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.
Here on Tenerife there’s an absolutely gigantic shape on the landscape, which looks very like a B2 Stealth Bomber. Just a coincidental arrangement of images, or the accidental discovery of a super-secret B2 Invisibility Cloak?
Via haha.nu (Thanks Rob W & Gudlyf)
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I sense a conspiracy! Or censure! Both of the images of the planes have been removed. Either google updated the site with new pictures today, or they were edited out…
Best sighting ever.
I did submit it and all, but…. :p
Craig the real B2 has indeed been removed since it was posted (well, it was 18 months ago), but the Gigantic one is still there… Or rather, isn’t!
cool fighting jets u see on that sight:
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unfortunately googlesightseeing never posted it!
by curiosity this place has been used as a film location for movies such as Planet of the Apes and Star Wars.
We’re agreed that the one the left is a shadow, right?
Dave, that’s the USS Intrepid, originally posted on this site way back on 16th April 2005,
Hmm…well, makes a convincing B-2, doesn’t it? Who knows, maybe it is a cloaked B-2? Well, when I see it I’ll believe it.
I imagine the darker area is just some imagery that was obtained at a different time than the rest of the surrounding imagery…
@James right u are, i addmit.
@swifty yes, this seems to be the most likely explination for that stealthy shaped shadow.
it looks to convincing to be the b-2, I bet somone doctored it, I mean, what are the odds that someone looked on google earth and found a perfect shape of the b-2. I just don’t see it happening.
if a B2 was flying at a relativly low altitude it could perhaps cast a very large shadow if it passed between the area in question and the sun. If you look closely at the buildings their shadows (in both the light and that dark part) are going the same direction so that would incline me to believe that this whole picture was taken at once, shadow and all. I’m sure if you looked hard enough and long enough you would eventually find the plane (if it hasn’t been edited out).
I think someone is just having a bit of fun down at mapping…
sorry to ruin your conspiracy story, but if you go a bit more south you will see that is probably a coincidental arrangement of images
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for christ sakes people, the B2 stealth bomber has been unclassified as top secret for quite a while now!
Yes, it does come up on radar now, annnd could you all get over it!!
cheers.
x
i can’t see the shadow
The phoenix lights.