This is where the crop circles, Google Earth 2009 mystery began.
(Screen grab of Google.com)Photos (1 of 1)
Crop circles, Google Earth, and the logo mystery
By Chris Gaylord | 09.15.09
On Google’s homepage today, the search giant swapped out its normal logo for a UFO-themed Google doodle. The illustrated flying saucer carved out “Goog e” in the corn field, and a little green tractor finishes off the “l.”
Such logo swaps are common for the tech titan, but what are they celebrating? Most of these “doodles” are tied to a particular anniversary or celebrity birthday. Why crop circles? Why today?
To add to the mystery, Google posted the coordinates “51.327629, -0.5616088” in a cryptic Twitter tweet. Curious searchers identified the spot as Horsell, England. Sci-Fi aficionados may recognize the name. In “War of the Worlds,” HG Wells wrote that Horsell residents witnessed the first UFO landing.
This has some Google watchers, including Guardian reporter John Vidal, insisting that the new logo is “almost certainly a viral marketing campaign teasing people ahead of some launch in a week or two. One possible explanation is that it’s trailing an online ‘happening’ that will coincide with the 143rd anniversary of Wells’s birth next week.”
Interesting theory. With people eager for more answers, online searches for “crop circles google earth” hit “volcanic” popularity this morning, according to Google Trends.
While we wait for more information, here’s a little crop-circle fun: YouTube users regularly compile their favorite circle sightings into quick Google Earth videos. Here’s one of the best.
––
Kanye interrupts Obama, and the swift glory of YouTube
Ah, YouTube, the world’s great meme melting pot. Where else could Joe Wilson, Barack Obama, Kayne West, and Taylor Swift merge into 13 seconds of pop culture meta mash up glory? A lightning-quick YouTube user mixed up this spoof of Obama’s “You Lie” moment and the Kayne West MTV outburst last night.
––
For sci-tech updates, follow us on Twitter.
<< Kanye interrupts Obama, and the swift glory of YouTube | MainComments
2. Nefarious_Jackson | 09.15.09
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
If aliens are visiting earth then their technology would be more than sufficient to avoid detection by you.
4. divad divade | 09.15.09
Sometimes, Sunshine, mysterious happenings are not what we interpret them to be. We only have so many references available in this mind and body through which we try to understand a universe that is so much larger than our experience. Perhaps you are being followed by a gentle angel.
6. acid | 09.15.09
Trust me sunshine theyre harmless. if they wanted to hurt you, they’d have done it by now. Think about how humans tag dolphins and sharks. You got tagged by some aliens man, you probably have something interesting that they’d want to study. I’d be glad to have aliens study me as long as they dont probe my bum. or any other openings. Who knows, maybe they’ll invite you on board and give you all kinds of cool gadgets.
7. Andy Ufology | 09.15.09
The time is coming… Google is pushing more people to be exposed and keep an open mind. Pushing the government to release X-files (the collected data with proof of extraterrestrial’s existence) to the public. Human beings have the right to know. And it is time and it is time to act to prevent bad thing to be happened in the near future before it’s too late. Greedy corporations have to stop now.
We need to know, we need to prepare, and we need to take action NOW.
8. Stardust | 09.15.09
There was a previous blue ribbon investigation of ufo’s. The McClellan commission presented it to congress. They shelved it and refused to make it public. Has enough time elapsed under the freedom of information act to now make it available. It was probably done in the ’70’s.
9. Mark | 09.15.09
This presumably ties in with their “Unexplained phenomena” logo (featuring a flying saucer) on Sept. 5.
10. qualia000 | 09.15.09
Sunshine, although you may possibly be joking, if not: do you have any evidence? Or are we simply to take your word for it? If you don’t have any evidence, you may suffer from paranoid schizophrenia (the feeling of being followed or abducted by aliens is a common symptom). I doubt you are having hypnagogic hallucinations if this is happening when you are completely awake. I’m worried because other people readily dismiss it when they see it. It may be wise to make an appointment with a psychiatrist and be evaluated. Certainly don’t suffer in silence if it gets too intense. Schizophrenia can be treated.
11. Jeff | 09.15.09
I heard from my plumber, Joe, that on Fox News they said that if we pass Obama’s socialist health care bill then aliens are going to qualify for free health care. As if our health care system isn’t burdened enough, now we have to learn how to care for beings with a totally different physiology. Who’s gonna pay for it? The hardworking, God-fearing, American, middle-class, that’s who; not a bunch of freeloading, green-skinned, lazy aliens.
12. Gilgamesh | 09.15.09
Hey, Jeff!!! Some of my ancestors were green-skinned aliens!!! I still deserve some decent health care as a (predominantly-human) U.S. Citizen!
13. Cipher | 09.15.09
SunShine,
Have you tried looking at the object through a telescope? If it is Jupiter, you will see some moons around it. If it is Venus, you will notice phases.
14. Cdancer | 09.15.09
Its the web bot. I think your right Andy. It’s time to prepare us. The web bot has been predicting things since the 90’s. All of which are based on what are found by “spiders” searching the web. They gather data of the collective thought of the internet. Keywords. The closer we get to 2012, the more we’ll be seeing things like this. After that, we’ll have passed the cosmic equator and… well, who knows?
15. Mike | 09.15.09
I would really like to know the truth from government. Are aliens real? And the reason I believe government doesn’t release information is because they don’t want anyone to be in fear.
16. glennville | 09.15.09
I reckon it’s a viral campaign for their (google’s) birthday on the 27th of September.
17. Joe Hamelin | 09.15.09
“…the reason I believe government doesn’t release information is because they don’t want anyone to be in fear.”
If the government doesn’t want us living in fear, they sure are going about it all wrong!
18. LUKE | 09.15.09
Hej Jeff, I hope you are joking when you are expressing your anger about the healthcare taking care of aliens. The word means forigners from other countries…not US resindents, but earthlings non the less…
19. mollination | 09.15.09
I think aliens exist, but the reason the government wont tell us about it is because our immediate reaction is (like th user above) “we need to know so we can prevent them from harming us”. If they wanted to harm us, they would have done it by now. If “they” exist, which I think they do –
(there is so much evidence out there that is cannot be dismissed or explained…if we can’t explain something, then can’t we admit we don’t have all the answers? And if we don’t have all the answers, why is it SO hard to fathom that there could be aliens that we just don’t understand yet. You just have to seek this evidence for yourself because it will not be shoved down your throat. And just because it’s not on your local news doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist) –
Anyway, if “they” exist, they certainly have the technology to visit us, and obliterate us. They’re probably more interested in making sure we don’t obliterate ourselves.
P.S. Sunshine, if you’re not just joking around - the above posters are right, you should talk to someone. Don’t let it cause you so much trauma/suffereing. You may really be experiencing some phenomena (alien or not). I had an incident happen to me a year ago that I don’t talk about because people who have never experienced stuff like that assume I’m crazy and that I imagined it, because if it hasn’t happened to them - apparently it hasn’t happened to anyone. Anyway - I’m rambling. Go talk to someone.
21. internet | 09.15.09
The google doodle’s are headed by one man at google, you can find a youtube clip of him doing his thing, ALL google doodles are approved by a google board of some kind. My roomate was a programmer high up at google for several years. I asked him if this could be in any way a viral marketing thing and he laughed. Its a ridiculous explanation for this, though it may be the most comfortable one for most people. http://www.google.com/doodle look at every google doodle there has ever been. they are all of some national or world issue, a holiday, an invention, a voting day. Google is saying that this is a worl issue of some importance. All anybody else has to do is spend time researching this… on google. Its so easy.
22. joey | 09.15.09
haha luke you can’t be kidding with that comment. I think jeff knows what illegal aliens are…get a sense of humor.
23. smart guy | 09.15.09
no way, no possible the government has any aliens, ships, anything
why?
because our govt, (US) and most others are greedy, greedier than you can possibly understand
and an alien uncovery could bring in 100s of billions with EASE
24. allison | 09.15.09
I personaly think that it is pretty cool that other living things are out there. I mean, there might be aliens out there that are just as intrerested in us as we are to them. Maybe there are some out there that are not as advanced as we are ourselfs. Scientist have a theory that there might be duplicates of the Earth where you are there ,but live an entire different life you may be Presisdent of The United States of America one dulicate plantet and on the other you ma1y be the biggest crudest gangster around. There are alot of possiblitties!
25. AM | 09.15.09
According to world renowned author and artist Benjamin Creme, these crop circles are actually part of a giant planetary grid system, being produced by our loving and protective Space Brothers (visitors from nearby planets). The crop circles are outer simply outer manifestations of the “vortices” of criss-crossing magenetic lines.
They are related to a coming Technology of Light which will harness energy directly from the sun. Unlimited, free energy. Abundant and available to all humans. This will naturally lead to a huge breakthrough in our transportation and pollution problems. Humanity needs to mature, to grow up and act like true adults….by not letting millions starve in a world of plenty, ending war, and abolishing nuclear weapons forever. These changes are not impossible. They’re absolutely essential for our survival! And a teacher is about to step forward to inspire us to get there.
26. allison | 09.15.09
Sounds like they really want you for something. Maybe they chose you to studie on. You know to learn more about humans or they want something from you. Do you have any cool talents or valubal items. Or maybe you hold the key to their next great invention. I don’t think they would have been following you though. I guess it is best to just ingnore it or at least try.
Good Luck!
27. bRad | 09.15.09
I think Google’s trick is has all the ingredients for a viral campaign. They know the answer and leave it to the community to get all hyped up in fake research until they re-point the way, eventually showing us the answer when the deadline comes up or they run out of cute little ideas to confuse the rest of us (they are the smart ones, remember?)
And when it comes to the aliens the first assumption is “out there.” Super Relativity has plans for human space travel that involves ships that look just like this Relativity we can go back in time. How much time will pass until we learn how…would ‘we’ still look and act the same then. And will ‘we’/'they’ tell us their secret and affect the past that much, endangering themselves as a species? WE will never know because THEY can’t tell us. Stop asking and get there!
28. Paranoid Bob | 09.15.09
Hey… You know what? This is all disinformation, man. You can tell because they talk about “UFO-themed” in the article. The truth is that extradimensional mollusks are creating interdimensional portals! Or was it the awakening consciousness of the planet is emanating sacred geometrical patterns to awaken higher functions of consciousness in man? I can never remember… Oh yeah, “Nothing is true, everything is permitted!”
29. Penny | 09.15.09
I think they will come out sooner or later. With their technology, they may even be living amongst us right now! Who knows, go figure. Keep an open mind & you never know!!
30. pleiadianstardust | 09.15.09
the truth is we are more alien then earthly. we all are from another planet and are all living in multiple dimensions at the same time…has anyone seen ancient aliens on history? they present a lot of intriguing facts and give skeptics only about 7 to ten minutes.. we have brothers in the stars and soon enough we’re all going home. there is a spiritual awakening already happening. everywhere u look people are becoming more aware of their surroundings.. for many, time may be speeding up and u may feel like you’re taking in an abundance of information and its because you are… our time is near…i used to have recurring dreams(at least i think they were dreams) that aliens would come and spin my room around like a gyroscope with tree branches protruding from the walls.. it used to happen frequently but they werent so much trying to scare me as they were trying to tell me to wake up…they were already helping me at a young age in the ascension to the 5 dimension which the world will go through when everyone things the world is going to end…not the world as a whole, people, but the world we know.. if we can maintain our true divinity we shall have not a problem and we will leave this global prison very much so alive…the “3-D world” we experience is less than ONE MILLIONTH of reality. find truth on the internet not from your schoolbooks, teachers, religious readings, etc…DON’T THINK, JUST KNOW!
31. alien reject | 09.15.09
Hey Sunshine you should get in contact with the Alien Hunter Derrel Sims. He will help you figure out if the implant is really there he has organized some removal and testing of these objects .Beware of those responsible for the inquisition the crusades and other twisted distorted taliban like behaviour saviours.
32. Dave Kessler | 09.15.09
See Kanye West’s haircut for the latest proof of alien intervention formerly known as Crop Circles. Funny Google, very, very funny.
34. Jason | 09.16.09
Some important facts below I don’t think the skeptics have realized, concerning the truly “genuine” formations (yes there are many fakes out there, too). If crop circles are so easy to do, then why hasn’t one single person ever reproduced them with these characteristics?
- The crop stalks show evidence of being genetically altered.
- Electromagnetic energy fields are measured and recorded around the “genuine” formations.
- None of the stalks are ever broken. They are all gently folded down in a perfectly ordered circular pattern.
- The designs are perfectly symmetrical and incorporate unique advanced mathematics and geometry. They get puzzling even for astrophysicists and intelligent mathmeticians.
35. diamonds_guns | 09.16.09
Google displayed the picture because there was a recent crop cirlce spotting in Alberta Canada. That’s the signifigance of the tractor.
36. Stephane | 09.16.09
Hi. I just made a Crop Circle collection from Google Earth : http://www.rodsbot.com/google-earth-crop_circle-0.htm
37. AussiePaulBear | 09.16.09
Crop Circles are certainly an interesting thing. the first couple in the 70’s really looked like communicating the periodic table (like math, a universal language). Then they started to get really strange. Key shapes and rounded arced circls. From a chemistry point of view, I wonder if there isa cure for cancer in the drawings of a stellar hoon? or is it just galactic graffitti.
perhaps that we, as a western society, struggle so desperately to prevent a person expressing themselves on a wall that we are being thumbed the nose by our neighbours for being so stupid.
‘Cause lets face it. The more intelligent, complicated and abstract the mind, the more removed from the path te clues.
40. Jeff | 09.16.09
I apologize if I’ve offended anyone of alien ancestry. I didn’t mean to imply that all green-skinned aliens are lazy. Indeed, I’m sure that abducting, probing and chipping humans is difficult work, and I appreciate your efforts. However, given our sluggish economy I wish that more Human-Americans would fill those jobs, since most of them at least pay taxes.
41. Ash | 09.16.09
Skeptics have yet to do enough research. Aliemonic activity does exist.
http://www.Ce4research.com http://www.alienresistance.org/ce4audio.htm http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cursednet
42. rockyk9369 | 09.16.09
Apparently the aliens that made the crop circles on Kanye West’s head may have done soome deeper damage.
43. Serious UFO Seeker | 09.16.09
I know that many people here in this site are joking. However i think that we should be serious in every thing we do and say. I just want to say that I believe that the UFO phenomenon is real. Because there is literally no way for all the UFO witnesses of this world to combine themselves by lying and faking that they saw an UFO. Even official governments like Japan have officially acknowledged the existance of UFOs, and many organizations have spent thousands of dollars in their UFO search like SETI. So let’s think rationally and scientificially in acknowledging that the E.T phenomenon is real. Another fact is that the Universe and space is just to big to have just 1 place with living beings (The Earth), there has to be life in other planets and stars.
44. Joe Jackson | 09.16.09
Since when does speculation make a news article? Or is this just more Google marketing?
45. lou turrey | 09.16.09
I’ve just turned sixty-three and I’m firm believer of aliens among us. I have seen space ships since I was twelve. I have have moved several times in my life and I seem attracted to the night lights where ever I may be and they follow me just as well. I have spent hundreds of hours filming, gazing and watching their movements and I believe they are based underground and under water. There will be a time when the aliens will let themselves be seen and I feel it will be by the year 2012. Look under President Eisenhower’s administration for some unbelieveable information, it will stun you if your so inclined on finding good information. Check it out.
46. Kang and Kodos from Rigel 4 | 09.16.09
Kang and Kodos here,
Yes it is true, Google is run by Aliens!!!!!! Bwa-ha-ha. You puny earthlings have fallen into our trap. We now know everything about you, including all of the perverted things you “research” late at night…Our time is coming SOON!
Blaxnorp.
K&K
47. Steve Kocsis | 09.16.09
Ah, crop circles. Say what you will but many are interesting from a geometry point of view and they are actually ,in their own patterned way, kind of beautiful and enjoyable.
But, made by “e.t.’s”? I really doubt it. ……unless they have a really low sense of humor and are just toying with us for kicks !!
48. Paul | 09.16.09
It’s all because of tinfoil.
Sunshine, they’re following you for so long because of the tinfoil hat you’re wearing.
Mike (13, the government says aliens are real but you can’t see them because of their tinfoil hats.
Joe (17), I lived in fear too until the government sent me my tinfoil hat. Ask for yours at http://www.dhs.gov/tinfoilhat. Make sure you order the cone-shaped one.
AM (25) Was Benjamine Creme wearing his tinfoil hat when he said that? I thought so.
Jason (34) the reason for all those things is that the stalks were wrapped in tinfoil. Really. Tinfoil modifies the genetic makeup of everything it touches (which is why you can’t see aliens so long as they wear tinfoil hats — they’re genetically altered. Tinfoil also magnifies electromagnetic waves. Finally, put a tinfoil hat on your head and see if your hair bends. Tinfoil does the same thing to crops. Finally, if astrophysicists and intelligent mathematicians wore tinfoil hats, they could understand the higher math involved.
AussiePaulBear (37), stupid people become smart if they wear tinfoil hats. It’s a proven fact.
Jeff (40), Human-Americans (but only genuine ones — not those Kenyans who won’t show us their real birth certificates — could fill those jobs if only they’d get their free government tinfoil hats and wear them. How are they supposed to get the jobs if they can’t see who to apply to?
50. Leonard Ryan | 09.16.09
When the aliens probed me it didn’t hurt, and they gave me a little gadget called a One-Pod, that looks something like my mother’s compact, but she doesn’t think that’s what it is. We don’t know what it does.
51. Jim | 09.16.09
We as a race are not mature enough to recieve the gifts that they have in store for us as of yet,but the time is coming that we will be. The people have accepted the fact that aliens exist,our Government leaders are keeping the information from us,when this information is given to the people, then the time will be here for us to meet our brothers from the stars, maybe in 2012.
52. John Gosling | 09.16.09
It is fascinating how these memes can take life and points to the very real danger that something far less fun and frivolous than this might one day spread on the Internet. This story really has taken hold of the public imagination (probably hundreds of posts out there and most major news sites picking up on it.) With H.G Wells worked into this story, we can add to the plot the Martians, who have a real reputation for mayhem, beginning back in 1938 with the Orson Welles War of the Worlds broadcast. Theres a potent brew available to a really determined social engineer to create a meme that could do real damage to health and sanity. The Welles broadcast was not the only one to get out of hand. Better watch out that someone doesnt wage a new war of the worlds one day on the Internet.
53. Pam | 09.16.09
You All have it wrong!! Aliens ARE among us. Just some are allergic to them (or hate them and are mean and cruel to them), and others of us are so under their alien spell that we allow them to live in our houses while we cater to their every whim!!! What am I talking about?? Why, CATS, of course!!! One of my cats regularly uses a hidden portal in my living room (behind the TV) to pop back to our planet. The other day he missed and popped back through the “Lost Sock” portal in the dryer! (luckily it wasn’t on and the door was open) Have you ever noticed how cats can almost be in more than one place at a time? Or walk passed you the same direction, more than once? Why else are kittens so damned CUTE?? Besides, how do we know that they don’t have better technology then we do? I mean, come on! They use Telepathy! Ever notice your cat sitting staring at you? and suddenly you’re Hungry? People!! The Aliens Are Here! And We Are Under Their Alien Spells!! meow…
54. Jeff | 09.16.09
Paul, you are on to something. I’m getting a tinfoil hat ASAP, but I’m making my own. It’s a well-known fact that the government tinfoil hats contain RFID chips that let them track your location. Do you know of any websites that have information on how to manufacture a cone-shaped tinfoil hat? I’m afraid the alien-crop-circle-level higher math necessary to layout a cone shape on tinfoil is way beyond my puny human brain’s abilities. Maybe I should just go full-out and get a faraday suit?
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/03/imperial_march_tesla_coil_and.php
57. Me Yes Me | 09.16.09
You people need to get a clue! Its not aliens putting chips in people, its a clandestine eliment of the US government, operating out of area 51, ran by a group caled majestic 12, “MAJAC” is the acronim, they have all the crazed Natzi scientists picked up by operation “Paper Clip” after WW2 and they use alien technology gathered from crashed alien space craft gathered world wide. There is also a secret Natzi base in antartica that MAJAC now controls, after admiral bird captured it in 1946, this base contains all the alien technology gathered by the Natzi’s before and durring WW2.
Also that UFO tracking some of you is actualy an autonomus US UFO created using the alien technology. They are doing secret experiments in Iraq and afganastan, that why they haven’t crushed that bunch in a few days like they did to all of Sadams thousands of tanks, planes, missles, etc. MAJAC used alien technology to hide that ship for several days while the missles schedualed for delivery to the middle east by Russia, Russia was also given an ultimatum that all of their ships mite disapear if they try sending missles to that part of the world again. Also Bin Laden was killed about three seconds after the world trade center was destroyed and a clone was put in his placce to run alkyeda so MAJAC would have time to work on its alien technology mind control experiments. Also MAJAC used alien technology to damage some of the the CERN colliders parts before it went online so they could be replaced with alien parts which would keep its high energy detectors from detecting MAJAC’s alien power sorces.
There is much more to the story, but I must move to another undisclosed location as MAJAC monitors the whole internet. Perhaps another day I will tell you more, IF I CAN….
58. waldo5 | 09.16.09
“Crop Circles” by Werner Anderhub and Hans Peter Roth, Lark Books, 2000. Anyone reading this will be a “believer.” Crop circles appeared on a farm near Dixon, California about 10 years ago. The farmer would allow no reporters on his property and destroyed the evidence as soon as he could. Doesn’t that tell you something about their existence? There is absolutely no way anyone could artificially create these things—and leave every stalk intact–but bent (never broken) to reveal the pattern. There are many eye-witnesses whose credible testimonies are convincing. You don’t hear about crop-circles anymore because no one believes they exist and are hoaxes, or perhaps media thinks it’s best not to publicize them.
59. Kevis | 09.21.09
they are here for real - they come once a month to the avebury stone circle in the county of wiltshire - where i live they have been keeping in touch with me since i was 11 years old in the USA in Ga. and now that i live in england - they appear as humans they are not here to hurt anyone they are studying earth. The US government keeps this quite. how do you think we’ve advance so far - they have the cure for aids but will not use it. The Us government as others have done things that you have no idea about or for that matter think they would - there is a group of 27 men who run the world .
60. Robert Cy | 10.07.09
Haha this is right by my work. I drove right past the Via Lido sink hole this morning, but they have done amazing work getting it cleaned up quick… I was shocked to see the firetruck down there, haha.
Check out my blog, its mostly local stuff, and observations. It has a post-modern view point, with sassy rhetoric.
Trackbacks/Pingbacks
4. HG Wells: The UFO Google logo mystery is solved – Christian Science Monitor | UFO World News | 09.24.09
Leave a Comment
We do not publish all comments, and we do not publish comments immediately. The comments feature is a forum to discuss the ideas in our stories. Constructive debate - even pointed disagreement - is welcome, but personal attacks on other commenters are not, and will not be published.
Tip: Do not write a novel. Keep it short. We will not publish lengthy comments. Come up with your own statements. This is not a place to cut and paste an email you received. If we recognize it as such, we won't post it.
Please do not post any comments that are commercial in nature or that violate copyrights.
Finally, we will not publish any comments that we regard as obscene, defamatory, or intended to incite violence.
1. SunShine | 09.15.09
A UFO has been following me for over 2. yrs. now. I know that I am not delusional because others have seen the object in the sky, but dismiss it as a star or planet, I just because it has not been following them-they have no need to speculate. I know that it is a UFO, because I have once watched it leave the earths atmosphere-it was very low behind some trees in my backyard. I got up to use the bathroom and saw that it was there. It was early morning so I knew that it had to go some where before it got bright outside. I watched as it got higher and higher in the sky until it disappeared. My question is why is this thing following me for so long? Why have they placed a chipinmy ear? and why is everyone else silent about it?