Interesting Google maps find
 

We're heading north to Prescott, AZ soon. When my wife pulled up the satellite image to look for hiking trails near our destination she noticed a plane with contrails. Airbus maybe?

prescott, arizona - Google Maps

I would say 757

It's not on the map, just the satelite view so I say HOAX!!;)

So what's the blue? ...the shadow?

Looks to be fairly low if it is.

We wondered about that too. I don't think it's the shadow because you can see the shadow made by the vertical stabilizer in the ghost image.

Something else strange... you can see writing, very faintly, just below the plane's tail. Hmmm...

I think that's a watermark or similar (2xxx Google).

Area 51 aircraft making a low pass.

Neat, I looked briefly around NYC/Newark airport, but couldn't find any.

But here are some other satellite views of planes: Airplanes on satellite pictures

The vast majority of the images from Google Earth & Google maps are not really satellite images. They are actually aerial photography shot from an airplane. It is flown in stereo and I would bet that the ghost image is the stereo image that just does not register up. The software is assuming it is a ground feature. It has no way to align something way above the terrain and moving as well.

OK, I looked thru dad911's link.

All the planes have the blue 'ghost'.

There's a plane landing with both a shadow and the blue ghost.

One of them is also a Lockheed Electra or Orion (fat propeller plane)... don't see them that often.

Conspiracy!!!!!
Check out the angle of the shadow on the ground, indicating the sun is shining from about 7:30 ish on a clock face; the shadow of the tail fin looks as though the sun is shining from about 4:30/5 o'clock ish.......just sayin'.......

You can see a shadow from the fueslage on the inside of the left wing. If you look due west a ways, you can see that the sun is actually shining from about the six o'clock position. I'd guess that the plane is one of Frontier's. Since the plane is probably several thousand feet in the air, I think you'd have to look a ways north if you wanted to find the real shadow on the ground.

Oh, you conspiracy nuts. That simply means the shadow is moving faster than the plane. It's perfectly normal. Happens all the time. Nothing to see here. Move along ....

On Google maps i can see my sailboat. Google maps still amazes me.

Nothing to see here. Move along.
Scientists move a step closer to being able to make objects invisible
"April 3, 2007
A computer model designed by a mathematician at the University of Liverpool has shown that it is possible to make objects, such as aeroplanes and submarines, appear invisible at close range.

Scientists have already created an ‘invisibility cloak’ made out of ‘metamaterial’ which can bend electromagnetic radiation – such as visible light, radar or microwaves – around a spherical space, making an object within this region appear invisible.

Until now, scientists could only make objects appear invisible from far away."

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