A god-like figure has been spotted on Google Street View, hovering midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland.

Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is most likely to be the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more mysterious origins.

Snapped by Street View above a Swiss lake.

“Is it something on the camera lens? Or is it maybe... God and His only begotten Son?

“And who's to say that God isn't 'something on the lens', in some kind of a cosmic, metaphysical sense?” he writes.