Google Maps users have spotted what appears to be a downed airplane in an Australian rainforest.
The keen-eyed Maps users came across the image of a white, aircraft-shaped image among the trees in the Cardwell Range, between Townsville Range and Cairns in North-eastern Australia.
However, the image is unlikely to be that of an actual airplane as the Australian Transport Safety Bureau says they are unaware of any missing passenger aircraft. The white shape is likely to be a “ghost image.”
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“There appears to be a phenomenon called ghost images and that could be what this is,” said the Bureau in a statement in the Cairns Post.
Google has not yet responded to requests for comment so the validity of the image has not been confirmed.
The phenomenon of ghost images is not a new one as other plane-shaped images have been spotted on Google Maps before.
Google users have previously mistaken shapes for airplanes, including in 2016 when people thought they had found an airliner at the bottom of Lake Harriet in Minnesota in the US.
Google confirmed that the Minnesota image was in fact a ghost image.
Ghost images are composites of several images that occur because Google Maps is made up of a multitude of overlapping photographs.
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