Publicity stunt for sure. Any movie with the budget to actually film there I'm sure would choose not to, not to mention the low quality of the effects and the public display.

mhlaxp

@chucklebuck:

Or in the AREA even.

chucklebuck

I dunno, but if you're in the are and notice that everyone around there starts getting really good at building machines, glowing green, and buying hundreds of D batteries at a time, run.

chucklebuck

Billy Gates' space craft crashed after a weekend long party at the Milky Way... that retirement is going greeeaaattt!

xint

look for the Doctor in the crowd !

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xenoastro

it's publicity stunt, ether BBC, Sony, or looking at the middle image with the swoop in the black triangle, stark industries.

big_marky_t

Shopped. :P

MastaFalse

Agree
Way too clean and neat

collin8579

Its part of an art thingy.

hu_hu_cool

Resistance

MacBandit

My guess is its a "Stress Busting Gadget" for Gaia.

CaptEO2000

the dirt is piled up way too neatly, the "craft" is way too clean. publicity stunt imho

MrBlahBlah

They are planting metal so it can grow into a building :)

VSorceress

It has to be the new Men in Black, just look at those suits!

MANIKENZ

I heard last night on CNN that they said that they saw a UFO during a missle launch, but now I see this! I can't find anything on the CNN website about it so maybe it is a cover up...

out2getu

redacted on giz... police state on the way...

tehronin

Sure seems a lot like Arthichoke's Telectroscope, but it sure seems too soon for another installation from them. [www.tiscali.co.uk] and previously on [gizmodo.com]

James

at best and installation piece...no crash, the dirt is mounded too neatly

k9bits

@Final: Definitely the Molemen.

ezman

And... there's been nothing in the news recently about a falling heat-sink in London.

tkatz

The X-Files: I Want to Believe. That's my guess.

Bauer22

Those guards look a little suspicious!

tkatz

It didn't come from the sky, the Molemen are invading from below!

Final

"AMD announces it's new line of processor coolers"

atomx

Judging by the size of that thing, it's unlikely that it was a crash, at least from above the atmosphere.
It looks more like a failed attempt at a new flying device.

zmjjmz

Back To The Future 4

Michael crashed the new time machine in the park because of the Parkinsons...hehe.

Tomahawk214

Men in Black part 60

gabberaz

It's Part 2 of Donnie Darko - this time: BIGGER TURBINE!

Hvedhrungr

CLOVERFIELD 2!!

JaggedToaster

it is an Art exhibit by Banksy :)

Tohe

Since the next new episodes of Doctor Who are a very long way off it's probably something being filmed for Torchwood.

Jrsy

Nothing to see here. Move along...

Jrsy

High-Tech advertising. The only way to really find out is to hop over the fence! If you get shot then its very real, if not then everyone in the black suits say "Dahhhhh you got us, its not real!"

livermore111

Maybe it's full of Backordered iPhone 3Gs!!!!!!! hopefully one will show up in my area

Wegmans

If there is to be only four episodes of Doctor Who next year, then I'm hoping that they will be good ones.

And that object is the aliens craft.

Theophilus P. Wildebeeste

It's Morgan Fairchild's vibrator.

bobdobbs

THE END IS NIGH! jk it's probably for some movie.

Sam_Zebian

MIB3 [www.themovieblog.com]

Hand_O_Death

MI6 or whoever is in charge of all the super top secret stuff probably just said, "Fuck it." and didn't bother to go the extra mile to cover anything up.

Absent Blue

@CaptEO2000: Shouldn't it have gone into the Grand Canyon then?

StarChaser Tyger

ON THE FLICKR IT SAYS THE PICTURES WERE TAKE IN JANURAY 2005

jhara19

There's a news article someone posted that mentions it's for a new car range.

RavingRabbid

The search for Spock is over.

BiZarRroBALlmeR

Probably for a movie... Either a scene or a viral marketing stunt.

Apoc112

the turbine is way to clean. It should be at least a little burnt for it to seem plausible.

bdk185

Marketing... at its finest.

Go Team Venture

@Tomahawk214: Cruel But LOL

Bllo

I'm not an expert on such situations. BUT, usually during an invasion the people are running in the opposite direction of the invading force. No?

phreakincool

Probably an art installation like the drill before the telectroscope.

schizmo

@Hvedhrungr: Except, you're not too far off with that idea: [www.imdb.com]

Petezah

Promo for the new Red Dwarf movie.

BiZarRroBALlmeR

@blankmind13: Lame. That's totally lame. Damnit.

budash2

Pimp my UFO.
Westwood's van must be just out of shot. That's the way it goes down. Cray-zeeee style.

mcbazza

Initially I thought "Watchmen" but then I realized watchmen was written by an englishman but not in England. Duh.

If it is an alien invasion then those bastards need a new decorator.

budash2

Xemu from the Galactic Confederacy lost his way to Tom Cruise's crib

kvstud

[www.london-se1.co.uk]

I think that explains it all.

blankmind13

It's real. The 2 --count 'em, dos-- vacuous-looking soldiers-for-hire sent to guard what could be the biggest thing to happen to humanity in, oh, say, the last 10 minutes or so, proves it.

twreckx

@Tomahawk214: LOL

ijuleguy

Day The Earth Stood Still

Amerikajin

It's actually a Vauxhall advert.

CarboyZR1

damn, so that's where I left that.

jkr2

These are showing up all over the world! It's actually a large intake fan connected to a remote device that keeps Al Gore's head inflated.

rg

Promo for the Day the Earth Stood Still. Not my idea but one of the flickr comments that I agree with.

DaWhoLagn

Top Gear did a new challenge?

CarboyZR1

Iranian news media again.

willyboy

i knew right away it was fake.

the way its crashed is to shallow if it went straight down and if it came down at a angle... wheres the trail it would have left in the dirt from sliding?

just simple stuff.

arcanedark

@JaggedToaster: Wow thinking about it now that sounds SOOOO FEASIBLE! It'd be awesome and something viral :D

DJTripleRRR

my guess is that it's related to the recently spotted faceless people.
[deadspin.com]

enumerator

The Day The Earth Stood Still

[www.dtessmovie.com]

But not if their truly dated 2005

Bodie1550

I think we're gonna need some more arctic silver...

discounteggroll

@Bodie1550: Agree!!!

JackMatt

It's very possible this has some kind of connection to the faceless people at Wimbledon...

IanSchafer

Husband: whoa! look at that spaceship that crashed into the park
Wife: OMG! i hope no one go hurt
Husband: you know what? lets go buy a new car!

Charging_Mooses

Torchwood or... Dr. Who?

GadgetGhurl

@Tomahawk214: BHAHAHAAAA.. that was mean.

bryanarr

@Petezah: That kinda was the point, you know?

And I think one of those guys in black is Kevin Federline...

Hvedhrungr

Did people actually think this thing was real??

I'm with the guy above a few posters. First thing I thought was an ad for a new 'Men in Black' type movie. I don't really see what this has to do with a car.

Unless... it's a space car.

ttech10

I was waiting for the headcrabs to pile out

KirkDouglas

Oh Giz .. giving out publicity for free? Ha and I thought you only bended-over for Apple.

Tohe

@chucklebuck: Awesomely obscure SK made for TV reference!

bpapa9013

holy shit flying cars are finally here!

does anyone know where they are gonna start installing the moving sidewalk?

yungjerry703

Them aliens sure has got some quite huge nostrils. 4:20 anyone?

Rodeodave

Sorry gang, I didn't fasten down my cpu cooler properly and it flew off again. Hope no one was hurt.

Uncle Remus

I WANT TO BELEIVE

Jrsy

probably a BMW inside there.

Namster

Can somebody who happens to own a TARDIS explain to me what I'm looking at?

fluf

I don't know what it is but there are reports of huge pieces of shredded lettuce floating in the Thames.

hardenstuhl

@strider_mt2k: Now that would be awesome. Of course we all know that Dr. Who is just a on going BBC documentary disguised to cover up the actual alien invasions. Being the ethical organization that the BBC is, it can't tell a lie, but we think it's fiction.

DeadWriter

"Suddenly the top began moving...rotating...unscrewing. Ogilvy feared there was a man inside trying to escape, but the intense heat stopped him before he could burn himself on the metal."

markarian

Klaatu barada nikto - my ass.
May Harry Bates, Edmund H. North and Robert Wise rest in peace.

I would hate to think it for the remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth which opened this week. It looks more like a mole than something that crashes into the ground.

DeadWriter

TORCHWOOD

strider_mt2k

Those turbines are def. pushing 300hp to the wheels

iCanhasLs2plz

@atomx: For the new 55,000 core Intel killer. Only to be outdone a week later by the 55,001 core AMD killer.

Thrillcekr

land sakes, JEnkins! I told you we staqrted the boring ascent too soon! this is france at all!!!!
blimey we haven't quite made the channel yet.
Chunnel My Arse!!!!

Titus_Andronicus

that's some David Icke's shit

elpapi

ahh I was hoping for some sort of marketing strategy for the new X Files movie or something.

Internet-TV

I only see swamp gas.

Turtlestack

(FLASH)

... what crater?

lcllam

OPEL promo:

[www.london-se1.co.uk]

HelsinkiValo

definately a publicity stunt. there isn't a scratch on the turbine. it was simply placed in that location.

jimbut

Initially I thought it may have something to do with filming an episode of Torchwood, due to the relatively low-tech looking special effects/props (I still love it and Doctor Who), and the guards who try too hard to look cool....

Following someone's link there was a mentioning of a publicity campaign for a new car range, so don'know...

But man they need to work on the quality of their props... it looks as if someone freshly took it out of the studio with a fresh paint rather than something which supposedly crashed landed.

techDot

Potters Field. This is what's going on. http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/3419 Rich

SatyarupaFearbot

Not a real alien invasion, it's a publicity stunt/art installation.
My opinnion is that the crash crater is quite clean for something which plummeted through the earth's atmosphere.
Second is that a ship like that would of cracked releasing its engine fluids into the ground. As a result there is risk that the fluids will leach into the river or other surrounding ecosystems. As a result an enviroment agency should be working to clean up.
Also more effort than metal fencing would be used to hide alien craft from the public, since aliens aren't really part of our normal day to day life.

scw55

From the looks of it, it's anything but real. If it was from the atmosphere the impact would have been different on the ground (unless it was only a about 1000 feet in the air), if it came from underground it wouldn't be so clean. Did anyone else notice that the Sphere in the middle is off center. like a poorly built prop

AlessandraHaruhism

Dr. Who

Lupison

Educated: Proly selling something
Uneducated: Dur

Duc

@Internet-TV: I was thinking the same thing when I saw this.

:(

SeventhExile

Richard Branson's spaceship II, piloted by novice Rose Tyler. It's just a scratch. Just let me at it with my sonic screw driver.

Notch_Johnson

Steve Fossit has returned in his homemade TARDIS.

Notch_Johnson

HMMM IS THAT A 1960S POLICE BOX IN THE BACKGROUND :)

sirdoctoroftardis

"Potters Fields Park has been hired for a stunt to promote the launch of the Vauxhall Insignia car (sold under the Opel brand outside the UK)."

Aparently this would be more suited on Jalopnik than Giz.

[www.london-se1.co.uk]

punisher-prime

Looks like that steampunk telescope that came up a while ago, except more in the beginning stages, where there was a giant drill bit sectioned off. Or the X-Files, who knows.

Looking forward to updates on this.

grantwall

This to me,reminds me of the steampunk giant tunneling devices that showed up before the giant telescope "Under the Earth" Looking forward to seeing what it turns out to be.

LarsAdrastus

I was hoping for another Royal de Luxe show:
[www.thesultanselephant.com]

photodesign

it is a powerful rocket engine to speed up earths
spin and get back that leap second.

freqhz