Black Holes
Finally! We have proof that Google is hiding things from us in Alaska, Mexico and er… New Jersey. Hmmm. Anyway, it’s a conspiracy I tell you!
Firstly stretching over a large part of Alaska, all the way into the Yukon territory, is this gargantuan hole in the landscape. Interesting shape too…
Next we leap to the other side of the country for a very strangely-shaped hole West of El Paso. See the odd in-road of detail at the bottom-left corner of the rectangle? Weird.
While we’re down in Mexico, look at this super-cool hole which appears to be eating the surrounding landscape. Good lord!
Another country-wide leap and we’re somewhere off the coast of New Jersey, where this unsuspecting little boat is about to steer itself straight into the next episode of Lost!
However, could this incredibly exciting conspiracy theory simply be something much mre mundane..?
Muchos gracias to Eder Chiunti, Dan Karran, Lurlock, JoakimE and Ian.
Looking on the edges of the high-res area around Anchorage many “holes” like the last one in the bost can be found, but Placemark: this one / Google Earth is much better than others!
PA has a coast?
Uhm… Is it just me but does one of the holes that XF poseted about have a logo in it?
And up and down the border of the low-res and high-res region in XF’s post there are black holes with crosshairs!?
Oops! Thanks Ross, post updated
I didn’t see that giant ‘New Jersey’ writing there! Huh… shows you how much *I’ve* learned about geography whilst running this site huh?
Is it just me or does that last post look like the tip of a compass when zoomed way in?
There are more holes like this out there to be found — I once came across a diamond shaped black patch not listed here, but I assumed it was a browser error or something non-map related and ignored it. Now I know better.
The government requires that satelite photos remove pictures of restricted areas. I’d guess that the blanks you’re seeing are related to that.
Paul: No, they don’t, that would be a limit to the freedom of speech, and thus bad. If they did, you wouldn’t be able to look up Area 51 or the White House on there.
Not all of that imagery is satellite collection. The logo says RMK TOP [rotated 180'] - it’s an aerial camera setup.
There’s even another strange hole with some numbers in it..
BTW holes can be found everywhere along the “high-res border” around Anchorage. It might just be some extra laziness of google’s photoshoppers…
Paul & Ben, restricted areas do exist, and they are not black holes, but blurred. For example, see Dick Cheney’s house.
Or the White House and the tops of buildings nearby.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
The New Jersey imagery is from 2002 color infrared aerial photography that was manipulated to appear to be true color. I looked on the aerials to see what’s behind the black spot, and there’s nothing but open water. This may be due to the fact that four tiles come together there (each with different bay conditions and thus different textures), and the method Google uses to smooth out edges looked funny and they simply removed it.
Paul, Ben and Martey, I guess the black holes are the areas of top secrecy. Something that’s more confidential then even the White House, Dick Cheney’s house and everything else blurred on Google Maps taken in common.
I’ll say some military facilities, secret nuclear weapons… We can only guess…
Wasn’t the missle silo in the opening of WarGames located in Alaska?
FWIW - most of the Alaska holes came up during the UFO discussion.
In that area of Alaska theres an experimental weather controll device called HAARP, that could be partly why its blacked out.
Or it could just be a programming error, corrupted image, or programmer’s joke. All this conspiracy theory isn’t really nessecary.
There’s also the off chance that people knew when the photos would be taken ahead of time, and staged something really large and offensive. Just a thought.
any idea why dc’s house is pixeled out?
For the New Jersey one, didn’t an F-14 crash there a few years ago? Could be that. Or uhh not.
Ben Brockert; they aren’t allowed to remove the restricted areas, but they do blur it out. If you’d look up Capitol Hill, you’d find that it and the surrounding buildings are all one giant fuzzy patch.
Here’s the big-black-rectangular-hole in Russia:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
use the following KML to check out Tampa Bay’s Black Holes…
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Blacked out Tampa Bay
-82.61636422585792
27.94540907153904
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#khStyle564
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As far as I know, there is no freedom of speech for spy satellites.
the blacked out area in alaska is a confirmed experimental weather/radio station that bounces high energy waves off the ionisphere, it has been reported that with the station in montana that should not exist, could be used with beam-steering capabilities to manipulate the weather. the power used by just the alaska station is over 3.6 MW, they can cook a steak from 70 miles away.
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/
http://www.weatherwars.info/
HAARP is Placemark: here / Google Earth.
look at these
61 12′10.28″N 150 01′51.82″W
61 12′51.81″N 150 01′40.29″W
if it don,t work try again but connect to the last thing
Got another one in Alaska, I know it’s not secret keeping because I’ve hiked through the area and there isn’t anything there, but anyway, take it or leave it:
61 03′ 55. 55″ N
149 39′07.31″ W
Actually, now that I look for a second, if you follow along the lines of resolution right along the chugiak range there, the black holes with targets are about every 1/4 mile. so keep your eyes peeled.
y do they do this?
This is friggin crazy! We shouldn’t be seeing these.
You know what these are? The government has been experimenting with missile-mounted endothermic bombs.
The black areas are actually blast sites where all matter and energy have been absorbed by the detonation.
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It’s quite obvious, really.
Programming errors are absurd conclusions!
(Honestly guys. “HAARP”? Give us a break.)
This is stupid most of the “black holes” are no longer there, if you notice the are strips (how google takes the pictures). Nothing special. Get a life and make sure you wear a lead helmet at all times so the government can’t get into your brains.
The black rectangular shapes, found on the border of Alaska/Canada, and also in the middle og Greenland is nothing else than glitches in the picture layers. People been nagging for years about haarp and conspiracies. It is really easy isn’t it…
…just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you
Well I hate to be such an obvious person, however don’t get me wrong I just as much of a theorist as the you guys…. but did anyone here think that those “Black Holes” are actually sections that were being re-done, I mean it does take a lot of pictures and a lot of time to piece Google Earth together… and maybe those are parts that just need a little work, how many times have you gone back to those area’s and double checked out your “Black Holes” but part of me hopes your right lol