Is this UFO fake

Question

http://www.ufoevidence.org/photographs/section/post2000/Photo416.htm

I'm undecided it looks plausible and it looks fake to me, so what do you guys/gals think

Answer 1

Yes. It's obviously swamp gas.

Seriously, the object itself is real, the question then remains as to what it is. One detail I find interesting are the lights. In the close-up, they indicate the direction of travel is left. However, the colors of the lights are US-standard navigation lights for a military helicopter. Except the lights are backwards... it should be going right instead (I might have them backwards, too... I'm colorblind).

This tells me that it's probably a real craft, but experimental in nature.

EDIT: Travis, that's a good catch, but it could also be a trick of the camera... I've seen those before on non-UFO pics with streetlamps, car headlights, and pretty much any other lighting source. What you use as cause for fakery is precisely what I'm using to validate that it's a real object.

Oh and... Tex, yes, I know Photoshop when I see it. Working in publishing for 8 years gives me an edge in that department. No artifacts of that kind are in the close-up, which is what I'd use to base my opinion anyway.

Answer 2

after looking at those three pictures i have only one concern that might not elimnate it as a fake.if you take a look at the last two pictures and look at the bottom right light(the one to the right of the double red one) it appears to be overlapping the tree branch.if this is a real picture the lights should appear behind the tree branch instead of infront of it.after that i took a look at the other lights around it andnone of them really land anywhere on a direct treee branch.Its really hard to know for sure but hopefully this will help you form a better perspective.

Ps. and yes i do belive in extra terrestrial life =)

Answer 3

I don't know. It looks real, but what does that mean these days?

They are definitely here though. It's only a matter of time before it's proven and everyone believes it.

Answer 4

nope...i guess they r real

Answer 5

  A UFO can't be a fake since it is not identifiable.

Answer 6

It isn't an alien craft.

Check out:

1. The shape

2. The tilt angle

3. Lights are in odd places

4. Do some math (trig, etc) - It's either computer made or hand-made (lights to space craft)

Answer 7

If it's a fake, the 2nd photo is very well done. Hard to say one way or another whether the object is a real object or pasted in, but if the latter, it was probably a lot of work. I've done enough video editing to know I wouldn't attempt that unless I had a lot of time on my hands.

What caught my attention is that the first photograph is taken in brighter conditions, while the 2nd was taken in a darker one. This suggests that the UFO, if a real object, must have been in the sky a good while, either near sunrise or sunset. If that's the case, why only 2 pictures, and only one anonymous witness who snapped the photos?  Perhaps the bright photo was digitally enhanced to increase the brightness, but if so, that conclusion works against the authenticity of the photos. You don't want people thinking you digitally manipulated a UFO photo after all.

The second observation is that in the brighter photo, an out-of-focus tree is in the foreground, there is the UFO relatively in-focus, and then more trees in the background out-of-focus again. But if you take a picture, usually either the foreground or background will be out of focus. If both are out of focus as with this photo, then everything in between should be out of focus as well. But that's not the case.This is what I find most suspect, and suggests that an image of the UFO was digitally inserted.

My conclusion is that it is probably faked for the reasons explained, but I'm not 100% on that.

Answer 8

It could be a weav (man made flying saucer )  

Answer 9

Come on!!! Don't you know Photoshop when you see it? The real good hoaxers NEVER make them that clear. I'm going to say this was produced by a young teen male who's only chance of kissing a girl is with fifty dollars. I'll bet he is fluent in Klingon though.

Answer 10

I can't imagine that's to scale....in other words...it may seem like it was manipulated in some way. But of course, we have no references of what real saucers would look like that...so I don't know. Inconclusive.

Answer 11

It looks like one of the ones I have seen