I don’t usually post about Google’s doodles, but this one is special. Google’s homepage has an interesting doodle that shows a UFO and links to the search results for [unexplained phenomenon].
The doodle is self-referential because many people will think that the doodle itself is an unexplained phenomenon.
To make things more interesting, Google posted an encrypted message on its Twitter account:
1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19
decrypted as “All your O are belong to us”, a reference to the popular Internet meme “All your base are belong to us”.
The doodle’s URL is http://www.google.com/logos/go_gle.gif, which suggests that there’s a missing “O”.
Some people suggest that the doodle could be connected to the Exeter UFO Festival. “The Exeter incident was a highly-publicized UFO sighting that occurred in September 1965, approximately 5 miles from Exeter, New Hampshire, in the neighboring community of Kensington.”
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