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Kyrgyzstan UFO!

Posted by Ian Brown, Wednesday, 14th January 2009

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Our first post from Kyrgyzstan is evidence of alien visitation to Earth!

While skeptics may dismiss this as some image artifact or tape used to hold different images together, the presence of an image ghost (previously explained on Google Sightseeing) give definitive proof that this has to be an airborne object of unearthly origin.

What’s more it leaves a some kind of vapour trail for more than 90km over Lake Issyk Kul, while its companion craft is found to the south east, just about to pass over the lake.

Thanks to Ryan Bowman and SpongeJim.

11 Responses to 'Kyrgyzstan UFO!'

  1. Izzy says:

    Um… well, considering the vapour trail also extends over the land as well, leaving an oddly coloured distortion there too, I’d say it’s a bad attempt from Google to cover things up.

    (I would have said it was an extraordinarily long peir if it hadn’t gone over the land too)

  2. Lee says:

    I want to claim it as covered up secret military hardware but I wasn’t aware that kyrgyzstan was at the forefront of Aircraft design, unless it was Chinese or an American flight from Afghanistan?

  3. Patrick says:

    Weird……reminds me of the alien ships at the end of A.I.

  4. Patrick says:

    I forgot to add that from what I hear and read Kyrgyzstan appears to be an insanely beautiful country. Sort of like the American West was 100 years ago….

  5. nova72 says:

    as Izzy pointed out, I also noticed the color distortions over land. I’m gonna go with a connection point of images.

  6. Webnician says:

    Vapor trails don’t remain in a straight line. This was done after the image was captured.

  7. kjfitz says:

    It is a digital anomaly in the data downloaded from the satellite that took the image. They are all over the place in Google Earth if you zoom back from the higher resolution imagery. You’ll find them most often over Asia as that is where the imagery is oldest and hasn’t been updated.

    Placemark: This / Google Earth is another good example. It is also referred to as “packing tape” for its resemblance to thread reinforced packing tape.

    If you zoom in close enough you’ll clearly see the digital nature of the white areas.

  8. padraigl says:

    Much larger and longer vapour trail at this spot in Northwestern Ontario, Canada just south of Hudson Bay. However the aircraft appears to be one of the invisible ones from Heathrow earlier this week.

    Interestingly, they seem to be heading in the same general direction/angle as those in Kyrgyzstan. ;-)

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  9. Barking Bob says:

    I for one, welcome our Shredded Wheat overlords

  10. High UP in PA says:

    I am positive it a kite with a a really, really long string.

  11. Capital Chay says:

    They are automatic bug swatters attached to the cameras.

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