This kind of "flying orbs" can be found many times in GE and Gmaps (more than 20 places for now... some are partial ones) and there are lots of explanations proposed...

I assembled them in a placemark (see attached file).

Look at the grid type alignment

This "grid" helped me to find more orbs (in the two first series and creating the third one) and the scratches

Search the forum for "UFO" and look at this post :
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/26083/page/

And look at this site for theories and the placemarks I used to begin my search :
http://www.googlesightseeing.com/2005/05/18/ufo-update/


Edit : I just found on this latest site that someone did the same and found the same places... I wish I had seen that before doing all my searches

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# mountain jack Says:
May 22nd, 2005 at 3:59 am

To summarize the California data found to date, there are 21 aparently related artifacts in an East-West line stretching about 0.65 degrees of longitude, or 35.5 miles, from Glendora to San Bernardino. The maximum North-South displacement from the East-West line is 0.08 degrees of latitude, or about 1500 ft. There are three types of objects, a blurry blue orb and two curved lines, called commas and pigtails. The curved lines are clearly due to dust or scratches on the scanner or camera lens, whereas the orbs appear to be digitally added to the pictures. The artifacts repeat every 2.75 miles, indicating that the scanner/camera took pictures about that wide which were digitally stitched together to make a world-wide composite.

The 21 artifacts can be divided into 3 groups as follows:

Group A
Latitude—-Longitude—–spacing———Type
34.13895,-117.826395———————comma
34.13893,-117.682436——8.25 miles——comma
34.13948,-117.586488——5.49 miles——comma
34.14001,-117.537371——2.81 miles——comma
34.14013,-117.489080——2.76 miles——comma
34.13956,-117.441305——2.73 miles——comma
34.14032,-117.393959——2.71 miles——orb
34.13950,-117.346516——2.71 miles——faint orb
34.13926,-117.300521——2.63 miles——orb
34.13895,-117.252885——2.73 miles——orb
34.13877,-117.206107——2.68 miles——orb

Average spacing between objects: 2.73 miles. The spacing between the first two objects is 3 times the average spacing, and between the second and third objects is twice the average. No artifacts were found at the intermediate locations, probably due to the difficulty of picking out the commas from the background.

Group B
Latitude—-Longitude—–spacing——-Type
34.14308,-117.829667——————–orb
34.14232,-117.736005——2.68 miles—–orb
34.14218,-117.639016——2.77 miles—–orb
34.14236,-117.590307——2.79 miles—–orb

Average spacing between objects: 2.77 miles

Group C
Latitude—-Longitude—–spacing——–Type
34.13871,-117.843679——————–orb
34.13754,-117.749974——2.68 miles—–dark orb
34.13686,-117.652266——2.79 miles—–orb+pigtail
34.13500,-117.604018——2.76 miles—–orb+pigtail
34.13711,-117.555889——2.75 miles—–orb+pigtail
34.13822,-117.506729——2.81 miles—–pigtail w/o orb

Average spacing between objects: 2.75 miles

Group B is offset from Group A to the West by about 1100 feet, and group C is offset from Group B by another 2500 feet to the West.

The commas and pigtails are clearly extraneous, and the orbs are not part of the real pictures because of their regular spacing, the fact that their shading in many cases is opposite to that of objects on the ground, and because their fuzziness is not duplicated in any of the objects seen on the ground. I suspect that the orbs are digitally added markers related to the stitching or to mark areas that need cleanup. Hopefully, Google or the company that prepared the images will let us know why the orbs are in the pictures.

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Google Earth addict and Concorde lover
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Edited by TheRealMcCoy (08/05/05 03:13 AM)

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