UFOs On Google!

Google_ufoWhat’s this?

Okay, it’s a sattelite picture of a Florida neighborhood that you can view over yonder on Google’s new satellite map service.

HERE.

But what’s the circular thing in the middle of the picture?

Nobody knows!

BUT FOLKS OVER AT THE GOOGLE SIGHTSEEING BOARD ARE HAVING FUN TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT.

Incidentally, in case you’re not familiar with this Google service, you can access it by going to

MAPS.GOOGLE.COM

typing in an address, say your house, and then clicking the "Satellite" link up to the right and get a sattelite view of your house! (Or whatever other address you typed in.)

These images ain’t realtime (othwise the whole service would go dark every night) but folks have been finding all kind of interesting things in them (e.g., airplanes in flight).

Happy hunting!

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

23 thoughts on “UFOs On Google!”

  1. To me it looks like another satellite in a slightly lower orbit coincidentally got between the camera and the ground as the picture was taken.
    There are literally thousands of pieces of space junk in orbit up there, so I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often.
    –arthur

  2. Has to be a hoax! The shadows in the photograph go from south to north (about midday?). The shadows in the “thing” go from south west to north east. Can anyone say photoshop? Can anyone say “Google employees have a sense of humor”?

  3. Well the satellite photos are limitted in resolution over the military bases in our area but critical infra-structure like power plants, you can zoom right into. Great idea, google.

  4. I’m going to have to go with “flying ninja” as someone suggested on the googlewatching site. Everyone knows you can’t see ninjas when they fly, so it makes sense they would be blurry on camera.

  7. Not only are they not real-time, they’re not recent. The housing development across the street from my house, which was constructed well over a year and a half ago, still shows as a farm field.

  9. I’m afraid that none of you were supposed to see that.
    Now, just look at this red light r-i-i-ght here…

  10. Hmmm… when I put in my home address, it pointed to the house a quarter mile down the road!

  12. Do they still use weather balloons? C’mon with satellites and doppler and nexrad–I don’t buy it.

  14. Calvin: Yep. Falconi Field, the home of the Washington Wild Things baseball team in Washington PA, is entering its 4th season of operation. Last I checked, Google’s satellite photo showed unpaved dirt where the parking lot now is.

  16. That’s interesting. I think there is an “unedited” blow up of the capital hanging on the wall here at work at what I think is the same resolution. Since we built the spacecraft, perhaps there was some leeway.

  18. S: who said “weather” ballon? there are all sorts of ballons up there. ps; they still use weather ballonns, just not as often.

  19. Just my luck! They take a picture of my place the one day I decide to try nude sunbathing . . .
    Sorry. Couldn’t resisit. 😉

  20. The low altitude stuff is usually aircraft (not sat) photos. Probably a water drop.

  21. i found one more..in the same zip code…looking in google earth…
    go to
    26 48′ 03.91″ N
    80 07′ 51″ W
    20 FT
    i do not know what is that, however the picture day was more than one…

  22. By the look of the shape and couler its not a UFO its a weather ballon they go ta a altatude of 32,000,00

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