What is the strange object captured by Google Street View in Jacksonville?

[jim mcnamara]

I don't have any idea, but it has to be some kind of atmospheric phenomenon.

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/us/2012/09/28/dnt-google-street-view-ufo.kltv

Looked here did not find a close match:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_phenomenon

 

[ImaLooser]

I don't have any idea, but it has to be some kind of atmospheric phenomenon.

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/us/2012/09/28/dnt-google-street-view-ufo.kltv

Looked here did not find a close match:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_phenomenon

Airplanes may cause vapor to condense when breaking the sound barrier. It's called a "Mach disc." But I can't say the resemblance is all that close.

 

[russ_watters]

Internal reflection of one of the old-style street lights? Pause the video at 32 seconds...

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I don't have any idea, but it has to be some kind of atmospheric phenomenon.

The issue here is that if you don't know what something is, your interpretation of it should stop immediately. You don't then say it must be X or Y or Z.

I don't know what made you post this, surely it was ancient aliens.

 

[Garth]

Do as it says on the video, open Google Earth, go to Jacksonville, Texas and pan up and around and you will see the red 'UFO'. Its easy to see what it is, pan around and you will see a very bright sun and the top of the UFO heads straight for it.

It is a sun reflection on the camera lens.

Sorry its not more exciting...
Garth

 

[jim mcnamara]

No, Jimmy - what made me do it is some weird fuzzy growth throbbing on the back of my neck.

Garth - I thought Part Deux of the video was a joke and canned it before it said much of anything useful. Thanks.

 

[S_Happens]

I only looked because I've actually been to Jacksonville.

It's pretty easy to move around that intersection and see how it moves with the vehicle. Also, once you make it into the intersection, you can see it in a much different location (at street level) and notice that different vehicles surround the camera as well as a different location of the sun in the sky.

It's certainly not atmospheric.