Huff Post - Lee Speigel, 9/29/12
Like the aberration in the Texas image, this New Mexico one is also a reddish-pink
If you use Google street view to get directions to Jacksonville, Texas, a glance into the sky reveals none other than...a good old fashioned pink UFO.That's what Andrea Dove recently discovered when she signed on to the popular online address tool to map her way from her home near Houston to visit a relative in Jacksonville.
Dove contacted ABC affiliate KLTV in East Texas after she used her computer keyboard controls to manipulate the street view and spotted what looked like a classic flying saucer in the sky. It seems to be circular with a domed top, and, well, it's reddish-pink. The image also appears to show a thin, white line hanging or trailing from the object.
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Having taken tens of
Having taken tens of thousands of pictures myself, and checking the Google Maps images personally, I'm almost entirely sure those are lens flares. If you go to the Google Maps pages, you can see how the two discs are aligned towards the sun. These images are from light reflecting back and forth off the inner lens elements in the camera.
Coincidence theorist
That I am. I perceive this whole thing as a pathetically lame attempt to debunk ALL UFO sightings as hoaxes. I am quite glad many perceptive people have identified this as a classic lens flare. Freely lending credence to every amped out, easily debunked story like this is not discernment. Real UFO enthusiasts don't fall for a story like this. Wouldn't the cabalist media love to have yet another excuse to debunk the whole phenomena? Many things like this are amped up in the cabalist media echo chamber precisely to encourage media consumers to quickly lose interest by damping down their natural curiosity over UFO's. This is yet another lame attempt. For every lame attempt to dismiss the believers snd try to make them look like fools, there will be dozens more sightings that are truly compelling. They cannot stop this.
From my perspective -
From my perspective, this is important because people are talking about UFOs in the mainstream media. It's a "no such thing as bad publicity" moment.
went down the street
I looked at this.If one follows the street the flare appears on the road. Then on the sidewalk. Not sure why something like this gets national attention. Oh duh....to make the real ones seem as silly. Good call posting this Rain.
Merlyn
UFO
I saw this near Lansing Mi a couple weeks ago while traveling on 75S. I thought about stopping and taking a photo but wanted to get to my destination and thought it would probably not show up well enough from my phone so just went on my way. It looked exactly like that but I saw no pink.