Timo Johann found this cool Google Earth satellite photo. I don’t speak French, but these buildings look extremely similar to some alphabet letters, don’t they? Could it only be a coincidence? I really doubt it, they represent letters obviously. So, if anyone here knows French, help us and translate the meaning? Or did we all fall under illusion, and there is no hidden message. Every now and then someone finds strange Google Earth location, and mails it to me. I post only the best, and those that have anything to do with optical illusions. I still have few hundred submitted illusions in my mailbox, so don’t worry if you don’t see you rsubmission posted yet.
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Upside-down it says “3810″ with some other squiggles. About as good an interpretation as any other. Now if only we knew what 3810 means in French?
It OBVIOUSLY says something in an alien language that translates to something like, “We will destroy all of you”
Azzåß∆ˆø˜ß
(Pardon me for my spelling)
hi everyone. I’m french and do not recognize french word. I think it’s pure coincidence
believe it or not, it says im a hot smencil
It seems almost like the architect tried to say something (of which the meaning is lost to us now), but then his/her plan got ruined by something practical like the structural soundness of the building, need for more office space, etc. Maybe the guy’s name was Voiiz, but they decided to build a parking garage between the o and the i. It would be hard to tell without knowing the date that each building was designed, because some buildings could have come later without the later architect even being aware of the lettering scheme.
First of all, we should remark there is an I at the begining of the second “line”, so it is not written DOIBE but IDOIBE.
Then, it is quite sure that de B is in fact an E : it seems that a part of the building has been constructed later than the rest of the building. So we have IDOIEE.
Then, I’m not sure, but I think the D is in fact a J : it apeers to be a D only because of the bad perspective. Tha makes we have IJOIEE.
In this stays a real french word : JOIE (happiness).
But what about the rest?! After reflection, I’m not sor sure there’s an I at the beginning of the second line. Anyway…
DOES ANYONE SPEAK FRENCH. SOMEONE TRANCLATE!!!!!!
I agree the 32 proposition (Val d’Oise = no tag). Val d’Oise is a place near Paris.
I AM french and I can’t find anything else.
I see a pokeball in every google earth illuosion… Pardon my greek
O.o
“VOALA L’DOIBE COOTOC”
“VCAI% IDOIEE =OOTOC”
“VOAL’O I DO I BE =DDOTOC”
“VOALO I D Q I B E CODOTOC”
“VOOLO IDOIBE COOOTOC”
or, if you want a real stretch…
“O, ALA-I, DO I BE COOT? OC…”
(oh, Alai, do i be cute? OK…”)
(or, alternatively, “oh, Alai, dye me a bandicoot, OK?”)
no, i dont think this says anything in French (or German, Hindi, English, Arabic, Gaelic, Latin, Pig Latin, Oppish, Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish, Afrikaans, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Ancient Egyptian, Koori, Alkitab, Greek,
Korean, Malay, Russian, Sinhalese, Swedish, Tamil, Vietnamese or any other language for that matter)
At first it looks so obvious… but maybe it really was an accident.
The Words say “ESD
VOHI’
LDGI8E
i dunno , but maybe the letters aren’t in the right order, or even upside down. So i’m trying to take each letter then put it together again, maybe, maybe not lol. Alternatively it could be the architects name, but built up, or, on the other hand just pure coincidence lol
so after getting each individual letter I, and only I got quite a few different sets but the one that i first saw and seemed to me to be right i got
V c h I j ‘I b e o = c d o d t o c
so i don’t speak french, and it might not even be in french but, you’re welcome to try and figure it out, the letters might even have numerical value with a secret number, or date, who knows.
I’m french. I don’t see any hidden meanings.
This means we hate americans
I speak just franch so excuse my for my english its rite voici Bobé in english is: this bobe. i dont no what is this!
i speak french but i cant really make out the letters…
if someone can tell me what the letters are i can tell you if it means anything
Check this, I outlined the letters
http://www.without-you.nl/okay.png
No way guys.
These words makes no sense
for every language I know.
(Italian, English, French).
Hey
I am french.
Maybe It used to mean something in the past but you know. As the time goes, some building are destroyed and replaced by some with different shape.
If you want to carry out a deeper search I suggest you to search for the year of construction and find old maps of the area…
good luck
there’s no message///
just wierd buildings
when I saw this I was drawn to the bottom “letters” and I can just make out what looks to say “TOE” The last three buildings. The red one looks like a T the middle one which looks like a park has a walkway shaped like an O and the next building looks likes an E so i dunno, I just felt like pointing that out.
i am a french and the leters are:
cai
idoibe
= t c
and is not french not sentid!
a french with low level in english
at first glance for me i just saw “ombie” and i thought right away, ZOMBIE just goes to show me that i play way too many video games.
theres a pokeball in the bottom right of the pic.
Maybe it’s a joke… just something to stump us people that always want to know the truth.
Gee. If it’s just a coincidence- its one hell of a big one!
OMG this is killing me now! I have no idea what this is but i want to know the address so i can go there. Maybe this could be some kind of project i could do. If i have time that is well nice talking to ya
i speak french but I have no idea what that giberish means
hey everyone i have looked really hard to see if i can spot what is written as i have lived in france for 5 years and speak french and can not spot anything i don’t think it has a true meaning.