Is That E.T. Phoning Home From N.J.?

2009_03_et.jpg The truth is out there, according to Google Street View. British newspaper The Telegraph reports, "A misty shape, bearing a distinct similarity to the movie alien, was captured behind a bush next to a mysterious beam of light. The spooky snap was caught by Google image cameras in the town of Berkeley Heights in New Jersey." Now, some people think it could just be, you know, an odd light thing, but one person points out, "Whatever it is, you cannot deny that it looks exactly like ET. The head is an oblong shape and it seems to have the same long neck and fat body. There is also a beam of light right next to him, who knows, that might be an unseen spaceship trying to make contact." Totally—NJ is a recent hotbed of weird, unexplained activity. [Via NJ.com]

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Is he carrying a light saber? If so, it's definitely E.T.

"Whatever it is, you cannot deny that it looks exactly like ET."

Yes I can.

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why are ufo or alien photographs always too blurred for anything to be seen?

Damn you ChampionOfTheSun, you beat me to it.

wasn't this on gothamist a long time ago? Or am I thinking of a different blog.

ET to mothership:

Planet New Jersey...hostile environment, noxious gases permeate atmosphere, no sign of intelligent life...recommend we establish space colony elsewhere, this one better suited for use as galactic garbage dump.

Having checked the area out using Google Earth, someone apparently patiently found the most convincing view of what's obviously just some typical photographic artifacts (found commonly in Google's street view photos). It looks a lot less "ET" in this view:

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee167/specialplans/earth/380DiamondHillRd.jpg

And, the bright bar of light:

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee167/specialplans/earth/388DiamondHillRd.jpg

Note that both of these appear in photos with a lot of noise in them in general and which are less clear then usual.

well those are just creepy looking, that looks like a real ghost/anomolie. Maybe it's the ghost of ET!

Well, the more I look at it the more it looks like reflection and lens flare. Clever disguises those alien ghosts are using!

Actually, what it looks like it could be is a reflection caught, somehow, of the camera mast on the car taking the pictures:

http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archive/00612/google_m_jpg_DW_Bay_612229g.jpg

This proves E.T. is mobbed up.

New Jersey is weird, and that's why we love it!

That is not an alien, however.

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