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Has anyone seen this on Google Earth?

• Go into Google Earth and search for Ozawkie, Kansas. Go to the ground cameras, almost all of them show it. You could start with one of the cameras on the bridge. Just move the view up to the sky just above the trees. There is a very low vapor trail with an explosion at the east end. There is a UFO with some kind of cone of air or energy (maybe a shield) around and below it. In some of the photos it is near the explosion end and in some it is near the cut off end of the vapor trail. When I first looked at it, that end wasn't cut off. It was deliberately blurred, but I could see dark blotches falling from the trail as it tapered toward the end. It appeared to be debris falling from a disintegrating plane or craft of some sort. I was talking to my niece on the phone about it while we were looking at the various views. She saw what appeared to be a body lying in a parking lot. Almost immediately when she told me this, she was cut off from Google Earth. I was telling her about the disintegrating craft at the end of the vapor trail and my picture went away. The Google Earth page stayed blank for 5 minutes or so. The picture then came back and that end of the vapor trail had been cut off and painted over with sky. I hadn't seen the UFO then. After I kept looking around and talking to her about it, I was thrown completely out of Google Earth and my computer froze up. It sat and ground away for a while, so I finally did Ctrl Alt Delete and shut it down. When I started back up, my connection to the internet was gone. I had to turn off my modem and unplug it for a while before I could turn it back on and get back on the internet. Any way, I found the UFO in nearly every picture as I moved around to the different cameras. I would think it is fake, but how can anyone get in and alter photos on Google Earth, aside from their employees? It is definitely worth a look. I'd like to get as many people as possible to see this. It won't let the picture be copied, saved, emailed or pasted after doing a Printscreen. I know most of the regulars on A&S know I am not a nutcase, so I thought I would put it on here and give people a chance to see it. Some of the pictures appear questionable because the vapor trail shows in front of the power pole and trees, plus the UFO appears kind of like a movie version of one might be. Also, there is the fact that I didn't see the UFO until I went back on the next morning. If it is fake, though, I don't know why Google Earth would add it or how anyone else could add it. I am baffled by the whole thing, but I would love to have others see it and find out what you think.

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  Got it. If I'm looking at the same thing, it looks like an optical lens effect emanating from the image of the Sun. Notice that it it ends quite sharply at the same boundary as the other chromatic bloom effect further to the left. This occurs in the same place in other images too, suggesting it's lens-based. This boundary (and sharp ending) may well be due to the images being a composite, and the glare zone of one meets another image with no such glare. However, that may just be the nature of the lens that it produces such a narrow boundary. In many of the images there is what looks like the classic "pentangle" glare shape that some cameras & lenses create, and this also matches the boundary of the chromatic bloom and the bright line cut-off. I suspect this is more likely than it being a composite. I don't think you've found a UFO! Edit: Ah, a diffraction spike! That sort of makes sense. However, why would they use a lens system with such a linear instrusion? And why isn't it on the other side of the Sun? I suppose a crack or flaw could do that too. Edit 2: The repeated angular effect and same-place line cutoff is very convincing that it's due to lens. There are also minor chromatic bloom and lines at right-angles to the main one, and near the garage you can start to see another thick line opposite the original. I think the lens is being pointed at slightly different angles relative to the Sun along the sequence, so the effects change but show similar signs. In one of the images the white line fades out in front of leaves on a nearby tree, so it would have to be a very small and close vapour trail! As for domes and bits, can you look again to see if it's still there? Guide us to the right location? Edit3: OK, I'm back on the bridge, I'm noticing a small dark object that looks a bit like a blurry submarine! Elongated, dark, with a bump on the side. Could just be a bird though. I'll keep looking... Edit4: Ok, I've found the silhouette of a duck or goose ascending from the lake to the south of the bridge; a very distinct shape. I'm now more convinced that the earlier blob is similar, as it's still visible above the telegraph pole. Edit5: OK, see it! I'm almost at the pole just beyond the east end of the bridge. It's the chromatic bloom, taking the form of a translucent purple lenticular as seen from the side, superimposed on a semi-ellipse. It looks a little like a lenticular craft with a small dome on top, and a 'wake' spreading below. Is that what you see? I've copied the image - give me a wee while, I'll upload it somewhere and post the link. Edit6: Ok, here's the link. It shows fainter overlaid lenticular blooms oriented at right angles to the main shape (UFO 'dome'), which is a give-away sign of a composite lens blooming. Notice it's still most of the way between the end of the bright line and the pentangular corner, where the bloom usually appears elsewhere. Edit7: I did a CTRL-PrintScrn and just pasted into MS Paint, saving as a jpeg. Edit8: Perhaps the easiest way to post an image is to use one of the free image hosts. Signing up should be quick and easy. I use Imageshack - find them OK. Edit9: Cool KT! Yeah, bloom often takes the form of a 3-D ellipse, or several superimposed, viewed from a side angle. The different parts to it are created by the different components in the lens, or the boundaries between them. It's easier to see with moving images as the bloom smoothly changes shape due to movement of the camera. Edit10: On that road, some of the photos show cloudy skies. I think they were taken at a different time of day (possibly a different day), so the sun's in a different part of the sky. Same lens, though, it has very simlar flare effects. Edit11: OK, you've not yet beaten the SETI people at their own game, but you sure have a sharp eye! Well spotted!