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.
Is this a mysterious floating disc in Egypt? It certainly shares characteristics with the Australian Flying Car, but this time the ’shadow’ looks too… dense? And maybe too sharp around the edges as well I think.
Maybe this is actually the world’s largest manhole cover!
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I found another one that looks very similar in India.
Judging from the locations, both of them look like watertowers.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
And here is a ground level view of the water tower in India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gtbss001.jpg
It’s possible it could be a satalite DISH! That would explian why it has such a large shadow compared to the rest of the buildings. The angled DISH would cast a larger shadow.
That is like Placemark: those / Google Earth.
It is a UFO, because it may look like a water tower but why would its shadow look different to most of the surrounding buildings, also if it was attached to the ground there would be a shadow of whatever is holding it up, now I am not saying that these are aliens, I believe that Area 51 in the USA is paying the egyptian government to let them test their new ships in the abandoned airfield, thus that is why it is not very far away from any residents. If anyone can get a picture of it from the ground, (if it is a water tower), then we can finally settle this arguement.
how would there be a shadow of whatever is holding it up? wouldn’t it be under the
disc/globe/cylinder thingy?
I found another odd object in Sydney, Australia at 33°47′53.69″S, 151° 3′30.33″E.
Can’t find any shadows, but it looks like it’s rather high up.
cone shaped water tower.
Its a water tower. Check out the new imagery
Is it me or does the new shadow not match up well with the tower? its a god damned conspiracy people!
This is a memorial for the soldiers killed in the Yom Kipur (October 73) war between Israel and Egypt
It’s a god damn tower, the shadow on the updated pictures clearly show the column underneath it!!!!
I’m inclined to agree with AliMac. It could be an ATC tower or even a water tower for that matter.
well if you look at it now via the link you’ll plainly see the shadow of the tower supporting the structure…
This is a watertower. They updated it, you can see it now
Taht’s a water tower, unluckily the place where there are many (In Italy) has a not good resolution to take a look…
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Best regards,
Claudio
If you click on the photo it takes you to GoogleSightSeeing.com where there is a larger photo obviously taken at a different time of day when the sun is lower in the sky. The “disc” is obviously a tower of some kind because you can see the shadow now has a “column” connecting to the disc.
The picture show a water reservoir, used to mantain pressure on the net. You can see another one on italian territory at coordinates UTM x:501680 y:5054718 32T using WGS84 datum.
It’s a water tower or something. Look at the shadow now.
are you guys serious look on the picture and zoom in as far as you can before you cant anymore and notice its attached to something. its like a silo or maybe a rain catcher
Hmm - if you pop open that spot on the Google Earth now, you get the same thing except with the shadow a bit more lengthy - it’s obviously a guard tower, judging from the width of the pole attached to the roof.