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!
I typed in “area 51″ in google maps just for kicks and scrolled around near the race track, some other area 51 I guess, and lookie what I found…
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
I guess that’s not a race track, but it looked like one.
DigitalOldschool, scroll to the top of this thread. That orb is number 13 in the list of LA UFOs specified at the very beginning of this thread.
The Goverment has prepared a statement , and thus follows. The object is to distant from the ground so its blurs. the object also has strange discolorations which cause it to seem blue and gray on diffrent sides. If it was condensation it would be frozen solid to the lens, due to the cold imptiness called space. this imager in fact is only the misinterpretation of the statillite itself. due to the mass amounts of info and imageing these satallites have to putout they do have image blots. The engineers at NASA refer to this so called phynominon as a “Casatic Hole”. thank you
maybe its a Marketing stunt by Google?
did you consider that maybe it IS frozen solid to the lens — which would handlily explain why it almost always looks the same and why it never seems to move or change shape?
Google has enhanced these pics way too much to
tell if it’s real or not.
Once again, the photos in question were taken from one or more airplanes, at about 17,500 feet. Google uses the word _satellite_ rather loosely. Zoom out several clicks, and you will see a satellite image. The transition is easy to spot if you look for it.
So, after reading through this whole bloody thread (college is out and I’m obviously bored or something) I’m still at a loss for any certainties, but the repeating goobers all over the place seem to be a pretty good indication that it’s some sloppy human mistake- which is a whole lot easier in the Occam’s Razor perspective than a deliberate promotion for something or alien spacecraft or government crap. But whatever. Have fun.
So…if aliens are so darn intelligent, why is it that they appear on our satellites? Seems to me that anything smart enough to build ships like that, is smart enough to use some sort of cloak or to avoid being caught on camera.
Dummies! The aliens are following the sattelite as a joke.
Because they want us to see them.
The Extraterrestrials are making their presence known, little by little.
They cannot land on the front lawn of the White House because humans are much too primitive and savage to have direct contact. Humans would react by attacking. Reason for which a close encounter of the third kind is not likely. EBE’s cloak their existence in our mythology. They are the angels from the Bible, the gnomes and dwarves of the Middle Ages, the little green men of the 50’s and the aliens of today. The phenomenon has always existed, what changes is humanity’s concept of that phenomenon.
Before contact can be made with galactic civilizations that are far more advanced than we are, Humans must first learn to live in peace with one another.
THE INTERGALACTIC FEDEATION IS HERE IN PEACE
That is correct.
The Intergalactic Federation is coming in Peace.
A I N G A I N G A I N G A I N G A (Repeat in Meditation)
Could it be a shadow from something above the plane taking the pictures?
Check out the shadow this airplane creates…
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Pygar & At0miC,
The following are examples of how refraction around low, slow flying private aircraft can appear as a disc or blob from the altitudes of the camera platforms. Additionally the size, speed and distance variation will account for the anomalies between any given examples. The reason they are the same in Florida as the are here in Southern California: Cessnas and Pipers are the same in Florida as the are here in Southern California.
http://www.ascotti.org/photo/weather.htm
http://www.echeng.com/journal/index.php?p=878
http://www.dlcphotography.net/CR2/1D2_00937.htm
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/glory.html#c1
Its clearly a monkey with a gun. All it wants is a banana!
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Check this out… what do you think that is?
I think that’s number seven.
I work in photofinishing and I’d have to say these are artifacts from the scanner. They look exactly like some of the crap that we get out of our machine. Especially due to the fact that the dust around them is consistant in every frame where they show. No matter HOW clean you keep your lab, even if it is in a clean room, you are sometimes going to get crap on your scanning lense. These photos are from absolutely gigantic negatives that are very detailed, and even the smallest crap will look like crazy stuff. Heck, even when I am doing 35mm stuff, a hair or a scratch on the neg can turn out looking crazy.
Furthermore, there are software products that try to remove dust and scratches during the printing or scanning of negs. Sometimes they produce absolutely insane looking things. I’ve processed a few rolls that the algorythmn (sp?) misinterperated lines and dots on a wall as dust. All of them turned out looking like weird gradients.
Again I’d put all of my money on dust, and possibly a glitch in a dust/scratch removal algorhythmn.
The object depicted on the google map in Mangonia Park (not Magnolia, as written) - in West Palm Beach, Florida is the exact location of a defunct,
silver domed auditorium. I live in West Palm and my husband windsurfs on a lake almost adjacent to the auditorium.
Too bad they didn’t tear those houses down before building the big fuzzy dome on top of them. It would have been a much neater job, and it might not be defunct now.
Please!
I’m sure it’s water. I’ve done work with imaging from inside a vehicle, and a water droplet on the windshield will make a similar mark. I imagine that with aerial photography, the camera is placed inside some sort of protective housing, and I doubt it would be too difficult to get condensation inside it. As for the grid and line patterns, my guess is that this has more to do with the fact that photographs are generally rectangular than it does with anything else: all of the droplets you can find in a given area are most likely the same droplet in reality. The spots may not appear in the same position in each image because aerial photos are cropped and sometimes warped a bit in order to make a smooth set of orthophotos.
Here’s a clarification on Trish MacGregor’s comments about the auditorium at the site. The hovering object is actually about a quarter of a mile from the former Mangonia Park jai alai fronton. (Jai alai is a sport imported from Spain that’s played in South Florida.) The fronton has been torn down so this is definitely not a picture of it.
However, this area has been in the South Florida news recently because boxing promoter Don King would like to renovate the 55-acre jai alai fronton property, which can be seen from the same photo if you back off slightly and look north, or put1415 45th St., Mangonia Park, FL into the into googlemap box.
Late last year, King was attempting to gain interest in building a new domed stadium at the site for the Florida Marlins. So, I’m wondering if the fuzzy hovering dome on the map could be a digital image of a domed stadium that someone shifted slightly from the original designated location? Just a thought.
It seems sort of suspicious that the UFO looks like a domed stadium and one recently was planned very close by. I’m not a UFO debunker or skeptic, but I always look for logical explanations for unusual phenomenon before I buy it.
I know of an interesting case involving 3 black helicopters that repeatedly hover above the home of an abductee who lives in St. Augustine, Florida. Many people have seen the unmarked helicopters, and she even claims to know when they’re coming. If anyone has any information about these black helicopters, or black helicopters in general, let me know.
Rob MacGregor
macgregorr@bellsouth.net.
Hey Rob,
Thank you for the information. My apologies to Trish. There has been so much bs on here (much of which, thankfully, has been deleted) that I have taken to assuming too much. For example, “Zya” posted a link above, with the words, “Check this out… what do you think that is?” It is a link to a dot on a photo of LA, number seven at the top of this page. Not only that, it is the precise link from the top of the page. I made three tries at acquiring the dot indepenently, and centering it as well as I could, and I got three different links. Hmmm. A “troll,” methinks.
Don King? Eeek! I think I’d rather have the three helicopters for “neighbors.”
Real names! I’m not brave enough to do that here!
Cheers
This is clearly a marketing thing by google as is many things they do just so people like us post it all round the web lol.
Now we all know that google has a new map feature.
dont u think?
All the signs are here for you to interpret.
UFOS
Abductions
Crop Circles
ORBS
WE COME IN PEACE… OPEN YOUR MINDS…
BLIND FOOLS
Im always ready to believe anything said by an alien calling me a fool. So those are your ships then?
These are not UFOs. They don’t appear to be “flying.”
Sure look like lens diffractions to me:
http://www.sgha.net/orbs.html
Interesting tidbit:
Prophet Yahweh” agreed to meet with a reporter and camera crew of KTNV at a location of their choice and time. What they witnessed, and captured on camera, stunned the reporter and crew.
http://www.filecabi.net/v.php?file=ufoondemand.wmv
Its smoke.
First: That “globe” or “UFO” can be a satellite. Click on my name (Emilio) to see the article about it.
Second: But if it isn’t a satellite or an UFO or a globe, so it is an…
Third: …EXPLOSION!!!
Been there, seen the “Statellite.”
One more time: These photos were taken from an altitude of 17,500 feet. From an airplane. That’s approximately half as high up as a typical cruising airliner. That’s why the detail is so good. A friend of mine is pretty sure he saw his bright red car in front of his workplace near Chicago!
look like a UFO!
While one or two of these could be glories, most of the dots lack the yellow and red tints that glories commonly have. I favor the condensation theory, and the relative changes in the shading from clear-to-blue or blue-to-clear from top to bottom is probably because the plane was making passes in two directions.
More interesting to me are the “tails” that appear in the first several LA photos. (See tensuns’s collection at http://www.flickr.com/photos/48556057@N00/14843322/in/photostream/). Is this condensation getting stuck at shat seems to be a scratch, or was there a foreign object inside the camera gate? I’m sure it’s not a hair, because that would be an awfully thin hair and one very moist and bulbous follicle.
As to “why don’t they happen in every shot,” is it so incomprehensible that a surveillance/surveying plane would have an array of cameras aboard? Especially if they were using digital cameras that needed time to save to their media? If these are the best of the photos they took out of the array, I’d hate to see how much distortion was in the others.
I saw it with my own eyes last May 20, 2005 5pm CST for about 2 mins.
Same object of what I saw appeared on video below
http://wm-ondemand.abacast.com/prophet_yahweh/ABCnews1.wmv
http://www.filecabi.net/v.php?file=ufoondemand.wmv server 2
On memorial day. Look up. You might witness it for yourself.