They Come in Peace…and for the BBQ

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Kevin

Just found an April Fools joke on Google Earth. Area 51 has some visitors.

Update: Yow – this page currently has over 2500 Diggs (and a total of over 150,000 hits!!!) and is the top Digg story of the day! Thankfully 1&1’s servers are handling the load quite well…

Update: also listed on Wikipedia and waxy.org

Update: hello Washington Post readers…

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Kevin Jarnot is a technologist who lives just South of Boston, MA. He is currently employed as Chief Technology Officer at Micronotes, an AI-driven conversation-marketing company based in Boston, MA.
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0 Responses to They Come in Peace…and for the BBQ

  1. bobinzz says:
    April 1, 2006 at 10:40 am

    haha thats gold 😀 i love it, google never ceases to amaze 😛

  2. ZJBird says:
    April 1, 2006 at 10:52 am

    HAHAHA, this is good! I just booted up my google earth and it took me a bit but i found it! This is just for April fools? Nice find!

  3. gilbert says:
    April 1, 2006 at 11:01 am

    Nice find, next time i’ll put it in the hangar

  4. Chris says:
    April 1, 2006 at 11:05 am

    Nice find. Google have always had that witty humor going on. Just to say that its now been removed since I last checked!

  5. Eric says:
    April 1, 2006 at 11:18 am

    Awesome! Not as funny as Pigeon Rank, but it’s cool that they hid some easter eggs in Google Earth!

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  8. Jauhari says:
    April 1, 2006 at 11:32 am

    That’s nice Fools Day 🙂

  9. Naser says:
    April 1, 2006 at 11:50 am

    Wow great discovery

  10. Bobby says:
    April 1, 2006 at 11:53 am

    Don’t despair, looks like they still had some fun today …..

    http://www.google.com/romance/

  11. Slapo says:
    April 1, 2006 at 12:10 pm

    How come Google Earth can’t find Roswell when they have Area 51? Weird ;).

  12. MooseBlaster says:
    April 1, 2006 at 12:30 pm

    Slapo: Have you tried typing in Roswell, NM?

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  15. wogo says:
    April 1, 2006 at 2:54 pm

    ROFLOL! MAO!

  16. Son Nguyen says:
    April 1, 2006 at 3:16 pm

    I love this day, so many news that is actually news

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  19. NLS says:
    April 1, 2006 at 5:42 pm

    Great Idea. Ha Ha

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  25. wper says:
    April 2, 2006 at 11:49 am

    really interesting 🙂

  26. Rasec says:
    April 3, 2006 at 10:08 am

    hauehaieuhaieuh ! que podre !

    Mas foi engraçado !

    Saudações do Brasil !

  27. Anonymous says:
    April 3, 2006 at 10:38 am

    how did you find that???

  28. Kevin says:
    April 3, 2006 at 10:47 am

    There was a hint posted on the Google Earth Community forum. It took me roughly 5 minutes of scanning Area 51 to find them.

  29. David Thompson says:
    April 3, 2006 at 7:35 pm

    Nice to have a little BBQ and clean the windshield. Good find!

  30. Hojo says:
    April 4, 2006 at 3:40 am

    “Thankfully 1&1’s servers are handling the load quite well…”

    Can you also tell wich hosting plan you? Im very interested in a good hosting plan.

  31. Kevin says:
    April 4, 2006 at 9:06 am

    I have 1&1’s Linux Business plan. $9.99/month, 100 GB disk, Linux shell, 2000 email addresses, etc etc etc. So far (after 2+ years) it has been very stable, with only one or two minor issues. More info here.