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Cruise Missile caught on Google Maps flying over Utah

maps.google.com — A friend of mine was checking out the old ATV trails by his parent's house in Circleville, Utah and noticed this. From the contrail, you can see that it flew right over the town.

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  • anastrophe, on 10/12/2007, -24/+31whoa. very cool.
    • nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -25/+262A plane with black wings is still pretty cool.
    • Akaji, on 10/12/2007, -68/+38This is undoubtedly the cruise missile launched by the US shadow government that blew up one of the towers on 9/11. It's all a conspiracy, I tells ya!

      /sarcasm
    • orbanj, on 10/12/2007, -27/+72nixonrichard is definately right... look closely and you can see wings. it's an airplane.
    • mistarojaz, on 10/12/2007, -9/+6whats with the giant rectangular eclipse
    • marcuschi, on 10/12/2007, -25/+5looks like a giant condom... a used condom.,
    • banz23, on 10/12/2007, -16/+71cruise missiles have wings. They are essentially unmanned planes that fly preprogrammed paths, not missiles.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tomahawk_Block_IV_cruise_missile.jpg
    • slowmo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+200It's obviously a weather balloon.
    • Humptydank, on 10/12/2007, -19/+35
      There are also two contrails. Two contrails = two engines. Two engines = airplane.

    • swOhio, on 10/12/2007, -8/+161The mormons have wmd, time to invade Utah.
    • Software2, on 10/12/2007, -22/+6"It's obviously a weather balloon."

      No, man! That's the government trying to cover it up, man! The truth is out there!
    • directedition, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39Yes, cruise missiles have wings, but this image is deceptive. the wings are black and extend much further out. What gives it away is that it has two engine trails. Oh yeah, and there are proving grounds in that area. So unless this was a preemptive strike on Canada, it has no buisiness being in public air space.
    • ericcoolls, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1@slomo
      dude all of these other people are blind to the fact that is in fact is a weather balloon. i know this because i was their in new mexico when this weather balloon passed overhead. i knew that google was updating their maps at that exact time because of the wifi signal i get throughout the world on my laptop and i go to http://www.googlemaps.com/when to see a map of the satellites moving overhead. anyway, the point is that all of you are blind. you should question the government and their plot to cover up weather balloons.

      for a good time go to http://www.digg.com
      and tell you eric sent you!
      you saw it here first.
    • elk1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6you can also see the shadow which looks a lot more like a plane a couple length ahead. it looks kinda bluish.
    • aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -5/+43If this was youtube's comment section...

      "Fake!!! they just painted some pipes on the ground to look like missiles, and repeatedly spraypainted contrails into the grass for a couple years in the hopes that Google gets high quality imagery of their random countryside, see how there is no shadow!
    • Rickler, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5I see the dark wings, but area from the wings forward looks to long. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Giant_planes_comparison.svg

      Also the width of a passenger jet should be some what relational to the length.
    • Brecourt_Manor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+112Its a McDonald Douglas MD-90. The wings are painted black along with the tail section...

      http://www.muskadia.com/avions/boeing_img/MD90_vues.png

      • zorgon, on 12/30/2007, -0/+0DOH!!! WRONG
        MD-90 is 154 feet and the engines are at the back of the plane not over the wings..
        Back to the drawing board
    • CanceledCzech, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1@Akaji

      That was the same thing I thought of when I read this.
    • typo180, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3pffft...pics or it didn't happen
    • skEwb35, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1I wonder where it landed and what kinda damage it did or if it was a blank.
    • sinooka, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2It's an airplane with Tom Cruise *on* it. That's not the same as a cruise missile. Or is it..?

    • dengzhi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8yea its a plane, not a cruise missile.
    • aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+151Here is the "missile" adjusted, outlined, and compared to the McDonald Douglas MD-90 (good eye brecourt)

      http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/408498198_feff37fb9e_o.jpg
    • mdhauke, on 10/12/2007, -52/+3From somebody who works with them, trust me, that is a missile.
    • killrrabit, on 10/12/2007, -11/+20Trust me, from someone who replied under someone who you should trust because he claims to work with them... it's an f*in plane and the comment above mine is from a homo.
    • kutza, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2I'm wondering, on the assumption that a satellite captures a pic of an actual cruise missile in flight (which this is obviously not), if it would have a fast enough shutter speed to actually capture the missile, and not a blur (or possibly nothing)? After all, the things are traveling well over the speed of sound...
    • Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32It's 100 feet long (check the scale bar). A cruise missile is 20 feet.

      It's a plane.
    • joeshlub, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Not cool. It's BS, it's clearly a jet, not a missle. would be cool, but description is incredibly deceptive.
    • EbilPhish, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10"It's 100 feet long (check the scale bar). A cruise missile is 20 feet."

      Objects appear bigger when they get closer. The ruler is for the ground not stuff in the air. But it does seem to be a plane.
    • Otto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11>>>"Objects appear bigger when they get closer. The ruler is for the ground not stuff in the air."

      The plane is, what, a couple miles above the ground? Maybe 4 miles up?
      But the satellite is a few thousand miles away. Honestly, the difference of angles isn't going to be enough to make the scale bar substantially incorrect for things on the ground vs. in the air.
    • nizzy1115, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8i did a little photo shop to enhance the picture and reverse colorings to show the wings.

      http://www.flickr.com/photos/70421462@N00/408635640/

      its pretty obvious it is a plane now.
    • dvfreelancer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"Here is the "missile" adjusted, outlined, and compared to the McDonald Douglas MD-90 (good eye brecourt)"

      Good eye all of you who spotted the air liner. It was particularly impressive that you used things like the sweep angle of the wing and distance ratio between the nose and wing root to guess at the model. Those are old school sat image tricks and no one showed you how to do that, you figured it out on your own.

      This was a good lesson in the challenges of remote sensing and why you don't want anyone with a political agenda interpreting the results *cough*Cheney*cough*.

      And that, no matter how good your satellite images might be, it's still tough to beat someone on the ground with a point and click pocket camera.
    • reknaps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Otto

      "But the satellite is a few thousand miles away"

      Satellites are not that high up, They are relatively low in orbit. Here's the wikipedia entry for the satellite "Quickbird" which this image is quite possibly from. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickbird

      Quickbird orbits at 450 km = 280 miles

      But your point still is applicable to the argument
    • floorman56, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not a missile Cruse missiles are "ground huggers" they fly very low to avoid radar so they wouldn't leave contrails.
    • jgrgg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1do a search for airports and leave the coordinates in there and u will find that there are 4 airports within a 60mile radius of the site
  • Tapper, on 10/12/2007, -15/+6Yeah, it is very cool, but a little scary too.
    • Dotcommer, on 10/12/2007, -26/+7What I want to know is how the hell do people find these kinds of things on google maps?! Are there really people out there just scouring the globe for weird stuff caught in action by the satelite? Im not complaining, but damn... what a hobby... like a huge ass "where's waldo" type of hobby.. haha..
    • underthelinux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17It tells you right in the description. He was looking at the ATV trails by his house. So if you look at the ATV trails by your house, you're bound to find something.
    • ericcoolls, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18@dotcommer
      dude did you even read the description. you should just stop digging altogether.
    • aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Yes, there are just huge groups of people who's main hobby is just searching for stuff on google earth.

      http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/postlist.php/Cat/0/Board/EarthMilitary/page/0
    • Dotcommer, on 10/12/2007, -28/+6Nope, never ***** read the description. I ended up clicking on the direct link to it from my rss reader. Sorry for living and breathing. Can you blame me though? After seeing so many "title says it all" half-ass descriptions. What I was asking was in general, how people are finding these kinds of things, and if its a hobby or something.

      @ ericcoolls: I suggest you shut your mouth and check yourself before you say something asinine you little *****.

      @ aywwts4: thank you for a serious response.
    • nestafett, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10@dotcomm
      does someone need a hug?
    • jetfuel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14@dotcommer

      Someone's up past their naptime!
    • skunkman62, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1@dotcommer
      i agree. keep up the good fight.
  • thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -8/+24I wonder where it was headed?
  • chanin, on 10/12/2007, -22/+83Unfortunately, not a cruise missile. We don't have any cruise missiles that are 100 feet long. Compare the image to the scale on the left. I would venture to say it is an airliner. But all the same - it is pretty cool that the satellite caught the aircraft just at the right time.
    • zonker77, on 10/12/2007, -32/+24Here's a whacky thought, maybe its not actually on the ground thus changing the scale

      That's obviously not an airliner, they tend to have, you know, wings.....

    • bullrassler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Yeah it's got wings, they just don't contrast with the ground. you can also see a slight bluish second image of the aircraft two or three lengths forward of the plane's image. This is quite common in satellite photos of moving objects.
      http://www.gearthhacks.com/ look through the aircraft in flight in the advanced search for more examples.
    • BornWithRage, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17Yup. Buried as inaccurate.... woulda been cool if it was, though.
    • sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4Ummm... height? Objects appear larger as they get closer. It's called perspective.
    • KnightMareInc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6yeah if you zoom in you can see the rather large wings
    • nova2wl, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0The scale changes in proportion to how far you are zoomed in zonker.
    • PatrioticKiwi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2@ chanin

      You are right....I think. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-109_Tomahawk), the Tomahawk cruise missile is only 6.25 m in length.

      @ zonker77

      That seems unlikely because cruise missiles generally fly at low altitude to avoid detection. Google's images were taken from satellite I think.


      Also, I can just make out the outline of wings. But it beats me why they only paint the tips of the wings in camourflage and not the whole aircraft....
    • rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -6/+31. The vast majority of Google Map's images are taken from aircraft (yes, I know it's labeled satellite, but that's marketing). This would make the missile seem much larger.

      2. Cruise missiles fly at high altitudes during the cruise stage of their flight (it allows them to fly much further) and only drop down when approaching the target.
    • theoverlord, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2yea looks to be a plane that is still green (unpainted) which explains why the wings are different color from the fuselage.
    • gsenechal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The scale is for ground level, objects at higher altitude will be larger.
  • AnotherName, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1that's what they get for not letting me buy beer on sunday!
  • shak3, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Cruise missiles have wings. http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/weapons/missiles/tomahawk.jpg
  • fudgeigor, on 10/12/2007, -24/+76Holy ***** (pun intended). I am relieved that I am not the only one who has ever wondered if I wipe my ass in a weird way... Ah, the joys of the internet!
    • AKBryant54, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27wrong thread...
    • fudgeigor, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9Wrong post, too late to edit... bury please
    • Revan01, on 10/12/2007, -7/+33Lol, dugg up for reminding me of the ass wiping thread
    • fudgeigor, on 10/12/2007, -12/+8Hey guys, i have a GREAT idea! lets make Firefox have TABS!

      Thats how you write comments involving ass-wiping techniques in a thread about a plane... It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's the wrong ***** thread.
    • JimDinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13AHAHAHAHA Too many tabs open at once? HEHEHEHDugg you up just for the hell of it. And this is a plane look at the wings.
  • cruelpupet, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4There are wings...they are black, and it looks like a UAV

    Still cool.
    • rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I'm going with non-missile UAV as well. The proportions and paint job aren't right for a commercial jet, and I can't find any cruise missiles that have swept-back wings.
  • wompninja, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7this is nothing new. They fire missiles from subs off the coast of Cali all the time and aim them for the Utah desert out by the great salt lake. they're programmed to fly to a specific location and circle around until they can be picked up. They're unarmed of course.
    • S1ngular1ty1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It is not a missile. It is a plane. Please try and keep up.
  • conradpaul, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1***** amazing
  • fuinkaze, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1ya i dont think its a cruise missle
  • tkltangent, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2It's not a ***** cruise missle. Where the hell would it be going?
  • TheToecutter, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Looks like an airplane with black wings to me. Cruise missles fly quite low. This looks quite high from the contrail. Also, if it was flying low like a cruise missile then the scale would apply...and make even less sense.

    Airplane.

    Buried. But please Digger lemmings, keep eating up these sensational items people post. :-/
    • Software2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2And on we will go until the player either turns one of us into a blocker, or blows us all to smithereens.
    • njpublius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Do you have a particular missile in mind?

      There various configurations of cruise missiles: ground launched (GLCM); conventional air launched cruise missile (CALCM); etc.

      As for the the cruise altitude...that depends upon where it was launched (sub-surface; surface; air; etc)...it also depends upon the missile.

      I did a few years in the service. Part of my job involved briefing the big shots on stuff like this. My world is very boring now. :(
  • woody24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5but with a telephoto lens, the perspective cannot be as trusted as one would think. Foregrounds, and backgrounds get compressed, and all size relation is lost. Also, im pretty sure a cruise missile doesn't have two jet streams. It would have one source. so why are there two trails? Definitely a jet. and the wings are there, they are just painted a very close contrast to the ground. They don't even need to black wings.
  • Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9The Mormons have cruise missiles?
    • Software2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Of course, they got them from the Native Americans.
  • pen25, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2its not a cruise missle. it is a twin engine jet most likely one of those canada regional or embrewhateveryourspellit jets.
  • Gavron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's not a cruise missile. As some have noticed, the scale seems off. But on top of that, if you look closely at where the exhaust leaves the "missile," it makes up two streams of exhaust before they merge into one. I'm not sure that any cruise missiles have 2 engines. Anyone else notice this?
  • potdarko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i knew Ogame would get 'out of hand'
  • Agret, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8The atomic bomb can burn whole buildings if someone is careless, we have a fine fire department.
    • CanceledCzech, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Hey, I remember that, That was a fun game.
  • buffalodavid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0It cool for me, 'cos its about 125 miles north of my house.
  • filthyguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0pretty big for a missile right?
  • grooviekenn, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1oh great.. now Bush thinks that Osama and the WMD are in Utah....
  • xtr3m, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's a plane. You can clearly see two contrails which means two engines. The Tomahawk and pretty much any other missile are single engined.
    • ericcoolls, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1don't talk about professional skateboarding legend Tony Hawk that way.
  • zioxide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yeah, this is definitely a plane, not a cruise missile.
  • haxr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Superman?
  • ElusiveByte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5There are also clearly two streams of exhaust. The small white "wings" you see are two jet engines on a plane. The actual wings are dark in color, so they are hard to see.
  • MidiAmin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Look at it in Google Earth. Use the ruler. It is 80-85 feet long. Looks like a jet to me...
  • Drgn547, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5It is painfully obvious that this is a plane, with black wings, for a few reasons:
    1. Cruise missile wings are perpendicular to the missile, not at an angle, like on jets (and in the picture).
    2. There are twin engines, EXACTLY where they are on most 737's, what a coincidence!
    3. Look at the jet stream behind the "missile"...there are two jet streams combining into one...how many cruise missiles have you heard of that have two boosters? It is from the twin engines [see number 2.]
  • bwjacket, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Ha, it's Shamu One. http://www.southwest.com/images/photo_gallery/shamu1.jpg
  • Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2That's no moon. It's a space station!
  • scarystuff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0wow, u discovered the worlds biggest cruise missile..
  • jimsf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I'm not convinced... where are the snakes?! j/k
    Definitely a plane
  • ericcoolls, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2anyone want a mirror
    http://www.driftwood-dreams.co.uk/Anita/papier_mache_mirrors/papier-mache-mirror-jaipur.JPG
  • SomeHobo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0That's super cool!
  • drinkmorejava, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The perspective is going to be way off, but assuming it's a plane, the wingspan and fuselage size ratio shows it's not a small regional plane, clearly not something like a CRJ. The problem with it being a 737 is the power plants should be clearly visible, the wings are considerably too far back, and the horizontal stabilizers are way too big--the visible (left one) is greater than one half the span of a wing.

    727- Engines are between the wings and tail, wings midway on fuselage
    737- Wings midway on fuselage, clearly visible engines
    747- Wing structure is completely different, root of the wing is in the front half of the fuselage
    777- Wings similar to 747 and should have clearly visible engines

    Granted, it could be a non-Boeing plane, glancing at airbus designs, they don't fit either. I see more reasons for it being a new cruise missile or high speed UAV than some plane. Passenger aircraft simply aren’t designed with wings that far back.
    • psylence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Good thing the only aircraft manufacturers in existence are Boeing and Airbus... Oh wait!
  • idevlabsdotcom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Most cruise missiles are about 20' long, and based on the scale the object shown is over 90' long. It is very doubtful that this was a missile. However, most commercial airliners are over 200' long, so it's probably a private jet.
  • gab00n, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1That is an airplane.
  • Brecourt_Manor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Its a McDonald Douglas MD-90.
    http://www.muskadia.com/avions/boeing_img/MD90_vues.png

    The tail section (from the engines back) and the wings are painted black...
    • drinkmorejava, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2The wings look right, but the engines should definitely be discernable. Also, assuming the horizontal stabilizers aren't messed up in the picture, they're too big.
  • xSEED, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2that's cool. it's a cruise missile.
  • zeromancer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0RUN FOR THE HILLS. oh wait. they're already there. =/
  • dustysquareback, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Damn, some serious ignorance floating around here. I agree, this is quite possibly a jet, not a missile, based on the size of it's wings. But the contrails are NOT evidence.

    CONTRAILS ARE NOT FROM ENGINES. mmmkay? They are from wing tips, or other flight surfaces with lots of loading. Jet exhaust is not visible, unless there is something very wrong. Planes have been making contrails since the late 30's.

    Oh, and you certainly cannot use the scale of anything as evidence.
    • scarystuff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No, contrails are from the engines.. Do a little research. U must be thinking of chemtrails being sprayed from the wingtips.
    • reticulate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Contrails do form from engine exhaust, but it has to be pretty cold.

      Somewhere around -57 degrees Celsius.

      scarystuff: Contrails do form from wingtips. Do a little research and look up wingtip vortices.
    • 3elevenX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Learn facts before you post them as so. More or less contrails form through the injection of water vapor into the atmosphere by exhaust fumes from a jet engine. If there is sufficient mixing between the cold upper tropospheric air and the hot exhaust gases to produce a state of saturation, ice crystals will develop.

      At any rate, it's a aircraft in the picture, not a missile
    • psylence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"CONTRAILS ARE NOT FROM ENGINES. mmmkay? They are from wing tips, or other flight surfaces with lots of loading. Jet exhaust is not visible, unless there is something very wrong. Planes have been making contrails since the late 30's."

      That has to be the best thing I've read on Digg since a 10-post thread on trying to a solve a Pythagorean Theorem 3rd grade math problem.
  • pr0teus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Chemtrail?
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8250825595972936377&q=747+chemtrail

    http://www.chemtrailcentral.com

    http://www.rense.com/politics6/chemdatapage.html

    http://www.carnicom.com

    http://www.world-action.co.uk/chemtrails.html

    http://www.apfn.org/apfn/contrails.htm

    http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Chemtrails.html

    http://www.educate-yourself.org
  • jhshukla, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I spotted an airplane taking off from Hyderabad (India) airport. Unfortunately the pictures have changed since then.
  • skierman64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Just by the fact that it's making a contrail is evidence it's not a cruise missle. Cruise missles are designed to fly low and follow the terrain so they can't be found on radar and shot down. You have much higher to get contrails.
  • sbooneaz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0That is one big cruise missile:

    http://homepage.mac.com/sbooneaz/iblog/C1809479898/E20070303001545/index.html
    • Djeserkare, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Ummmm. those are GROUND measurements. A missile in flight, with contrails, is clearly far from being on the ground. The assessment at that link is analogous to putting hand between your face and a mountain range and saying "OMG my hand is as big as a mountain!!!! That is one big hand!@!!!"
  • judicar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Its on a heading almost directly for Salt Lake City which is about 100 miles away, I doubt even the U.S. military has the balls to launch a cruise missile directly at a major city. Also, contrails are caused by both engines and wingtips, check the wiki article on it. The fact that there are contrails at all suggests this is an airliner since contrails don't generally occur below 25k feet and the maximum altitude for a cruise missile is around 20k feet.
    • tkstock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dugg for the altitude rationale! :)
    • Hurshai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Salt Lake? A large airport? Why on earth would a plan be flying there? Why the hell is this on the front page?
    • Bobalobabingbon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To ***** of loosers like you
  • teckieee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2its a wiener!
  • echo2501, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Will it blend?
  • ScottoGato, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Mormons have WMDs! Stay the course!
  • mhelmstetter, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Here's another of 2 planes passing at the same point (different altitudes) over Belgium -- with contrails
    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Belgium&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&ll=50.842274,4.615956&spn=0.004776,0.013561
    • screensnot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's not 2 planes.

      It's 1 plane, and a double image (shadow, reflection, or some other camera glitch).
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