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UFO Video Investigations

Over at Anomaly Magazine, SMiles Lewis has posted an excellent overview of some footage of a triangular UFO which shoots a beam of light. The footage has been doing the rounds of the usual credulous online UFO sources, but this article quickly brings things back to reality:

I serendipitously came across the website for the Hoax Research Center and when I clicked through the headline UFOs: Phoenix Lights Effect Reproduced I (re)discovered the Annual Speaking of Strange UFO Experience and Fake UFO Contest organized by paranormal author, researcher and radio personality, Joshua P. Warren. And what should I see on that page but a picture of Jeff Wilson’s First-Place Winning UFO from last year’s 3rd Annual Speaking of Strange UFO Experience, which looks strikingly similar to the video in question

Also, over at Strange Attractor our good pal Mark Pilkington has written up his thoughts on a recent video of an alleged UFO over Turkey. The image is clear (although as Mark says, “It’s one of the strange paradoxes of the UFO field that the clearer an image is, the less convincing it appears to be”), and even if fake at least offers some good Fortean thrills:

Whatever it is, the object has incredible presence, with the mechanorganic feel of something from HR Giger’s workshop, or the revived Battlestar Galactica. The lighting effect about half way through is spectacular and tallies with ‘genuine’ UFO reports from as far back as the 1950s. So if it is a scale model, full marks to whoever built it. And if it’s not… brrrr… we are property.

Once again though, it seems rather clear that video footage on its own simply doesn’t cut it in this day and age of cheap and easy CG effects.

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  1. Hmmm….
    [quote]During the 4months, between May and September 2008, many nationwide UFO sightings were reported from different parts of Turkey, while some of them were filmed and photographed and aired. Within the same period of time, these objects also witnessed by the residents of Kumburgaz/Yeni Kent Compound, caught on video several times by a night guard named Yalcin Yalman and these footages are considered as the closest and the most significant images ever filmed around the world.[/quote]

    In all these years, why hasn’t anyone bothered to accompany Mr. Yalman in one of his night watches, to confirm the sightings and perhaps film the objects with a second camcorder?

    At the very least, lend the man a decent HD video-camera!

    And where is the testimony of the all those other witnesses?

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    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

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