What in the name of Jeb IS that???

[ZooNamedGames]

I was performing an SLS-1-alike mission, where I launched my Duna CTV into a free return trajectory so I could test it quickly and see how the capsule/heatshield performed under high speeds (in this case 3.2km/s). And on my way back I saw this dot, this flickering object on the surface of Kerbin. What IS it? Did I see a monolith from 70km+? Is that the hidden pyrimids? I thought they didn't exist anymore??

I do have the game set to extremely low graphics which I know can allow me to see things far further than they otherwise should be. I also have Distant Object mod thing. So I don't know which of these two things are causing it, but I can see for miles. Moreover, I knowingly can see the KSC when I pass over it, but this ISN'T the KSC NOR the hidden one!! This is too far east and south of it!

As a general background of where I am, I was near the second of the 2 large peninsulas on the edge of the desert (west of the KSC), I was near there.

Picture 1:

Note the object to the left of the capsule are my spent Service Module and separator. It's the object which is 1 o'clock in angle to my spacecraft. WHAT IS IT??

Picture 2:

This is it's hard to see, but it's a little blob at about 8:45 degrees to my spacecraft. More blobish in shape here. It's really hard to see, but it's there.

Picture 2a:

This is just the 2nd image again but with the brightness increased, credit to MadRocketScientist.

Picture 3:

Heres its hard to see again, but it's the triangular shape in the 6th band from the left. This picture is what makes me think it's the pyramids.

Edited October 11, 2015 by ZooNamedGames

[Draconiator]

Hmmmm....I'll check it out for you.

[lajoswinkler]

Rendering errors. Happens on all settings.

[Sharkman Briton]

The pyramids do still exist, but in the desert, I think they might be underground in the low graphics though... Interesting, go call one of those crazy easter-egg hunters or Elcano Challenge-ers.

[Draconiator]

Here are the easter eggs on Kerbin, if any of them match, there ya go

• Five Monoliths: one visible from KSC, one by the tracking station at the Inland Kerbal Space Center (20° 40′ 15″ N 146° 29′ 48″ W), one at 35° 34′ 13″ N 74° 58′ 38″ W, one at 0° 38′ 25″ S 80° 46′ 0″ W, and one at 28° 48′ 30″ S 13° 26′ 24″ W
  
• Destructible memorial to the old Mk1 Command Pod outside the level 3 VAB.
  
• A temple in the desert (6° 30′ 20″ S 142° 41′ 8″ W) It is actually called Tut-Un Jeb-Ahn, if you crash into it.
  
• A crashed flying saucer on northern ice cap (81° 57′ 18″ N 128° 30′ 50″ W)
  
• The Old Airfield (1° 31′ 43″ S 71° 54′ 8″ E) has a hangar containing old versions of these parts: a Command Pod Mk1 (but scorched and oversized), an old FL-T400 Fuel Tank and an old LV-T45 Liquid Fuel Engine.
  
• The level 3 flagpole at KSC can be climbed by Kerbals.
  
• When the level 3 Astronaut Complex is destroyed, a toilet is visible in the rubble.
  
• In the ocean just south of the KSC, about midway between land and the southern ice cap (about 30° 0′ 0″ S 80° 0′ 0″ W), engraved into the ocean floor is a giant smiley face, best seen from orbit or on a topography map like File:Kerbin heightmap.jpg.
  

[ZooNamedGames]

Rendering errors. Happens on all settings.

I don't think so, since I've seen rendering errors, this was persistent and it didn't move. Such as the KSC from orbit.

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Here are the easter eggs on Kerbin, if any of them match, there ya go

• Five Monoliths: one visible from KSC, one by the tracking station at the Inland Kerbal Space Center (20° 40′ 15″ N 146° 29′ 48″ W), one at 35° 34′ 13″ N 74° 58′ 38″ W, one at 0° 38′ 25″ S 80° 46′ 0″ W, and one at 28° 48′ 30″ S 13° 26′ 24″ W
  
• Destructible memorial to the old Mk1 Command Pod outside the level 3 VAB.
  
• A temple in the desert (6° 30′ 20″ S 142° 41′ 8″ W) It is actually called Tut-Un Jeb-Ahn, if you crash into it.
  
• A crashed flying saucer on northern ice cap (81° 57′ 18″ N 128° 30′ 50″ W)
  
• The Old Airfield (1° 31′ 43″ S 71° 54′ 8″ E) has a hangar containing old versions of these parts: a Command Pod Mk1 (but scorched and oversized), an old FL-T400 Fuel Tank and an old LV-T45 Liquid Fuel Engine.
  
• The level 3 flagpole at KSC can be climbed by Kerbals.
  
• When the level 3 Astronaut Complex is destroyed, a toilet is visible in the rubble.
  
• In the ocean just south of the KSC, about midway between land and the southern ice cap (about 30° 0′ 0″ S 80° 0′ 0″ W), engraved into the ocean floor is a giant smiley face, best seen from orbit or on a topography map like File:Kerbin heightmap.jpg.
  

Maybe a monolith, need to do more searching.

Definitely not the memorial, seen it, and it's at the KSC, not the desert.

I'm already wondering if it's the pyramids. So maybe it is.

I'm definitely not at the pole.

I know where the airfield was, and I was far far west of it.

Definitely not the KSC flag pole.

Definitely not a hidden toilet.

And I'm too far north and west for it to be the underwater face.

[DMSP]

It looks almost like a Part...

[LordFerret]

Can you correlate it to a map view? Could be mountain tops in the rising sun.

[Findthepin1]

Might be a piece of debris from another mission, that you rendezvoused with accidentally. It's possible depending on how much debris is in your save file.

EDIT: nope I found an error in that statement of mine.

[ZooNamedGames]

It looks almost like a Part...

Definitely not a part. There were only 2 major segments within load distance (2.3km) and they were on the opposite side of the spacecraft at that time.

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Can you correlate it to a map view? Could be mountain tops in the rising sun.

It isn't a mountain top, but I'll try to point out a general area in a map.

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Might be a piece of debris from another mission, that you rendezvoused with accidentally. It's possible depending on how much debris is in your save file.

EDIT: nope I found an error in that statement of mine.

Indeed you did, for several reasons. One, none were within load distance and lastly, it was on the ground, motionless.

[Bill Phil]

Maybe you saw through the planet, looking at another planet?

[ZooNamedGames]

Maybe you saw through the planet, looking at another planet?

Doubtful, once I got closer as shown in the last photo it was triangular. So I don't think so.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

I took your second image, and increased the brightness quite a bit:

[ZooNamedGames]

I took your second image, and increased the brightness quite a bit:

http://i.imgur.com/W3OKnDt.png?1

Can you do that for another image? Since that looks pretty freakin cool. Very artistic.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

Can you do that for another image? Since that looks pretty freakin cool. Very artistic.

Sure! I'm just using imgur's built-in image editor. I could fool with contrast too.

[ZooNamedGames]

Sure! I'm just using imgur's built-in image editor. I could fool with contrast too.

Ok. Well can you figure out a way to make the anomaly on the 3rd image more apparent? Since the best I have is paint.

[mythbusters844]

It's a known bug with Distant Object Enhancement where the planet flare texture can sometimes "wander" around and come close to your vessel. Make sure you have the latest version too as this bug is more common in the older ones.

Ok. Well can you figure out a way to make the anomaly on the 3rd image more apparent? Since the best I have is paint.

Here:

Edited October 11, 2015 by mythbusters844

[ZooNamedGames]

It's a known bug with Distant Object Enhancement where the planet flare texture can sometimes "wander" around and come close to your vessel. Make sure you have the latest version too as this bug is more common in the older ones.

No I don't think so, this was distant. I was seeing it from space, and it was obviously on the ground. Moreover it was stationary. So maybe a DOE bug, but not that specific one.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

It's a known bug with Distant Object Enhancement where the planet flare texture can sometimes "wander" around and come close to your vessel. Make sure you have the latest version too as this bug is more common in the older ones.

Here:

http://i.imgur.com/3DWGKWF.png

Thanks, I was having trouble.

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Improved first image:

[legoclone09]

Launch clamps. Known bug with them, in the pictures it also appears to be them. Happens alot.

[Rocketfeline]

Hmm.. I wonder what it could be...

[ZooNamedGames]

Launch clamps. Known bug with them, in the pictures it also appears to be them. Happens alot.

No, it's not clamps. They're selectable, and I tried to select the object with no success.

[Findthepin1]

I am sending a plane to fly to the area where this… thing… was spotted, to see if anything is there in my save.

[Draconiator]

Me too, although I will be sending up a small rocket

[ZooNamedGames]

Good luck to all, but I suggest setting your game to the lowest possible graphics since that's what I had it on. Moreover I think it lowers the general level of the terrain which can let you see more.