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A free round of applause...
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:23 pm
by Peetee
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:48 pm
by alex_holden
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:04 pm
by Bluesman
A Moggy turned on its side? Black, dark blue? I think there is crossmember visible?
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:07 pm
by Matt
I think its a tank....
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:36 am
by jackkelleher
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...
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:37 am
by jackkelleher
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...
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:14 am
by nick69
It looks like a Whale!!
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:45 am
by Peetee
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.
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:48 am
by RogerRust
A stealth fighter?
Here is a clearer pic of the area, but without the anomaly.
http://www.192.com/maps/?gclid=CNfet-nu ... MAodwgd9XA
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:25 am
by d_harris
Roger, that brings up the whole of the UK!
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:24 am
by RogerRust
oh so it does!!
you need to put Hamtun Road in and zoom in
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:11 pm
by jackkelleher
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!
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:12 pm
by AndrewSkinner
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
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:22 pm
by badfelafel
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:23 pm
by badfelafel
or not... that also brings up the whole uk!
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:44 pm
by Peetee
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
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:08 pm
by AndrewSkinner
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!
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:15 pm
by badfelafel
Try this instead...
I think it looks like an old plane!
PS Pic is grabbed from MSN
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:28 pm
by alex_holden
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.
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:21 pm
by jackkelleher
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