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A ghostly image of a passenger plane "submerged" in Lake Harriet, spotted on Google Maps, gave birth to a mystery. However, thanks to the experts, that mystery has now been solved. Rare pictures of a plane that appeared to have been sunk at the bottom of a US lake had surfaced on Google's satellite map. While the officials claimed to have no information of a plane crash in the region, the unexplained wreck under the lake aroused some weird controversies, reports Independent.

However, before these controversies got out of hand, Google Maps spokeswoman suggested that there was a plausible explanation for this situation. Since the Google Satellite image is created in a certain way, it is possible that the picture was taken at the same time as a plane flew over it, making the two objects merge into a single picture, says Daily Mail.

Susan Cadrecha, a spokeswoman for Google maps, told The Minneapolis Star-Tribune: "In short, each satellite image you see on the map is actually a compilation of several images.

"Fast-moving objects like planes often show up in only one of the many images we use for a given area."

As Lake Harriet is situated at a distance of 5 miles from the Minneapolis Airport, there are as many as 400,000 planes that fly in and out of it each year. Since it is also under the airport's flight path, Google's theory makes absolute sense.

There have been other Google satellite images that also show planes in inexplicable locations. There was once an image of a passenger plane in a playground in New York that was spotted by Untapped Cities.

Last month, it was also discovered that there are many places that are strangely blacked out by Google Maps, as reported by Mirror.