the googlemap UFOs

It's brightest at the bottom left, and fades to sky blue in the top right, a direction which matches the shadows of the houses. That suggests it's a protrubance on one of the outer optics (otherwise it wouldn't catch the light, or be relecting open sky). Problem is, if it's a recticular dot it's a bloody big one (unless they have a huge resolution per frame - compare the dot to the size of the cars.)Whilst and you wouldn't get condensation on/in a satellite (Water + vacuum = vacuum + a few molecules, in a couple of seconds), the images look suspiciously good to be real satellite images, So I'll plump for a drop of condensation on a 'plane.Or maybe alien poo.Edit: I really shouldn't go near keyboards early on Sunday.This message has been edited by Dead Parrot, 05-22-2005 10:57 AM

Talking of weird google maps, have you seen downtown Dallas recently?More weirdness

If it's something on a plane, you'd get a series of them as it takes frames of film - probably flying E-W or N-S, which is the logical way to cover a large area (most of the blobs seem to lie on an E-W line) until the dirt falls off or the water dries up. The eastmost frames look less well-defined that the westmost ones, so I'd suggest the plane collected a drop of mosture in the west that then dried up as it flew east...