A free round of applause...

Post by **Peetee** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:23 pm

If you can tell me what is hiding in in the trees here:
50°53'47.59"N 1°20'46.19"W
Google earth is invaluable here.

Post by **alex_holden** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:48 pm

Looks like a big blurry thing...

Post by **Bluesman** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:04 pm

A Moggy turned on its side? Black, dark blue? I think there is crossmember visible?

Post by **Matt** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:07 pm

I think its a tank....

Post by **jackkelleher** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:36 am

I hate to correct you all, but it's quite obviously the missing link. Or maybe an abandoned UFO.

But seriously, how are you seeing things? Where exactly are we looking? I can't resolve any shapes out of the trees. I could just be useless at this stuff. Is it in the lower or upper half of the wood? Or is it that thing in someone's back garden? If so, tank is more accurate, it's about the size of the sheds which is a little large for a Morris...

Post by **jackkelleher** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:37 am

Incidentally what possessed you to look there? And that closely? Do you regularly search for stuff like that? If so, is it effective? A lot of questions, I know, but I'm always tempted to try it...

Post by **nick69** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:14 am

It looks like a Whale!!

Post by **Peetee** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:45 am

In the photo (it's clearer in google earth for some reason) in the top left there is a diagonal line. Just below and to the right of this is a grey-blue shape (don't confuse this with the 'snow' effect in the same bunch of trees.

I know what it is cos a work colleague lives about 5 yards away.

Oh and it's not moggy related - hence off topic - but it is mechanical.

Post by **RogerRust** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:48 am

A stealth fighter?

Here is a clearer pic of the area, but without the anomaly.

http://www.192.com/maps/?gclid=CNfet-nu ... MAodwgd9XA

Post by **d_harris** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:25 am

Roger, that brings up the whole of the UK!

Post by **RogerRust** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:24 am

oh so it does!!

you need to put Hamtun Road in and zoom in

Post by **jackkelleher** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:11 pm

Your friend's new swimming pool? Tony Robinson and the Time Team? (If they're still going)...
All very mysterious... Is it Area 52, the Brit experimental aircraft design studio? The Americans might have a hangar in the desert, but ours is better hidden... And that's why the picture's so grainy!

Post by **AndrewSkinner** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:12 pm

aaahhhgggrr! The suspense is killing me!! When do we get to find out peetee!!

ha I have looked on all the maps, Flash earth, google, 192.com! I still have no idea! Whatever it is, its big and square.

Im going with tank

Post by **badfelafel** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:22 pm

here's the msn live earth version

http://maps.live.com/#JndoZXJlMT1zb3V0a ... AwNzgxMjU=

Post by **badfelafel** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:23 pm

or not... that also brings up the whole uk!

Post by **Peetee** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:44 pm

Ok if you want to make it out you're going to have to put the the original GR into google earth.
As for revealing, well, I so want to show somebody in SADMOG for real first so I'll probably let you know on Friday.
Suffice to say the amazing this is that it's been there sooooo long, undisturbed, probably intact, unnoticed by most and as I say, hemmed in by trees that must have grown up around it.

Keep guessing

Post by **AndrewSkinner** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:08 pm

FRIDAY!!!!!

lol

Is it on private land?? It looks like a footpath goes past it.

As for people looking at it use badfelafel's advice and use the msn live map. Click on 'Aerial' and you get a much clearer view!

Unfotunatly in the 'Birdseye view' it is covered by the trees. Shame because that is amazing quality!

Post by **badfelafel** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:15 pm

Try this instead...

I think it looks like an old plane!
PS Pic is grabbed from MSN

Post by **alex_holden** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:28 pm

Hah, you beat me to it. I was about to say it looks like a plane if you zoom the Google map out a couple of steps.

Post by **jackkelleher** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:21 pm

Got it! I really have this time, I'm serious. It's a DeHavilland Vampire, or one of the related DeHavilland jets of the era. Unless I'm very much mistaken, the twin booms are clear and the large wing... in the rear centre of which, presumably, remains a jet engine, as it was an early jet! Wow! What a restoration project