Has anyone seen the "Inside Cover" on todays West Australia (I believe the story got a run in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, and is sparking questions worldwide)
The picture taken from Google Earth purports to show a flying car.
Its planely obvious, its a bloody KITESURFER.
theres so many of the buggers you can see them from space now.
Looks like 2 cars to me... one black... very balck
On the other hand, the poms have not yet figured out that half a squizzillion GBs fit into WA, so of course we were going to come up with the flying car first
The object is too close to the shadow (ie too low/close to the ground) to be a kite. A rather dangerous place to launch if you ask me. My theory - it is a banner temporarily mounted between 2 poles. The poles are too small to see clearly in the image. This explains why the object is no longer there.
yeah, I had a good look at Nebbians link (some pretty funny stuff there - geez people are freaks) and I think the best explanation is that it is a shade tent, or a tarpaulin set up as some shade.
theres so many of the buggers you can see them from space now.
Almost right there grumples. It was DISCOVERED by a bloody kitesurfer.
There are now over 10,000 pages on this phenomenon now, most of them are forums and news sites, but a few UFO spotting and urban legends sites have jumped on the bandwagon now.
Ok, time to come clean.....
I was checking out some local spots on Google Earth on a low wind Sunday morning about 3 weeks ago and I saw the car near Point Walter. I'm a regular reader of The Register so I know they love flying car conspiracies and anything to do with Google Earth, so I put 2 and 2 together and sent them a placemarker file and they wrote it up. I thought maybe a few mates would see it and ask me about it, but I never expected THIS MUCH publicity, least of all an interview by The West!!!!! (must have been a seriously slow news week).
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