To me this looks like an insect of some sort, but any alternate suggestions are welcome. It is only visible on a couple of frames of the Street View camera, and is best viewed with Google Maps, rather than Google Earth.
A UFO or an insect
© Google Maps
By ozlingula @ 2011-04-10 18:28:34
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=61.216753%C2%B0+-117.509846%C2%B0&aq=&sll=-27.517198,152.950244&sspn=0.014444,0.033023&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=61.216988,-117.50909&panoid=3JqdWkhNib8Ky4jYcpnC0A&cbp=12,107.17,,3,-22.08&ll=61.216988,-117.50909&spn=0.000812,0.002376&z=19
That it is a dragonfly.
A helicopter would be in the succeeding images in roughly the same place. This one moved way too much from the first to second frame to be very far away.
At first I had thought it to be a dragonfly, however as you indicate, the fact that the object only appears on two frames does suggest an insect, but how big is it? Also, how far does the SV car travel between frames. A dragonfly is only a few cms long.
Also, as you suggest, one might expect a helicopter to appear on more than two frames. I agree.
I am still a bit ambivalent.
I now agree with you and your reasoning, as do those at http://goo.gl/kOPAd
thank you :-)
right for a helicopter.