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Harry Potter and his friends on vacation
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Perth's 'hovering car'

Eagle eyed users of the satellite imaging service Google Earth have spotted what appears to be a car hovering above the ground in a suburban Perth car park.

The photo is of a car park just off Honour Avenue at Point Walter in the affluent south western suburb of Bicton. The spot is a popular picnic location on the banks of the Swan River.



A number of cars are shown in parking bays and the vehicle in question appears to hovering above the ground nearby, its shadow clearly visible beneath.

Google Earth images are mostly taken by satellites - and sometimes by aircraft - within the past three years and there are no "live" images on the site.

The intriguing image was reported last week by the British IT news website, The Register.

One the the website's readers subsequently visited the very spot and sent in photos showing that there were no unusual structures there that could explain the phenomenon.

Other sceptical readers wrote in insisting the image was an optical illusion and was either a bus shelter, a pergola, a hole in the ground. One said it was obviously "Harry Potter and his friends on vacation".

Google Earth, launched last year, allows users to zoom across the planet and drill down to a height of about 300 metres. The program also has "tilt" function to give a side or angled view of an area or object.

Cars and boats are clearly visible at this level and in some areas, where even higher definition images are available, people can be seen.

The Google service has spawned a group of devoted followers who scour the satellite images for strange sightings. Users in the past have spotted a Stealth bomber parked on a runway in California, commercial planes in mid-flight and an image of what appears to be a ship on its side in a river estuary in Scotland.

The service has been critcised for giving terrorists a bird's eye view of sensitive areas, such as the Lucas Heights reactor in Sydney and Parliament House in Canberra.

It has also given stickybeaks an opportunity to peer into neighbourhood backyards and the home of the rich and famous.


http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/01/30/1138469638185.html


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Re: Harry Potter and his friends on vacation [Re: ivi]
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3 years ago, right about the time the picture was taken, a car was stolen, abandoned at that very spot, and burned... a few days later the owner rolled up and saw where his car sat while burning... leaving the grass chared...


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Re: Harry Potter and his friends on vacation [Re: Phychotron]
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You think Harry Potter did that?


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Re: Harry Potter and his friends on vacation [Re: ivi]
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yes.


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Re: Harry Potter and his friends on vacation [Re: Toddo]
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Or maybe just a black car next to a white car? I dunno......just a thought. :shrug:

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Re: Harry Potter and his friends on vacation [Re: HSIHd]
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Sophisticated raiders will surely use Google Earth to locate large outdoor crops.


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Re: Harry Potter and his friends on vacation [Re: Herbus]
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dude that harry potter fucker is mad powerful..

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Re: Harry Potter and his friends on vacation [Re: Hamstercut]
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he's not that good.

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Re: Harry Potter and his friends on vacation [Re: Herbus]
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Herbus said:
Sophisticated raiders will surely use Google Earth to locate large outdoor crops.


Google earth's images are utterly pathetic compared to what the government has often used.

THIER satellites have enough resolution to notice details of individual people. Not faces, per se, but you get the idea.

Google earth is a child's plaything as far as satellite imagery goes.


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Re: Harry Potter and his friends on vacation [Re: Konnrade]
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its the best thing we have access to, is it not?


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Re: Harry Potter and his friends on vacation [Re: Toddo]
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Toddo said:
its the best thing we have access to, is it not?


I think a civilian can get access to old, declassified satellite images... but those are of course rather old.

but as for easy acces... yeah, google earth is the best I've seen.


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