I was looking for the house of my grandma on google earth and i noticed this thing, you think I made it up? look for yourself

on google earth search type in Rostov-on-don airport, make the airport look vertical and follow the street next to it up, keep going until you see a circle on the street, turn left and keep going until you see, what I have on these pictures.

I use Google earth 4.3.

Id say water tower judging by the train track running along side it

It doesn't look like anything spaceshippish to me.

Could be any number of things other than a UFO.

And if it were a UFO, it seems it would be "flying" pretty close to the ground.

My first guess was it was edited by someone with Adobe Photoshop or
Paintbrush-Pro, because the edges of the shaddow don't have the same
type of definition and also, the angle of the shaddow is a little off
from all the others. Second thought: Water tower.

So I took the images into XnView 1.50 to look at it more closely.

It it was the product of someone with an image manipulator, they did
a very good job of merging the image with the grain of the background.

I still have a problem with the fact that the angle of the shaddow is
off from the angles of all the other objects. Not very far off,
but far enoguh off to make me scratch my hear. So I'm trying to understand
this anomaly, assuming the poster is telling us the truth. No offense
is intended and I approach this as both open minded but also a little
dubious.

I suppose the difference between shaddow and object could be due to
motion of the object, and perhaps a mathematician could determine what
direction the object would have moved to cast a shaddow dijointed with
the angles of all the other shaddows.

So the only other possibility, in my view, is that it is a phenomenon inside
the camera but I would want to know how many different images were taken with
how much time between them and how long the phenomenon persisted. These different
elevations displayed, are we to understand they represent actual changes in
the camera to get larger images, or calculations of the enlargement process?

Maybe it was an artefact of a cosmic ray hitting the CID.

Quote from Rogerscott: My first guess was it was edited by someone with Adobe Photoshop or
Paintbrush-Pro, because the edges of the shaddow don't have the same
type of definition and also, the angle of the shaddow is a little off
from all the others. Second thought: Water tower.

So I took the images into XnView 1.50 to look at it more closely.

It it was the product of someone with an image manipulator, they did
a very good job of merging the image with the grain of the background.

I still have a problem with the fact that the angle of the shaddow is
off from the angles of all the other objects. Not very far off,
but far enoguh off to make me scratch my hear. So I'm trying to understand
this anomaly, assuming the poster is telling us the truth. No offense
is intended and I approach this as both open minded but also a little
dubious. End Quote

If this is the product of some sort of photo shop creation surly you are not suggesting that our op has edited the photo on everyones computer. Or are you suggesting that someone within google has placed this "UFO" here?
If indeed it is a water tower, where is the base (what is holding it up?) I see no evidence of this in the shadow. I'm not saying that this is some sort of spacecraft though , I just have some questions of my own.
Perhaps our op can ask their grandmother if there is a water tower or some such structure here?

The angle of the shadow doesn't look off at all to me. Just a water tower.

looks to me like a balloon. theres a lot of cars there and not one reported anything so it can't be anything out of the extraordinary

That shadow is too large and dark to be a balloon.

How often do you drive watching the sky? Shouldn't you eyes be on the road?

My first thought was water tower

OMG!!!!

It's a water tower!

But its a UNINDENTIFIED ONE!!

(Said in the most earnest tones) But couldn't the aliens be disguising their ships as water towers?

they could theirs a watertower in sacramento that has what some might consider a typical ufo shape !!!!!
about the pic. like some one mention the shadow to me it looks to dark

ahh, yes. the Circular shadow. that must be from the water tower
guess the shadow decided to play tricks on people that day, and thought it would be funny to cast a shadow of what the TOP of the building looks like. yeah...good call sherlock

.....wow

you do understand the point im trying to make here, right?

*edit* still undecided as to what it is. maybe its a large round peice of wood, being supported by a single 2x4 in the middle.

Somebody find a normal pic of the area and put this stupid argument to bed already.

agreed. that would prove helpful

I don't think it's a water tower, because the shade shows no connections from the circle to the ground, plus this is in Russia and don't compare russian watertowers to american one's...they aren't the same.


If you think I did this on Photoshop, check on your google map, I gave you the directions.

get google earth 4.3 for free, install it , in search type in "rostov on don airport" and find the public airport, the the military one.

make the airport vertical and follow the road next to it up, (it's not very close to the airport)when you reach a big circle on the street,
turn left.
and go until you see what I have, from there you can make as much pics as you want.

I am probably wrong but the shadow seems a little wrong based on the trees shadows and i am not sure if it because of the altitude of the pic but a car is as long as it I thought water towers were bigger.

Around here water towers are spherical, and cast a circular shadows. I don't understand why you're trying to make something of this. It's clearly an earthly object.

I was just as captivated as you was of this photo,but on closer examination it appears that what you see is actually and what could possibly be the airports water tower,most of the time these water tanks stand on one pillar so a photo from above will not show the shadow or shape of the pillar.If you really want to examen a real mystery try finding Area-51 on your Google-Earth then zoom in on the lake you should see what looks like a crash site.If you have a answer let me now of your findings.

Cheers.

Exactly, all the newer water towers I've seen are like a ball on top of narrow cylinder - that's exactly what I see here. I don't understand why people aren't understanding that, the shadow looks exactly like it should for that type of tower.

I agree with water tower.

Could that possibly be a UFO?
Maybe that is a real UFO, I dont know how or why they hover around in certain places on this Eath.

balloon...

Dear heavens we have got a comedian over here! .

It is a water tower but you are right about ufos on google earth as hundreds have been seen but erased off the next day theres some videos on youtube if you want to see some.

Hello BeardedDragon.

I find it strange to.Wat is the reason that they erase the photos,because they have maybe some of them are concrete proof that UFOs exist.what is your opinion.

O and I can not ceep wondering what is that photo you attached.

Hi im not really sure why they dissapear the next day but i found one once and the next day it had dissapeared and i made sure it was the right area and those bigfoot footprints are just a signature but i havent added writing to it.

Just a guess; Someone parachuting to earth...

for all those who think it couldn't be a water tower this is a 3d render with realistic shadow production. The shape of the water tower is typical of many designs world wide.

This is a quick description of the render setup, bit rough but it works
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This is how it looks from an aerial position, just to give you an indication of the shape of the tower
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And this is how it looks froman almost vertical angle, plain and simple.
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This is what they look like together, not perfect but close enough to lend credibility to the tower claim I think.
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Hello again Grey Area.

I have looked at your rendering.Good supportive info.
Just a question,are you into 3D modelings ens.

Oh man, another one?
Listen, if you look around, you can find - UFO's, Giants, Nude Sunbathers, Weird Fire/ Manmade line in the Northpole, Dinosaurs, Whales, Pirate Ships, and Osama Bin Ladens face on Google Earth.