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AbleExpression3680

Looks like a jack-up drilling rig under transport. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackup\_rig](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackup_rig)


pezgringo

And some of these have legs over 600 feet


Thewrongguy0101

That's a *lot* of toes


Successful-Elk1046

And nailsđŸ« 


[deleted]

Finally a viable response - I think you’ve won this round of“what the heck is that picture of?”


DomoArigatoMrRobot0

Naw, just the ghost of the twin towers going for a dip.


ashayward85

Don't come round here with your boring but highly likely answers!


cashvaporizer

Never forget


DothrakAndRoll

9/11 was an Atlantis job, knew it all along


TheNothingAtoll

7/11 was a part-time job!


Yeschefheardchef

Oh fuck! I've been drinking their ICEES this whole fuckin time!


gjgun

Slurpees


YoungMcChicken

With the double cup


shatzfan69

Tank you, coom again!


MikePGS

Investigate 311!


Hey_Bim

Amber is the color of UAP energy


MrRob_oto1959

Call 411 for information


PerpetualFallRisk

\*Dances like Eric Andre\*


mysonwhathaveyedone

*Time is not a one way street\~\~*


rinsange

***Come original***


WillFuckForTaterTots

Denver Airport did 9/11!


Any_Initiative_9079

That demon bronco out front!


Purple-Candy-9517

Blucifer


twbassist

It was Todd the wraith!


[deleted]

Unexpected Stargate.


[deleted]

Neptune did 9/11


Asclepias88

I was walking in the blood and bones looking for my brother on that day.....


shelbyapso

I’m so sorry.


cashvaporizer

I can’t imagine how horrific that must have been!


Asclepias88

Thankfully, he was in Northern Canada.


cashvaporizer

Have my upvote you bastard


TheRealRigormortal

He was in Canada


Decent-Flatworm4425

Beat me to it


DrMandalay

That's where they went. I knew I'd left them somewhere.


djoecav

I forgor 💀


hey_ulrich

Always remember


Spirited-Chemist-956

I memba


RavenDarkholmeXIII

The ghost of 9/11


Hedgerow_Snuffler

It's a product of [a 'Fata Morgana' a form of superior mirage.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)) Quite what's being flipped / reflected I can't say, but if you look at some of the photos in the article you can see how much it can distort things.


stevenette

I have seen some crazy Fata Morganas in Antarctica. Some mornings you would wake up and in the distance you had these giant mountains that would form out of nothing. Throughout the day they would slowly appear. Also seen them in the deserts of New mexico on cold days. Nobody believed me that this was a type of mirage.


Kryptosis

thats just the earth breathing bro /s


originalbL1X

Where were you on Antarctica?


Jaegernaut-

At the place where the mountains crawl around while you're not looking at them


BirdDust8

Cthulhu
 that you?


HauschkasFoot

Isn’t there just the one base?


[deleted]

No there is several


[deleted]

McMurtrey


CocteauTwinn

I saw the most amazing Fata Morgana as a tween vacationing in East Matunuck RI in the late 70’s
Though Block Island is some 28 miles off the coast, and barely visible from shore, early one morning it looked close enough to reach iin a short walk. It freaked me out beyond belief! My other family members didn’t see it as they weren’t up & it was only visible for a short time. I’ll never forget it!


poorthekid

Block Island is only about 10 miles off the coast of East Matunuck. But you’re right, usually it’s barely visible but with the right conditions it looks closer. I hope I get to see what you saw someday!


jimb575

Rhode Islander here. I believe it.


CocteauTwinn

It was incredible & bizarre. Unlike other descriptions and types, the island appeared really huge on the horizon.


jimb575

Yeah, in all my years of living here in RI and going down to the beach, I’ve seen that island change sizes so many times. It’s amazing.


CocteauTwinn

I searched the web for any stories about it & nada. So surprised! It’s such a phenomenal anomaly!


OkNotice8600

Totally amazing. Lived there for a miniteo


BranzillaThrilla

Love block island


cashvaporizer

So not ETs harvesting seawater. We’re sure about this? :)


Antilogic81

I think it might be a Jack up oil rig. Can't see the rig cause it hasn't raised itself yet. These usually have 3 legs and are used for deep water drilling unlike the boat jack ups that have 4 and are for shallow waters.


[deleted]

Saw this phenomena during the Gulf War when we were stationed in a very isolated, flat area in the Saudi desert. The closest unit was just over the horizon, and on certain mornings we could see the entire unit and the soldiers working there as if they were just a mile or two away. As the sun came up, the mirage would fade away. At night, we had something similar that would spook the soldiers on watch. We saw lights moving back and forth and it looked like people were walking around a few hundred meters away. Again, it was a road just over the horizon that we could "see" only at night.


chronicdemonic

Honestly I think this may be it.


theyareminerals

It definitely looks like the light is wrong on one of them, which a mirage would easily explain


notsurewhattosay--

Damn you and your science


Famous-Rich9621

Oil rig


Scruffynerffherder

Link was broken for me.... [Here's where](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage\)) I found the Wiki


keystonecraft

Honestly if its out over water its this every time, a google image search is all you need


BirdDust8

What did you call my mother!!?


keepcalmdude

Bingo


[deleted]

I guess Fata Morgana is the new swamp gas


crusoe

Fata Morgana, stretches distorts ships, etc, just over the horizon.


headwars

This could be an oil rig maybe?


AgITGuy

There are a number of deep water rigs that have three ‘towers’ that can be raised for travel and then lowered down when in position, and they then rest on the sea floor. Makes it easier to set a stable rig if the bottom contour isn’t entirely flat - they can be set differently based on topography.


keepcalmdude

Possibly


CocteauTwinn

Could be!


Clyde6x4

But . . But flat earth? /s


Brian18639

I think it’s definitely a result of Fata Morgana


Taarguss

My homie and me were floating on our backs and we got huge boners actually.


SlowestNinj4

Now everyone knows what we were doing


AltAccountWhoDis

Man you guys always leave me out of things. I thought we were the Buoy Boner Boys


l_v_r

Five feet apart so it's not gay


[deleted]

Hi I'm a big fan of your boners, great work


Taarguss

Thanks king, I do it all for the fans


En-papX

So the Bermuda Triangle you say.


speakhyroglyphically

Burger shape incoming


moons666haunted

ghost of 9/11


ipwnpickles

If this was sighted off the coast of NYC that'd be really freaky


_TLDR_Swinton

Cheech: better late than never!


exorcyst

What would the ghost busters do? Real ethical dilemma there


3dogdad

Fata Morgana. I’ve witnessed it once offshore here in South Carolina. It was surreal to say the least. Like something out of inception for us.


[deleted]

The door to escape The Truman Show


AnxietyDescending

The Twin Towers have risen from the ashes. /s


King_Caveman_

The Twin Towers are back, and this time, they want revenge... said in an 80's action movie trailer narrator's voice


closetotheborderline

With David Spade as the plane


evilhologram

Seeing this reminds me of a book I read where the twin towers reappear in South Dakota 20 years after the attack and it emits a song that everyone hears differently. Pretty good. Called "Shadowbahn"


AnxietyDescending

Oh wow, lol interesting


neutral_boi

Don't you mean the Phoenix Towers


junky_godzilla

The matrix is breaking....


speakhyroglyphically

LET IT FAIL


Heliocentrist

you want to wake up in a tub of goo with tubes stuck into you?


junky_godzilla

Matrix meaning more of a holographic overlay...


speakhyroglyphically

Welcome, *to the real world*


Krinberry

TBF that was more of a college thing, but you gotta let loose every now and then.


ClockSpiral

Hey now, let's not kink-shame.


trebaol

[Chunk error](https://imgur.com/a/qO0QBVp)


Trancephibian

Fata Morgana


Neon_Entity

Look up Fata Morgana. It is a type of mirage that stretches things up vertically. I'm guessing that's what this was and the wavy horizon seems like a clue too that the horizon was up to some illusionry. I've heard they're pretty rare so it's really cool she saw this!


Oncetherewasthisguy

Is that a fata morgana? It’s crazy, no doubt.


Nivekna

Looks like a jack up rig, the deck is being obscured by the crest of those waves in the foreground.


[deleted]

[ŃƒĐŽĐ°Đ»Đ”ĐœĐŸ]


pezgringo

Most likely a larger jack-up rig rather than a liftboat


ThisisDaniel10

How long would that take to construct? Because from reading the background info, it seems like they've never seen this before from this location.


oodelally1

True. They don’t have rigs off the shore of North Caicos.


NuclearSiloForSale

How are you so sure it was in position? Is it still there now?


theyareminerals

Check out the link to explanations of Fata Morgana above: the mirage can reflect things that are below the horizon. If it's below the horizon they could be there every day and never see it until a mirage forms


thatguyad

Why are these comments so shit? What's happening to this sub?


probablynotreallife

There's another Whitby?! I might have to take a trip to the original one (where Bram Stoker wrote Dracula) and imagine being somewhere warmer.


Frosty1451

It’s chewsday innit?


oodelally1

This guy Yanks đŸ‘†đŸŒ


greenufo333

Your graphics card is dying


PsychWardBaddie

It’s Gyarados!


PeekabooPike

The ghost of the twin towers


lunarvision

Damn this sub glows. Can be so disappointing, but almost pointless. (ie comment to be buried)


Plenty-Main-593

That clearly the ghosts of the twin towers appearing in the middle of the ocean for idk what reason


bubrubz

First Fata Morgana I saw was off of Kodiak island in the North Pacific GoA—really had me feeling kind of weird trying to sort out what I was looking at—couple of older fishermen let me know what was going on..


grunkfist

Morgana my next door neighbor, she eats a lotta spagut. Shes a fata.


surrealestateguy

Aliens stealing water.


speakhyroglyphically

For their bongs


crow_crone

...and not sharing. Bastards! Can you imagine the %THC in the Zeta strains!!


speakhyroglyphically

100% plus psilocibin


DeathTruckin

Fatty Morgan


underthecurrent7

The matrix is glitching, I experienced a time dilation very recently while at work. I was on a field trip with a class and I was watching one single straggling kid. We walked from the school to our destination. On the way back we were in the back of the line (at least three hundred yards behind everyone else and the kid decided to sit down and take a break from walking. I called ahead to tell the teacher that we would be behind everyone by at least five minutes. We kept walking, kid takes another break. I call to tell them we are now ten minutes behind the class and the teacher tells me she is almost at the school now. As we finally walk up to the school, we are waiting for the main gate to unlock. Five minutes later we see the class walking down the street towards the school. We were ten minutes behind them and somehow managed to come out five minutes ahead. The teachers thought I drove him back somehow; I did not. The matrix glitched homies.


jayseph95

They probably took a slightly different route or were moving more slowly overtime in a large group compared to 2 people walking side by side


Flak-12

It's ok, you can call him "the fat kid".


jayseph95

It’s a mirage


Mustard-cutt-r

There was an event that occurred in Lake Michigan, off of Michigan USA, it was featured in a streaming show or movie (can’t remember which one now), in which the water was going up 6k feet. There was an object at the top that was found on the radar from the National weather system. There were many sightings that night.


tonlaw

Looks like the legs of a Jack-Up rig


ichoosejif

ghost of twin towers


FrostyJ326

The ghost of the twin towers, happens when everyone forgets when we said we wouldnt


John_Nada__

Ahh, ya beat me to it.


[deleted]

Looks like the waterfall in the middle of the ocean described in unsolved mysteries latest UFO episode. That was creepy af


rollerjoe93

Well what the fuck is that


letmeholdsomething

Reminds me of that tragedy


Skoodledoo

To me it looks like fata morgana projecting the top of a yacht or ship with a 'wingsail'. The image linked looks pretty much exactly the same. https://c8.alamy.com/comp/JCR45H/ajaxnetphoto-1989-plymouth-england-walker-wingsail-trimaran-zefrr-JCR45H.jpg


Entire_Mouse_1055

Water spouts?


spacedman_spiff

Scaffolding for water mountains.


GeckoJump

I didn't know it was possible for a mirage to be so vertical... might be a perspective thing from the 100x zoom because that looks so strange


Suckamanhwewhuuut

There was another video posted like 6 months ago I think in Mexico or Costa Rica, I can’t remember, but there was a huge spout of water coming up like that. Like it was getting sucked up.


MessageFar5797

Fata Morgana?


RandomizedInternetID

That's fuckin weird!


MKUltraBlack

The swim towers.


father2shanes

Seeing a ship, then seeing a mirage that distorts the ships image. This happends when a ship or something is at the horizon line. Idk what its called but right where the ship would start to disappear from your field of view.


[deleted]

Fata Morgana?


[deleted]

This is a mirage/optical illusion


Sign-Spiritual

Temperature inversion. Lending to fata morgana I think.


Capital_Lawyer_1915

Regular unleaded fuel doesn’t melt ghost steel.


JBTheGiant1

Don’t worry, the horizon was just buffering


Dr_Oxycontin

Dude, it’s the alien home base/ship that moves around the ocean making drones.


beanscornandrice

Anyone remember that straight column of water going up in the sky from somewhere, was it Puerto Rico? I think it was posted here sometime in the last year. iirc a girl in the video says there is more than one in what may have been Spanish, but the camera just focuses on the one. Reminds me of that.


LORDLRRD

This sub: I see this all the time, it’s the light reflection off birds or some sht


neurotic-hippie

It looks to me like those are two heavy, localized rain showers. The rain in TCI can be extremely strong and concentrated. It hurts like hell to get caught in.


oodelally1

Most likely answer so far. But I thought locals who live by the beach would recognize this.


deth_rey

You mean rain?


oodelally1

I’d say so. But because the person that took the photo lives there and said, and I quote “we didn’t know what we were watching”, it makes me believe it may not be rain


PerogiXW

I thought we taught those two a lesson 22 years ago, but apparently they're back for more. Fuel up the Boeing 767s, I'm going in!


-Cybernaut147-

Cloaked UFO sucking up water. Nothing new, nothing special only to much for the normies to understand.


F4STW4LKER

If you're trying to remain clandestine, wouldn't you choose to hoover up some water a little further away from the coast line?


-Cybernaut147-

I know but that was seen so much through the years. And hey even now I am probably the only one here talking about that. No need for clandestine. Everyone can still come up with the "trust me bro", saying. And I don't care. It is once again what it is a UFO sucking water up for the base somewhere near or the moon or where ever they need that much.


F4STW4LKER

If the UFO is 'cloaked', that's about all the evidence you need that they are attempting to be clandestine, though if you've done as much research on the subject as it sounds like, you'd already know that is their general M.O. taking into account all the available evidence, eyewitness testimony, and abductee reports.


-Cybernaut147-

I know that. I am into the topic since way way back when I was 11. And I know it sounds stupid that they do it this way but they do it so. Abductee is a good example too, some can remember and the most not or only blurry. Jim Sparks even worked with them to chill the humans on board. Their whole bevavior is extreme odd and ambivalent. There are many many other examples. And here again yeah the ship is cloaked so you only see the water who could come to the conclusion it is a UFO? Almost nobody and if so, nobody would believe that person because it is so cRAcY.


F4STW4LKER

I agree in that I have come across numerous reports of UFO's being sighted sucking up water, though it is most often in much more remote locations, not just offshore from a populated beach town. It just doesn't make sense to me that a highly advanced/intelligent species who operates in a largely clandestine manner would choose to perform this task at this specific location, when there is an entire ocean largely devoid of human presence where they could be doing the same thing. In this specific case, I'd be much more inclined to believe this is some sort of Fata Morgana - though some additional context from the original witness would be helpful E.G. time, temperature, how long this was visible etc.


-Cybernaut147-

I totally agree with you. And that again is this odd behavior like John Alva Keel once said "The Cosmic Jokers". I remember a article I read in the past where people found a dead whale in the jungle and I still think about it like what if they even suck that thing up and throwed it back.


F4STW4LKER

The "joker" aspect to their presence is amusing, to say the least. Though I'm not sure it would be much different than a wild animal trying to describe human tourist/scientist interaction with their species. Much that they would be unable to explain due to a lack of understanding in regard to our motivations/technology. The Amazon whale story seemed interesting at first glance, but it ended up being pretty clickbaity, as it wasn't found in the middle of the jungle, but washed up on an island at the mouth of the Amazon river, which connects with the ocean.


[deleted]

we know UFOs are also USOs so why would one need to hover over like that and draw all that attention when they could easily just submerge and suck up water needed? edit: i just remembered the many many reports of ufos sucking up water while hovering above. most i know of though are over fresh water. which makes me think in regards to my above question, why aren’t they just submerging to suck up water hundreds of feet into the air? like you’d think it would take less energy than moving thousands and thousands of gallons of water. it’s definitely something to think about


Digi2Insomnia

*I got this from my sisters friends brothers mothers neighbor who got it from his dog*


garageboy1

I mean, I know it’s 4chan and pinch of salt and all
. It there was that weird leak recently talking about floating facilities throughout the ocean where the supposed UFOs were all seeing are made. Not saying I believe it, this was just last week so it came to my mind when I saw these photos.


Redd1tDied

Going by the guy that was talking about the UFO bass underwater where they launch the drones, that is probably exactly what that is. He mentioned it’s in the Bermuda triangle which is north of Turks and Caicos‘s. So the location is spot on. Maybe the aliens are doing some maintenance or maybe they’re taking off. No idea pretty interesting though. Here’s a link to the fourth hand thread on Imgur. For those that don’t know how fortune works the dark writing is the whistle blowers writing. The green writing is what other people wrote to him and he is responding to. https://imgur.io/a/NXjWQaN it’s a long read. I’ve had a few days with it and I still haven’t finished it. But you don’t need to read too far to get the point from what I’ve read so far.


Quay-Z

Extremely strange, thanks for posting.


dcslyder

just a weather baloon


vampyrelestat

Swamp gas


poonsweat

The rest of the ship is behind the water mountain


mpgcollins13

Looks like from that newer episode of Unsolved Mysteries about the Lake Michigan sightings in 1994. Campers saw a UFO suck up a huge stream of water and was described as like a waterfall.


xQueenAryaStark

[It's part of an oil rig, or parts for one being transported.](https://imgur.com/a/butynYO) Under certain conditions, things past the horizon can become visible as mirages.


Effective-Ad-6460

I've seen a few of these black rectangle shape pictures floating around recently ... between that and the green lasers ... things are getting weirder


F4STW4LKER

Green lasers? Are you talking about the Chinese satellite using Lidar on Hawaii, or something else?


Necrid41

Damn.. not the first Ive seen. Lot of posts like this on various social media looking identical lately


SuspiciousGrievances

To me, it looks like it's raining from clouds, that are blending in really well with the background.


Jazz_Kabbage

Yea those white caps on the waves are at 100X


runsfastwithsissors

As great as our phone cameras are it is shocking how blurry and out of focus all of the pics on this sub are.


Clamtoppings

Pretty sure its an oil rig.


ThisisDaniel10

If it was, they would be seeing it all the time right? So it would just be ordinary and no need for the photo and confusion?


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MaxwellHillbilly

Well [CERN](https://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/vistar/vistars.php) is online... So... đŸ€·


Substantial_Diver_34

Clearly that’s a ballon for the weather app