Real Fakes

You may have already seen the "Haiti UFO" video. Posted on YouTube a month ago, it’s already been seen by millions, and purports to show a real flying saucer.

 

Of course, it’s a fake.

 

The maker of the video has now followed it up with another "proof" video, this time purporting to show that the flying saucer is a small radio-controlled model being flown by a little old lady. The joke is that in both cases the flying saucer is not real – it’s a computer-generated model. As the article in the eSkeptic magazine says: we’re now definitely at the point where seamlessly photorealistic fake UFO footage can be made on an ordinary home computer, quickly and easily, using only a few hundred bucks worth of software.