Ask any astronaut: You can see some pretty bizarre things from space. UFOs, sunspots, and Texas (sorry, Mitch!), to name a few. Here’s an anomalous image that can be spotted from Google Maps when looking down on a certain place in The Netherlands.

“What is it? It could be a glass building, or some other type of optical effect. If it is a building, then it casts no shadow. Whatever it is, it is located between the Earth’s surface and the satellite.” [Source: Cognitive Labs via The Anomalist]

I’d go check it out myself, but the Google directions that tell me to “Swim across the Atlantic Ocean” for 3,462 miles seem to mock my ambitions. If Google hadn’t already disclosed its April Fool’s joke this year, I’d think this odd image might be a likely candidate! This isn’t the first time weird stuff’s been noticed by observant Google Maps users, and it’s doubtful it’ll be the last!

[tags]anomalous, bizarre, Google Maps, odd, space, satellite[/tags]