Flying Car Photographed in Perth

[panzerfaust]

The Google Earth database is reported to have turned up with a picture of a flying car. Looking at the image accompanying the article I thought it was either an actual flying car or a hoax – most likely created by whomever put the image into the Google database.



Examining the image on Google Earth, one can clearly see that it is some sort of structure with two supporting poles at the eastern extremity. The one at the northwest corner can be seen as well.

Fun whilst it lasted: Here's the link

[XNASA]

1. Maybe it's a black car parked next to a white car?

[panzerfaust]

4. That was one of the thoughts in the original report

However, there is no detail whatsoever in the shadow - whilst there is in the several dark cars in the parking lot to the NE.

I think it a real shadow (the angle matches that of the trees along the shoreline). But that it is being cast by an object supported by thin poles at its corners, rather than the much more interesting flying (or at least hovering) car.

I must confess: Were I charged with putting endless pictures into what must be at least a terabyte database, I would find a way to liven a few of them up.

The people at Google are either more responsible - or there is a certain amount of checking that takes place to inhibit such expression.

[Fox Mulder]

2. I can definitely see the two poles holding the car up.

[DS1]

3. I say it's jumping, not flying

[matcom]

9. there was probably a trampoline involved

:7

[Montauk6]

5. This reminds me of the misconception that the driver shot JFK.

[Radical Activist]

6. I wonder how many more of these we can expect

Next will be the floating building, Superman, a UFO. The possibilities are endless.

[richmwill]

7. Immediately thought of "Clerks" when I read this...

From a VERY funny "Bonus Feature" on the Clerks 10th Anniversary DVD set-

The Flying Car

[AllegroRondo]

8. Mabey its a car dealership

with a car up on poles as advertizing. We have one of those around here.

[DS1]

10. I figured out what this is

It's a roadside marketing billboard, with the obligator space in front for lighthing and walking for the people who put these sorts of signs up. It explains the shadow which would be more diffused if it were a car, it explains the angle in relation to the parking lot, and it explains why it's in a cut-out area of woods on the side of a road.

Where's my prize?