{"id":1476,"date":"2010-05-22T20:13:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T20:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/satellite-imagery\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T10:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:57:24","slug":"satellite-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/satellite-imagery\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite Imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"

S<\/strong>atellite<\/strong> I<\/strong>magery <\/strong>has recently been introduced into the Atlantis search with a variety of location claims based on features visible from space. These assertions include Albania<\/a> (2007), Andalusia<\/a>, <\/strong>Spain (2003), Cyrenaica<\/a>, Libya (2005) and Sherbro Island<\/a>, Sierra Leone (2007). All such claims must, of necessity, be treated with extreme caution unless substantiated by archaeology on the ground (or underwater). At best, only one of the sites listed here can be correct and probably all are not, since Atlantis is supposed to have been submerged and so not yet readily visible to the scrutiny of our current aerial mapping technology.<\/p>\n

A number of satellite images showing underwater anomalies<\/a> have been claimed as evidence of Atlantis, but so far all have been shown to be the result of faulty data gathering and\/or defective analysis of the data.<\/p>\n

In 2010 there was a claim that Atlantis had been located using satellite imagery that placed it underwater between Bermuda and the Bahamas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the most extreme claims based on images has come from Joseph P.Skipper <\/a>who has identified some seafloor markings as an ancient script, apparently ignoring the fact that the lines of the writing would probably have to be a mile in width!<\/p>\n

Skipper also promoted the rectangular Google Earth images of the Atlantic, west of Gibraltar as the enormous ruins of manmade structures(c)<\/sup><\/span>. Others claimed that the lines were ‘streets’. When Google explained that the images were a consequence of flawed data\"\"<\/a> processing cries of ‘cover up’ could be heard. In the end, people believe what they want to believe.<\/p>\n

In April 3, 2018, British tabloids regurgitated the same flawed images under the familiar ‘Atlantis FOUND’ headline, this time crediting Blake Cousins as the ‘discoverer’(d)<\/sup><\/span>.<\/p>\n

In July 2021 I was sent a number of images that purported to show anomalous underwater images in the Central Mediterranean northeast of Malta. At first sight, they appeared to show extensive manmade features. However, further investigation eventually revealed that the images were the consequence of the flawed computer interpretation of sonar data. <\/b>In December 2021 Luigi Usai <\/a>produced (a)<\/sup>(b)<\/sup> the same flawed imagery as evidence that he had discovered a lost submerged civilisation!<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Why didn\u2019t scientists find Atlantis before Usai Luigi? ? Atlantis found!<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Amazing discovery of a hidden unknown mysterious submerged civilization in Sicily-Malta Escarpment by Luigi Usai \u2013 Atlantis exists! Found by Dr. Luigi Usai (atlantisfound.it)<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0Ancient Atlantis or Another? (bibliotecapleyades.net)<\/a>
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(d)<\/sup><\/span> Atlantis FOUND? 400-mile ‘undersea land mass’ found on Google Earth in the Azores | Weird | News | Express.co.uk<\/a>
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Satellite Imagery has recently been introduced into the Atlantis search with a variety of location claims based on features visible from space. These assertions include Albania (2007), Andalusia, Spain (2003), Cyrenaica, Libya (2005) and Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone (2007). All such claims must, of necessity, be treated with extreme caution unless substantiated by archaeology on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[142,341,137,7466,7467,608,752,2317,6702,12,2619,127,750],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-albania","tag-andalusia","tag-bahamas","tag-bermuda","tag-blake-cousins","tag-cyrenaica","tag-google-earth","tag-joseph-p-skipper","tag-luigi-usai","tag-malta","tag-satellite-imagery","tag-sherbro-island","tag-underwater-anomalies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64210,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/64210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}