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Fake Plane Sunk In Lake Washington

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Is this old? When you scan eighteen blogzillion items a day sometimes you see something that you think you might have seen before, but you can't be sure. Manuel found what looks like an airplane under water near the Renton Boeing facility. It's hard to see, actually it's nearly impossible on the half-assed screen capture we're posting with this, so click through and look at the actual image. We had a hard time with it even there until we tuned out all of our daily worries and focused our zen plane-spotting energies about an inch to the left of the corner of the fence.

It would be cool if Boeing dropped a jet in the water accidentally one night and no one knew about it. You've dropped your keys in the lake before, right? Whoops, where'd they go. Maybe they fell out when you were deboating but we'll never know until someone spots them on Google Maps Now With A Million Times The Resolution. Could happen with an airplane, too... Or not. As suggested by the commenters to the original post, it's probably some kind of shadow cast on the film. Boo, reality.

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  • Google Earth uses mosaic overlays which layer multiple satellite pictures that are shot from different angles depending on the day and time the satellites orbit over Seattle. The imagine in the water is just a ghost image of the parked planes just below. Note the similar ghost image of the white rectangle, sitting diagonally to the right.

  • PaulCam

    Unfortunately, if you take a look at the "bird's eye view" photography, you'll notice it's not there :(

  • Here is a link to an even better image. It looks like a ghost image of the plane on the left. If you look at the items on the ground in front of the wings, they match.

    http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=47.503106~-122.207255&style=h&lvl=19&scene=3727376

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