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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. 666. Inspoor says:

    Whoa, Ethereal,,,are there 3 of them in that last link?

  2. 667. Ethereal says:

    Yes. I search the web looking for any reference about them, but i didn´t find anything. It seems they are in ground level.

  3. 668. CalibanVOV says:

    These orbs seem to be common. Remember the recent Zarqawi bombing video? an orb is dancing around in it. I wonder if certain camaras are picking it up.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?search=&v=LU7AYOGiD-8

  4. 669. airlinemusic says:

    The flat bottom orb is the best. See any sparks around the bottom.
    It might be a factor in its suspension. What you see is an aether effect.
    It may not be a complete sphere that perhaps Tesla may have levitated.
    A definite flat or pancake coil from Tesla on the floor giving off sparks.

    Want to ride in one enveloped by electricity, didn’t think so.
    Making the aether, air if you will, solid is what Tesla called levitation
    when his experiment and demonstration separated two zinc plates.
    Guess he went on from there but will we ever know for sure.

  5. 670. airlinemusic says:

    Sorry just saw this;
    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.
    Did not go over yet but it may be part of the pulse spark propulsion that
    is hot enough to boil vapor and cause the cloud. Remember it like digital
    propulsion of Tesla sparks driven around the orb mostly down to levitate.
    Then a simple put put sparking to move it along.

  6. 671. airlinemusic says:

    Sorry again:
    Sorry just saw this;
    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.
    No.
    I was talking about this vapor trail:
    http://www.eyepod.org/TAC-google-spheres.html

  7. 672. terri g. says:

    hi listen up. i just found this site and seen the photo’s. i couldn’t believe it. you can call my nuts or whatever but i’ve personally seen one of these amazing….metalic, shiney, ball-bearing like spheres in person. (my boyfriend was with me at the time and he witnessed it also) it was the secound friday in july 2005 at 4:40 in the afternoon on a very clear day off the 91 fwy. where the big cross is on top of the hill, near riverside. anyway it was about 60 yards away and it was about as high as a 4 story building would be. we couldn’t believe what we were looking at. theres this silver, shiney chorme ball. i swear it looked like a ball bearing with a weird haze around the outside of it. i think in the photos thats why they look a little blurry.anyway it was as big as a house. it was just hanging there, there was no sound, it was silent. there was no smoke, there was no lights either. we looked at each other and didn’t know what to think. it stayed there for about 1 minute it was kind of bobbing a little. then it backed up about 20 feet stopped for about 10 seconds then it went straight up into the sky about 100 feet and stopped again, i mean when it stops it’s a dead stop. next, it started to go higher but swaying from back and forth like it was playing around. then it stopped again, went in the opposite direction a few yards, and then it went straight up so fast i can only compare to a jet and it was about 50x’s faster then a jet. we watched it intill it was a tiny dot in the sky and then it was gone. i’m telling you this was no man made thing or anything from this earth. it was far to advanced, you would have to see it yourself to understand.it definitely was not a weather balloon, or condensation, or a cloud. or a drop of water on the lens. the photos captured exactly what we saw. it was a ufo (unidentified flying object) i will never forget it. i swear to god this is the truth!!!

  8. 673. jeremy says:

    as much as i would love for those to be ufos, they just dont look like ufos to me. they look alot like sonic booms. there could be an invisble ufo somewhere making a sonic boom or something, but thats kinda unlikely. id say that that is a sonic boom from a military jet. still pretty cool though. nice find.

  9. 674. terri says:

    how can you see a sonic boom? hey i seen one of these round ufo’s in person…. it was very real. looks just like a shiney ballbearing. it wasn’t a photo.I watched it fool around in the sky like it was playing with the birds. stopping, then changing direction, swooping back and forth then shooting straight up faster then anything i’ve ever seen.there was no sound, no smoke, no lights. just a haze around the outer sphere. crazy but true.

  10. 675. airlinemusic says:

    Over the weekend a photographer posted some shots of day time stars.
    Also a dark cloudy sky with a so called black orb.
    Also a plane passing one orb or Haunebu type saucer.
    The site went down and now I see some of his pictures are missing.
    See if any are left at control-alt-delete.ca

  11. 676. Kanumandis says:

    No, the moon is red.

  12. 677. TERRI says:

    I HAVE SEEN ONE FROM THE GROUND. IT’S NOT A WEATHER BALLOON!!!

  13. 678. ross says:

    there not seperate objects they are the same object taken at different times i wont say how i know this but i do know it

  14. 679. Brian says:

    One of the shots (http://googlesightseeing.com/wp-content/ufoupdate2.jpg) is the West Palm Beach Sikorsky helicopter test area west of West Palm Beach on Bee Line Highway. Each of the “UFO’s” seems to be the same size, probably 40 to 50 feet, if how sizes tell anything. Isn’t it possible that all of the “UFO’s” are actually the sun reflecting off rotating helicopter blades? Sikorsky “Heavy Lifters” have huge blade radius’. And several of the “UFO’s” are in Palm Beach County. Yes it is very likely.

  15. 680. samk says:

    Here’s one in Rome, Italy.

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  16. 681. billy jean says:

    you suck

  17. 682. F.K. says:

    Untill I can see it with my own eyes I can’t say what it is. But I can tell you have seen 6 UFO’s in the last year. 4 of them off of the 210 Freeway near Realto, Ca. IN THE SAME AREA!!!! Our first and WILDEST was on July 9th 2005. Our UFO report as well as others is posted http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxe200507.html
    Just go to July 9th 2005 click on the blue date on the left of the page! Let me say Hallaluya!!!! Hallalu-YAHWEH! They are UFO’s! Crafts of the God’s! Angels Hevenly Transport! They came from the Heavens! I’m sure the Government is going to start following me again just for posting this! I don’t care. I don’t fear Satan! I’m with YAHWEH! I hope you all understand what I’m saying! God’s back and the end is near!

  18. 683. kat jac says:

    WHEN U R READING THIS DONT STOP OR SOMETHING BAD WILL HAPPEN MY NAME IS SUMMER I AM 15 YEARS OLD i have BLONDE HAIR , SCARS no NOSE OR EARS I AM DEAD IF U DONT COPY THIS JUS LIKE FROM THE RING COPY N POST THIS ON 5 MORE SITES OR I WILL APPEAR ONE CREEPY NIGHT WEN UR NOT EXPECTING IT BY YOUR BED WITH A NIFE AND KILL U THIS IS NO JOKE SUMMET ING GOOD WILL HAPPEN TO U IF YOU POST THIS ON 5 MORE SITES

  19. 684. Jim says:

    The image of the highway and the Google earth watermark above… I noticed that on the highway the illumination is coming from below (the shadow is at the top of the truck), but the “UFO” object seems to be very well illuminated - with a very white light - from the top side, exactly in the other direction. That would suggest the “UFO” image is an anomaly on the film or in the lens or equipment, not an object flying/suspended in mid-air below the mapping aircraft/satellite.

    Or is someone going to tell me the object is being illiuminated by either the mothership or by “moonglow”??

  20. 685. Kurt says:

    I find it noteworthy that all these UFO are the same basic, fuzzy shape–when reported sightings vary quite a bit by shape/size of observed objects.

  21. 686. Survivorgirl says:

    NO, No, No… you people have to think bigger! this is abviously a government conspiracy to try to keep us out of the way while they work their evil at Area 51!…either that or they’re aliens!

  22. 687. brandon says:

    Most of the images seem to no longer exist on google maps.

    I believe it is not a water droplet or anything on or near the lens. If you look at the location two L.A. link in google earth and then in the menu go to Add > Image Overlay, you can see that the images are outlined, the “droplet” crosses the line intact, indicating that it is not on or near the lens.

    Also I am seeing one north east of this location that I dont believe had been mapped.

  23. 688. dario says:

    HI I think si a fake! One joke by google ehehehehehe
    :D
    Any think else?boooo
    bye
    http://www.dario-avellino.it

  24. 689. Kim Efishoff says:

    Mr. Tensun,
    I’m a Nuclear Engineer. I retired from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in 2004. I am currently a Research Associate with the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP) (please see: http://www.narcap.org/news%20page/newspage.htm).

    I would like to talk to you about your posts at: http://www.googlesightseeing.com/2005/05/12/ufo/). Please contact me at kimefishoff@comcast.net at your convenience.

    Thank you,
    Kim Efishoff

  25. 690. Jose Antonio Paredes Estrada says:

    ajjajajaja pq buscas mi nombre completo en google???!

    jajajajaja, sobres!!!

    .————–

    THEY ARE NOT UFOS! THEY ARE HELICOPTERS MAN YOU ARE SO MAASLKFJDAS

  26. 691. Michael says:

    THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!! it’s a REAL UFO! tha UFO it’s at least 5000feat of the ground. i can realize that the UFO uses solar energy to move, how? watch te color of the UFO in direction of the sun (grey) and the opposite part (blue)… it is just a theory. It may be that the UFO it is just a decoy or an explorer. I can also notice that the UFO uses stealth material to make it “invisible” to the human eye and/or our radar. HOW IT IS POSSIBLE the invisibility of the ufo to the human eye? it’s simple, their technology it’s whey much advanced than ours. and who knows, they may have access to our satellites, to our private lives… who knows :)

  27. 692. Jonathan says:

    It looks to me in the different pics that it could be glare from the earth. notice the shadow of the trees in the left pic well geography speaking the glare (UFO) the sun is on and angle and so the brighter light on the glare is where the brighter light and no shadows are is on the land so my theory, glare from the sun and sky b/c the glear has a blue in it so the sky is blue… ring a bell?

  28. 693. Susan says:

    The link below is from the Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity Raw Images Database.

    http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/n/916/1N209497696EDN75GTP1585L0M1.HTML

    This is an image of the Martian sky. The UFO appears to be cylindrical in shape.
    There also appears to be a heatwave trail, indicating that the object was moving (in a lateral direction). In the next frame taken about 30 seconds later the object is no longer visible (again evidence that it was a MOVING object). It also looks like the object might be glowing.

    This is a UFO sighting on MARS folks!….so all bets are pretty much off for the ususal suggestions from people who do not believe in extraterrestrial activity.

    “It’s an experiemental military aircraft”
    “It’s a water droplet on the lense”
    “It’s a weather balloon”
    “It’s space junk”
    “It’s a strange weather pattern”
    “It’s a hoax”, etc.

    I have been doing extensive Mars, Moon (and now Titan) research for the last three years. There’s somthing up there. Something beautiful and not to be feared, IMHO. I believe this “something” could truly change the world for the better (on a more “permanent basis).

    Peace (NOW!)

    Dennis Kucinich for President 2008!

    PS: The image that I’ve posted the link to above was the image that out of the blue popped up on my computer screen when I (very stupidly) tried to make the text bold on a custom signature for the very first post I was submitting in the Dennis Kucinich Forum. The Forum and my post disappeared and there was this image in its place. Now I do have this image saved in my personal files, but Control Bold should have not brought this image up. I believe this is a very good sign for Dennis.

  29. 694. THE UFO GOGLER says:

    They are not there now :)

    Also could be a trick like this is http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/23/flying_car/

  30. 695. airlinemusic says:

    This google capture of ufos has been called a fake.
    One thing is now that I have it on my pc is its a collection of satellite photos
    and not real time satellite images. This means that the ufo was captured
    at the time of the image photo and noticed by the viewer. It will be there
    until the next update of the photo. Thats why people keep the picture and
    note the location and plot the points. Like this place:
    http://www.eyepod.org/TAC-google-spheres.html
    I am looking for real time but will keep on looking for the ufo capture.

  31. 696. Tim says:

    They are not weather balloons, just balloons. you can see a string over ther free way. Its very clear. there are hundreds of them all over the stats. iv found god knows how many.

  32. 697. Roman says:

    Its good

  33. 698. Teymur says:

    contact ufo public journal.

  34. 699. alexander says:

    wouaww

  35. 700. Taylor Nelson says:

    Has anyone noticed that goggle has removed the spheres from google maps?

    They are totally gone.

    Conspiracy anyone?

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