What’s This Bloody Massive Thing In Greenland?
December 21st, 2007 at 17:00 by Stuart Heritage
We're not all like you - we don't all use Google Earth to try and find topless women sunbathing in their garden. Some people use it to find massive spooky weirdness in arctic wildernesses.
Watch this video - it's of something that's shown up in Greenland on Google Earth. Apparently there's a perfectly straight, brightly-glowing object that's 50 miles long slap-bang in the middle of Greenland. What could it be? A mysterious government-controlled alien laboratory? A crashed UFO? A trick of the light? That 50-mile glowing dildo that your mum lost the other week? We just don't know.
One thing's for sure, though - the people need to be told! Or the people need to be ignored because they'll probably forget all about by the time they go to bed. One way or the other.
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December 21st, 2007 at 7:34 pm
There is a very big chance that this is just an artifact of the mapping process. These maps are made by orthorectifying massive amounts of camera data and not all images are taken in the same lighting conditions, and some images may suffer from lens flare, from altered exposure due to light interference, or any number of problems. When stitched together these might produce anomalies like shown. It’s also possible software used to stitch these images together applied filtering or corrections in an erroneous fashion leading to the anomaly.
It just looks more like an image problem than an object or actual physical presence there.
December 21st, 2007 at 8:21 pm
[...] tip to Heckler Spray via The Anomalist. ..bruce [...]
December 21st, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Don’t be an idiot. That’s obvious - and I mean freshman photography student obvious - artifacting.
December 21st, 2007 at 10:38 pm
You can see it in Google Maps too. Sadly, looking at it there makes it obvious that it’s just a coloration issue where two pictures were overlaid.
December 21st, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Given that Google Earth’s map is made of small photographs ’stitched’ together, taken at different times in different light conditions, it’s not particularly astounding to find an odd-coloured area with a perfectly straight edge. Now is it.
December 22nd, 2007 at 3:43 am
[...] an email from my friend Bruce Webster over at And Still I Persist pointing out this anomaly (via Heckler Spray) that shows up on Google [...]
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:10 am
I can’t say I’ve looked at this video for any reason other than I could be arsed or even been bothered to look at Google earthness thingy though my uneducated guess would be it’s some sort of delicious cake based product that the people of Greenland are going to unleash on the world as some sort of evil bond-villain style plot in which case it probably contains fudge. I could however be wrong.
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:13 am
It’s not nice to start your presentation by insulting your audience.
December 22nd, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Just showed a friend her apartment complex yesterday on Google Earth, and there was a camera icon on her building. Turns out there’s a large carousel in her building she didn’t know about! Probably the same aliens who put the “artifact” in Greenland …
December 22nd, 2007 at 2:59 pm
I speak as one who would be more excited than anyone else on the planet if this were real. But it is probably nothing more than a remarkably-formed glitch which, due to shape and location, stands out as if it were an object being slowly unearthed by melting snow. If such an object really is there, believe me we will be seeing many more images of it very soon. Thus far no new images of it from any other satellites or even from civilian cameras. In addition, the object appears slightly transparent and the black line running across it is also transparent and extends beyond the apparent edge of the anomaly itself. I should still think it was worth it to check it out, and I hope anyone living in Greenland who can find their way out there will physically check out the site to make sure it is not there. Additional satellite photos will also help to clarify the matter. So, while this in itself may not be (and probably isn’t) a true anomaly, I support the efforts of individuals who take the time to point things like this out. Some really snobbish people have suggested that this was a “waste of time”, and yet satellite photos have previously revealed such things as lost cities, forgotten ancient monuments, etc… and so there is always the possibility that one of these days a true, undeniable anomaly will be captured on satellite. It is possible, given some of the evidence I have seen, that some definite anomalies in fact already have been caught on satellite photos, but certainly nothing so dramatic as this would have to have been were it real (given that, if it were a real object, it would approximately fifty miles by five miles in diameter). As yet satellite photos have not, to my knowledge, revealed any secret underground bases, or extraterrestrial artifacts, however just recently a secret U.S. Navy Propeller design was accidentally captured, I believe also on Google Earth. That was partly due to base error, since the ship should have been covered from aerial view at all times while in dry dock, but such mistakes do occur from time to time. Who knows? The next thing we find must just be an actual alien artifact or secret military base or something.
December 23rd, 2007 at 6:48 pm
I saw this thing in (on?) Greenland last year and said to my wife, “what the heck is that?” She replied, “oh it can’t be anything important because if it was, the guys in Black Helicopters would have nuked Google corporate headquarters by now.” Which, I admit, is logic that is hard to refute.
December 26th, 2007 at 7:54 am
[...] This Week In Dada, #4 What the hell is THAT??? [...]
December 31st, 2007 at 9:10 pm
OK Ok.., wait a minute that’s great, would have never known… but could you tell me where the topless sunbathers are?
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:01 pm
It’s only a small glitch in the stiching of the mosiac. Most likely we are seeing through some ice melt directly at the surface of Geenland. Given the fact that all satellite pics are not recorded at the same time, there are bound to be unconsequential and possible unavoidable overlaps during the mosiac’s construction. The color is most likely due to the particular components of the land surface.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:25 am
Just a maping glitch …..so we’re not all like you.
February 25th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Thank you so much!!! I’ll tell mum you found it.
Whew, now the cucumbers won’t have that fishy taste any longer.