10 Places That Are Suspiciously Blurry on Google Maps

Whether due to security or paranoia, there are many places on Google Earth that you won’t be able to go peaking around in. Some governments specifically request Google to blur certain areas out while other times the only satellite imagery available to the public is severely outdated. These are 10 places that are suspiciously blurry on Google Maps.
 

Airbase at Reims, France

Yet another air force base, it seems that these have a pretty solid track record of getting blurred out.

NATO Headquarters Portugal

The Portuguese headquarters of NATO got another piece of Google Earth pasted over top of it.

Noordwijk Aan Zee, Netherlands

Home to the ESTEC or European Space Research and Technology Centre, a big part of this small dutch community is very obviously obscured.

Air base Ramstein, Germany

The central point for “Operation Iraqi Freedom”, it’s not too surprising that this location is a bit blurry.

Unknown area, Russia

Some says it’s a missile system, some say it’s a testing facility but nobody is really sure what actually exists here and it seems that an image was inserted from another region of Russia.

Mobile Oil Corporation, New York

Although most places get blurred out due to the possibility of being a terrorist target, Mobil has been criticized for doing so needlessly.

Volkel Air Base, Netherlands

After WikiLeaks published diplomatic correspondence confirming the presence of nuclear weapons this place got really blurry really quick.

Mazda Raceway, California

Although military installations make sense to blur out, this heavily whited out California racetrack is probably one of the stranger examples of Google censorship.

Alexei Miller House, Russia

This is supposedly the home of Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, but the blurriness makes us think it might be a whole lot more…