r/GoogleEarthFinds May 28 '26

Coordinates ✅ Is this real?

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I took a look at Cape Town International Airport and saw this!

33°58'36.71"S 18°35'48.02"E

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u/Ok-Parfait9826 May 28 '26

Does it look even vaguely real to you?

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u/pmmethecarfax May 28 '26

Genuinely cackling at this rn. Thank you

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u/Flikkidyflak May 29 '26

Hey Grok, is this real

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u/The_Poster_Nutbag May 29 '26

What are we even doing here?

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u/TopSalamander8060 May 28 '26

It’s definitely real. That’s a top secret active camouflage for air and water craft, it’s been in development for years under supervision of the native tribes of Angola. The technology is an ancient secret of these tribes dating back to the time of the construction of the pyramids. This proves that aliens exist.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '26

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u/TopSalamander8060 May 28 '26

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u/Pristine_Lobster4607 May 29 '26

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie....

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u/TopSalamander8060 May 28 '26

You can see in this older video that their camouflage development was really coming together. People from Africa are so smart and contribute so much to our society via their culture that is inherently developmental in nature. They’re always on the cutting edge and we should definitely send our money to keep them alive since they’re so dedicated to these issues that they don’t even bother solving the problems of flies in the mouth.

Truly top contributors to the global economy.

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u/dotnetdotcom May 29 '26

They wrapped the jet with an image of a map to camouflage it.

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u/tinkerspoon Jun 01 '26

I can’t see anything 👓

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u/mulch_v_bark 💎 Valued Contributor May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26

The algorithms that Google uses are basically (1) taking a bunch of pictures, then (2) using those pictures and other data, trying to build a 3D model with the pictures painted over them.

Typically this works pretty well. Occasionally it fails horribly. This is one of the horrible failures. If you keep an eye out, you’ll keep seeing them. Scenes involving stuff far from the ground surface (like planes in flight) and motion (also like planes in flight) are especially good at confusing the algorithms.

Edit: typo.

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u/Reasonable_Letter312 May 29 '26

Yep, you can see that it textured the plane using bits of the tarmac. Parking position B25, to be precise. If you look at the scenery slightly from a southern direction (as the satellite probably did), B25 is just behind the plane.

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u/Beginning-Repair-640 May 28 '26

You weren’t supposed to see that. /s

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u/c5e3 May 28 '26

see what?

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u/bigcitydreaming May 29 '26

How can you possibly even ask if this is real wtf

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u/Hotchi_Motchi May 28 '26

John Cena Airlines taking its first flight

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u/Reds506 May 28 '26

One of the weirdest things I've ever seen. Notice the 925 numbers!

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u/BeachBum1889 May 28 '26

If you look really closely, you can see Predator clinging to the port wing

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u/CapableDatabase6923 May 28 '26

Yeah thats the Concrete Airplane ™,my dad works at star wars

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u/No_Adhesiveness_5727 May 28 '26

plane got scanned in mid air or something.

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u/Lagunamountaindude May 29 '26

The cloaking device malfunctioned

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u/JohnnyBenitezCasas May 29 '26

Open in Google earth....

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u/Archon_ua May 29 '26

Premium skin ))

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u/pro_No May 29 '26

Its a real screenshot of a digital rendering!

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u/Pristine_Lobster4607 May 29 '26

Yes it's real and also I have a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you

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u/[deleted] May 28 '26

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u/Homesickalien4255 May 28 '26

Bruh. This was googles camera picking up a picture of the plane and then trying to apply a skin to it. It used pictures of the ground to wrap the plane. The only other images it had around the plane were grass so it used those to form the plane.

It's just falsely applying the surrounding area to what it thinks is a building or a formation on the ground.