( CNN ) -- They 've been spotted and spotted again , those objects in the southern Indian Ocean . Every time a report comes out that something has been seen that may be related to missing Malaysia Flight 370 , hopes have risen . And then , they have fallen . It 's seemed like a daily exercise . For instance , images taken by a Thai satellite and released Thursday showed about 300 objects ranging in size from 6 feet ( 2 meters ) to 50 feet ( 15 meters ) . When photographed Monday , they were about 125 miles ( 201 kilometers ) away from the spot where a French satellite captured images of a floating group of objects Sunday . Could it be ? Knowing for sure is a waiting game . It will be at least Friday before planes can try to find the materials because bad weather in the remote spot has again hampered searching . Here 's a rundown of how many times we 've been through this : . On March 9 , Vietnam 's navy spotted a floating object about 80 kilometers ( 50 miles ) southwest of Vietnam 's Tho Chu Island , which is off the country 's southwest coast in the Gulf of Thailand , Vietnam National Search and Rescue Committee spokesman Hung Nguyen told CNN . Vietnamese navy rescue aircraft spotted the object in the evening hours local time . Because of the dark , the navy aircraft could not get close enough to identify the floating object and was recalled to base . Three search and rescue boats were deployed to that location . Several days later , a Chinese satellite had a sighting that captured a lot of interest but it was later retracted as a mistake . It was not in the southern Indian ocean . China said it captured a `` suspected floating object '' on March 18 . The object the Chinese photographed was 22.5 meters long and 13 meters wide ( 74 feet by 43 feet ) , officials said . Around March 19 , it was reported that witnesses on the ground claimed they saw Flight 370 . A man from New Zealand working on an oil rig off Vietnam claimed he saw a burning object in the sky on the morning of March 8 , hours after the plane had taken off from Kuala Lumpur on its way to Beijing . Then came reports that had many believing `` This is it ! '' and headlines carried the news . But it turned out to be nothing . On March 20 , CNN quoted Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott as saying that authorities had spotted two objects in the Indian Ocean that were possibly related to the search for missing Flight 370 . Those objects have not been found . During a March 22 search , a civil aircraft reported that it had spotted some small objects floating , including a wooden pallet , the Australian Maritime Safety Authority ( AMSA ) said . These objects were within a radius of about three miles . A Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion was sent to the area , but only reported seeing bunches of seaweed , AMSA said . On March 24 , Australian officials said they saw two objects in the southern Indian Ocean that could be related to the flight . One object was `` a gray or green circular object , '' and the other was `` an orange rectangular object , '' according to AMSA . Mary Schiavo , a CNN aviation analyst and former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation , appeared on CNN to explain why those objects seemed intriguing . Read her comments . `` The gray/green is the color of the inside of the aircraft , '' she said . `` A great number of pieces of metal and other things in the aircraft are of gray/green color , everything from the metal in the fuselage and pieces of the mechanical parts ... '' Orange and bright yellow `` are the color of the emergency escape slides , the life rafts inside the plane , '' she said . `` The life vests , but they would n't be that big . So there are many things that are those colors that could be a signal that it 's not something that has fallen off a ship but rather that it 's something from out of a plane . '' The Australian naval ship HMAS Success did n't turn up the objects when it searched Monday night , AMSA said . There is no word yet if those objects have been found or what they are . Also on Monday , a Chinese military plane said it had seen `` suspicious objects '' in the same area.A U.S. surveillance plane sent to follow up was unable to find them . On Wednesday , a French defense firm provided new satellite images that showed 122 objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean , not far from other satellite sightings that could be related to Flight 370 , Malaysia 's acting Transportation Minister Hishammuddin Bin Hussein said . The objects were scattered over 154 square miles ( 400 square kilometers ) , he said . Hishammuddin said he was n't sure if Australian authorities coordinating the search for the plane Wednesday had been able to follow up on the new satellite images , which came from Airbus Defence and Space . Read : China treads carefully amid the anger and grief of MH370 relatives .
U.S. Flight 300 went down in the southern Indian Ocean , officials say . There have been 370 of objects seen but nothing has been the real deal . Latest sighting ? 370 objects spotted by a Australian satellite .