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49 comments to "Identify this flying object."
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FanTent
May 9th, 2007 at
9:57 am
Yeah, it’s a joke, right?
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brianH
May 9th, 2007 at
10:00 am
so fake
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Miss Cellania
May 9th, 2007 at
10:06 am
Fake what, though? Is it Photoshop, a toy someone is familiar with, a movie I haven’t seen?
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Greg
May 9th, 2007 at
10:11 am
It’s obviously something done with CGI. The lighting is all wrong and you can tell it was added into the photo after it was taken. It looks interesting, but that’s about it.
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reaton33
May 9th, 2007 at
10:15 am
this is definitely fake. its common practice like this to take photos of a real object thats partially in a tree. A sweden man did the same thing and fooled people for years. ALL of his photos had the ufo either partially blocked by a tree, in the tree, or in the view of the sun. the photos were well done, but to a trained graphic artists eye can pick this out a mile away. however, in this instance, they did another good job… but it’s just not real. if this was real why is he so calm about identifying it, its obviously not ours. so go get a video camera and video tape it, call in some authorities or do something to make it public. acting this passive raises a lot of questions.
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Another Jake
May 9th, 2007 at
10:37 am
“photos” eh? If you believe that, I’ve got some land in Florida to sell you.
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Andrew32
May 9th, 2007 at
10:48 am
Lol, good job faking it man!
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Paul
May 9th, 2007 at
10:52 am
It’s a streetlamp!
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Tim
May 9th, 2007 at
10:58 am
But what is it? I can’t place it, but it looks familiar…
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Tyler
May 9th, 2007 at
11:08 am
I say it’s proof. Definative proof of aliens.
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Licensed2Hench
May 9th, 2007 at
11:18 am
I hate the fact that no reference to scale is given.
Chad wrote to describe the object:
“It makes kind of “crackling” noises. It’s hard to describe them but they are only intermittent and not very loud, but you can notice them.”“It moves almost like an insect. If you have ever seen a bug on a pond, it is kind of like that. It is VERY smooth and slow most of the time, but then every now and then it will rotate very quickly and go VERY fast into another direction, then stop, and repeat the process all over again. ”
Actually looking at the design and his description of it, it does make sense. It looks like some kind of ion propulsion design. Looks more like a prototype being tested.
The weird text on the bottom puts it over the top for me.
Can anyone identify that font? It looks oddly familiar. -
Kevin
May 9th, 2007 at
11:26 am
It’s the burner from my barbecue.
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liquidgnome
May 9th, 2007 at
11:27 am
The font looks really familiar for some reason. (probably because this is as real as a hollywood starlet)
Enterprising detectives will no doubt be able to source whatever free font site it came from. It looks a little like a klingon or an alien vs. predator font to me, but I haven’t got the time to look for it at the moment.
I also agree with two of the above posters: “if this was real why is he so calm about identifying it, its obviously not ours.” and “I say it’s proof. Definative proof of aliens.”
Definitive proof of bored graphic designers with large font libraries.
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Tim Giachetti
May 9th, 2007 at
11:40 am
Not that I’m a Star Trek Geek. But that’s Klingon writing on the underside. It’s not a photoshop either. It is actualy a remote control hover craft. Hats off to the builder. But boy is this lame.
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billy
May 9th, 2007 at
12:18 pm
i don’t know how my cloaking device conked out but it did and now my airship is all over the internet.
great.
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Jeff
May 9th, 2007 at
12:18 pm
I think it’s Gene Simmons’ hairbrush.
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Emil
May 9th, 2007 at
12:40 pm
Yep..it’s aliens! And his wife is pregnant.. guess who’s the real father?
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May 9th, 2007 at
12:55 pm
I like the ship design. Even if one couldn’t tell it was fake looking at the image his writing telegraphs too hard for the ion drive angle with out ever using the word.
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Ashley
May 9th, 2007 at
1:06 pm
My friend said it’s photoshopped out of Stargate or Farscape, something like that.
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R.A. Franklin
May 9th, 2007 at
1:10 pm
It’s a fruit picking device. Oranges I think. Or it’s an IUD for the Jolly Green Giants wife.
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contraryMary
May 9th, 2007 at
1:54 pm
HHAHA Paul you beat me to it!
Neatorama is pulling a Fark! -
Dave
May 9th, 2007 at
2:17 pm
Ah, Art Bell & the tin foil hat crowd at Coast to Coast AM. Used to listen often years back when I worked the night shift; very entertaining, but scary to see how gullible people are.
Check this page; at least there are some thinking individuals in Art’s listener ranks.
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Ralph Woods
May 9th, 2007 at
2:19 pm
So funny the arguments people come up with to say something is photoshopped or GC. “The lighting” is all wrong”. Really? It looks fine to me, and I Photoshop models for fashion magazines. Also, someone mentioned something about a tree, and this (http://www.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/Craft050607c.jpg) is the only picture where the tree and the object’s placement looks suspicious.
Nowadays there are much better ways to pull this off, and I think what’s being used here is simply a string of invisible nylon (available in any magician’s store), passed through the object’s more protuberant spikes, tied to some nearby trees, which keeps the object parallel to the ground.
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Drew
May 9th, 2007 at
2:24 pm
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, NO, it’s a banana!
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Paul
May 9th, 2007 at
2:39 pm
Fake or not, that thing’s neat looking. I want one to hang on my wall! I don’t know how well it would actually fly even if it were real, because I don’t see any method of propulsion on it at all (Or any power source). Perhaps it’s powered by a fan inside the main body, and it’s not actually metal as it appears, but some lighter substance, like painted Styrofoam. That is, if it flies at all. My guess is that it’s a bit of photoshoppery, like everyone else says. Sigh. It’s so hard to believe in the fantastical these days.
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Dan D.
May 9th, 2007 at
3:05 pm
it’s a modern cieling fan
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Cori
May 9th, 2007 at
3:17 pm
I’m fairly sure its photoshopped. I’m an ametuer graphic designer, and in most of the pictures, while the trees start to pixelate at about 120% zoom, the “craft” doesn’t pixelate until about 150%.
And if you run an edge detect filter, there is a definate seperation between the “craft” and where it intersects the forest.
I’m only an ametuer, so I could be wrong, but I am fairly confident that its photohopped.
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Anita
May 9th, 2007 at
3:19 pm
I believe it’s real
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Lasse
May 9th, 2007 at
3:49 pm
Call the Statue of Liberty and tell her we found her crown.
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JJ
May 9th, 2007 at
3:55 pm
It’s swamp gas; obviously.
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Jason
May 9th, 2007 at
4:34 pm
It’s a photo so it HAS TO BE REAL!!!!
Why do we even debate stuff like this?
This guy took a picture of a UFO and we think its fake?
Obviously the lighting is wrong because UFO’s conform to a different set of rules. Which is also why a UFO won’t pixelate in pictures until 150% zoom like Cori stated.
Are you people not aware that EVERYTHING you have ever seen is real. including movies.
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K
May 9th, 2007 at
4:51 pm
Such conviction from everyone that this IS a FAKE.
Really? Oh really? As opposed to a real alien UFO from another planet flying around? So this is really a fake? Oh really?
You are all so funny. By saying it such conviction that this is a fake, you make it sound like there are REAL ones out there too.
How will you be able to tell whether one of these photos is real, when a real one actually appears?
So funny.
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Solo
May 9th, 2007 at
6:23 pm
It’s not a UFO. Open your eyes. It’s a ghost dammit!
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jonno
May 9th, 2007 at
6:55 pm
thats no banana this time, its a sponge! shocking …. i know
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David
May 9th, 2007 at
8:33 pm
hmmm looks like CG to me. A lot of pictures are well blended in, but some of them, particularly this one http://www.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/Craft050607×2.jpg , has the same “feel” as when you apply the Ambient Occlusion function on the camera in Blender 3D. but that’s just me. it might also be a very expensive remote control gadjet, or a sculpture hung by thread, as some others stated.
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Tinderbox
May 9th, 2007 at
11:07 pm
Since no one has provided a link to an actual product that this could be, or a link to show that the writing is a “Klingon” font from Star Trek or similar scifi show, then we must conclude one of three things:
1) It is an imaginary object entirely drawn in an illustration or 3D animation program.
2) It is a real object modelled from real material or real life items and photographed in such as way to imitate a large alien object.
3) It is a true UFO. Not necessarily to say it’s an alien spaceship, but just an unidentified flying object.
I agree with some others here who point out that there would be more hysteria involved if this “very large” airborne thing was appearing repeatedly to multiple random people. Until we see photos or videos from more than one source we must probably conclude (1) or (2) for now.
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Miss Cellania
May 9th, 2007 at
11:12 pm
Tinderbox, believe me, I’ve been looking for a Klingon toy or model off and on all day! I’d LOVE to find something else that looks just like this.
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MrBinky
May 9th, 2007 at
11:54 pm
If this is real, then these people are vampires:
http://forum.vampire-awakening.com/viewtopic.php?t=847&start=0 -
Alex
May 10th, 2007 at
12:16 pm
Streetlamp! Hahaha… Precious.
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John
May 10th, 2007 at
4:18 pm
Nice CG job, but it should have been blurred just a little and the contrast dropped slightly to give the impression that there is some air between it and the camera. I like the spiny things, I bet it gets fantastic WiFi reception. Well, it would if it were real. Could be for a portfolio piece or maybe it’s part of a study in how people react to fake UFO images.
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Anonymous
May 10th, 2007 at
10:24 pm
it looks shooped, i’ve done a few whoops in my time.
seriously its a weather ballon.
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Jensen
May 11th, 2007 at
1:08 am
Looks like a jap. toy. The picture displayed seems to have 2 different leves of sharpness. The trees look like a scanned photo but the “ufo” is to crisp to have been in the same photo. It’s not a difference in D.O.F. because the trees are in focus just not as sharp as the ship
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Cameron
May 12th, 2007 at
1:52 am
I’m pretty handy with Photoshop and I’ve played around with Bryce and Cinema 4D, and I’d say the only photo that really looks fake would be the last one. The craft just looks too sharp to me. The other pictures seem to be some pretty good CG and Photoshop work. Props to the artist(s); I’m gonna call this one fake.
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Roman
May 23rd, 2007 at
6:03 pm
i dont think its a fake, it looks like a portal of some sort.
if it is fake then it looks like a bubble blower.
iif it is a space craft, I think its broken down, leaking radioactive material. it should be fixed in no time. -
Karenw
May 24th, 2007 at
11:01 am
I recently read someplace that this is a viral promo for the upcoming “Transformers” movie.
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vic
July 3rd, 2007 at
3:57 am
its part of the halo 3 viral marketing campaign
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death
March 30th, 2008 at
9:16 pm
its the freakin statue of liberty’s halo under construction with the body cut off of it
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kip davis
March 30th, 2008 at
11:19 pm
http://www.kaptive.co.uk/video.cfm
its from a cg guys portfolio.
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Globbynobules
March 31st, 2008 at
2:55 am
Oh my god, that is so fake! Can you believe how fake that is? It’s got fake written all over it. It couldn’t be more fake if it was trying, which it is, which is another reason it looks fake. Strike that, not looks, IS. Was this done with FakoShop, or what? I’m like that is the fakest fake I’ve ever seen. The lighting is like so totally utterly wrong, the colors (wtf!) the shapes, the size is off, everything, absolutley everything about it fake.
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