Flying Car
Sunday, 5th March 2006 by James Turnbull
Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visible on Google Earth or Google Maps.
A few weeks ago various news sources picked up the story of a Flying Car in Google Earth. It looks to me like it's more hovering than actually flying but it definitely resembles a normal car, although I can't be certain if it's a DeLorean or not.
To feed the conspiracy theorists commenter Roy has discovered that this is not an isolated case as there's another example further to the south. Do you all still think it's a canopy?
Thanks: DJ Swammi & Roy
¿ Harry ? ¿ Harry Potter ?
Is it possible that the apparent shadow could a another black car parked alongside the white one?
(sorry… Just trying to find some logical explanation)
It’s the General Lee….those Duke boys can really make a car fly!!
I suppose the long shadows cast by the nearby trees mean those are flying trees!
Maybe it’s on a pedestal, like a monument for a famous car?
Wow… that car is freaky. I was thinking pedestal too, b, but the shadow wouldn’t look like that, would it? It be stretched since the sun would have to be low in the sky, right? I’m stumped.
Google techies with a copy of photoshop and TOO much spare time?
I think it looks like it’s just a black car parked next to the other car. It’s in almost the right direction to be a shadow, but if you look closely the shadows are being cast a little bit more to the west.
In my attempt to be geeky and investigative i tried aligning the shadows but that didnt work, so i simply put rings round all the black cars (or UFOS) that I could see and to show how they are look remarkably like black blobs.
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/1126/maps0px.jpg
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looks like a elevated lighted sign to me. it’s not a car. i assume folks in perth know what this is?
the shadow looks correct to me.
If this were a flying car, it would likely run straight into the trees. Unless it’s higher, but it doesn’t look like it from the shadow.
Odd that the car would be hovering over grass, in a grassy nook amongst an otherwise thick grove of trees.
My vote is for pedestal. Not unlike the one outside the auto body shop on Rt 161 down to Puyallup, and undoubtedly countless others.
Another “flying” car though you can make out the pedestal this time.
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/01/flying_car_not.html
Sorry to burst you collective bubble but i reckon its simply a canopy or mini marguee – probably set up by some Aussies having a barby so they can keep the tinnies cool!
Hiya All….
Having studied this picture, its obvious that the shadow is a black pick up truck. Look closely and you can just make out its shape… its facing to the left upper corner… and you can just see where the roof drops down to the pick up at the rear..
You couldn’t create an illusion like that if you’d have tried.
After looking at the closeup of the photo in the article, it looks to me like it’s not a car at all, but a wall or some other rectangular object. I think that the face of the wall is just blending in with the background, making the top look like a floating car.
I’m going on record saying, heck, it’s the 21st century, why couldn’t it be a flying car?
http://www.vegalleries.com/hbltd/4jet.jpg
in Goole Earth, you can just barely see a tent post coming down from the East corner of the canopy.
I say why couldn’t it be a flying car too. I was thinking it could be one of those futuristic cool cars someone was playing around with like those cars that run on solar power and stuff that you hear of people making. Like someone said, it is the 21st century so why not. 🙂
That is Point Walter in Perth. They are well known for outdoor weddings. Probably a large canopy for a wedding.
How about a skydiver landing?
Do a Google Search on “flying car Perth”. This thing is ALL OVER the internet, but alas, no real answers there either.
Ground-level shots now on The Register… No structures!
http://www.theregister.com/2006/01/25/flying_car_launch_site/
There is no flying car. You didn’t see a flying car. No-one talked to you about a flying car. There are no photographs of a flying car. I was never here. Go about your business. Move along.
The solution may be quite mundane: it is not a car or a structure.
It could be a parasailer. Mosman Bay has its own parasailing club, after all.
Or it could be a parachuter landing.
But it could be a flying car 🙂
If you look at the white area, you’ll see it is made up of three equal squares. Now look at the white cars in the car park and you can see the difference in the shapes. This is no car.
northern git has it right – it’s simply a picnic tent/canopy. This is a common activity here on the Point Walter picnic area and the nearby Swan River Walk.
Does nobody have thought about a black blanket on the floor?
Sorry, guys, but i must say to you that it isn’t a shadow… If you look arround there are many other “shadows”… It’s just black cars parking near light cars…
This is messed. Why would someone park here when there are clearly open spaces available. And two cars park here? P.S… if u look to the NNE it clearly shows many such black holes of doom… which are cars… so it probably is a car. Who would put a tempoary advertising sign here! There’s no traffic! If it was altered it was done to look blurry… no this isnt man made… or it would be so obvious it was a flying car (which is impossible)… it is clearly not a flying car. Harry potter does not exist you stupid muggles. And what kind of wedding tents have BLACK canopys and the approx size of a car? Crap-tacular wedding. If it were a skydiver… u would see the shadow of the person??? Or more likely the person on the ground… If it WERE a flying car, then it would be appox 30feet high due to other observable shadows, and the shodow would be therefore less drastic due to deflected light… which would make it look like very light shade… therefore due to the physics of light… this car is not flying (unless it wanted us to think it was flying which is my offficial stance)
I had a thought about some picnic shelters just noirth of here at a spot we call “Fork Park” (because they have a 5m-tall fork stuck in the ground at one spot) in Brighton (roughly 30km from Pt Walter). These shelters have a roof which can be rolled back, so you can set up a picnic in “the open” and then crank the roof shut if it rains. The split naure of the roof is visible even in this lower-rez Google Maps image:
View Placemark
Assuming that the satellite photography used for Perth was all shot in a relativewly short space of time or shot at the same time of day for consistency, this Google Maps image hints that the “flying car” would be about 3-4m off the ground, which is about right for a three-panel potable marquee. The odds are good that if the satellite did its thing on a weekend (the shadows say “morning” so I guess Sunday) such a marquee could have been erected for a wedding. If the image can be dated, the local shire council should have a record of a permit to hold one there.
After having studied the thing I can say two…things: a) The yellow blob doesn’t look like a car – look at all the others! It is something else, which is not necessarily flying! b) The black blob (i) looks more just like a blob because it is so black like no other objects in the picture – so probably another glitch like “atomic” cars and stuff and (ii) it is NOT a shadow at all cause if you take a look at shadows of all other shadow-casting objects you can clearly see, that they are cast at a different angle!
So I think its not a car but something else, and the black blob is just a blob 🙂
looks like a car parked and then theeres a black patch or car next to it.
All I can say is, Dude, Where’s My Car
Hi I’m the guy who found this while I was checking out my local kite surfing spots. Look to the North and you will see lots of kites off the sand bar.
If you actually go down there, there is nothing. Just bare hard ground with no sign of any structure or any kind of construction work for at least as long as Google Earth has been around. It’s not a car on a pole, a bus stop, or a billboard. Whatever it is, it’s temporary. Many people have claimed that it’s a kite, but it’s not that either. As a kitesufer, I can guarantee that.
I made the claim that it was a flying car because The Register started a flying car conspiracy about a year ago after they proved that the driving directions in Microsoft Maps instructed drivers to fly across the Irish sea, across and back, to get between two places in England. Since then they have come up with the occasional story to further their conspiracy theory, so saw an opportunity to add my 2 cents worth.
If it’s not a flying car (even though it obviously IS a flying car) my theory is that it’s a black car parked next to a white car, and I’d go as far as saying a black ute. (That what we call a “pickup” for the Americans reading this)
You’re all wrong! That’s my car. I never could get the tyre pressures right!
hey i just saw this and i thought straight away that it was a sky diver landing as sky divers parachutes have three sections and this obviously has 3 sections too………..
A black car? – if u look at the other high objects like the trees, they cast a shadow of the same ‘black hue’ as the anomaly. This anomaly is also juxtaposed in the same direction as the shadows of the other objects – coincedence? Its a rectangular object, definitely looks like a bus (if u examine the cars in the car park, they have the same definition as the white part of the anomaly) – quite high off the ground. If that area is steep, or ramped I would suggest it could be a bus crash.
Maybe this is the sister car of the one listed (also in Australia).
http://www.deniutemuster.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=74
I live in Perth and I can safely put this to rest – whilst I would love to tell you we take the Potter’s sedan out on the weekends this simply just isn’t the case!
Also, there are no permanent structures on that part of the shore either! “northern git” got it right on “January 25th, 2006 at 6:01 pm” when he / she said it was a canopy. Correct. Not even a big one! These are very common amongst aussies otherwise we fry!!! they can be bought from a variety of places for a mere $AU20!
Now if I can tee up the guys at Google to have the satellite flying, I’ll take my four person hovercraft for a spin over the Swan River and you can all look at that…!
Go south to 32 06 41.83 S and 115 45 54.46 E and you will see “another” flyingcar look very much like the first I guess the tent/canopy rental business only has limited designs available!!
Well….that does it…I certify this (these) a UFO!
Also here.
I´m guessing, it´s a shadow right next to the car and on the other hand it could be a black car parked next to the othet car.
Well i recon its a black car, look at the other cars, theres no shadow on them, allowing the white car to not have a shadow there for ruling out “flying” the “shadow” is simply a black car. face it.
Here’s an INVISIBLE flying car! View Placemark
I know that Clinton Bird said that there’s no way that this is a kite, but im sure it is. If you go out to the end of the wharf, which is just north-east of our fling car, you can see something that is exactly the same shape and size. Since this is a kite surfing place, doesn’t it make sense? On second thought, it just could be the Quidditch World Cup, and all the wizards are just on their way to it (some of them seem to be getting a bit careless about muggles seeing them)
keep in mind most ppl don’t park on the grass! in both picutres the “car” is on the grass area. maybe it’s a tent where the valet drivers sit. or a lemonade stand?
Both images of Flying Cars are from the west coast of Australia. They’re probably falling off the bottom of the earth. What I’d like to know, though, is how do the other cars and trucks stick? 😀
u sure its a car? how about an odly shaped billboard?
Well, I knew we couldnt keep it a secret forever.. I guess I may as well tell you all, us perth residents ALL have flying cars.. time machines, too!
Seriously though, the shape of them is too symmetrical to be a car, even a car parked next to another car, so I’m guessing it’s a tower with either measuring equipment on it, or some kind of relay station for radio stuff.. However, I’ve checked another site that has aerial photography of western australia, and they dont show up on that one (it’s more recent than the google earth imagery), so.. they must have just been temporary..