Ghost Airplane Illusion

8 comments January 30, 2007 by Vurdlak

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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  1. Blogger Rodd  

    The plane is traveling so fast, that when the satellite took the image, the plane was partway ahead.

  2. Blogger redz  

    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

  3. Anonymous Michael Tughan  

    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.

  4. Anonymous Anonymous  

    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.

  5. Blogger Frank Taylor  

    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.

  6. Anonymous Anonymous  

    where is it? Im in a place that looks similar to the pic above, but i dont see it

  7. Anonymous Anonymous  

    i cant see it

  8. Anonymous Anonymous  

    Google Earth is so grotty



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