Flying Car
Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visible on Google Earth or Google Maps.
A few weeks ago various news sources picked up the story of a Flying Car in Google Earth. It looks to me like it’s more hovering than actually flying but it definitely resembles a normal car, although I can’t be certain if it’s a DeLorean or not.
To feed the conspiracy theorists commenter Roy has discovered that this is not an isolated case as there’s another example further to the south. Do you all still think it’s a canopy?
Thanks: DJ Swammi & Roy
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Is it possible that the apparent shadow could a another black car parked alongside the white one?
(sorry… Just trying to find some logical explanation)
It’s the General Lee….those Duke boys can really make a car fly!!
I suppose the long shadows cast by the nearby trees mean those are flying trees!
Maybe it’s on a pedestal, like a monument for a famous car?
Wow… that car is freaky. I was thinking pedestal too, b, but the shadow wouldn’t look like that, would it? It be stretched since the sun would have to be low in the sky, right? I’m stumped.
Google techies with a copy of photoshop and TOO much spare time?
I think it looks like it’s just a black car parked next to the other car. It’s in almost the right direction to be a shadow, but if you look closely the shadows are being cast a little bit more to the west.
In my attempt to be geeky and investigative i tried aligning the shadows but that didnt work, so i simply put rings round all the black cars (or UFOS) that I could see and to show how they are look remarkably like black blobs.
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/1126/maps0px.jpg
looks like a elevated lighted sign to me. it’s not a car. i assume folks in perth know what this is?
the shadow looks correct to me.
If this were a flying car, it would likely run straight into the trees. Unless it’s higher, but it doesn’t look like it from the shadow.
Odd that the car would be hovering over grass, in a grassy nook amongst an otherwise thick grove of trees.
My vote is for pedestal. Not unlike the one outside the auto body shop on Rt 161 down to Puyallup, and undoubtedly countless others.
Placemark: Another “flying” car / Google Earth though you can make out the pedestal this time.
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/01/flying_car_not.html
Sorry to burst you collective bubble but i reckon its simply a canopy or mini marguee - probably set up by some Aussies having a barby so they can keep the tinnies cool!
Hiya All….
Having studied this picture, its obvious that the shadow is a black pick up truck. Look closely and you can just make out its shape… its facing to the left upper corner… and you can just see where the roof drops down to the pick up at the rear..
You couldn’t create an illusion like that if you’d have tried.
After looking at the closeup of the photo in the article, it looks to me like it’s not a car at all, but a wall or some other rectangular object. I think that the face of the wall is just blending in with the background, making the top look like a floating car.
I’m going on record saying, heck, it’s the 21st century, why couldn’t it be a flying car?
http://www.vegalleries.com/hbltd/4jet.jpg
in Goole Earth, you can just barely see a tent post coming down from the East corner of the canopy.
I say why couldn’t it be a flying car too. I was thinking it could be one of those futuristic cool cars someone was playing around with like those cars that run on solar power and stuff that you hear of people making. Like someone said, it is the 21st century so why not.
That is Point Walter in Perth. They are well known for outdoor weddings. Probably a large canopy for a wedding.
How about a skydiver landing?
Do a Google Search on “flying car Perth”. This thing is ALL OVER the internet, but alas, no real answers there either.
Ground-level shots now on The Register… No structures!
http://www.theregister.com/2006/01/25/flying_car_launch_site/
There is no flying car. You didn’t see a flying car. No-one talked to you about a flying car. There are no photographs of a flying car. I was never here. Go about your business. Move along.
The solution may be quite mundane: it is not a car or a structure.
It could be a parasailer. Mosman Bay has its own parasailing club, after all.
Or it could be a parachuter landing.
But it could be a flying car
If you look at the white area, you’ll see it is made up of three equal squares. Now look at the white cars in the car park and you can see the difference in the shapes. This is no car.
northern git has it right - it’s simply a picnic tent/canopy. This is a common activity here on the Point Walter picnic area and the nearby Swan River Walk.
Does nobody have thought about a black blanket on the floor?
Sorry, guys, but i must say to you that it isn’t a shadow… If you look arround there are many other “shadows”… It’s just black cars parking near light cars…
This is messed.
Why would someone park here when there are clearly open spaces available. And two cars park here?
P.S… if u look to the NNE it clearly shows many such black holes of doom… which are cars… so it probably is a car.
Who would put a tempoary advertising sign here! There’s no traffic!
If it was altered it was done to look blurry… no this isnt man made… or it would be so obvious it was a flying car (which is impossible)… it is clearly not a flying car.
Harry potter does not exist you stupid muggles.
And what kind of wedding tents have BLACK canopys and the approx size of a car? Crap-tacular wedding.
If it were a skydiver… u would see the shadow of the person??? Or more likely the person on the ground…
If it WERE a flying car, then it would be appox 30feet high due to other observable shadows, and the shodow would be therefore less drastic due to deflected light… which would make it look like very light shade… therefore due to the physics of light… this car is not flying
(unless it wanted us to think it was flying which is my offficial stance)
I had a thought about some picnic shelters just noirth of here at a spot we call “Fork Park” (because they have a 5m-tall fork stuck in the ground at one spot) in Brighton (roughly 30km from Pt Walter). These shelters have a roof which can be rolled back, so you can set up a picnic in “the open” and then crank the roof shut if it rains. The split naure of the roof is visible even in this lower-rez Google Maps image:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Assuming that the satellite photography used for Perth was all shot in a relativewly short space of time or shot at the same time of day for consistency, this Google Maps image hints that the “flying car” would be about 3-4m off the ground, which is about right for a three-panel potable marquee. The odds are good that if the satellite did its thing on a weekend (the shadows say “morning” so I guess Sunday) such a marquee could have been erected for a wedding. If the image can be dated, the local shire council should have a record of a permit to hold one there.
After having studied the thing I can say two…things:
a) The yellow blob doesn’t look like a car - look at all the others! It is something else, which is not necessarily flying!
b) The black blob (i) looks more just like a blob because it is so black like no other objects in the picture - so probably another glitch like “atomic” cars and stuff and (ii) it is NOT a shadow at all cause if you take a look at shadows of all other shadow-casting objects you can clearly see, that they are cast at a different angle!
So I think its not a car but something else, and the black blob is just a blob
looks like a car parked and then theeres a black patch or car next to it.
All I can say is, Dude, Where’s My Car
Hi I’m the guy who found this while I was checking out my local kite surfing spots. Look to the North and you will see lots of kites off the sand bar.
If you actually go down there, there is nothing. Just bare hard ground with no sign of any structure or any kind of construction work for at least as long as Google Earth has been around. It’s not a car on a pole, a bus stop, or a billboard. Whatever it is, it’s temporary. Many people have claimed that it’s a kite, but it’s not that either. As a kitesufer, I can guarantee that.
I made the claim that it was a flying car because The Register started a flying car conspiracy about a year ago after they proved that the driving directions in Microsoft Maps instructed drivers to fly across the Irish sea, across and back, to get between two places in England. Since then they have come up with the occasional story to further their conspiracy theory, so saw an opportunity to add my 2 cents worth.
If it’s not a flying car (even though it obviously IS a flying car) my theory is that it’s a black car parked next to a white car, and I’d go as far as saying a black ute. (That what we call a “pickup” for the Americans reading this)
You’re all wrong! That’s my car. I never could get the tyre pressures right!