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Australian UFO incident

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Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:36 pm
by 4911
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.hbccufo.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4697">www.hbccufo.org/modules.p...e&sid=4697</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br>footage taken from a plane camera <p></p><i></i>
Re: Australian UFO incident

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Sat Aug 12, 2006 9:50 am
by Pirx
So what exactly attracted you to this clip?<br><br>Sort of looks like FLIR (infrared) until you snag a frame and invert it and see it looks more like a simple negative. The camera is patched in to the heads up display? A real HUD actually provides information on the screen that correspond to the planes position and attitude. This static frame has some lines and numbers in a sort of HUD config, and tells you nothing. They should have snagged some frames from any flight sim.<br><br>Don't see much point in examining the ufos blur settings.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://einsiders.com/reviews/dvd/images/saucer1.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>
Re: Australian UFO incident

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Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:07 pm
by 4911
< post deleted due to knowing better > <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=4911>4911</A> at: 8/12/06 4:25 pm<br></i>
Re: Australian UFO incident

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Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:12 pm
by 4911
actually, i just enlarged it, it doesnt fly into the distance on a straight line after all, you can use the clouds as a reference point..<br><br>um, nevermind..this is garbage <p></p><i></i>
Re: Australian UFO incident

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Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:14 pm
by Attack Ships on Fire
Agreed. The "UFO" doesn't fly into the frame in correct representation to the cloudline, it comes in at a straight line even with the camera jiggling.<br><br>More BS video from that Australian UFO Wave website. This guy is pumping out fake vid after fake vid and the result will be years of confusion. People are still wondering if the Sci-Fi Channel WTC UFO commercial was real or fake, and that was broadcast on the channel years ago. This crap is going to haunt UFO and paranormal websites for years to come.<br> <p></p><i></i>
Re: Australian UFO incident

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Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:38 pm
by bvonahsen
How does he benefit from this or is it just for shits and giggles? If he wants to wow possible clients on his skills I'm not sure this is how one would go about it. Does he have a millitary background? Is he providing cover for something else or sowing confusion for some other reason. "Look over here! Don't look there, see this!" <p></p><i></i>
Re: Australian UFO incident

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Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:28 am
by Pirx
from the site-<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>I will respect the privacy of the witness by asking no further questions. Hopefully our forthcoming forensic analysis will shed some light on this.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>It'll be interesting to see what sort of conclusions they come to.<br>They advertise-<br>"Serving the Canadian UFO Community"<br>Really? <p></p><i></i>
The most funniest of all

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Sun Aug 13, 2006 1:08 pm
by ivanbo2003
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.australianufowave.com/ufo30.html">www.australianufowave.com/ufo30.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rollin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>
Re: The most funniest of all

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Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:46 pm
by 4911
ZOIKS!! <br><br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br> <p></p><i></i>
Re: The most funniest of all

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Sun Aug 13, 2006 8:59 pm
by bvonahsen
Yeah, #30 is the one I pulled that screenshot from on the other thread. Pretty lame. <p></p><i></i>
It's a hoax -- confirmed

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Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:58 pm
by professorpan
The Australian UFO wave was a hoax/experiment:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.australianufowave.com/">www.australianufowave.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>From the link:<br><br>In April 2006, the Australian Film Commission funded an experimental digital video project by director Christopher Kenworthy. Between June and mid-August 2006 thirty-one clips of UFOs were created. The UFO videos were distributed over the internet via websites and video podcasts. Writers crafted background stories for the sightings, and answered thousands of e-mails using a fictional persona. The process, reactions and responses were recorded for a forthcoming documentary.<br><br>The project was hugely successful, being viewed by many millions of people. Very few people suspected that the clips were manufactured. Gradually, the level of plausibility was reduced, but only when the last two clips were uploaded did a large number of people get suspicious. It's also worth noting that two of the UFO clips we distributed were quite genuine - and no researcher was able to pick which two they were.<br><br>In our opinion this was not a hoax or deception, but an immersive artwork. We had three main aims:<br><br>1. To give people a taste of the drama and excitement of a UFO Close Encounter, creating a genuine sense of wonder.<br><br>2. To improve research into videos of genuine UFOs. As we discovered, researchers are woefully equipped to spot fakes. We want ufoloogy to improve as a result of this experiment.<br><br>3. To show skeptics that they often rely on faith rather than evidence. (Many skeptics made bold statments about the clips being nothing more than balloons, space junk, stars etc - without doing their research. They were more easily misled than UFO-believers.)<br><br>We did not make false reports about UFO activity beyond the confines of this website. An unusual number of Australian UFO reports were submitted to other websites while this project was underway, and they could be genuine.<br><br>More at link. <p></p><i></i>
Re: It's a hoax -- confirmed

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Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:14 pm
by orz
Told ya so <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :b --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/tongue.gif ALT=":b"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>As we discovered, researchers are woefully equipped to spot fakes. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>Too right... <p></p><i></i>
Re: It's a hoax -- confirmed

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Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:46 pm
by bvonahsen
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Skeptics ... were more easily misled than UFO-believers.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I like that, shows we all have biases and the hardest to see are our own. <p></p><i></i>
Re: It's a hoax -- confirmed

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Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:54 pm
by orz
Site's updated with a couple of really interesting interviews with the guy... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.australianufowave.com/interviews.html">www.australianufowave.com...views.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
Re: It's a hoax -- confirmed

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Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:12 pm
by bvonahsen
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Shortly after seeing a UFO in 1977, I felt utterly compelled to stage a hoax in my back garden. I faked some photographs, and was even going to fake a landing site (but I was only nine years old, and soon lost interest). I can't really explain why I wanted to do that. But UFOs remained of great interest to me. For a few years in the mid- nineties I made my living writing for UFO magazines and so on, and was also compelled to make crop circles. Again, I didn't see this as hoaxing, but felt like I was partaking in a greater mystery. (I was only a minor circlemaker, I should add). And the time I spent in Wiltshire was the strangest time of my life. Reality seemed malleable, down there. I had missing time, many UFO sightings and all sorts of strange goings on. I'd plan to make a crop circle in a certain field, and then find it had appeared exactly as planned a day before I even got there. Or I'd walk to a remote field, put in a tiny circle, and the next morning find a huge one had appeared in the same field. Weird stuff.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I wonder if he is still being accessed or who his handler is? <p></p><i></i>