Something strange is lurking on the seafloor. Off the coast of Washington, deep in the Pacific Ocean, a dome-shaped object has been spotted on Google Earth. The unknown entity is an estimated two miles wide, appears circular in shape, and it’s moving… leaving behind a snake-like trail.
Wanna see for yourself? Check it out at 49°50’43.0”N 140°13’21.0”W.
Conspiracy theorists and obsessively online individuals have jumped on the case, exposing the mystery, speculating wildly as to what it might be (aliens! Godzilla!), and following its movements.
One commenter, however, took a different track than the tin foil hat community. Instead, they offered a more plausible explanation:
“You’re not looking at a crawling dome. You’re looking at a low-res sonar stitch glitch on Google Earth’s bathymetric layer. What you’re calling a 2-mile sea creature is just cartographic noise from overlapping survey lines and interpolation gaps.
“This is what happens when someone opens Google Earth, sees a shadow, and decides they’re Deep Sea Dora the Explorer with zero understanding of how seafloor mapping works. These aren’t alien trails. They’re digital potholes from outdated sonar passes.”
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Recently, a similar situation involving a strange object observed on Google Earth underwater caused a stir. That time, the perceived anomaly was off the coast of Malibu. It showed Sycamore Knoll, a submerged topographical feature, which conspiracy theorists ventured that it could be a covert military base or, of course, aliens. Then, adding to the mystery, it disappeared from Google.
As for this new anomaly stoking speculation, there’s been no certifiable explanation yet. Is it a glitch in Google Earth’s mapping technology? Or something more sci-fi? Commence speculation.
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