There's few things more tedious than someone telling you about a photo without actually showing it to you...

It would be better if you showed the google earth images you are talking about, you know, cuz that would give us viewers an idea as to what you are talking about.

Would be nice if the video had the images for reference.

Definitely would prefer if the editor had put in the actual pictures being discussed

One of the greatest mysteries is how Simon pronounces Kraken incorrectly.

Is there a copyright issue with Google Maps/Earth that wouldn't allow you to put the satellite images on this video? I don't know if this was a slip by Jenny or whoever does the editing but that would have been super helpful for this video.

In general I like the videos posted by Simon, this however is below par for me. I was looking forward to see some pictures of the discussion

I've had lakes near my house turn blood red all the time. It's algal blooms. No mystery.

Would love to see the actual pictures being discussed.

C’mon Simon you can’t do a video based on weird images but not show them to us

A picture is worth a thousand words! (Even Simon Whistler words) So many discoveries are explained verbally but we didn't get to see them.

I'll never understand why some people think they have the right to decide what color their neighbor paints their house

That car one always interests me. It was literally just out of sight of anyone going by on or near the bank because of the amount of water you have to look through at an angle. From directly above it’s so clear and obvious.

Simon, I love your videos but please do a part 2 to this and show the photos. This subject is massive.

I looked and the "robot" at Area 51 is actually a large asphalt milling machine. It's one of those machines you see on the highways grinding up the pavement so they can lay new pavement. The reason it looks like it is in different poses is because the images were taken at different times of the day so the shadows were cast in different directions. I figured your editors would have caught this one super quickly because it only took me about a minute of staring at it before I knew exactly what it was. And a quick Google search of pavement grinding machines I found what its actual name is. Mystery solved! Don't believe me? Look it up. What is funny is the images in the search show the machines in different directions and time of day, so you can actually see the 2 "legs" in some of them. And the machine is around other road equipment so it makes total sense. And since there is a runway and roads at Area 51 it makes sense they would have their own equipment. Anyone who thinks they are actual robots is pretty dumb in my opinion. And no need for engineers poking fun at the Russians using storage containers either. The truth is far more mundane sometimes! Like a machine we have all seen at one point or another. Once you see it you can't un-see it!

Those Scientology guys need to revisit the concept of "hidden."

Interesting fact: The supposed "6th Gen fighter" seen at Groom Lake ("Area 51") has a shadow that goes in the opposite direction of the temp structure over it and the hangars. This seems to suggest that the image of the "fighter" is simply artwork on a tarp over a collapsible temporary structure that MAY have been erected over an aircraft.

When I was stationed at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, NV years ago I was able to speak with pilots who had been to Area 51 as I worked on the flight line and was in contact with them on a daily basis. While they obviously couldn't elaborate, I was told a couple of times that what was up in "Dreamland" as we called it was absolutely amazing. One pilot told me that I would be just blown away by what they had.

Your videos are great but some pictures of the things you are talking about would be great instead of free stock video clips. A picture paints a thousand words :)

Good Job Simon. Can you use less cut scenes? I see the same cut scenes on lots of videos now. I am sick of seeing the same 4 people in white coats standing around with clipboards when the narrator says scientists. Drives me insane. I guess it is easier to have a computer parse what you say and pick appropriate scenes bases on the meta data associated with it. But easier is not always better. I love the well written commentaries and you have a great presentation style and voice. Just CUT the stock cut scenes. Thanks.

2:09 Gobi pattern's 4:48 Area 51 8:24 the Kraken 10:51 Blood lake 12:12 Antarctica

Is there a reason you didn't show any of the satellite photos? I listened to you describing things I wanted to see, and you used stock footage instead of THE THINGS YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT.

i remember watching a documentary a few years ago about the "Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird" that was built in area 51. they said how they knew russia and other countries flew over and take photos of the site to see what they were working on. these guys were OG trolls and used to put black painted modular parts outside and make them look like freaky airplanes to mess with other countires. i think you can still find images of the shapes online. some are hilarious and even look like modern planes, but others you will just roll around laugthing at.

How often do people think that Google Earth gets updated? Daily? In one of the pics is a boat in our driveway that's been underwater for YEARS!

Don't think I have heard Kraken to sound like krake-en, usually I have heard it as crack-en. Also obligatory joke about the Seattle hockey team.

You seem to have missed out on showing almost any of the satellite images themselves.

Would have loved to see photos of all the examples you mentioned in this video so we can actually visualise it.

Thanks for not showing any of the pictures mentioned or linked them in the description!

There's a fun Weather Channel (US) series called What On Earth? that gets intriguing satellite images, asks intrigued scientists what they think they are (cold guessing) and then finds actual site footage that explains what the strange formations/constructions are.

I was 11 years old in Scotland at Loch Ness and I swore I could see a monster moving through the water. As the monster got closer it turned into a boat.

The "pattern" at RAF Feltwell has nothing to do with satellites. It's a motorcycle training facility.

can't believe it's only been a little over a year since Into The Shadows started, that's one of my favorite channel's of Simon's

The so called "meteorite crater" in Antarctica is the product of a far more recent series of collapses of the below sealevel half of east Antarctica south of Australia. The overpressured Aquifer discharged in basal outburst gigafloods. It's channels run out to the coast where the Conger ice shelf recently collapsed. It's doing it again, as the Glacial icestreams have thinned, ruptured into several kilometer high ice cliffs, hundreds of kilometres inland. This has provided a free path to the sea, dumping the basal hydrostatic pressure, and Allowing the several thousand PSI at sealevel pressurised aquifer inland to discharge geothermally heated mud and water through the underlying strata to this vent system. Basically a underice hot mud volcano 🌋. Hiawatha is one of these too. NOT a friggen meteorite crater. The Great Lakes native copper deposits were produced by the same process when the Laurentide ice sheet collapses happened, precipitating metallic copper at 350C out of hot geothermal fluids. "Meteorite crater" is science paper code for "we'd rather not scare the kids with the truth here". Meteorites, unlike these phenomena, do not strike the same place twice. See the pattern? "Don't look down Simon!"

Simon is love, Simon is life.

1:14 Hah, the "Beatrixpark Dock Murder Spot", i live in the town where this supposed murder had been reported. I had no idea that this was a thing until i watched "What On Earth?!", a show specifically about analyzing satellite photos, where it was discussed in one episode. I've been living here for over 30 years and been to that wooden pier thing many a time, which is why it surprised me so much to randomly hear about it in an American show, and now here again. Then again, murders do happen, and on Saturday nights after our local bar closed at 1, my friends and i used to walk to a remote secluded nature reserve, just to smoke a joint at the end of it in the birdwatcher's hut. We had walked that route a bunch of times, and whenever a car came, we used to duck or hide, usually for giggles, because we kept making up stories about them, and joking like "look out, a psycho! Run!". We dubbed it "Route Psycho Psycho", even though, in hindsight, we were the psychos, walking near tents and boats in the middle of the night, simply because we were curious to see or find anything (mind you, we're drunk and stoned). But yeah, one time we heard on the news about a girl that had gone missing one weekend, and ended up being found really close to where we used to smoke our joint. She was picked up at the station by two guys (seen on camera) and ended up dead in the water, so, we never went back there anymore. I also had a weird murder inconvenience, i went on my bike towards a factory to apply for a job, getting there was no problem, i have the meeting, took about 30 minutes max. On the way back, the cycle path was suddenly closed off, police around etc., apparently a couple minutes after i passed that point, a kid was stabbed to death, and the inconvenience was that i had to bike all the way around to get home again, in the snow, took me an hour to get back. Jokes aside though, it's kind of a weird experience, i saw the blood on the snow, and they put up a memorial tribute to the kid for a while. And not far from there, when i used to bike to work in that area, there was a time when i smelled a foul smell at a certain bend, it lingered for weeks. Later i heard on the news that they had found 3 bodies that were dumped in some kind of hatch on the premises right next to that bend. Yuck.. Now i think of it, the son of a colleague of mine drowned right near the spot where i always have my smoke break when i'm at work, i work outdoors in town and roam around a lot, but usually go back to a spot that i like, with the birds and the bees and whatnot, but yeah, someone's son had died right there. There are so many places where people died, i wonder what the most unique spots are.

The bits of "dismissive sarcasm" were absolutely appropriate and - frankly - more likely accurate than strange theories (but those alternates can be fun fiction tools)!

Why aren't ANY of the things you're talking about shown? Such a damn tease.

So, you talk about these things without showing us the actual images and even if it were for copyright infringement fears, you could at least give us the coordinates to look it up ourselves! You really missed the mark with this one and made what could've been an interesting and informative video into a frustrating easter egg hunt.

I saved a Google Earth image of an offshore earthquake in-progress just off of the coast of Peru. The concentric circular waves were fascinating.

Last time I arrived THIS early my partner was horribly disappointed.

suggestion: you could put the links to each view, when still in the map programs, in the space below your links.

Simon, I got a serious question: on average how many hours do you work per week and how many days do you take off per month?

my mom's ex once built a tin man statue out of HVAC parts to advertise his business. its the logo he uses to this day and i have a picture of it from an old t-shirt he used to advertise his business. my point is that someone at area 51 was probably tongue in cheek enough to make a posable robot statue.

11:50 well the explanation is quite simple actually. for some reason the part of the lake where red algee is growing in such ammount, the water is warmer, while where we can see green algee more prominent, the water is colder. Red algee prefers warmer water. For example Red Sea isn't that red like a lake but it does have a higher concentration of red algee due to the fact that the Red Sea is warmer than the Black Sea for example. We learned about these in elementary school, as I recall, so it's not a big mistery either.

I love how snarky you are in this video. It's like you're airing your frustrations about conspiracy theories, and how often they pop up; especially in Decoding the Unknown.

Now the true question. Has Simon seen pulp fiction to understand the scene reference?

Hey, Simon, the insane upgrades on our F-22 5th generation fighter that is part of America's Air Force inventory has created the 6th generation F22 Supersport. THE F 22 is currently our most top secret fighter, won't be replaced for at least 30 years, and with ongoing upgrades it will probably become America's 7th generation fighter as well! Air/Space Force speculation has also brought forth some neat hypothetical ideas about crossing the F22 & A12C airframes to create a new, hypersonic, super stealth airframe for the 8th generation American Fighter, OR the 1st generation hypersonic, super stealth, ARMED, interplanetary Air/Space Defense Craft! At 50+ Billion dollars each, I'd say these will be America's premier fighter for a generation

I'd say giant arches cut into the side of a mountain are the epitome of the word 'groundbreaking'.

Very disappointed that virtually none of what you referred to was actually illustrated. Why? Might have well been a radio show!

Not sure if the channel demographic would like it, but there are also cool 'happy' stories to tell. Heroism, generosity, 'luck' and success.

I remember being into the alien stuff when I was 19 with my friend and we went deep into the rabbit hole. And at the time pretty much covered everything you could. I got so burned out with it because it became this like loop of vague circular information always keeping us on the hampster wheel. Eventually I got tired of it and told my friend “dude we will never know we’re not gonna be the ones who figure it out and we’ll know as soon as everyone else does”

I like that this channel doesn't confuse us with unrelated photos, used to describe actual locations. But surely, if photos exist, show them. Or show them throughout the segment. If you don't, you might as well start a radio station online.

The entire purpose of laying the robots uncovered might very well be to see how they fare when exposed to harsh elements 24/7/365. I highly doubt it was just a case of “oops, we forgot” or “we just don’t care.”

I don't know about robots, but the Army has been working on cybernetic type suits for soldiers for years now. When I was deployed to Bagram in late 2011 I was selected to have lunch with a couple of the the Assistant Secretaries of the Army (Heidi Shyu) and Air Force (don't remember his name) for some big wig "see how happy our troops are" malarkey. I ended up sitting beside Sec. Shyu and we discussed some of the new biotech suits they were testing to help soldiers with strength, stamina, and speed. Who knows what kind of robotics they've got out there testing in a desert environment. It wouldn't surprise me if they left them laying around just to see how the weather impacts them over time.

These are really interesting vids that you make. If you make another one, I think the most fascinating place in all the world's oceans is the Marianas Trench!! I'd love to know what people have seen there!!!

I think you missed out some photos in the edit, dude.

How the heck did you make an entire video WITHOUT showing ANY of the sat images? What was the point??? HAHAHA

3:11 image looking from the side looks like a topographical map of land or maybe the floor of ocean that would be cool

I love your little alien walking along. That swagger! You just know they're all like "Yeah, I did a bunch of donuts in your cornfield. Whatchoo gonna do about it, Dirtling?" Disappointed you didn't include the picture of the circular thing in Antarctica though, I don't want all the woo the data miners will start feeding me if I actually do a search for it.

Its never Aliens! Until it IS! PS: i must admit, im pretty disapointed, this video is full of random stock footage, instead of the actual satellite images! why this drop in quality i wonder?! 🤔

Woulda been nice to have seen some of the pictures being described. This could've been a podcast with audio only.

Recently a radar satellite discovered 2 large meteor craters off the coast of Gibraltar. Expeditions showed the meteor craters to be around 66 million years old, the same age and say mineral content as the Chicxulub crater belonging to the Asteroid that killed the non-Avian Dinosaurs 66 millions ago. Scientists now think that either the original asteroid 66 million years ago broke into 3 pieces as it hit the Earth or based on its size. Was in fact a ruble pile containing 3 major pieces. The two smaller pieces broke off and hit near Gibraltar, while the large piece hit off the coast of Mexico. This discovery explains many missing details, especially since our observations of large asteroids in our system shows ones over a kilometer tend to ruble piles rather than a single piece. But it shows that the area cataphatically affected by the initial impacts was spread out enough to affected multiple parts of planet at once. As for Area 51 rumor has it the base is not operational. Not since the law suits in the late 90's, no one will work at the base because its considered one of most toxic places on Earth. Due to past nuclear tests and burning of garbage on the site including early stealth materials. Parts of the lawsuits were declassified and are horror stories to read. The guards at the base are actually the same as those around US government super fund sites of toxic or nuclear waste dumps. With stuff seen on satellites of planes at the base, being mock ups to trick Russian and Chinese spy satellites. While the real base base was moved to Utah, nick named Area 52 (even though on map of Nevada there is part of the desert designated that), located at Dugway Proving Ground. Where chemical and biological weapons used to be tested by the US Army back in 40's and 50's. So yes a base where chemical and biological weapons were tested is considered safer and less toxic than Area 51.

The "symbols" at RAF Feltwell are actually a training course for the motorcycle safety course. It is the exact same layout used in the US for the MSF course.

Oooooh new Simon channel! Will for sure be checking it out. I thought you were about to plug Casual Criminalist aha, excited to hear a new one. Although I still don’t understand how you make so many channels all with regular uploads 😅

If you can't actually post the images, it's weak sauce. Sorry.

I discovered there's a solar power farm near to me, didn't know it was there 'til I saw it in google earth whilst trying to locate the local petrol station on the map when I needed to get some go-juice for the first petrol mower I owned... :P

What are you talking about on RAF Feltwell? I lived at RAF Feltwell from 1971 through 1974 while stationed at RAF Mildenhall. I had no idea there was anything interesting there and I have walked most all of the base. The only interesting thing I saw there was a friendly hedgehog that tunneled into an abandoned munitions bunker.

Fourteen minutes and fifty-four seconds of disappointment. Also thank you for the free content, Simon, et al.

Utterly delightful fellow! Love to listen\watch him. Lovely sense of play. Great voice and articulation. And he can think! An amazing phenomena in-its-self!

The teams at area 51 realized that the Russians were using thermal imaging to figure out the shape of aircraft based on the temperature differential when they had put the plane back in the hanger so it couldn't be captures. Anytjing odd observed at area 51 should be assumed to be a gag or miss information as they started laying out bogus panels to create crazy patterns

It should be fun watching Simon slowly lose his marbles over the next few years.

Pretty pointless video without the pictures.

To the producer who put this together, don't make a video on this subject if you can't summon the minimum effort neccessary to include the actual images you're going to talk about. DOUBLY SO if you have a sponsor and are profiting from each view. It's a waste of a well written and delivered script and well earned fan regard.

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calibration points. They just point satellites at them to see how accurate they are when they pass to correct viewing orientation.

Huh. I actually lived a few blocks away from that blood river thing in Baghdad but I certainly never remember it being red. But we spent about a year living in the Akad district which is right next door to Sadr City where that is when I was in the Army.

My favorite part of this video about satellite images was the part where it contained no satellite images.

Do we know what the Chinese and Russian versions of Area 51 are and what sort of rumors are there about those places?

Sail Rock made me laugh when you showed a picture of it. It looks like a vertical fossilized turd. I laughed so very hard! All poop jokes aside, I found that I love this channel! I have it set to play all of them and pause them when I have to be away from my computer so I don't miss anything.

Dude, have you even watched the docuseries, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch? UAPs everywhere.

My favourite disease was the version of the plague that bonded with pneumonia, ouch lol. There is an encyclopedia of plague and pestilence you may want to acquire for your new channel.

wavy back in the 60's and early 70's, the military actually studied and made some demonstration of concept models of "walking" machines. In sci-fi games, these would be called "Mechs". Not sure the exact purpose was, but the Army's Transportation Museum at Joint Base Ft. Eustis in Virginia, has an example of one. From what I could see of it, at the time of concept, the technology was just not upto the task of what they were attempting. You could always do a video on it

That's not a kraken. It's Sydney Powell. They appear very similar but the kraken isn't as evil.

What is the music at 11:05? I've asked this question multiple times with no answer. It seems like it would be great for meditation.

Yeeeah my first thought on the robots was the base staff fucking with people, too, lol. I would have done it. Service members will find anything to mix into their work for a laugh. I once tormented a shitty OIC by calling his fax machine and playing funky town on a touch-tone phone for at least 15 minutes.

I'm never goona believe it's aliens until Simon confirms it.

How can you imagine the unimaginable when you can not imagine it in the first place

That Antarctica disc object was debunked quite early on. Turns out it had been enlarged and rotated so looked like something more mysterious than it actually was. I could be wrong but I think was Thunderf00t that busted it

Don't forget you can play the game Accidental Not-see with these images. The amount of building complexes that take on the shape of that particular symbol is hilariously high.

6:26 Hasn’t it been confirmed that the entrances to bunkers and hangars are painted to look like the landscape?

Maybe this should have been on into the shadows itself

13:00 the first impact and discovery of Adam used to build the giant 'robots' mentioned earlier

Simon has a new channel? It's hard enough running this one channel, how will he manage two? Good luck to him.

You should feature the biggest natural effects on wars & the luckiest & unluckiest fates in wars.

I'm curious what's the name of the song @ 10:52 Everytime I hear that in one of these videos I'm like... Ohhhh man

Finding stuff without an easy explanation is great, because then you might get to go on a deep dive and learn a lot of new stuff. Unfortunately, most of these things have a mundane explanation. But then there's the ones that we don't have the scientific knowledge to find out yet, and I think those are the best. Years down the road, you'll have forgotten all about it, but then you'll read some random article saying a new invention will let humans study whatever it is for the first time! Or is this just me being a total nerd?

I'm from the city where the "Beatrixpark murder" was. I thought it was just a local urban legend hahahaha I'm surprised to see it pop up here.

Webb lens a few days ago. The 5 galaxies found. With conclusions of being built after the big bang

You have such an elegant, classy way about you, Simon. Never change!!

I don't know if I've just noticed this or if it's new or not, but the opening sounds reminiscent of Philip defranco's. It's the part where it's loading up and it says it's a new show and then you hear the chimpanzee noises.