Dec 21 2009Italian Google Street View: WTF IS THAT?!

FIRST!!!!

It's the death cloud from Lost. That's it, we're all screwed.

Nice knowing y'all.

its a weather balloon dont let anyone tell you different , nothing to see here move along

LOST smoke monster!

IT'S A TREE BRANCH, DUH!

I know exactly what that is. It's an IMPERIAL FUCKING STAR DESTROYER! We're screwed! We're all screwed! I'm getting the hell out of here!!!!!!!!!!

I must concur: wtf is that?!?!?!

if this isn't something stuck on the glass, then i have no idea what this is.

a smoke plume?

Looks like gum or pigeon shit stuck on the camera dome. Either that or the Mayans were 3 years late on their prediction for the end of the world.

Itz-a big-a smoka cannoli

i think its a crap on the lens....

i'm with no. 5 on this....

DEFFO the black smoke from Lost. We're all gonna die.

its a tree branch http://maps.google.com/maps?source=embed&layer=c&cbll=42.36396,13.368008&cbp=13,320.72,,0,-29.96&ie=UTF8&panoid=K0Hv_pLb98MJa2Cd_QcH2w&ll=42.363907,13.367907&spn=0,359.997589&z=19

It's a weird quirk, look at this: http://maps.google.com/maps?source=embed&layer=c&cbll=42.36396,13.368008&cbp=13,320.72,,0,-29.96&ie=UTF8&panoid=K0Hv_pLb98MJa2Cd_QcH2w&ll=42.363907,13.367907&spn=0,359.997589&z=19

You can see the cloud thing is in front of the telegraph pole... for some reason.

It looks to me like some kind of contrail of an aborted missile...

For those of you who examined this photo for 15+ minutes, congratulations, you've been looking at bird shit.

it's so obviously a rip in the space time continuum

Definitely dry bird poo. Look, it's black, grey, and white just like the pigeon poop I see on my car.

So, I'm pretty sure it was a smoke trail. The reason it's just hovering there is because, it looks like, the smoke trail has been cut off on either side and replaced with pictures taken when there was NO smoke trail. FTW?

Why would it not be on the lens when you swing around then ?? how is it only there for one image ??

God is sick of giving hugs:

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/02/google_maps_spots_god_god_love.php

Now he's just sending the pestilence.

I agree with 5 as well - it's a tree branch. What it's doing in that shot, I'm not sure. I bet it has to do with the way street-view calculates the images for the above and below shots (it projects them based on previous forward-looking images).

It's a stick, it's on the top camera all the way down Strada Statale 80 (e.g. http://maps.google.com/maps?source=embed&layer=c&cbll=42.36894,13.358425&cbp=13,264.12,,0,-44.11&ie=UTF8&panoid=meSZvu6rNZCSr54sDWiZhg&ll=42.368681,13.35905&spn=0,359.997857&z=19 some miles away)

Looks like the Challenger explosion...

Its a death eater. duh.

it is definately a branch or twig

it seems that if it were stuck on the glass it would be there for more than three pictures though

I think it's just a glitch. Here's a pic of the "Cloud" up close. it's being bisected by a street lamp. :(

http://i746.photobucket.com/albums/xx103/Zidel333/italiancloud1.jpg

nevermind, it is

Yup, it's in all the pictures all the way starting from here: http://maps.google.com/maps?source=embed&layer=c&cbll=42.364102,13.364316&cbp=13,162.54,,0,-41.23&ie=UTF8&panoid=UOvXXVmwWzdjN_T02xpw5Q&ll=42.364161,13.364326&spn=0,359.997857&z=19 it goes North West up Via Pasquale Ficara, then right turn and then back down south east down the Strada Statale 80

It's closer than you think, flying below a bridge:

http://maps.google.com/maps?source=embed&layer=c&cbll=42.364482,13.366814&cbp=13,259.02,,0,-24.58&ie=UTF8&panoid=kTpI1__Z3n4n9h0p6l56ng&ll=42.364422,13.36699&spn=0,359.995872&z=19

UFOs for italy, they like the red sauce

Google Streetview's camera looks like this: http://www.freefoto.com/images/810/12/810_12_6060---Google-Maps-Street-View-Camera_web.jpg software stitches the photos together to get the panorama, that's why you have the glitches where the photos don't line up properly. Which means you'll get a lot of floating sticks and bird crap on street-view

It is bird poop

It definitely is a stick

tiny piece of a twig, i think the camera just auto focused on that one bit and it got put together automatically when they did the panoramic thing

It's not a tree branch, it's a twig of a pine tree. It looks big because it's on top of the camera dome.

I dont think this is birdshit on the dome of the lens. Because it's too sharp and detailed, when you keep in mind that the focuslength is not 1cm out of the sphere of the photolens. So this is farther away then stuck onto the lens.

yup it's poop

halo ring lol. but when you go 2 the next photo it's not there

Go under the bridge nearby and its still there, its on the camera, I would hazzard a guess at bird shit.

FUCKING ACE DETECTIVE

well, since here- http://maps.google.com/maps?source=embed&layer=c&cbll=42.36396,13.368008&cbp=13,320.72,,0,-29.96&ie=UTF8&panoid=K0Hv_pLb98MJa2Cd_QcH2w&ll=42.363907,13.367907&spn=0,359.997589&z=19 the "cloud" is in front of a pole, and all the way down the street it is in the same spot in the view, it has to be either a glitch in the combining of images, or its something on the camera dome.

Jeez, that's so simple.

It's a time portal, and that is dinosaur sticking his head out of it )

Yeah, dinosaur, that's it. Good to see you all bought that one.
Don't Stop Believing - Big J

If it's not a break in the space time continuum I can't imagine what else it might be...hmm....

Photoshop, Photoshop, Photoshop... I love looking at other google views near by, it either disappears or is the same image some where else in the sky.

that is one terryfing-pants-crapping tree branch

That's not bird poop... ITS A TRAP!

Its a big glob of bird sh*t on the camera lens

It is some piece of debris on the truck or something on the lens. You can see it further down the road and it has changed position but it is on the same horizon.
You can also see a line where the software has blended the upper camera pictures into the lower ones.

http://maps.google.com/maps?source=embed&layer=c&cbll=42.36396,13.368008&cbp=13,320.72,,0,-29.96&ie=UTF8&panoid=K0Hv_pLb98MJa2Cd_QcH2w&ll=42.363907,13.367907&spn=0,359.997589&z=19

If this works, thats the moment of impact, if you go back down the street you can see the dead tree it came from.

I actually ran into Jack Kevorkian last summer. He was out on the streets petitioning for something in Royal Oak, MI. He was about to stop my girlfriend and I, but we walked away and he grabbed another couple instead. I didn't realize it was him until we walked away.

Brujeria!

its a small tree branch or twig.....the picture is glitched. FACT

It's not in the sky at all. It's on the lens. That my friends is a dried piece of bird crap.

a tree branch fell from a tree into the shot. whoopdy doo

It's Kanye West's cock!

That's a weird looking boner.

its santa!!!! google lets you track "santa". if you click the link it says so to the left.

nvm

Its worlds fastest fart

clearly someone just hit 88mph in their dalorean....jeez people, have we learned nothing?

oh my! It's a twig!!!!

admiral ackbar says "it's a branch!"

Holy shit it's Hedorah the Smog Monster! Call Godzilla, quick!

ummmm, photo shop.
and i think i know what they shopped in
Stealth,
good movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goPki_V34xA
at 2:16-2:21

hold your applause, over 60 people and non of them figured it out.
I Rock. =)

Sorry, that was me.

god is smoking a reafer!

Hey there,

I go with the bird poo theory and no I hate the stuff. If you go under the bridge down the road it then appears under the bridge. Which means the poop is only on one of the cameras. So who found the gold nuggets first?

has no one else seen the movie Donnie Darko? because if you have thats the first thing that sholud come to mind. it looks exactly like the movie

If you move the view under the bridge, the "smoke trill" (read bird shit) is still there...

I know this street.. It's from L'Aquila, the city destroyed by earthquake in april.
http://maps.google.it/maps?hl=it&tab=wl

It might be the phenomenon known as rods an occurence conceived by many as mysterious flying rod like shaped UFOs (no joke) many people actually spend hours analysing video and photo imagery lookingfor strange mysterious rod shaped cloud that fly through the air

It's not bird ship because it changes perspective slightly as you follow it down. It has to be a tiny piece of a twig. Although, why didn't it ever fall off?! That's the real mystery!

It looks like a tree branch from a pine tree that somehow got mixed up when they were splicing the images together for the sky (I doubt they waste alot of hard drive space on the blue sky).

It's bird poop..

It's a conifer branch.

Come on Guys, isn't it so obvious? It's clearly the smoke trail of the GW's rocket launcher from a-top of his Dino.

http://www.geekologie.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=riding+a+dinosaur&IncludeBlogs=&IncludeBlogs=1

ITS A TRAP!

It's a fighter jet made of biceps

It must be something on the lens/dome. I scrolled up the street and under the bridge, and the image stayed the same.

Proof: http://i46.tinypic.com/nzegcl.jpg

Its obviously that freaky flyin dog creature from Never Endind Story!!!

All these logical explanations are so disappointing...
damnit.
I wish it were real.

I retract my previous statement. Tree branch fo' sho'. Or aliens.

Duh! It's obviously

its a pine tree branch

It's a .jpg.

ZOMG IT'S SANTA CLAUS!

Obviously a twig fell on the roof from the tree just before it, then was blown off

its bird shit

This is probably pine tree brunch that got on the camera dome when passing this point http://maps.google.com/maps?source=embed&layer=c&cbll=42.363846,13.367787&cbp=13,167.31,,0,3.21&ie=UTF8&panoid=5N_J-XrEsQG8WdPNQrb-8A&hq

What's funny (is it really?) it's that it's just on top of L'Aquila,
which was almost flattened by an earthquake last april (there's a page on Italian Wikipedia http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terremoto_dell%27Aquila_del_2009 don't know if there's an english page).

That's bullshit. I live here and it's far off L'Aquila, we barely noticed that earthquake.

It's just some fluff stuck to the camera. Go down the road underneath the bridge and it appears in front of the bridge.

Don't know what it is but it not all that frightening. No if it was Michael Jackson's head peeking out of the clouds that shit would be creepy. I mean how the hell did he get up there?

It's me, smoking a bifta.

Seriously thought it's a tree branch.

@89 OR THAT!

Its the Nexus! After all these years of searching, its here in Earth after all. I must get back to the Nexus.

Yea, it's a branch. Tracked it to this trail where it first occur: http://maps.google.com/maps?source=embed&layer=c&cbll=42.363421,13.362673&cbp=13,325.34,,0,-32.61&ie=UTF8&panoid=a0ThhcOez2z9OukpgtEE9g&t=h&ll=42.363364,13.362763&spn=0,359.99673&z=19

Ofc it's not a branch! It's an alien's finger who is on the leash trying to sabotage Google's world conquering plans for the sake of human race!

Why is it that there are 101 posts on this and NOT ONE has yet identified WHY the image is the way we see it. Sure, there are LOTS of links back to the EXACT SAME picture, but not one poster has pointed out the obvious... A drop of water was on the lens when the photo was taken. That droplet acted as a lens distorting the angle of (a small percentage) of the image. What you see is a tree branch through a water droplet on the lens. Simple.

well it's 2 pictures that have been photoshopped together into one, the object in the sky looks like part of the trail of an exploding research rocket

@102

Nice. That's probably the best answer yet.

What you are seeing is a dead pine tree branch that has somehow managed to get into the upward angled camera's field of view. The edges of it are soft because google streetview is a collection of panoramic images and that is what happens when there is an anomaly in just one image of an assembled panorama. The link below shows an image where you can clearly see the end of the branch.

http://maps.google.com/maps?source=embed&layer=c&cbll=42.363595,13.366457&cbp=13,36.25,,0,-46.59&ie=UTF8&panoid=ByuSi4PCb45tHsf-gSvgyw&ll=42.363582,13.366343&spn=0,359.997031&t=h&z=19

People look for anything to be freaked out by. I it is kind of amazing.

It's a pine tree limb!! that is a fish eye lens and part of the image is missing because they are completing a larger view, look to the ends of the branch, it's fuzzy where the images is fused to the next, silly!!

It's a bird with some really nasty diarrhea

DUDE ITS FALKOR THE LUCK DRAGON. FROM THE NEVER ENDING STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BAM!

It's a creature from another dimension! He's going to assimilate our planet!

...who here welcomes our planet eater?

It's a comment on a Geekologie post!!!

Friggin euro tree throwing us off. That is one gnarly lookin branch. thanks 105

you guys are idiots!
its district 9 duhh

IT CAME FROM THIS STREET VIEW SPOT..!!!!

http://maps.google.com/maps?source=embed&layer=c&cbll=42.36396,13.368008&cbp=13,320.72,,0,-29.96&ie=UTF8&panoid=K0Hv_pLb98MJa2Cd_QcH2w&ll=42.363907,13.367907&spn=0,359.997589&z=19

It is a dead branch from the tree in this spot. You can even see that this is the 1st time the branch appears in any of the pics. As you travel back up the road, you can even see it move around the top of the camera dome from pic to pic.

REEVERZ!

http://maps.google.com/maps?source=embed&layer=c&cbll=42.36396,13.368008&cbp=13,320.72,,0,-29.96&ie=UTF8&panoid=K0Hv_pLb98MJa2Cd_QcH2w&ll=42.363907,13.367907&spn=0,359.997589&z=19

http://maps.google.com/maps?source=embed&layer=c&cbll=42.36396,13.368008&cbp=13,320.72,,0,-29.96&ie=UTF8&panoid=K0Hv_pLb98MJa2Cd_QcH2w&ll=42.363907,13.367907&spn=0,359.997589&z=19

Oh My Eff Gee, I live like 15 mins from there in fairport O.o

FML i'm gonna die/get abducted/find buried treasure.

A little tiny piece of wood.

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k, I'm semi-retarded. my default location said fairport... I withdraw my last worried message.

I say it's a rip in the time-space continuum, and we are actually getting a brief glimpse of Master Chief falling from the forerunner vessel!!!

(No, I am not serious. )

It's Santa for sure!

It's surely a sign from the all knowing god Google! Who are we to question his signs and miracles!?

Honestly though I think it's a tree branch!

ok wtf. it cannot be a glitch you freaky face.glitches do not look like that. although, i will admit that i was a little disappointed when i came to the reasonable conclusion of it simply looking like a stick near the roof camera of one of those google street view vans. i was really hoping that i could kind of go on imagining it truly was a rip in the space time continuum or a star destroyer.

its the nothing from never ending story

Any TURD who says it's a TREE BRANCH obviously doesn't have a clue. That thing is HUGE yet SMALL, STRAIGHT yet BENT. It's obviously POO from OUTER SPACE TWELFTH DIMENSION CARNIVORE. It's here to get us.

yeahhhh, it lkooks like a giant lard

See you

its clearly some bird shit, just go under the bridge and its still on the lense.

its a stick, picked up at http://maps.google.com/maps?source=embed&layer=c&cbll=42.363516,13.362688&cbp=13,42.87,,0,-18.35&ie=UTF8&panoid=yxrLnSDiPyS5s5Ud78jpLA&ll=42.363431,13.362674&spn=0,359.99673&z=19

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OMG IT'S A TWIG MONSTER!!!!! Run for your lives!!!!!

It is a twig acquired back up the road on Via degli Acquaviva when they passed under some low branches.

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man i must be bored, its a branch, it got on the camera after the camera hit a tree, original starting point, go into the trees, about 5 images in, the stick will appear.

http://maps.google.com/maps?source=embed&layer=c&cbll=42.363268,13.362714&cbp=13,354.71,,0,-12.63&ie=UTF8&panoid=ZvDd3PPRleVeihJ579h8dA&hq=&ll=42.363348,13.362765&spn=0,359.986203&z=16

SO what have we learned? If you goto Italy, don't go into bushy areas.

guys number 5 is right it is a tree branch. go to the link and have a close up. you can see the tree bark. its just probly a glitch.

@83- He's not a flying dog, sir. He's a luck dragon.

It's Wonder Woman's invisible airplane!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm telling you!!!!

It's a twig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A TWIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a twig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A TWIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe it's a plume of smoke, like an explosion of a jet or something. idk wtf that is. Ask Google!

It's a BERLCUSCONI'S Spirtit ! :-)

that is a photoshop? i can see the blur in the pic (left and right sides), and some more aditions .. i dont believe that this pic is real..

i studdy graphic arts and it looks photo sope, i've even don something lik this minus hackig into google maps street vew and putting it there but i must sa they almostgot away with it

Short Answer:
Tree Branch

Long Answer:
It's definitely a tree branch. You have to understand how these photos are taken and pieced together. A van, equipped with multiple cameras, drives around taking these pictures as it goes. Each camera takes a snapshot and the software pieces them together into a 360 panoramic image. The software blends or blurs the edges of certain images to make for a smoother transition between individual snapshots. If you look at the street that the image is on, which is kinda an open alleyway with trees overgrowing it, it becomes obvious that the "sky" image was taken from a different position and likely had a tree branch close to the lens. This image was blended with the images of the side views and created this odd object in the sky. It is not a photoshop edit but it does have effects applied to it as part of the software that blends the views together.

Case Closed.

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