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August 20, 2006
Firefox Crop Circle in Google Earth
[UPDATE 24-Nov-2006: Google has added an aerial photo of the site to the built-in imagery so you can see the logo was really there. Here is the actual location 
. I also moved the image overlay below to the correct location. The image overlay is higher resolution as it was taken from a plane.]
A bunch of Firefox devotees set out to generate more PR for Firefox. They decided to make a huge accurate Firefox logo in a crop field (designs like these are called "crop circles" - see the "official" Google Earth crop circle collection). This was a big project involving a lot of planning, building the crop stompers (to lay down the vegetation), GPSes, walkie-talkies, a plane and a helicopter (for the aerial photos). I took one of their high-resolution aerial photos and have overlayed the photo of the Firefox Crop Circle in Google Earth . This is only an approximate location, as I wasn't able to find the coordinates for the field.
Learn more about how they made the Firefox Crop Circle here. More on the making of the Firefox Crop Circle (including a video).
Posted by FrankTaylor at August 20, 2006 11:22 AM
Comments
Posted by: Million Dolar at August 23, 2006 3:24 PM
I'm pretty sure these are the coordinates:
45°7'26"N 123°6'48"W
I have it tagged in Wikimapia.
Posted by: Kyle Bennett at September 24, 2006 11:50 AM
Look south of the circle and you can see people lying on their backs in the field!
Posted by: Michael at December 8, 2006 9:05 AM
And what about the vehicles near the people? They form an F and an X. Am I right?
Posted by: blg at January 17, 2007 1:00 PM
The F actually consists of a plane!
Posted by: magnox at March 3, 2007 8:43 AM
Funny, this happens to be right next to my parents place.
Posted by: Rich at June 17, 2007 1:30 AM
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Posted by: lulu at June 25, 2007 12:21 PM
OMG that is so cool, and you know it makes me think a bit. Are world is so huge! Who knows what huge illutions or hidden towers etc. are on google earth.
Posted by: Joe at August 24, 2007 8:49 PM
One could think soon a Firefox UFO would have landed there. No joke aside that is to be already really surely brought in an extensive thing been for such a motive.
Posted by: Tapeten at October 9, 2007 8:45 AM
its obviosly an image overlay put into it as a promotion im 13 and i could do a more realistic job at it in photoshop and image overlay it on
also r those peeps and cars and planes forming an f x and ?
Posted by: zac at February 15, 2008 9:50 PM
The people laying on their backs form a question mark. And it's not fake.
Posted by: Kay at April 8, 2008 1:43 PM
I'm amazed someone who can't even type properly could do any proper Photoshop at all, though I do not doubt his ability level for his ability to gamble whether a picture is photoshopped or not.
Read it here: http://lug.oregonstate.edu/wiki/Grain
I'd say: Yes, Firefox crop circle in Google Earth is just as fake as the whole Google Earth world (see the logic?).
Posted by: Lie at August 31, 2008 1:28 PM
i think the people make a question mark......but im might be crazy
Posted by: pfc brecht at September 18, 2008 4:27 AM
Coos are 45° 7'25.11"N, 123° 6'48.69"W
Just copy paste that in GE to see that ;)
Posted by: Igrice at June 18, 2010 12:47 PM
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Posted by: maher9897 at March 16, 2011 7:14 AM
That's some really awsome work. The amount of time it must have taken on that field is not to be under estimated.
Posted by: Zojirushi NS-TGC10 at April 16, 2011 3:44 PM
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Firefox Crop Circle? :) And now we have to look for this image http://www.milliondollarhosting.net/upload/30735_footer.jpg in Nostradamus's prophesies? :)