Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
Brilliant bit of weirdness here… Tom Comeau says:
I believe it’s winter, and we’re seeing snow and ice on the lake surface. But where there’s clear water, something very odd is showing through.
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WAIT!! Trimble Wildlife Lake, that’s what Google Earth says this location is, Trimble Wildlife Lake - I’m researching this shit.
Trimble Wildlife Lake was created after the Army Corps of Engineers built the Smithville Dam, flooding an area previously used for aquaculture. You’re seeing reflections of the submerged ponds below the lake surface. More info can be found by calling the Smithville Project Office at (816) 532-0174 or sending an email to Smithville@Nwk02.usace.army.mil
Its just a camera faliure
Round Valley Reservoir in NJ is another place where they flooded a town to create the reservoir and it looks just like…water.
The image of the lake was taken from an airplane, not a satellite. You ppl crack me up!
Maybe Douglas Adams knew something we didn’t. Maybe the Earth really **is** a giant computer program commissioned by highly intelligent pan-dimensional beings (who appear in our dimension as mice) as part of their quest to find the Ultimate Question that corresponds to the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything!
I’m off to find a hidden #42 in the circuits now…
I think it’s a reflection of the satellite itself.
It looks cooooooooooooooooool.
Please stop calling yourselves geeks … it’s such desperate attention-seeking.
Could this just be the reflection of the objective used to make this picture? Either the satelite or camera circuit board?
We are doomed.
that´s it.
I can see the Vogons coming.
Gonna get myself a beer. What else to do?!?
This City give me god to for me.City name is fatihland.
i think this should be investigated as this might be an Alien city under the ice. i would like to see more closeup clear shots . As far as we know there is a lot of coverups.
Guys! it’s a cpu die/core that’s been photoshopped in…
Although reading all these wacky theories is quite funny
From now on I will play it safe and wear Tin Foil on my head to deter the beings that formed that city.
It’s my mother.
O come on now its so obvious that this is an alien invasion force planted deep within the earth building cities underwater so we will not find out. I say fire 8 photon torpedoes at them should do the job. All your base belong to us!
look, guys, if you zoom in far enough, you can start to see splotches which seem to look a hell of a lot like snow…. any clues there??
has anyone asked GoogleEarth crew what this might be?
do you think elvis may be living there?
Wierd. Though it kinda looks like noise.
…this is what the ppl who use to do crop art are doing today
It’s Intel Inside Lake to me. A waffer lake, I think.
The bigest P4 SMP ever made.
Hey guy’s check out this, its a weird patch near the lake. Another Abnormality? maybe its a UFO spacecraft?
38″59′15.97 N 95″49′04.32 W
is the reflect ofthe satelite
I’m producing a new reality show called “X-testers” on TLC where two hollywood SFX artists try to recreate mysterious phenomena (kind of an X-files meets Mythbusters). We’ll be heading out to Tempe, AZ on Sept. 17th to “X-test” the Google orbs that appeared over LA and Florida. I am looking for three sightseeing “witnesses” to feature on camera who believe that it could be a UFO. These people will be featured to set-up the mystery and will remain on camera during the segment and interact with the “X-testers” as they fashion their effects. In the end, the witnesses will be shown the results and the conclusion will be examined. The tone of the show is fun and positive. This is not a situation where anyone is discredited or made to look foolish. Currently scheduled for Sat, Sept 17th, it will require your time most of the day.
If you’re interested, please send an email with a photo to kirk@mikemathisprods.com. Thank you.
Hum…. Hard to say in english, but if someone can translate…
“Il y a là deux phénomènes :
- La calibration des cellules CCD de l’appareil qui a pris la photo
- Le recadrage des couleurs pour uniformiser les couleurs dans les morceaux qui se touchent
En fait, le motif qu’on peut y voir correpond aux différence de qualibration des différentes cellules CCD du satélite. Pour ce qui est des couleurs violette, rose et cyan, il s’agit de la recalibration automatique. L’histogramme de la couleur de cette image a été recalé sur une autre image pour rendre uniforme l’assemblage des différentes prises. Seulement voila, les couleurs présentes au centre du lac n’étaient pas présente sur l’échantillons de base. Résultat : on a un décalage des couleurs abérant. Ajoutez simplement que ce décalage à rendu visible les différences de calibrations du CDD et vous obtenez cette image.
Normalement toute personne qui a déjà bossé sur des images satélites à déjà été confronté à ce genre de mixture.”
Sorry… I’not good enought in english for translating this…
i like to join to the google ALIEN civilization
i want’s to be alien civilization
If you carefully observe the map, this lake is in a region of map with different color. Actually this is an X-Ray / Thermographic satellite image. This is not the surface of the lake, this is the BOTTOM! Yes, under the water! This can be an ancient kind (made by aliens??) of neuronic computer that is hiding its existence under the waters of this lake for many hundredth thousand years…
That makes sense nEC. I’ve seen before thermographic satellite images and that is exactly how they look like.
nEC, even though the analysis that you propose is correct, I disagree on the neuronic computer theory. I most incline to suggest that this is a “ruin” of some long lost civilisation that has left the earth for other planets/star systems long ago…
Jacob: “I think we can forgive the folks from Edinburgh, Scotland for thinking Kansas City is in Kansas! They already spelled Civilization wrong.”
I’m very glad that you forgive our British English, the original English, if you will.
As for the lake, it’d be nice if such a thing did exist, although I’d personally think (hope!) such pranks wouldn’t take place at Google.
I think it’s freakin hillarious that this discussion has been going on for 3 months now!
I Want to believe !