UFO Updates
Wednesday, 18th May 2005 by James Turnbull
Thanks to everyone who commented on the original UFO find, although we're still not sure what they are, there's been some interesting developments.
Ian Pottinger and jher were the first to find that there are in fact eight of these UFOs over Florida, at the following points
One - Two - Three - Four - Five - Six - Seven - Eight
and Tensus used keyhole to map the points showing that they make a very neat grid.
Yoshino and jher later noticed that the UFOs are not limited to Florida but can also be found over L.A.
One - Two - Three - Four - Five - Six - Seven - Eight - Nine - Ten - Eleven - Twelve - Thirteen
and Tensus again mapped the points, which appear in an almost straight line.
Things the UFOs are definitely not...
Space debris or another satellite?
Derek & Tensus discovered that the close-up images of Florida are taken by AerialsExpress.com at an altitude of 17,500 feet so are aerial photos and not satellite images.
Marks added to obscure famous peoples homes?
While there's no doubt the whitehouse photos were processed for security it is very unlikely these UFOs are intentional 'cover-ups' due to the neat grid layout.
Water towers?
The UFOs are just too big to be water towers (and there's no shadow).
Anomaly produced by the stitching software?
Shi Ju says
Definitely they’re NOT marks for picture stitching. In most stitching software (like for making panoramas) the algorithm comes down to finding sharp and contrasting details and aligning those spots with each other.
Things the UFOs still could be...
An alien spacecraft?
It's still possible!
A weather balloon?
Tm says
The "Grid" is centered around an airfield, common launch points for weather balloons.
Although Klem says
All currently used radiosonde devices (weather balloons) are latex, yellowish beige to transluscent
and Jello adds
The object in question here does not cast a ground effect, therefore does not exist in the air.
A 'lenticular' cloud?
Patrick was the first to float this idea and the images he posted do look similar to the UFOs, although it is unlikely clouds would form in neat grids.
Condensation on the lens?
Possibly the current forerunner for most likely explanation, Stuart said...
Condensation inside some sort of housing would be my guess. If the drop were directly on the lens it would be effectively invisible. Put it a few inches/feet away and have the camera shooting with a very deep depth of field (as you would with a small aperture) and it would look just like that anomaly.
Something else?
Possibly one of: Peppermint, baseball, Vogon ship, crop circle, planet, thumbtack, ballbearings, smoke, pond, swamp gas, golf ball, satellite, flying ninja, space junk or contact lens as others have suggested!
since there is scotch tape all over the place… could just be a clear tack to hold the pictures together
since there is scotch tape all over the place… could just be a clear tack to hold the pictures together. It would be out of focus since it’s not being focus’d on.
OK EVERYONE DROP THE WATER DROPLETS – IT AIN’T UFO’S!!! JUST DISCUSS ANYTHING ELSE BUT THAT AND TRY TO MAKE PROGRESS IN THIS TOPIC!
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that is a spirt or orb look close do the reserch its a spirt
hahaha
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While the watermark theory may be true, I thought it relevant to point out that the Google watermark appears in other areas of the image as well, areas that do not contain the disc shape, including a very faint section to the left of the disc which contains the “2005” part. The watermark appears more clearly over the disc shape because it is a lighter color than the rest of the image. This can be seen in the other areas of the image where the watermark shows clearer over streets and parking lots. Whatever the cause of the disc shapes, it most likely has nothing to do with the copyright watermark which was probably added after the image was taken.
These objects will be very close to the camera. The images were taken from aerial passes at 17,500 feet according to Google and of course the cameras were set up to focus on the ground, and close to infinity. For the image to be blurred, any photographer will tell you that the object has to be quite close to a camera set at infinity, even with a wide-angle lens. No more than 100 feet and probably a lot closer. I would say that this is part of the imaging apparatus from the originals that inadvertantly got into the frame, and nothing more…
I think I found one possible explanation for these artifacts. Someone assembled a mosaic of smaller pictures locking them with round-headed steel needles, and then a picture of the hole mosaic was made. I made a simulation with what I had in hands and the result is very similar, see http://tinyurl.com/9kewb . With a lens with a smaller depth of view, the needle´s head would appear more defocused than the background.
Heheh. I just surfed here from douglasadams.com, and right there under other stuff is a Vogon Ship….
I knew it the minute I found out that in quantum physics’ string theory–that didn’t exist untill the 90’s–the answer to the equation in theory of everything in the universe really is 42, and that we really don’t know the question persay….
Doulgas Adams was like Nostradamus, except funny.
Magnetic and geologic surveys of many areas throughout the world have revealed magnetic anomalies that could not be produced by any natural or known phenomena. These transient magnetic anomalies have been recorded by humans, indicating synchronous aerial magnetic anomalies that have a multidimensional para physical place of origin in terms of a different level of reality where stability and solidity are being fuelled by a ceaseless process of subatomic particles, constantly dissolving into an implicit order and then re-crystallizing within our space. Extraterrestrial biological entities are using technologies and aspects of the physical universe that are beyond our current understanding to conceal their behavior, culture and appearance. Occasionally they reveal their presence in our measurable space-time by making frequency shifts that leave traces of field flux in certain energy spectra that allows us to witness their presence.
Recent developments in cosmology, physics, astronomy, astrobiology and astrophysics indicates visitations by advanced cosmic civilizations is a reasonable deduction and that we are part of a larger cosmic civilization. Today’s science has rationally deduced multi-dimensions exist with superstring theory, making traversable wormholes the interstellar travel vehicle of choice for advanced civilizations. The extraterrestrial conclusion that intelligent life from elsewhere in the universe is visiting Earth, is now more valid with the velocity-of-light constraint removed as the restricting factor. The velocity-of-light constraint has been the limitation within the parameters of the special theory of relativity but not general relativity. Using general relativity as a basis, the mathematical requirements for a traversable worm-hole metric is within the limitless speed at which space itself stretches. Faster than light relative motion is determined by materials that possess negative mass which repels rather than attracts gravity (exotic matter). General relativity in terms of a polarisable vacuum, opens up a different metric in which dielectric (nonconductor of electricity) properties of a vacuum are altered to raise the local propagation velocity of light to create a local index of refraction of less than unity. The speed of light limit becomes different, making entry or exit into our universe at a desired location, technologically possible with the coherence of random vacuum fluctuations. Older cosmic civilizations would possess advanced science and technology that would take advantage of exotic matter and extra-dimensional realms.
Kirk–In English?
Spock–A warp signature, Captain.
DL Says:
August 11th, 2005 at 9:25 am
Thanks for all the interesting posts on this subject. I’ve looked through most of the comments, so if I’ve missed a post on this, apologies. I’m curious what people think of the line going from one of the “Spheres� (for lack of a better term) here,
View Placemark
It appears to be shooting some sort of energy beam into a Semi-Trailor truck driving on the Hwy. If it was the Google ppl making fun of everyone, you’d think they’d put one near or at their headquarters…
Perhaps It’s Stephen S and his Alien buddies stealing movie scripts from Universal???
DL.
That line that you see is also in this image, although it’s hard to see. If you use Google Earth and type in 34.136710,-117.652073 into the search, zoom in, then you will see that it’s exactly the same line. This is definately not a UFO, but I’m still curious as to what it really is.
View Placemark
New Jersey Seen one over Edison NJ Tuesday morning 0200 Hrs, heading south- south east, at a high rate of speed. Could not clearly make out it’s shape.
That was Tuesday Sept 27, 2005. Did any one out there see it?
it’s not a ufo. it’s a weather ballon. i checked the photo. how i found out was i checked the launch dates. stupid
No body notice the little circular scratch on the upper left of the circles. It’s there at every almost all the lower circles of the line, check 34.136710,-117.652073 and the others…
So my conspiracy theory is, a bug get squashed on the lens, and the google team cover the insects guts with a nice blue balloon !!!
Keep searching the truth, and if it’s out there, make it up !!!
What the heck is this ??? There are all over the globe this stuff!!! You can find some in Asia too… ?? :((
What I found interesting was Florida is mentioned first, then L.A. I thought the aliens only abducted people living in Alabama trailer parks? Listen all you believers and such, according to everything people ever believed about UFO’s and government conspiracies… If they can reach our planet and “beam” random people into their ships or find a way to suck us up, then that would mean they are quite technologically more advanced than we are (unless you actually believe star trek to be real). Do you honestly believe that in the middle of the day, in plain sight, when (assuming they exist) they know we have technology to take such pictures, that would be stupid enough to get caught? Moreover, 10 of them all in a line, and the ONLY people who noticed, are the people of google earth… Well no offence but I think it’s just a “tad” far-fetched. Whay can’t you all just accept that if there are “scotch tape” glitches that this is just another google glitch as well.
Man… some people will really believe everything they see on television.
If they were “UFO’s” dont you think somebody would have seen them from the ground?
also, if they were satelites, weather thingys or anything else floating about then there shaddow would be seen not on the ground directly below them, but further in the direction the shaddows are pointing.
View Placemark
these two dont have shaddows, which means that they are not floating in the sky! and no, they dont have super powers to stop shaddows, everything the sun shines on casts a shaddow.
therefore, it must be something the sun cant cast a shaddow on! like something on the lense! or google have blocked something out.
UFO’s have shaddows too you know…
get a grip guys
It’s the slide scanner picking up dust… that’s why you get the interesting gradient color and the wierd lighting. The give-away clue is the small fiber that is consistent in position to the blurred dot in several of the photos – the so called ‘tail’ or ‘arm’ or ‘beam’ that people are seeing.
what you have is a picture of a craft that is built and used by the united states government. it’s primary purpose is mapping. after having witnessed several near my home, i asked the question to a friend who is high up in the military. after hours of proding, he told me that they were not ufo’s, but craft used by our military.
I’m not sure about this — but maybe the object is an alignment device in front of the lens- so when they take a huge photo, it comes out every so often on the photo. Basically- maybe it is attached to or on the lens of the camera- maybe that would explain it’s blurryness.
I’d just like to add to the weird target which says ‘RMK TOP 15’ — i accidently searched on maps– and it came to this:
View Placemark
this is an airfield for a photographing company.
soz i put the wrong link: View Placemark is the correct link
Um im not sure what this yellow-green mist is… View Placemark — it looks odd, scroll up a little and you will see it fade away…. is it smog??
i was wondering around the map and i must have scrolled up around 50-75 times and scroll a little to the left and i found another thing like that. that ufo thingy or whatever. it’s on some street called mary’s way.. check it out
could you post a link?
Hi, no secret, now 🙂 more ufo >> http://www.ufomaps.com/
yeah but no photos that I can see. :'( Well, I checked out the greenish-fog and I think it is sea fog.
I still can’t find John Smith’s sight…. anyone found it?
these images aren’t really clear. For example i get this detailed airplane over mexico city.
I dont know why but it’s only available on google earth, not in maps.google.com
check it.
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=170192
OK – maybe not entirely weird and easily explained, but when I first stumbled on this anomaly, the theme from 2001 went through my head…
(Nunavut, Canada)
View Placemark
However UFO’s could be viewed by satellite, if it’s a UFO or an object at certain altitude its shade has to be visible. Unfortunately no shade is present so it’s not a real object or too high and the shade to faraway from the direction. I don’t believe it’s a ufo anyway. Fede.
Does any one have an explanation for this (not listed before) ? View Placemark
Does the staight line is a plane ?
Today I read an article about the sonic boom and they had a nice picture of a plane just at the moment of breaking the sound wall. The picture also appears in this wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_boom
It instantly reminded me of these findings of unusual “ufos” in google maps.
Hey James was just searching the net on UFO’S and look what I have found lol YOU!! I am pretty sure its you!! You showed me that picture from the google satalite this summer when I thought there were ufo’s around my place. Thats too cool. Just to let everyone know I know James…if he is the James I think he is. He has been a friend of mine since highschool and we are in our early 30’s now. I know James would never fake this pic I also know James is a highly intelligent guy!! Anyways James if this is you send me an email and let me know lol
Jan
Uh, no. Sorry Jan but I’m not in my thirties and I don’t know you.
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/faq/#15
If you look at image 7, you realize very quickly this is NOT a UFO, nor is it a Cloud of any kind. The best I can figure is that it’s caused by an error in the satellite camera itself. The reason I say this is first of all, there is one satellite dedicated to a particular area. It’s quite possible that this satellite is the one that did California and Florida, which would explain the oddities in the images. Also if you look at image 7 on the california set, you can see that the “blob” is not obscuring the patch of woods that it would have been over. Instead there is only a slim piece of it on 2 edges of the wooded area, which gives me no doubt that the blob looking forms are due to a hardware error.
This sight is as i belive is a cut and paste failure or faultey. But i searched the numbers and leters and came up with numerous UFO sightings. View Placemark And if you look along the line where the two pictuers collide you get: View Placemark
No doubt these are image processing artifacts that have been left in the pictures so that, whenever a real UFO is spotted in an image, everyone will think it is just an image processing artifact.
Everyone except the Air Force. They will think each and every one of these is “the planet Venus.”
i think that with all this global warming going on we could be looking at bubbles of cfc’s anyone got any thought’s on this
The “UFOs” are the pin head that holds the pictures in place to make the mosaic that is beeing photographed. Look that some of them have wrong side ilumination in respect to the picutre it self. That’s all folks! This is the end of the UFO mistery!
Great, the Pin Head theory again. What is this, the fifth or sixth time now? Are these pins inside our computers, or the Google servers, or what? Hey, I know! They are inside the “satellite!” New theory everybody! Some pins got spilled inside the satellite. Nothin’ to this. Now what other mystery can I solve?
its obvious what it is. just dirt on the lens that eventually fell off or was nocked off. thats why its in a straight line and thats why it doesnt appear on all pictures. aliens….pah!
If you will look closely at the pictures you will notice the Google copyright somewhere very close or in or partially obscured by the blob on EVERY one of them. My guess is that the problem is caused by the software used to put the Google watermark on each picture.
It’s a piece of mist or dust on the lense of the camera
[QUOTE] its obvious what it is. just dirt on the lens that eventually fell off or was nocked off. thats why its in a straight line and thats why it doesnt appear on all pictures. aliens….pah![/QUOTE]
Yeh dust in space…bullshit!!
I saw a ufo it was flying oh about 7ft south 13fteast it was round and it was like nothing i ever saw befor
Get with the program people- Light from Venus refracted by pockets of swamp gas triggered the formation of ball lightning in a lenticular cloud causing a flock of geese to disperse formation. I can understand some might mistaken this for a weather balloon…