By Vurdlak on April 15, 2006, with 141 Comments
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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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…
I agree with Frank
I think it could be a parashoot? or some drum held in the air by 4 posts
were do u search to get this
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!
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
I think that other black car is parked on the right side.
i didn’t see it until benlover here pointed at it
chazzlovers kinda slow……no very slow!!!!!!!!!!!!i love this illusion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 !!
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
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!!!
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.
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
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
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.
duhhhhhhh. maybe it is a bus-stop shelter casting a shadow. The one’s I’ve seen have clear walls.
i agree with the balloon idea
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
one word: hydralics…….or maybe the paranormal?…………………
It is low quality because these are sattelite photos. Download Google Earth. Yuo can zoom into nearly every where.
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/
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
this is easy, someone painted the ground black or had a black tarp on it, look at the other shadows in the picture
interesting,but it seems like a parachute landing down.Yes
this is what it is.
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
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.
could it be a low-altitude cloud?
its just a realy big hole near the white car…easy
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!!!!!!!!
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…
=^.^=
haha thats cool!
and by the way, it’s PARACHUTE :)
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.
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.
it’s a caravan
It’s simply a car on top of a post to advertise the used car dealership across the street.
Looks to me like they parked the car next to a puddle that happened to be the same size.
what
what
Its just a black car next to it
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!?
I believe this is some kind of tank on legs and the black is the shadow.
Hey its a car shaped hot-air balloon that the basket is still on the ground!
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.
A flying DeLorean? :)
Er…anyone ever seen anything like this beofre?
http://home.flash.net/~park29/lot_a_parts.jpg
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.
google is haunted! run for your dear lives! somebody faint!
Cool
These are not cars. They are standing on grass, not on parking lots or streets where cars always are.
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.
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
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.
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^)!!!!!!!!!
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.
maybe they were shooting the harry potter movie
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
someone just put in that black to add a cast shadow
its totally a sign, ya kno like a billboard
DUH MAN!! IT WAS TOTALLY ALIENS!!!
wow umm i see stands near the fron so im going to have to say that its a sign
Read the paragraph. It’s two different cars. Duh.
The first pic has 2 flying cars not 1 car.
What are the co ordinates
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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.
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
It can’t be a flying car. Mines been in the garage all week
maybe its parked on see through cement and under it is mirrors and it reflects so it makes it look like its flying!
that’s just a white car with something beside it to look like a shadow probably another car?
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!
i also agree with frank, if u look @ it carefully u can kind of make out dat it iz a sign-well i can!
:-)
they proubley dig a hole next to the car or sometin or a black car next to it.
maybe a car parked next to a hole were they are burying sumthin
i think theres a white car and a black car right next to each other
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
=^.^=
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Thas probably jus a balloon or a sign or sometin
there is a black car next to it, i just know it!
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it is only a sign, can you see the parking that is a sign for the parking
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.