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frogmarch

(12,226 posts)
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 10:43 PM Sep 2012

Pink UFOs Show Up On Texas and New Mexico Google Street Views



If you use Google street view to get directions to Jacksonville, Texas, a glance into the sky reveals none other than...a good old fashioned pink UFO.

That's what Andrea Dove recently discovered when she signed on to the popular online address tool to map her way from her home near Houston to visit a relative in Jacksonville.

Dove contacted ABC affiliate KLTV in East Texas after she used her computer keyboard controls to manipulate the street view and spotted what looked like a classic flying saucer in the sky. It seems to be circular with a domed top, and, well, it's reddish-pink. The image also appears to show a thin, white line hanging or trailing from the object.

"No one I spoke with had seen anything strange over Jacksonville, and although it could be a lens flare or an unexplainable reflection of some nearby object, I saw no indication of anything which fell under that umbrella," said KLTV reporter Jamey Boyum.

Lens flare? That's exactly what photo-video analyst Marc Dantonio thinks is going on here.

"I examined the Google Earth photo in question. This is a simple, but classic, lens flare," Dantonio told The Huffington Post in an email.


Lens flare? Yeah, right. A likely story.

Edited to add link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/29/ufo-shows-up-on-google-street-view_n_1924422.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
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Pink UFOs Show Up On Texas and New Mexico Google Street Views (Original Post) frogmarch Sep 2012 OP
reflection of a red umbrella. nt Viva_La_Revolution Sep 2012 #1
Darn it! We were trying to keep a low profile! bluedigger Sep 2012 #2
Looks like a streetlight to me. TreasonousBastard Sep 2012 #3
"old fashioned pink UFO." LARED Sep 2012 #4
It has me convinced! zappaman Sep 2012 #5
Sport fishing for rednecks Cherchez la Femme Oct 2012 #6
What - You don't think Aliens have breast awareness month? MrMickeysMom Oct 2012 #7
It's a new Google maps feature hvn_nbr_2 Nov 2012 #8
Airborne jellyfish are SW events. NW UFOs are more solid: freshwest Nov 2012 #9
Very cool picture nt LARED Nov 2012 #10
They are coming for our pink donuts! Pterodactyl Feb 2013 #11
 

LARED

(11,735 posts)
4. "old fashioned pink UFO."
Sun Sep 30, 2012, 05:54 AM
Sep 2012

Last edited Sun Sep 30, 2012, 08:08 AM - Edit history (1)

I though old fashioned UFO's were lime green.

zappaman

(20,617 posts)
5. It has me convinced!
Sun Sep 30, 2012, 10:30 AM
Sep 2012

Really, what else could it be except a spacecraft from another world?
I think they are keeping tabs on us since we are close to discovering their homebase on Mars...

hvn_nbr_2

(6,606 posts)
8. It's a new Google maps feature
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 05:46 PM
Nov 2012

Instead of all that "after 6.3 miles, turn left on D Street" stuff, you just follow the pink UFO to your destination. I think it's an extra-cost feature.

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