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#23,
UFO does NOT mean alien, it simply means Unidentified Flying Object.
Looks like the inflate-o-saucer already mentioned several times above.
This has what every UFO video needs: commentary by slack-jawed yokels.
The very first thing I noticed, was the tone of voice of the narrators, it’s so easy to hear in their voice their bad acting skills. There was also the odd mention of “metallic object” and they way it was said as if from a rough script making sure they say that over used term “metallic object” as that’s always what people associate with UFO descriptions. They needed to have had more rehearsals for a better more believable performance, no alien Oscars here. Also notice the way it floats like a balloon in the air. Alien ships do not float and sway and stay on it’s side. Even if they were drunk illegal aliens from Mars, their beers would spill if they flew this way. No alien would let their drink spill in a high tech spacecraft. The thing acts exactly like a balloon. Good catch on the focus disparities and the reflection and shadows, the light and shadowing from the “sun” or other light source keeps changing directions, clearly showing this unidentified flying object was not natural to this background scene. It’s so easy to do this overlay stuff now at home with an editing program, they probably had their 7 year old do it for everyone’s entertainment saying “Hey let’s put this on YouTube and see what happens! Hahahaha.”
Thanks Fanboy, I think you nailed it.
At one angle, it seemed like it had been modified. I wonder if somebody attached a propeller to give it some control. It seems like it was doing more than just floating there but that was hard to tell because the camera was jerking around so much.
Also, kudos to whoever pulled off this stunt. You rock!
Why is it that every time there’s a supposedly “credible” UFO sighting, the footage comes from the world’s crappiest camera operator?
Can’t anyone who knows how to focus at infinity AND KEEP IT THERE shoot a picture of a sky novelty? How come no steadicam operator with a fine camera ever sees a “UFO”?
It’s so farging prevalent, the bad-camerawork=”real”-UFO thingie, that people who FAKE sightings always make it look like the cameraman was Novice J. Thumbs shooting his camera five minutes out of the box, twitching like he was on crack.
They could have continued to film it with the telephone wires in the back ground but did not. too bad. i did you youtube under josephdupont and orb
Hope whoever owned the balloon got it back. Very pricey thing, at $400. Plus all that helium. Paper lanterns with candles inside set adrift in the night sky work just as well. But then, they should only be used on rainy nights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpEXubJFXfk
CodertAZ comments…
How funny you caught that. It was my 20ft UFO balloon that got away 3July09
No joke. The cotton rope broke even though we lowered it to 20ft off the ground.
We had a Bud beer banner on the bottom. It was at the 4th of July event next to the dog park.
It was a $400 balloon that took 5 full tanks of helium @ $80 per tank. I was not happy that
it cost me that much to fill. So I’m not too sad to have seen it get away….
Here is the alien inside!
If nothing else, I can thank this web page for confirming that no one that’s ever been to earth, can make a good “spaceship”.
If you watch the entire video you can see that the object is nothing like a balloon. The disc part is metallic and flat with no corrugations at all. So, it’s not like the one in the picture posted above – you’d have to come up with a way of making a flat balloon.
As for it being a kite. The object is pitching and rotating in such a way it would be impossible to see where you would attach a line from the ground. There is also the problem that a symmetrical disc shaped kite would not stay in the air without a tail, or some other way of providing directional stability. It wouldn’t just just spin, it would quickly slew off to one side and arc sideways to the ground.
So we are left with it being some kind of radio controlled plane. One that can hover in the sky whilst pitching and yawing through 360 degrees, with no visible control surfaces, propellers or fans.
None of the ‘rational’ explanations given so far add up.
I could only wathc about 30 seconds… its a great film if it was 1958. Fake/Sucks.. Next time guys..make a better quality Hoax would ya?… 🙂
Known technology…
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/flying-saucer-drone-hovers-over-hapless-human/
# 43 Bob, the link you provide is known technology but it looks nothing like the object that’s in the Lake Havasu video. The ‘ufo’ appears to have no fans or control surfaces and is hovering and maintaining its position regardless of orientation or attitude. I know model helicopters can be made to hover upside-down but they can’t hang in the air pitched over at 90 degrees like in the video. The saucer-drone in the wired article looks even more limited it’s maneuverability than a helicopter and it definitely wouldn’t be able to hang in the air with its edge pointing at the ground.
Now I would have believed it if they were throwing bodies out of there like it was a cruise ship.
Looks like an ordinary snap fastner composited over some shots out the window !!! Notice how the “cameraman” keeps saying “its so far away” !!! FAKE !!! TURN ON THE BS METER !!!
The funniest thing is THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY BELIEVE IT !!!
This almost excuses Alphie and his dude in the sky routine. Close.
1) either slow acting gyros are stabilizing it’s flight, or
2) (more likely) a slow acting human is over compensating for level flight. -mainly due to the distance from the controller to the craft.
can’t see the effect of his corrections fast enough causing the wobbling flight.
i used to build/fly remote control helicopters when i was a kid. the further the helicopter
was from me, the more i would make it see-saw from over-correcting when trying to hover.
(was always more pronounced at a distance)
definitely a ufo..definitely someone with a remote flying it.
-besides, the nature of electrogravitic flight or “hovering” is lends itself to be self-stabilizing. (if a poorly tuned circuit is employed, the oscillations would be far more violent)
the simplest example in nature of a self-stabilizing electrogravitic [hovering] force would be the water molecules in clouds.
clouds stay aloft because this force.
(water molecules are in fact, electric dipoles)
look it up. you’d be surprised how much crap we’re taught that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
-s
# 46 JimD,
There is no way to prove that it is or isn’t a digially manipulated fake or genuine, however you have to consider:
– To coordinate the camera-shake and changes in focus between the object and background is far from a trivial compositing job.
– There are independently photographed still shots of the same incident if you do a quick search online.
– There are hundreds of similar videos and sightings like this reported around the world each year.
I think the gain on your BS meter is probably turned up too high.
“In the morning!”
Even in the still frame that appears before you start the video, the light source is to the left of the object. But the sun is to the right…
# 5 Alfred1, # 51 Wretched Gnu,
At the start of the video, when the camera pans back, you can see that the sun is behind and to the right of the object (the big bright area in the sky to the right of the telegraph pole). The shadows cast on the object appear consistent with the position of the sun at that point. The shadows slowly change so that half way through the video it looks as if the sun is behind the object. By the end, the sun is to the left of the object – this is the part of the video the still was taken from.
The object must have been moving from left to right relative to the camera.
Put a face on it and you’ll have millions of people on the streets worshiping it.
Lake Havasu is that totally invented tourist trap, that didn’t exist before they moved the olde London Bridge there. Or at least, simulated what they claim the bridge looked like, and built an old “London Towne” around it. The lake was also fabricated too. So I’m thinking that tourism is way down, during this time. And reporting a UFO sighting might get some of the Roswell visitors to come there. Maybe they should also say they saw Elvis, and get some of the Graceland crowd to come. Next year, they can claim to have spotted MJ too.
The most amazing thing about the UFO phenomenon is that even with all the attention and interest, the continuing lack of convincing evidence, persistent government denials and associated top secret documents, trustworthy witnesses with excellent credibility, and scientists on both sides of the fence, this obsession just won’t go away. I’ll bet that even if a UFO touched down on the whitehouse lawn there would still be people arguing over it’s actual exsistence.
The problem I have with this sighting is the fact that it made no manuever. It seemed totally subject to the breeze. It could be argued that our intergalactic neighbours have finally figured out that zipping along at 5000 miles per hour gets too much attention. This way you see something floating on the breeze and it has lots of possible explanations. I had a night sighting similar in this way. It certainly makes things easy for the nay-sayers.
# 55 amodedoma,
The poster of the video says the footage was shot around 4pm on 3rd July. From the position of the sun at the start, the cameraman must have been facing south and tracking the object moving from east to west (just look at how the shadows change on the object from start to finish)
There doesn’t seem to be an NOAA weather station in Lake Havasu but there is a student operated station, unfortunately they don’t seem to publish historical stats for wind direction. Hopefully someone can get hold of accurate weather data for this location and time.
The best I have been able to find is info on Weatherbug and Windfinder. They both say the prevailing wind at this time would have been south-westerly. So if the object was being carried by the wind it would have been moving north and from west to east – i.e opposite to the direction seen in the video.
Okay, maybe it’s alien teenagers out for a drunk joyride (ET works in strange ways, ones that we cannot possibly comprehend…oooh!)
Remote control technology is quite advanced these days, in case anyone hasn’t noticed. Also, there’s a lot of past evidence that hoaxes are a very prominent fly-in-the-ointment of the UFO enthusiast’s world, whether they like it or not.
Why can’t I see one?? I’ve been an amateur star-gazer for years, and I’d just love to see one of these things. (I’ve never seen a ghost either, while I have to sit around and listen to friends and relatives relate all of the spooky experiences they had).
Looks like a balloon to me. I do not work for the USAF.