[dr_lew]

The three "spaceships" can be seen as blue shapes at separate coordinates at the SKY-MAP web site. I found this blog which conveniently shows the variously shaped excerpted images with their coordinates. The SKY-MAP site supports several image sources, but the default is called DSS2, and I found the site that gives the raw images.

Here's the original image from the SKYVIEW QUERY FORUM, with DSS2 Blue Optical Survey selected with coordinates 16 19 35, -88 43 10 :

The unseemly mess is evidently an artifact, since it does not show up on the DSS2 Red image of the same coordinates. Of course this is why it is such a pure blue.

The earliest blog references to these "spaceships" that I saw are from March 2010, and I surmise that the story originated with some UFO enthusiast perusing the SKY-MAP site.

[Quix]

Interesting.

Hope you’re right! LOL.

[JoeProBono]

Nice catch!