Status: Undetermined
The Register has found what appears to be a flying car, captured by the satellite imagery of Google Earth. It's definitely either a flying car, a car parked alongside a dark-looking patch on the ground, a car-shaped object floating in the air... or maybe a UFO! The Register provides some screenshots of the object, but unfortunately no direct link. (Google Maps doesn't cover Australia, so you'll need the Google Earth program to see it). The mysterious object is located at Pt. Walter in Perth, Australia.
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But it cannot be its shadowd, because it does not match the other shadows on the surrounding scene.
Check:
http://www.ceticismoaberto.com/news/?p=676
For an image made by our team of monkeys trained by the CIA to analyze aerial imagery.
It's probably a storage tank, though. It looks to be about 50% larger than the cars in the car park across the road.
Yup...or it'd make an interesting drive for myself this weekend...
Dolt!
If it is a car, my guess would be that it's been put up on poles like a billboard. I've seen that done several times by car dealerships or repair shops; maybe somebody put it up to advertise the parking lot? Or, it could be something else up on poles that only looks like a car from this angle. Since the sun is coming from such a high angle down onto it, we can't really tell much about the vertical shape of the thing. We can only see that it's as wide as a car and as long as a car.
Sorry, I'm too lazy to figure out how to turn it into a link...
So the car's already flown away? That's disappointing.
that is no billboard. Pictures of that area show nothing but grass in that area. Try again.
Look at the beach in the North, it is full of Kites.
Somebody is testing his Kite before he is going to fly, or to dry the Kite after the flight.
Some groundpictures in the following link are showing just sand and dust there.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/25/flying_car_launch_site/
As for why the cars didn't park in the carpark when there are plenty of space there: who knows!! but cars park there all the time so it's not out of the ordinary.
When I lived in the Midwestern USA, we used to have a lot of junk yards and small-town car lots that used cars perched on metal poles 20 to 30ft high.
They used them as advertising signs.
From overhead, this would cause the "flying car" look.....
It appeared in the newspaper the other day, but they could offer no explanation for it.
A direct link is now available. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/23/flying_car.kmz
Continue theorising please =)
Quote: "The image is of a water tank on a stand which is about 20-ft tall.
THE BLACK SPOT IS A SHADOW, NOT A BLACK CAR. From the Google Map, the black spot matches the shadows of the trees, look at the free-standing trees South East of the object (you have to look on Google Map, not the small section of the map shown in this article). The SHADOW is cast at exactly the same angle as the shadows cast by the trees, and about the same height. Folks, the REAL question is, what did the Billboard say? "Enjoy a Fosters"? Why don't we contact the Perth local government to find out what structure would've been licensened or permit given for that location.