving with the aircraft that is taking the pictures but is not in all the frames in a line. It appears along with a ‘curved hook’ in some cases with the relative position being the same. The color changes from side to side and the illumination seems to be coming from several directions in different colors.

    The correct answer is dust and hair on the slide scanner. Try it with a normal scanner and a slide adapter you will see exactly what I mean.

  30. 660. SeenThem says:

    this is really good edvidence of what i have been seeing here in the skies of connecticut! those things are for real people! they can disappear and appear out of nowhere! im not gonna sit here and go on and on but, it is really something you just have to SEE IN PERSON to EVER beleive i guess.

  31. 661. Ramon MX says:

    More UFO’s in California

    34 08 18.87N, 117 12 21.44W
    34 08 31.54N, 117 35 24.26W
    34 08 05.37N, 117 36 13.77W
    34 08 12.24N, 117 39 07.39W
    34 08 30.88N, 117 38 19.46W
    34 08 24.80N, 117 23 37.85W
    34 08 20.93N, 117 18 00.99W
    34 08 20.06N, 117 15 09.54W
    34 08 12.98N, 117 33 20.28W

  32. 662. Jaz says:

    More Google related speculation, check this one out. I’d say man made but it is wierd because of its location, on restricted ground At Pine Gap. No thats not a watertank in the middle of nowhere. I don’t think a thousand employees are going to rely on bore water from a tank like that, If your unfamiliar with Pine Gap and like a good conspiracy theory then look it up. Most Australians have no idea about the rumours surrounding the base except for the locals of course.

    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread212366/pg1

  33. 663. Mpalmer says:

    These are ALL ‘Black Ops’ Military aircraft out of area 51 and Dayton Ohio,.

  34. 664. michael w says:

    I thought I’d throw in my 2 cents. I have not read all the comments but the ones I have read seem to try to rationalize these things into what we know from our everyday experience. I believe these are actual ufo’s from other civilizations, far more advanced than our mere 100-years of technology. Aftyer all most of us did not get our first desktop computer until 1990 and that was a piece of crap. For them to be floating over your head without being seen from the ground is probable child’s play. I hate to burst your bubble but “We are not alone.”

  35. 665. Ethereal says:

    I dont´t know if these things are orbs, observation tower or something else…
    Any suggestion ?? Just found strange…

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

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