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Title: weird aircraft
Post by: wayne on January 23, 2010, 07:06:18 pm
 There is a strange aircraft on Google Earth. I zoomed in the less than 500 feet and the darn thing is either just off the ground or landed. Also checkout the "watery" shadow.

37 57 62.24n  121 43 93.14w

  Any ideas?
Title: Re: weird aircraft
Post by: mick on January 29, 2010, 04:06:56 am
cant see it, can you make a KMZ?
Title: Re: weird aircraft
Post by: wayne on January 30, 2010, 03:59:10 pm
 Not sure what this is but I copied my bookmark from Google Earth.

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Title: Re: weird aircraft
Post by: Kathyp on January 30, 2010, 04:27:21 pm
i still am not getting it.  latitude and longitude should work ok if you copy it down exactly as it is on google earth.  we should be able to copy and paste it and go right there.
Title: Re: weird aircraft
Post by: wayne on January 31, 2010, 11:47:37 am
  try this

3734 34.41 n  121 26 21.53 w
Title: Re: weird aircraft
Post by: BoBn on January 31, 2010, 04:36:37 pm
37 34 34.41 n  121 26 21.53 w
(http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/6348/gearth.jpg) (http://img34.imageshack.us/i/gearth.jpg/)
 8-)
Title: Re: weird aircraft
Post by: ayyon2157 on January 31, 2010, 07:39:24 pm
Hello Wayne:

     I don't believe the "watery shadow" is from the aircraft in the picture.  The angles seem wrong compared to the other shadows.

     The shadow also is shaped differently, and more resembles a Mig 15 or Mig 17.  (The location was Russia, right?)

     Getting into very iffy ground,  my best guess would be that it was an old (and expendable) Mig 17 testing "stealth paint", or even an invisibility device making it hard to detect.  The use of an obsolete (but fairly fast) aircraft as a target to test various weapons on would make sense to me.

     The other aircraft may have been participating in the experiment or may have been just a coincidence.

     Quite interesting, whatever it is.  I would also want to know if the cameras involved will clearly record something traveling at the speed of sound.

ayyon2157
Title: Re: weird aircraft
Post by: Kathyp on January 31, 2010, 08:03:38 pm
California.  SW of Modesto. 
Title: Re: weird aircraft
Post by: ayyon2157 on January 31, 2010, 11:07:26 pm
Thanks Kayhyp;

     I stand corrected.  I guess I had read the "121" as "127".  Thanks

ayyon2157