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Flying Car

Posted by James Turnbull, Sunday, 5th March 2006

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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.

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

82 Responses to 'Flying Car'

  1. Geoff says:

    How about it being a small advertising balloon. The shadow is quite a distance from the object if you think of the height that this was taken from.

  2. Doug Smith says:

    Here’s Perth car number three. Look in the middle of the parking lot:

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    This looks like four more hanging out at the beach:

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    This is the same beach I went to when I lived in Perth in the mid-60’s!

    Doug Smith
    Falls Church, VA

  3. sophie says:

    the flying car is just a parachute the man/lady are just in the shadow

  4. sophie says:

    the flying car is just a parachute the man/lady are just in the shadow
    of the parachute

  5. TornadoAlly says:

    I would not usually comment on something that would make me appear like im nuts, and i dont know about that picture….but the other night i was coming home and there was these headlights in the sky….too low for a plane and not a helicopter….anyhow my first thought was that was a car, it had no wings, the lights were just like headlights of a car, and i could make out the outline of it and again it had NO wings….so i come home kinda freaked out by this and the hubby made me realize i was nuts LOL…and hes the only one i had mentioned this to….well….tonight i had my 15 yr old daughter with me, i was taking one of her frineds to work, and we pull up at the p;ace and she say whoa, whered it go, i ask her what, and she says i coulda swore i just seen a flying car…well then im like trying to find it because i tell her the other night i coulda swore i seen one too and i kinda wrote off the idea of it….but now im convinced thats what i saw….which is what brought me to this site, searching the web for flying cars and sightings….and iknow what i saw was way too low to have been anyhting normal, but it was dark, and it wasnt moving like a palne or anything would, was moving slow and almost not moving at all….was very weird and ill always take my camera with me from now on and stop right in the midle of the road if i have to to get a picture lol

  6. Mark says:

    I think its a blimp…

  7. Batuhan ER says:

    Guys, its probably just a black car parked next to a white car..

  8. cenema158 says:

    That is just a camper that is on jacks. I used to have one, and it was in my driveway, and it showed up on Google Earth/Maps as almost the same thing we are seeing here.

  9. Rob says:

    People! It’s a sun canopy!

  10. Al-mustafa says:

    Guess that price oil is realy high at Perth!

  11. Al-mustafa says:

    Guess that oil price is realy high at Perth!

  12. JJ says:

    I can see it was a nice trick with adobe or even w paint, nice inserts though, you could have fooled anyone!!
    try pixeling in and you’ll see the glitch!!

  13. Tom says:

    I definitley think that its a skydiver landing. This explains the two sightings where the photos would have been taken at different time but being the same skydiver.

  14. Alexander says:

    yeah my friend found a floating car aswell except it was red

  15. gravitone says:

    Its the ausies best kept secret. They have flying cars, but the world is not supposed to know about it.

  16. Melville says:

    ok, so i figured it out, its CLEARLY a billboard on the side of the road, if you look at the top pic you can se the angles of the “flying car” and you can tell that it is some kind of sign

    thank you very much you worthless cunts

  17. MACA says:

    it could be this gr8 toy that was on top gear BBC1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/
    this thing is verry expensive to it costs Five… you will find out click hear to veiw.
    http://www.lemonzoo.com/content/M/15022-content.wmv

  18. Luke says:

    Man, dont you guys know we aussie have been flying these babies around for years now. Come down and have a go.

  19. marc says:

    I did just find a photo of a car on a pole in TX (can’t find the actual location on google maps)…

    http://www.texasescapes.com/DEPARTMENTS/Local_Personalities/Tuffy/Tuffy_east_texas_chow.htm

    ‘Husband’s Auto Salvage’ in San Augustine County, TX… but not images.

  20. car says:

    I felt good about this post. It confirmed for me some of the things I’ve been thinking about.

  21. pth says:

    you guys are fucking stupid

  22. pth says:

    maybe you can about the “face” on mars for 5 months or so.

  23. Nemesis says:

    First image is point Walter on the Swan River

    Second image is Woodman Point Cockburn

    Sun is low in the east. Maybe its a panel van or jacked up 4WD wagon

    Both have access to boat ramps though not hell popular. Could Jet Skis on trailers or a range of water going paraphernalia from Australia

  24. Charity says:

    Too bad it isn’t a flying car. It would be nice to see someone come up with a new consumer way to get around that was practical.

    I can remember people saying that someday we would all be flying around our cars instead of driving. I guess that day has not made it here yet.

  25. crunchynut says:

    i reckon it’s one of those balloons they use to advertise car sales… maybe?

  26. Jimbob says:

    Erm – Not sure any of you know this – The flying cars have disappeared!

  27. Guy says:

    How come the “flying cars” have now disappeared?

  28. jimbo says:

    they flew away lol!

  29. Mark says:

    I can’t find the flying cars in the map. Coverup???

  30. Mike says:

    Its is actually an advertisment sign set on beems suppurting it, which are thin enough to where its shadow seems to not be apparent to the naked eye from this view.

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