Google goes Fortean, part 2

For the second time this month, Google is playing in the paranormal realm. The logo links to a search for "crop circles."

[theWalrus #1 22:15 on Mon, Sep.14]

it's a load of crop

[Sam #2 22:51 on Mon, Sep.14]

This is on their twitter: 51.327629, -0.5616088

I assume those are coordinates. I put them into Google maps and they took me to kettlewell hill, a seemingly unremarkable neighborhood in England.

What are the chances that random coordinates would end up in a populated area? Pretty slim I'd say, so I think I'm on the right track.

Searching for kettlewell hill connected with aliens/paranormal activity/etc. yields nothing interesting.

I'd say we're in for a big product launch.

[Sam #3 22:54 on Mon, Sep.14]

Maybe this: http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case947.htm ??

Maybe Google is using this to announce their entry into a new propulsion system stolen from alien technology.

[Sam #4 22:57 on Mon, Sep.14]

Looking further at that story, I noticed that this is only showing up for people who live in a timezone where it is currently September 15th, the date on the story from the link posted above.

[Sam #5 23:04 on Mon, Sep.14]

I have found some strange alien looking symbols in a field in Surrey, England.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Bagshot+Heath,+Surrey,+United+Kingdom&sll=51.262115,-0.467214&sspn=0.00098,0.001725&ie=UTF8&ll=51.343498,-0.628672&spn=0.000937,0.001725&t=h&z=19

Connected?

[noen #6 23:15 on Mon, Sep.14]

Viral campaign for 2012? Isn't that being released this fall? I've never understood how anyone can fall for crop circles:

Oh look! Aliens made circles in the field!

No, I did it, let me show you how. It's easy. (makes crop circle in front of believer.)

Oh look! Aliens made circles in the field!

[Sam #7 23:54 on Mon, Sep.14]

NOEN; I admit that I have used long sticks to create circles in crop fields. I do not, however, admit to being human.

[Anonymous #8 00:22 on Tue, Sep.15]

Maybe they're crowdsourcing UFO sightings?

[Beanolini #9 03:00 on Tue, Sep.15]

#2, Sam:

Searching for kettlewell hill connected with aliens/paranormal activity/etc. yields nothing interesting.

Aliens landed there in the 1890s.

I'm not sure 'Fortean' is at all the same as 'paranormal'.

[LukeBitmap #10 04:05 on Tue, Sep.15]

Think this answers the Twitter coordinates question...

H.G. Wells moved to Woking in 1895. This was the beginning of his writing career, and whilst living in the town he wrote several books including War of the Worlds. He lived on Maybury Road, in a small "villa", but soon moved in to Worcester Park as he started to make money from his writing. He used his surroundings to influence his books and many areas of Woking can be seen in War of the Worlds.

Text taken from here: http://www.wokingsurrey.com/pages/war-of-the-worlds.html

What are they trying to tell us though??

[Anonymous #11 21:58 on Thu, Dec. 3]

You want to keep up the the real forteans? Go to
http://www.forteans.com

Life really is stranger than fiction.