All sights in Romania

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.

The editors: James & Alex

Aliens Invade Romania

Monday, 24th September 2007 by Alex

I think no-one can doubt that aliens have definitely landed!

Both of these spacecraft are located in farmland outside the Romanian city of Timisoara. Romania is not known as a major UFO hotspot, but to our alien overlords Roswell is probably passé1.

That said, this isn’t the first sighting of our visitors to Romania: the Romanian UFO Network2 have hundreds of blurry pictures of similar looking craft (or clouds).

So, UFO sceptics, do you have another explanation of what we’re seeing here?

Thanks to tomhet4ever, DocMartini & kjfitz.


  1. Google Earth Blog has a time-lapse placemark of UFO sightings across the globe since 1944, and they’re almost all in the US. 

  2. Unfortunately, the automatic translation of the site makes less sense to me than the Romanian. 

Large Buildings

Monday, 11th December 2006 by James

The Palace of the Parliament in Romania has a floor area of 350,000 m² which makes it one of the world’s largest buildings. Previously called the “House of the People” under communism it also narrowly misses the top spot of “largest government building in the world” behind The Pentagon.

It has taken the top spot in one category though - it’s the world’s heaviest building! Hang on, how on earth do you measure the world’s heaviest building?

South Korea’s Lotte World is not hard to spot, and is officially the world’s largest indoor theme park. So big in fact that a large part of it is outdoors on Magic Island to the South.

Thanks: Kjerstin & The Bobs