Michael Shermer on How to Fake UFO Photographs
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2007
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The best evidence that UFOs represent spacecraft from other worlds consists of grainy photographs, blurry videos, and anecdotes about things that go bump in the night. In this episode Michael Shermer shows how easy it is to fake UFO photographs, enlisting the help of children and disposable cameras to create convincing photographic evidence that even fooled experts!
You can tell this video is from the early 2000s. The kids are actually normal
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Boomer ass comment even back 7 years ago
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I guarantee you there's some UFU nut out there claiming Shermer's photos are real.
And there's some stupid knee jerk debunker claming all UFO footage has been faked or can be easily explained,which is obviously not true,
It doesn't matter if you can "show" some photographs in UFOlogy are faked or hoaxed,it's irrelevant, what matters is the consistency of eye witnesses which directly matches the photograph taken.Then there comes "what the object did","what did it look like"ect.
And all the Abduction cases. All whistleblowers that have come out. There is just more then photos, there are also many videos. I’m not a firm believer but I know it’s possible that these craft exist. My theory has been that the US government has had the technology since Tesla died. They raided his Apartment and stole many inventions that where there.
4:46 HOLY CRAP, the expert is using a basic Windows paint program to test the photos! LOL
That's neat. Great shots by the kids of their UFO's! I'm going to work on a book of my own fake UFO's. Great idea! :-)
That first guy looks perpetually being blown back by the wind. o_O
"A UFO will always position it self just beyond the focal length and resolution of the camera you are using" I don't know where I read that but I thought it was funny. Kind of reminds me of Bigfoot: "I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry. And that's extra scary to me, because there's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run. He's fuzzy. Get outta here." -Mitch Hedberg R.I.P
(cont.) Because you've PERSONALLY looked into this and in face-to-face conversation physically confronted these pilots and other people and demanded video evidence or testimony. Even though these people are very likely highly trained, very astute and well groomed individuals who pilot high speed aircraft day in and day out, trained to recognize just about anything flying in the air over any country, but they just aren't as smart or articulate as you. My world is shattered.
i think that's the best analogy i've ever heard.
Evelyn Trent must have been a wiz at throwing a frizbee that far and to then get a shot of it before it sped off into the wide blue yonder!
Outstanding video!
Verse 1:
Billy Meier had a tale to tell,
Of aliens from beyond the spell,
He claimed he talked to them each night,
And they showed him visions out of sight.
Chorus:
Ra Ra Billy Meier, Swiss man with a story,
Aliens from far, they came to see the glory,
Ra Ra Billy Meier, with his cosmic sight,
Sharing his knowledge, under starry light.
Verse 2:
Rasputin was a mystic man,
With powers beyond the human span,
Billy's tales were just as wild,
Of spaceships and beings mild.
Chorus:
Ra Ra Billy Meier, Swiss man with a story,
Aliens from far, they came to see the glory,
Ra Ra Billy Meier, with his cosmic sight,
Sharing his knowledge, under starry light.
Bridge:
Some say they're crazy, out of their mind,
But others believe, in what they find,
Billy and Rasputin, they left a mark,
A legacy of tales, that hit the mark.
Chorus:
Ra Ra Billy Meier, Swiss man with a story,
Aliens from far, they came to see the glory,
Ra Ra Billy Meier, with his cosmic sight,
Sharing his knowledge, under starry light.
Outro:
Billy and Rasputin, what a pair,
Both had stories that were rare,
Ra Ra Billy Meier, we sing with pride,
Their tales will never subside.
They are making it very easy from them selves, with the simple fact that they are ignoring all millitary reports of radar confirmations, sightnings on millitary installations, shutting down missile silos and so on.
Shermer is brilliant, as usual.
Nicely done. Now more than ever video and film carry almost no weight as proof of UFOs as extraterrestrial craft. Your film shows why simple tricks are the most effective.
And it all started back in 1870, when a guy thought 'let's throw a cigarshaped object in the sky and photograph it and say to everyone 'hey I took a picture of an ufo!' '.
Transcendental vision!
To find more info on the NASA court case just key in: "Live Science opening NASA's X files"
"I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs".
Col. Gordon Cooper, (January 14, 1997)
Wow that must be the ultimate proof then? What video, where did the video come from, who filmed it?
As always, another great clip. Thanks Michael!
wow..awesome
I believe Shermer's an alien. It's the hair.
(part2)My sister has seen things, parents of friends told me encounters in confidence, 2 friends of my father's, now retired from American AL (pilot) had a number of sightings while flying (ex-pilots as well(retired)).Try being an 8 yr. old and having a fab life after seeing one of these things.
I know when I have won the argument when people start to be abusive, "when you start to open your eyes(all three". Is that the best you can come up with?
The idea of life on other planets isn't the part that's being debated. Most scientists agree that that the possibility of other life somewhere out there is a pretty good. The controversial part is whether these being have visited earth. Judging by the fact that so many people take the time to make up hoaxes about UFOs, and also that Einstein proved that traveling at the speed of light is completely impossible, I would say that the chances that any UFO encounter being true is pretty dang low.
"The case was left as an unknown" as Shermer says "first of all you have to make sure they are not of this world" and that hasn't been done.
Man, the kid with the "Technicon Spacecraft" is so like myself at that age it's scary
Billy Meier, Billy Meier.
Yah this is 16 yrs ago, now our own leaders finally admit it
More importantly, the fact that its almost certain life exists elsewhere does not imply it is at all likely it has visited earth within the last 10,000 years
Didn't you watch the clip? He never said that these fake photos disprove UFOs, just that we need much better evidence than these type of pictures. It was also about how people can be easily fooled into believing a picture is real when it is fake.
Pilots have seen "mysterious things" before and upon more investigation have been found as natural phenomena. Even the best observers can be tricked and I din't say I was smarter than anyone.
strange coincidence...I saw something similar many years ago..(late '80s) at red river gorge.. daniel boone national forest. I thought the same thing...that perhaps it was a reflection. I was alone on the road at night and there was no other traffic for miles. alway puzzled me
Right, and the fact that I can photoshop it doesn't mean that I have NOT been to Florida. Basically, in the modern CGI age, images don't mean much, which leaves it as an open question. Why is the phrase, "The question remains unanswered" so hard for pseudo-scientists to utter?
People dont wabt to believe what has explanation.They want to believe something exciting and extraordinary.😓
actually by showing that a fake can be accepted by people shows that we need to do more research on a subject, rather than just thinking a picture is true because it "looks" real. A sunset and volcanic eruption are one thing, but being visited by aliens who don't even stop and say hello is something totally different.
so complicated crop circels done in one night sometimes 100 m radius, with no path, with no farmers ever nothicing anything strange done by kids.
wow those kids found some good ufo evidence when they took pictures... lucky kids
you could insert the ancient alien guy meme here. anything associated with the sky or eg the sun is an alien or a flying saucer. i remember this blurry picture of a hieroglyph on the internet that portrayed an alleged ''grey alien''. actually this ''grey'' was not even a supernatural being, it was a jar with flowers or something in it.
@wildchildsk Well it's one thing to believe there's live on other planets. It's another to think that life came to earth in spaceships. And yet another to believe that the photos we have are them.
We are not alone.
True, but the photos are still fake.
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
If you want to see real UFOs or UAPs all you need to do is watch the sky when you have time. I have been looking for about a year and have 2 unexplained events. I have an app that tracks all registered aircraft and these craft are way up in the area of 40-50k ft above sea level. They are also not blinking like all aircraft need a white and a red light so pilots know what direction they are heading in when seeing other craft. Neither instances where on Flight Tracker so I’m left with it being unexplained.
Some of the people in the video just refuse to be shown...but at least they're polite about it, unlike the authors of certain comments below.
"some ufos are alien spacecraft, most are not, i dont care about those" -stanton friedman
something to remember.
Shermer is a professional propagandist.
Yea we should be skeptical.Most people are looking for "magic" to bring into life some interesting change.
1) This is true, a lot of photos could actually be fake or misinterpreted.
2) This is irrelevant, because we also have a lot of videos which are much harder to fake in the same manner those pictures were faked.
a story like this was covered by nat geo a few years back. it was bugs. it was pretty incredible to watch. but people kept on sayin it was chupacabra...pretty funny
The era of Photoshop has really hurt UFO photographs' credibility ... :)
He didn't try to make them look like fools, he showed how easy people can get fooled. The pictures look real, you can't see what it is. This shows that we CAN NOT take pictures like this as proof.
This activity should be part of the curriculum for schoolchildren. They should be emphasizing critical thinking in education at all levels.
Why is it that so few people have developed bulls@#t detectors? It's truly exhausting...
blackadder says:
"on occasion I am wrong"
On that he is right.
finalmente qualcosa di serio!
2007...i miss when things were nornal.
I faked a ufo once. Unfortunately, I did it by building a real spaceship and flying it to Mars and back. Now I'm broke and working two jobs. I could have just used pie plates. God, I'm stupid.
If you still exist, I think your comments funny lol.
What I love is the fact that the overwhelming majority of sightings take place in the USA and to a lesser extent in Western (+Australia) countries. Why would that part of the world population be so much more important or interesting than the rest?
1/6th of the worlds' pop is regularly visited and the other 5 billion doesn't get a look at?
Thats because you hear about it from english speaking sites. A lot of sightings in france, UK and russia. Look up Rendlesham Forest incident. Or Japan Airlines Flight 1628
Whume was the person that made the point about extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary proof (!/?)
I've seen 3 UFO's in my life. All fan- tastic. my then gf/now wife and i were @ the beach star gazing all night.we saw a red ball being trailed by 2 hi-speed aircraft. and nearly right above us the red ball increased it's speed by perhaps 10?x in a split second.
"He is either scared" oh no I'm not! Scared of what? Fantasties and urban myths?
MYCKET INTRESSANT
Imorgon är det UFO hearings i USA
I agree. Its actually not so hard to conclude, once you actually look on the facts with skeptic but open eyes.
I agree, I would say there are probably both kind, both human black projects flying around, and some ET vehicles.
Michio Kaku pointed out one time that there could be a galactic highway beside our solarsystem and we wouldnt know about it.
We are a level 0 civilisation, its only our ego that makes people to believe they know everything.
Also, I don't know where you got the idea that we already possess technology capable of cloaking objects to the naked eye. If you're talking about stealth bombers, they're only invisible to computers or radar. It'd be pretty dang hard to come up with something capable of bending the light around it at JUST the right frequencies to make it a appear invisible, let alone fitting a power source on something as small as a UFO capable of sustaining it.
"Is english your primary language?" no Mackemise is my first language.
Lol, no. Nothing like that. I am aware of the "Jar of Flowers", misrepresented by unskeptical dirt bags who interpreted it to be a grey, and it is exactly why I didn't add it in my videos. I went and looked, before making the assumption it had anything to do with the Alien grays (unlike most proponents in Ufology and A.A.T). On first glance, it looked nothing like a gray.
Dude reminds me of Andy on Twin Peaks
Hmmm thats a great idea- let a load of ten-year-olds play with nails and glue guns....
Cool ★★★★★
If there really are UFOs, they won't look like discs because we invented that stereotypical object.
@alecaf89
"What about the Robertson Panel" not a lot really!
@Koyukonn yah me too, i was pretty wasted as well
LOL awesome! I mean think about it people what alien civilization would have reconnaissance mission lasting for so many years without a ship finally landing and captain demanding "take me to your leader"? Wouldn't that be the whole point of the trip? Isn't that what we did as we sailed the seas? What is the point of hagging around? To do what? If they are some sort of space anthropologists wouldn't they best learn about us by living with our "tribe"? And what would sustain them so far from home
"i have not seen anything in the skies" well I have seen "UFOs", but they turned out to be perfectly explainable. "would take a little more then a book for me" why when it is full of common sense? "what i refer to is the writings done by the ancient people themselves." and what writings would they be? Where are they? Who says they are true? How were they determined to be true? Have they been published in a recognized manner? eg Peer reviewed by scientists.
I'm not sure which evidence, or lack of evidence thereof you're referring to.
they did some dodgy circel that didnt even look like a circel and in the end they said that crop circels are a natural thing and it occures naturally. Thats what i no
how?
About some things.
3.11 well done.. the only one to use his brain
I'm guessing the image expert they found for this vid never owned a cadillac. or rode in one. or saw one. possibly not familiar with the term "hubcap". (I'm also guessing that he probably works in the photo department at Wal-Mart.)
Well, you have historical sightings and an odd photograph. Go back further and we have just reported sightings. Yes you can fake anything but there's too much, so much so that there's is the % that will be real. We don't go around looking up at the sky 24 hrs a everyday, in fact, we only register it as a marker and is on and in our periphery though it takes up a good chunk of our visual real estate.
Yeah but make sure you use a 1947 camera. Like Billie did.
No way I could prove my memory was manipulated but my mind was too random for them.. to erase everything I've still remember the craft blurry but I will never forget this experience..
Anyways no one will believe you from video or picture unless they experience it like I have from the sounds and the powerful vibrations the craft gives off.. thats what you want to experience.
But I got a theory that the UFO's acutally don't fly away to outer space.. but stay cloaked and keep a eye on us.
Wow, even in the comments people are still closeminded. There are also ghost, spirits and santa close. I believe! Don't do research or anything scientific, you just need to find the truth inside your heart.
The reason it's unlikely that UFO"s have visited us.
1) Alpha Centauri is the nearest star that may have habitable planets. It's 4.24 light years from us. That's 24,937,736,323,000 miles away. Traveling at 100,000 miles an hour it would take 28467.73 years for visitors to get here.
2) If someone travels this far, they're not coming to hide or say hello. Think what happened to the Native Americans, Africans, Indians and Australians when the Europeans landed.
Use a little logic.
Ops, always a risk to copy and paste, dont you agree my little hobbit?
Actually many of these fotos have been analyzed by image experts of different organisations, and many of them cant be concluded as hoaxes. Even Project Blue Book whos purpose where to dimiss these sightings admits to that fact.
"The best evidence that UFOs represent spacecraft from other worlds consists of grainy photographs" if it is not, what is it then? And where is it?
why not investigate Rendlesham & Kecksburg instead of wasting everyone's time throwing frisbees
***** Michael Shermer is not a serious scientist. He is just a UFO debunker. He is not interested in seeing the real evidence. He's probably funded by USAF or some other powerful entity.
John T . You want to believe so a balanced reasoning is disabled in your brain.
John T
"Michael Shermer is not a serious scientist. He is just a UFO debunker."
He has never claimed to be a serious scientist and he is not just a UFO debunker. He is the publisher of Skeptic magazine. The name should give you a clue; he's a sceptic. He advocates not believing something because you want to, but because there is good evidence for it. A sceptic doesn't say that there are no aliens or UFOs. They say that there isn't sufficient evidence to believe that there are. I'm quite confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe but I'm just as confident that that life is not visiting us secretly and probing us in our sleep. Show me the evidence and I'll change my mind. I'm yet to see sufficiently convincing evidence though. I, too, am a sceptic.
"He's probably funded by USAF or some other powerful entity."
Conspiracy theory anyone? Who could have anticipated that from someone who believes in UFOs?
It's all well and good to fake a *photograph*, but try the same with a verified video. Say, military or government films such as recordings from fighter jets. I'm sure some of those pilots (civilian and/or military) would be very relieved to know the things they've encountered were hubcaps or bullshit on strings. Wouldn't you think?
Wow! I never knew that being able to fake a phenomenon meant that the phenomenon doesn't exist. Like sunsets and volcano eruption. Thanks Michael!
now HERE'S a Mystery!
How comes when you search 'out of body experiences' at you tube nearly every fukin link is Shermer shermershermershermer ??
@frankensteinmoneymac I am interested in flying saucers but I am still skeptical. I was wondering if you know of any better evidence that has been presented other than videos, photographs, and abduction stories. If there hasn't been better evidence than Michael Shermer is not attacking a straw man. A straw man fallacy would be presenting a position your opponent didn't have and then proving that wrong.
Google "Charles Fort" for one early nutter
@siyuanthesuper1 Actually the opposite is more likely true. In reality those pictures or videos which are TOO CLEAR (like B.Meiers' 1's)are more likely fakes. Try this experiment the next time you see a plane. Video-tape it. I promise you it will be blurry. This is a result of trying to image a high flying-far away object with normal camera optics.
Is there a reason why you dont answer my simple questions?
Who are the sources to what you are claiming, where is the original foto that you claim you have lost?
Well it's better than Swedish anyhow. Unless you want to talk to turnips thay is" LOL
Well they actually analyze the pictures. And many of this "evidence' is hoaxed or misinterpreted. I have to say this video was more of a joke but it did reveal people will believe things that people tell them even if it isn't rational.
"Freedom of information" what's the relevance?
This video/documentary isnt good for some reasons.
First of all, he simply left out the very important fact, that many of todays sightings also have radar confirmations. So, these sighting with radar confirmations simplu cant be a hubcap or something in a wire. Because they are traveling much faster then any fighter jet, can start and stop in mid air. Its a totally different way of flying and must be a different technology.