I believe most of you heard for this one, but for those of you who haven't here's another enigma: Is this a flying can captured with Google Earth? It is somwhere in Australia, this "event" took place. There are much theories circulating around the web, but real solution is pretty simple. Can you solve it? Jump inside this article to get the answer and some more pictures.




Here's a zoomed image. Unfortunately there is nothing unexplained and paranormal/high-tech going on with this car. It isn't even flying actually. The answer is that there is simply another black car parked near the with one, giving you impression of a white vehicle's shadow!




Another "flying car" captured with Google Earth:








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  1. Anonymous Frank 

    Hmmmm... could it be a sign?, it's in the position a sign would be, and the signs of this days have a lot of artifacts that could make it look like a car when seen from above...

  2. Anonymous Farted 

    I agree with Frank

  3. Anonymous drk3p 

    I think it could be a parashoot? or some drum held in the air by 4 posts

  4. Anonymous where do u 

    were do u search to get this

  5. Anonymous RPR 

    I don't buy the black and white car explination.
    The imiages look altered and the size and shape of the black are not car like. You can see highlights and reflections on a black car, not so here!

  6. Anonymous Farted 

    It could just be the black car is parked in front of the white car giving you the impression it's flying. Wait, it is the black car that's flying right? I don't know, I'm not a genius!!! :0

  7. Anonymous Miguel 

    I think that other black car is parked on the right side.

  8. Anonymous 424 

    it looks really fake because its all blured

  9. Anonymous chazzlover 

    i didn't see it until benlover here pointed at it

  10. Anonymous benlover 

    chazzlovers kinda slow......no very slow!!!!!!!!!!!!i love this illusion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  11. Anonymous JoviS 

    No my friends .. this is a place about buy or sell a car .. and this car is a publicity.. think .. the car is in the top of the pipe ! you know what i mean ?.. my english is so bad .. (^^,) but .. understeand me !!

  12. Anonymous just me myself and i 

    i thinkk its completely stupid it doesnt even look real and u r stupid for thinking its flying its obviously the black car white car solution

  13. Anonymous Three Girlies 

    We all think that it is the actual shadow because you can't see anything on the car...That's just our opinion!!! That is awesome, by the way!!!

  14. Anonymous Danny Gali 

    It can't be a flying car. I might be more inclined to believe what they said before, a sign.
    Compare the first image's shadow to the direction of the shadows of the nearby trees. It could actually be slightly off.
    The second car image's shadow seems to be more off than the first one.

  15. Anonymous RaiderX 

    the cheap zoomed jpeg quality is what allows this illusion. Since its very low quality and the image was taken from such a distance, you cant see any parts of the car but the car itself. pretty cool illusion I must say

  16. Anonymous one 

    It appear real.. but I think that google Earth doesn't take movement.. it take shot's but not in movement.. is strainge that it take a car!!.. flying

  17. Anonymous 'Dacker 

    Two possibilities:

    * A billboard and it's shadow
    * A fuel tank raised off the ground. It's not uncommon to see these near a constructions site. A semi pulls-in with a trailer full of diesel. It's raised on 4-6 legs and is used to fuel heavy equipment via gravity feed.

  18. Anonymous Ruys 

    Possibly an advertisement zeppelin or balloon?

  19. Anonymous joe 

    duhhhhhhh. maybe it is a bus-stop shelter casting a shadow. The one's I've seen have clear walls.

  20. Anonymous fdjeifrrfdsafsfs 

    i agree with the balloon idea

  21. Anonymous billibobjoe 

    I think that its an alian space craft trying to take over the world. JK I think there is a black car parking in front of the white car. Thats what I think but I don't know

  22. Anonymous Hai 

    one word: hydralics.......or maybe the paranormal?.....................

  23. Anonymous Chad 

    It is low quality because these are sattelite photos. Download Google Earth. Yuo can zoom into nearly every where.

  24. Anonymous Jack 

    No, it's not a car-on-a-stick. The British website The Register has had some readers send in ground-level pictures of the location.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/25/flying_car_launch_site/

  25. Anonymous Kiel 

    I think the good people who set up google earth are just trying to play a trick on a few of us....maybe they got bored one day and just decided to put an image of a flying car in one of the satellite to stir up a few inquisitive minds...just for the heck of it

  26. Anonymous this is easy 

    this is easy, someone painted the ground black or had a black tarp on it, look at the other shadows in the picture

  27. Anonymous setu 

    interesting,but it seems like a parachute landing down.Yes
    this is what it is.

  28. Anonymous R U Mad 

    It isn't a car or anything at all! IT'S ONE OF THOS WIND THINGS AND THE BLACK THING IS THE WIND THINGS SHADOW! SUCKERZZ

  29. Anonymous Florian 

    All it is, is a Black car parked next to a white, one the Black One looking like a shadow, making the White car look as if it's flying.

  30. Anonymous TallErin 

    A Rotating Car Sign on a pole.

  31. Anonymous cool 

    could it be a low-altitude cloud?

  32. Anonymous OSHI 

    its just a realy big hole near the white car...easy

  33. Anonymous lauren 

    OMG u idiots!!!!!!!! i live near there and there was a fair on and 1 parachute had 2 land there bcause there wasnt enough room on the oval JEEZ!!!!!!!!

  34. Anonymous loser 

    it looks like a paratcute....
    but you see this is a mind trick...they say flying car...so you are looking for a flying car...but if they say paratcute than you will see a paratcute...hee hee hee...im smart...
    =^.^=

  35. Anonymous ruth 

    haha thats cool!

    and by the way, it's PARACHUTE :)

  36. Anonymous Lea 

    my boyfirend looks at these images all day for a living, and he swears, no matter how much i want it to be a parachute, it really is a car. I'm inclined to believe him, not because he has experiance with GIS, but because I agree with Occam's razor. so stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

  37. Anonymous Kyle 

    I know exactly what it is, i got on my google earth and looked at the same thing but at my house cuse theres one by me. All it is is a "portable water tank" dont know exactly what there called but yeah they elevate them 3X off the ground and stick a hose underneath it and boom out comes water.

  38. Anonymous Hector 

    There is one black car and one clear car but we think the black is the shadow of the ``floating´´car

  39. Anonymous tekn04 

    it's a caravan

  40. Anonymous Zeke129 

    It's simply a car on top of a post to advertise the used car dealership across the street.

  41. Anonymous Falcifer 

    Guys, its clearly a frigging hover-car. Jesus...

  42. Anonymous sffc 

    Looks to me like they parked the car next to a puddle that happened to be the same size.

  43. Anonymous ok 

    what

  44. Anonymous tobymac 

    what

  45. Anonymous Quan 

    Its just a black car next to it

  46. Anonymous Smartass 

    WTf are you guys talking about...
    With a good imagination, the possiblities are endless. But personally, I think it is just a black car beside a white one. Or... could it mean that Harry Potter really does exist?! OMG!?

  47. Anonymous Glenn 

    I believe this is some kind of tank on legs and the black is the shadow.

  48. Anonymous hey! 

    Hey its a car shaped hot-air balloon that the basket is still on the ground!

  49. Anonymous Mr. Australia 

    I live in Austrailia and I live where the 'hover car' is. It isn't a hover car. It is a shade tent. Jack gave the link and that is true. I've been there. And it isn't a sign, because there isn't a sign that close to the location.

  50. Anonymous David 

    A flying DeLorean? :)

  51. Anonymous Stan 

    Er...anyone ever seen anything like this beofre?

    http://home.flash.net/~park29/lot_a_parts.jpg

  52. Anonymous Luke 

    Google Earth is making this to look like its flying cos they were bored.

    well it worked, it kept you fools ocupied a long time!!!

    i mean, it obviouslly isnt a flyingcar but an error in the stitching between the photos, and after 50 comments ur still arguing?!?!?!?!??

    GET A LIFE!!!!

    Man: How do u keep an idiot occupied for ages?
    Idiot: I dont Know, How?
    Man: I'll tell u next week
    Bystander: No its usually 7.

  53. Anonymous yenterb 

    google is haunted! run for your dear lives! somebody faint!

  54. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Cool

  55. Anonymous Anonymous 

    These are not cars. They are standing on grass, not on parking lots or streets where cars always are.

  56. Anonymous JaqueChirac 

    IT'S OBVIOUS! The car casts a shadow right next to it at that time of day on that location of the Earth making it look like it's floating. If it were floating, the shadow would be way more to the left.

  57. Anonymous Anonymous 

    i think it could b a second hand car place, and it is a big car on a poll, but we can not see the poll, or the writing on the side of it

  58. Anonymous Anonymous 

    It could just be a doctored photo.

    If you cover up the "shadows" on the first pictures (the ones that aren't zoomed in) then the car is suddenly back down on the ground.

  59. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I think all it is is just a black car parked next to a white 1 becuz the outline of the two cars is different!(^,^)!!8^)!!!!!!!!!

  60. Anonymous Elliexx ANIMALS ROCK!! 

    i think its either a parashute with its shadow, or a white car with something black beside it. Look at the 2nd pic - the black bit is not in the shape of a car - not at all!! and i agree with RPR - if the black bit was a car, it would hav light reflections and stuff.

  61. Anonymous Anonymous 

    maybe they were shooting the harry potter movie

  62. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Its just the shadow, the sun i shining directly at one side of the car(probably setting or rising) so the shadow is cast to the side of the car

  63. Anonymous Anonymous 

    someone just put in that black to add a cast shadow

  64. Anonymous Anonymous 

    its totally a sign, ya kno like a billboard

  65. Blogger Julia 

    DUH MAN!! IT WAS TOTALLY ALIENS!!!

  66. Anonymous Anonymous 

    wow umm i see stands near the fron so im going to have to say that its a sign

  67. Blogger Gavin Bayles 

    Read the paragraph. It's two different cars. Duh.

  68. Anonymous Anonymous 

    The first pic has 2 flying cars not 1 car.

  69. Anonymous Anonymous 

    What are the co ordinates

  70. Blogger Danger Machine 

    chitti chitti bang bang chitti chitti bang bang we love you!

  71. Blogger Amanda 

    If you look at the parking lot across the street, you can see that they are not an angle, and that you are looking down straight. If the car were flying the shadow would appear more under the car.

  72. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I think its the shadow of the car kind of like the frisbee one where it is on the ground but looks like its hovering

  73. Anonymous Anonymous 

    It can't be a flying car. Mines been in the garage all week

  74. Anonymous Anonymous 

    maybe its parked on see through cement and under it is mirrors and it reflects so it makes it look like its flying!

  75. Blogger C 

    that's just a white car with something beside it to look like a shadow probably another car?

  76. Anonymous Anonymous 

    hmmmmm...well, i think the sun is in such a position that the shadow of the car is on the ground, in a certain position. it looks like its floating but its just a long shadow...? if that makes any sense at all! lol!

  77. Anonymous Anonymous 

    i also agree with frank, if u look @ it carefully u can kind of make out dat it iz a sign-well i can!
    :-)

  78. Anonymous j3ffr3y 

    they proubley dig a hole next to the car or sometin or a black car next to it.

  79. Anonymous yeah its me 

    maybe a car parked next to a hole were they are burying sumthin

  80. Anonymous JC 

    i think theres a white car and a black car right next to each other

  81. Anonymous Anonymous 

    ok obviosly its an advertisement
    havent any of you ever seen those???

    you know, they get an old car, put it up on some posts, and bam... you can see it from a distance while driving
    its set up perfectly to be seen from drivers on the road

    anddd... you can even see the shadows from the posts that it is held up by


    good lord

  82. Anonymous Politikally Paranoid 

    =^.^=
    ˚
    Thas probably jus a balloon or a sign or sometin

  83. Anonymous chiplover90 

    there is a black car next to it, i just know it!


    ('_')
    ^
    ^
    ^
    ^
    me

  84. Anonymous Anonymous 

    it is only a sign, can you see the parking that is a sign for the parking

  85. Anonymous Anonymous 

    simple. one car is slightly elevated on a hill or camouflaged bridge while a second car (black) with completely tinted windows is placed beside, then an areal shot was taken.
    IF the car was realli floating, the shadow would be closer.

  86. Anonymous Anonymous 

    This is NOT a car or cars at all! Come on , how can you miss it. This is a storage tank on a four leg support frame. It is the tank and its shadow ! Proof ? Just look at the shadows on the trees line to the left of the picture towards the fields. They are of the same size and direction proving a consistent position of the sun !




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