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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 09:35 AM
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What the crap is this thing?
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giant_robot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 09:42 AM
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1. !!
:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:
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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 09:47 AM
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3. It's just some Mansions with a community pool..
For the neighbors kids.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 09:45 AM
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2. LOL... My guess would be that it's a weather balloon or something...
Edited on Sat May-14-05 09:49 AM by Misunderestimator
floating above that spot when they took the picture. Do they still have those things? :shrug:

That or a spaceship, I guess.

Zoomed in...

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Mizmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 10:00 AM
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6. There is some ghostly writing on the lower right side
Edited on Sat May-14-05 10:01 AM by Mizmoon
I can make out a "5", some zeros, etc.

It's obviously a hidden message from our new alien masters.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 10:03 AM
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7. All your house are belong to me...
That's the subliminal message I'm getting. :tinfoilhat:
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 10:04 AM
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9. I for one welcome our new Google map alien overlords
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Longgrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 11:25 AM
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11. My first though was hot air balloon, but they are usually more colorful
So maybe it is aliens...:scared:
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 09:57 AM
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4. strange....
And note the suspicious absence of chemtrails anywhere in the photo, too. :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 09:58 AM
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5. A dry-cleaning bag filled with swamp gas
Or perhaps mass insanity.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 11:37 AM
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14. Everything you know is wrong, Mr. Cox
Now be quiet and eat your moss...
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 10:04 AM
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8. It's one of the following:
* The Astrodome
* A large nuke shelter
* A blob of something gross on the camera lens

or

* A blob of something gross on the photograph
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giant_robot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 11:22 AM
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10. DO *NOT* TAUNT HAPPY FUN BALL!!!! n/t
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 11:27 AM
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12. Earth's reset button
Go on, press it
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 11:32 AM
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13. Looking at both the primary and legacy databases on Keyhole...
Edited on Sat May-14-05 11:32 AM by Cooley Hurd
...shows the object was NOT there before. Closeup of new image:


Here's the same area from the older (legacy) database on Keyhole:


Your guess is a good as mine, although I suspect it's a hot air balloon...:shrug:
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 11:47 AM
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15. Is Forbes flying around the world again?
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 11:55 AM
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16. It is probably an aerial photograph
and the spot is a water drop on the camera housing. The faint text is a copyright added later by Google...
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name not needed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 11:57 AM
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17. The Blue Hole, home of the Jersey Devil
What the fuck it's doing in Florida is beyond me though.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 11:57 AM
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18. Retired maybe?
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 12:00 PM
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19. There were folks on one house flipping the bird and mooning
the camera. They had to blot it out.

:)
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parasim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 12:25 PM
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20. there's more than one
there's 8 of them:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44276669@N00/13645955/

and they form a grid of sorts:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48556057@N00/13647471/


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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 12:41 PM
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23. I'm going to agree with the guy saying that they are some kind of
alignment grid... but pretty weird images here, one is virtually transparent:

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chaska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 12:29 PM
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21. Looks like a water storage tank.
Edited on Sat May-14-05 12:29 PM by chaska
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 12:42 PM
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24. Do these look like water storage tanks?


:tinfoilhat: :D
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-05 12:36 PM
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22. Nothing, citizen...
...look into this flashing light. Good. Now go shopping.
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