After Cuban ghost ship, we have Malaysia ghost plane. It passed over a month from Seong Chai Low’s submission. Finally his Google Earth illusion is up! I’m moving along slowly, posting all your unreviewed submission (there are over 100 pending in my mailbox). I like to say that “patience is a virtue”, so be sure that all of them will be posted some day, no need to worry we’ll run out of optical illusions yet. Low included description how to find this flick in Google Earth/Google Maps.
Low: “I enjoy your site, always visit your site once in a while to see what new pictures you have published. Here’s one snapshot from Google Maps. I’m not sure how the ghost image of the airplane appear. Anyway, this is taken on the Penang, Malaysia (the country where I’m staying). I don’t know how to get the latitudes and longitudes from the Google map. So I capture another 2 zoomed-out map and highlighted the location with a red box (inside). Hope you like it.”
For similar Google Earth illusions, visit the appropriate category located in our sidebar, under “optical illusion categories”. There you’ll find classic ones like Flying Car and Haunted Road… Also be sure to check strange Crop Circles.
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The plane is traveling so fast, that when the satellite took the image, the plane was partway ahead.
yeah ..that right… i dont see any strange about it….in fact i livin penang….never saw that ghost plane…usahkan misteri dibelenggu oleh anda…misteri nusantara
For those who want to see it, tune Google Earth to 5 degrees, 26 minutes north, 100 degrees, 18.4 minutes east. The plane is there. Rather is an interesting sight.
I think what we are seeing here is a rainbow. The sun is reflecting off the plane back into the water vapor in the atmosphere. The sun seems to be in the correct position to cause this effect. There is a color shift in the ghost that is similar to a rainbow.
You will see “ghost” like images in many of the satellite photos involving moving objects (most often planes, but you can also see them on cars on highways). Read an explanation here.
Also, here is a write-up from my blog on planes in flight found in Google Earth.
where is it? Im in a place that looks similar to the pic above, but i dont see it
i cant see it
Google Earth is so grotty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
This explains everything
actually its like looking at a candle or anything reflecting light, through glasses its just a matter of focus till you can see the ghost image.
It’s not a plane… it’s a plane sign on a corn field :)
No Rodd, you could be wrong because, the airplane goes forward and the ”ghostplane” is before him, so…..
I live over there in penang,tanjung bungah too .. maybe next to it a few blocks away.. kena cool .. but no ghost i bet :)
someones cut it in the field, i think :-)
does anyone else notice the hidden face in picture two? in the water to the leaft of the island you can clearly see a mouth,nose,and closed eyes. to the top right is the hair…