Google's UFO mystery

Google is again leaving users puzzled today by displaying another picture of a UFO on its home page. This time the image above the search engine shows a flying saucer hovering over crop circles.

The word ‘Google’ is spelled out in several crop circles, with what appears to be a tractor completing the letter ‘L’.

The internet giant has once again broken with the tradition of only marking historic events by using another image of a UFO today.

But after Google used Twitter last week to display its clues for the UFO it hosted, amateur net detectives had an easier job trying to solve today’s mystery.

On their Twitter account Google posted on its account the map reference 51.327629, 0.5616088, which eagle-eyed sci-fi fans have identified as the center of the small town of Horsell in Surrey – This was the spot where HG Wells set the first UFO landing in his novel The War of the Worlds.

The most prominent explanation on the web is that Google is trailing an online ‘happening’ that will coincide with the 143rd anniversary of Wells’s birth next week.

Last week it sent out a Twitter message in a numerical code which was: 1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19. Deciphered (using the alphabet, 1=A and so on) it says ‘All you o are belong to us.’