Video: The freaky deakiest UFO clip evah?
posted at 5:07 pm on August 10, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Late Friday afternoon in August, baby. Ain’t nothing like it.
Allegedly filmed in Haiti on Monday night, there’s no news of UFO sightings in that country anywhere on the wires. The Diggbats suspect some sort of covert viral marketing scheme for Halo 3 or whatever. I’m inclined to agree. Anyone know the scoop?
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If highschool kids can do CG spaceships in their movies, than this is easy to fake. But harder for those that don’t deal with it to tell the difference.
YouTube Trailer for the 3rd part.
Still pretty dang kewl if you ask me.
- The Cat
P.S. None of the links I’ve umm linked have anything to do with the post above. Just showing how good CG is for the talented non-studio types.
MirCat on August 10, 2007 at 5:12 PM
er….um…
why do non aerodynamic craft have to make aerodynamic turns?
Limerick on August 10, 2007 at 5:12 PM
If that was done digitally–my hat’s off to whomever created it. Cool nonetheless.
robblefarian on August 10, 2007 at 5:14 PM
Great more illegal aliens coming to the US
William Amos on August 10, 2007 at 5:14 PM
Limerick;
Very nice question!
186k on August 10, 2007 at 5:14 PM
Best comment found at the YouTube link:
amerpundit on August 10, 2007 at 5:15 PM
They have video cameras in Haiti? I didn’t think they even had food there.
robblefarian on August 10, 2007 at 5:15 PM
Using the words of the late great Peter Boyle,
“HOLY CRAP”!
186k on August 10, 2007 at 5:17 PM
It’s the Millenium Falcon…TWO of them!
Blaise on August 10, 2007 at 5:18 PM
heh……
I think the biggest question is why would you want to buzz Haiti in the first place?
Limerick on August 10, 2007 at 5:18 PM
That looks for all the world like they got the flight trajectory from two jet fighters.
I suspect they did.
Christoph on August 10, 2007 at 5:19 PM
Because the wanna know what the something happening in Haiti was too.
- The Cat
P.S. What I wanna know is, are they manned by robots. . . and when talking about robots can you say manned?
MirCat on August 10, 2007 at 5:20 PM
Nice special effects. Along those lines, I haven’t been looking, but I would be very entertained to see clips of the debates with the candidates saying really ridiculous things, like Hillary objecting to socialized medicine.
pedestrian on August 10, 2007 at 5:21 PM
At least people who fake UFO sightings are getting better at it.
Weight of Glory on August 10, 2007 at 5:23 PM
BUILD THE FENCE NOW!
see-dubya on August 10, 2007 at 5:26 PM
That looked like Palm Springs to me.
PRCalDude on August 10, 2007 at 5:26 PM
I think it is real.
nailinmyeye on August 10, 2007 at 5:26 PM
Nice.
nailinmyeye on August 10, 2007 at 5:27 PM
Voodoo!
Randy
but very cool.
williars on August 10, 2007 at 5:27 PM
One of the diggbats said the same thing I was thinking. When the UFOs’ (first clip) pass over the camera and over the trees; they become blurry. This is a computer problem caused by the CGI or whatever. Motion is always hard for a computer to render; and no fix was made here. It went in focus, blurred (not a camera blur) but a motion blur, then got into focus again when it started moving away. You see this effect in cheap CGI movies all the time.
lorien1973 on August 10, 2007 at 5:28 PM
MirCat on August 10, 2007 at 5:20 PM
Somewhere in some parallel universe, in a blog, on a planet, dominated by robots, there is a commenter named MirCatbot, asking if, while viewing a video of UFO’s, asks, “and when talking about men can you say robotted?”
Weight of Glory on August 10, 2007 at 5:28 PM
The truth is out there.
Bad Candy on August 10, 2007 at 5:28 PM
Ask Hugh Hewitt. I think he knows what these things are.
RushBaby on August 10, 2007 at 5:28 PM
Another gem of a comment from a youtube viewer:
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m starting my mash potato mountain right after dinner.
186k on August 10, 2007 at 5:28 PM
The little out-of-focus-for-touristy-verismilitude trick was nice.
Aliens will not use ships that look like “ships”, but more likely will arrive in something more akin to deep sea fish, which may be “alive” in some as-yet unfathomable non-sentient/sentient chimaera manner.
At least that’s what past attempts at Prognostication tell me.
profitsbeard on August 10, 2007 at 5:28 PM
I question whether that’s Halo, unless those are going to be new dropships. They look nothing like Covenant ships…just sayin’.
Bad Candy on August 10, 2007 at 5:30 PM
Haiti and Dominican Republic? Aren’t they on the same island? Looks to me like the same palm trees from two different angles.
There are any number of working hover craft, and/or vertical take-off vehicle designs/kits that people play around with.
But this could also be faked. The images of the “vehicles” are a bit fuzzy with respect to the sharpness of the background.
Lawrence on August 10, 2007 at 5:31 PM
I think the AP already has a story up on this, there have been new sightings of the UFOs bombing an innocent palestinian village.
AdrianG on August 10, 2007 at 5:31 PM
Don’t you know anything? That’s the cloaking device!
see-dubya on August 10, 2007 at 5:32 PM
comment at YouTube on the 1st video makes sense:
mariachi82
bnelson44 on August 10, 2007 at 5:35 PM
See you dont get it. This is all tied in with Global warming.
They us to take them to our
leader
William Amos on August 10, 2007 at 5:35 PM
AP, Are those supposed to be two different occurrences in two different places? Because the palm trees are the same. Same kind of palms on either side of the “witness”.
Weight of Glory on August 10, 2007 at 5:35 PM
Fred? still can’t win! He’s too late.
TBinSTL on August 10, 2007 at 5:36 PM
Limerick,
A non aerodynamic craft may not have an omni-directional propulsion system.
It’s definitely CG though and some decent CG but the lighting on the 3D models isn’t perfect and neither is the focus.
bj1126 on August 10, 2007 at 5:36 PM
Could be a Bungie(Halo’s publisher) viral campaign, they have a track record of it…anyone remember I Love Bees?
Bad Candy on August 10, 2007 at 5:37 PM
Quick! Someone get that The Onion clip of something happening in Hatti.
Nonfactor on August 10, 2007 at 5:37 PM
Some of them stopped by my house with threatening ray guns. I dodged into the kitchen, made a hat out of tinfoil (just like the one I wore at Kos 2006), grabbed my double-walled softball special and came out, holding my “peace stick” in a friendly gesture. Obviously the aluminum headgear blocked their telepathy because they smiled and dropped their rayguns just as I made contact with the first pitch, knocking it on its gray posterior, then going 2-for-2 with its pal, doubling him off the center field fence.
Now I can understand why this baby was banned in my softball league!
Nethicus on August 10, 2007 at 5:38 PM
I bet Rosie believes this is real.
Helloyawl on August 10, 2007 at 5:40 PM
Now it makes sense! And I bet Karl Rove planned the flyover to distract the American people!
amerpundit on August 10, 2007 at 5:41 PM
You have to do a coordinated turn [bank then turn] so the passengers don’t spill their drinks.
rockhauler on August 10, 2007 at 5:42 PM
My ride’s here. See you guys later!
Mazztek on August 10, 2007 at 5:42 PM
I think what would be totally awesome would be this turning out to just be some student project at a 3D arts school that they decided to put out on the web to mess with people.
bj1126 on August 10, 2007 at 5:44 PM
To me, they looked a lot like one of the old underwater habitats that Captain Jacques Cousteau experimented with back in the 1960s. I believe it was called Starfish House because of its shape.
Although the first one looked more like a flying hibachi with the four “burners” underneath. And IIRC, most “UFOs” reported from the Arnold sighting on have not been reported as having reaction engines, the Chiles/Whitted case (1948), the Zamora case (1964), and the Cash/Landrum case (1980) being conspicuous exceptions to the rule.
I’m calling it CGI until some better supporting evidence shows up.
cheers
eon
eon on August 10, 2007 at 5:44 PM
Heres a wiki page on the viral marketing surrounding Halo 3…complete with publicity emails, crypic symbols, etc…but I don’t see this ufo vid as part of it…unless I’m missing something….
JetBoy on August 10, 2007 at 5:47 PM
Lordy, I hope we don’t have to give these guys health coverage.
Labamigo on August 10, 2007 at 5:49 PM
Umm, will the Covenant be flying around in crappy Millennium Falcon knock-offs in Halo 3?
I played the Beta version of H3 last month. Granted, that’s not the complete game, but there def wasn’t anything like that in the multiplayer.
/lameness
John from OPFOR on August 10, 2007 at 5:50 PM
Food, We are Dinner!
abinitioadinfinitum on August 10, 2007 at 5:53 PM
Ask Houdini….
wordwarp on August 10, 2007 at 5:53 PM
I’ll probably get lots of flack for this, but stuff like this really pisses me off. CG effects today are photorealistic, so people need to exercise way more responsibility with them. It’s not difficult to create a fake “home movie” like this stupid stuff above. I suspect that AP’s right, that this is some obnoxious marketing scheme for Halo 3 or whatever idiotic product that’s whoring for attention.
I think CG effects are cool, but I also think we need to be careful with them. Thankfully we weren’t fooled by the low-quality Photoshopping done with the Lebanon war photos, but there probably are some well-done fakes out there too. I’m not saying the UFO videos are on par with faking war photos, but they do encourage stupid irresponsible behaviour like that… people like to appear “clever” by making fake stuff like this. There’s a time and place for photorealistic CG effects… a clearly fictional Hollywood movie is one thing, but faking a home movie and throwing it out there is irresponsible, in my opinion.
dave_lantos on August 10, 2007 at 5:54 PM
The aliens are here to save us from the evil dictator Bu$Hitler!
I, for one, plan to greet them as liberators.
liberrocky on August 10, 2007 at 5:55 PM
@186k
My sides hurt after reading that…
bentman78 on August 10, 2007 at 5:55 PM
They look like the Ships from the movie “close encounters of the third kind”
abinitioadinfinitum on August 10, 2007 at 5:56 PM
You can have the iphone. I’ll take one of those, please.
Tanya on August 10, 2007 at 5:58 PM
Are you implying that this is connected to SIGGRAPH? Eeenteresting…
Bryan on August 10, 2007 at 6:00 PM
Meh. The one in Brian’s video looks like it’s on helium balloons.
Tanya on August 10, 2007 at 6:01 PM
Sorry, spelled wrong.
Tanya on August 10, 2007 at 6:01 PM
Ha, yup.
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords…
John from OPFOR on August 10, 2007 at 6:02 PM
Heh, true.
madne0 on August 10, 2007 at 6:02 PM
If Congress won’t fund The Fence, there’s no way they’ll fund a force-field dome.
Nosferightu on August 10, 2007 at 6:09 PM
Humping Robots for
lorien 1973
abinitioadinfinitum on August 10, 2007 at 6:12 PM
Somebody contact Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinish
Kini on August 10, 2007 at 6:18 PM
I, for one, would like to welcome our computer-generated overlords.
Blacklake on August 10, 2007 at 6:35 PM
Hurry..get Geraldo out of that straightjacket and get his ass down to Haiti..and hope they come back and take him up, up and away..
Legions on August 10, 2007 at 6:45 PM
Saw those last Christmas at Radio Shack.
Terp Mole on August 10, 2007 at 7:07 PM
My Son says they look similar to “Phantoms” but they aren’t. He says he’s seen all the previews of Halo 3 and hasn’t seen these.
TheBigOldDog on August 10, 2007 at 7:09 PM
Isn’t that Roves new Hybrid? or the Goracles?
-Wonder what kind of mileage it gets? Or it’s carbon footprint? Does it have carbon? or feet? …huh, toughie.
Maybe it’s just all done with sky hooks, from K-Mart.
shooter on August 10, 2007 at 7:16 PM
Wouldn’t have made it into our Atmosphere with those craft.
Bob's Kid on August 10, 2007 at 7:21 PM
They must be new secret weapons developed by the Jews…
gmoonster on August 10, 2007 at 7:22 PM
It’s the Star Wars Defense Initiative in action; bombing starts in five minutes.
NeoConNews on August 10, 2007 at 7:23 PM
If those UFO depictions are fake, I want to see someone reproduce this. What ever it was or is, with the background there, it would be hard to fake. Doubters will poo poo the idea, but it really looked real to me. Guess I am just gullible.
Zelsdorf Ragshaft on August 10, 2007 at 7:39 PM
Elvis has left the planet!
csdeven on August 10, 2007 at 7:41 PM
Nothing to worry about. This is just the baby robot-thingies from Batteries Not Included all grown up now! They’d be in their late teens or early twenties by now. They’re just enjoying the last bit of summer on vacation in the Caribbean before they have to head back to college.
Their next move is to fix up a bunch of the shacks and then get blasted on rum.
Harpazo on August 10, 2007 at 7:41 PM
Something that detailed, and that close to the U.S., you’d know there would be a huge Scramble alert. It just looks to CG-ish
Razgriez on August 10, 2007 at 7:44 PM
Etched on side of the craft was 72 Virgins
faraway on August 10, 2007 at 7:46 PM
My ride is here.
faraway on August 10, 2007 at 7:47 PM
Yep, that is definitely better than the ole’ frisbee in the air shot.
nottakingsides on August 10, 2007 at 7:48 PM
You watched too much Farscape too huh? :-)
Kowboy on August 10, 2007 at 8:01 PM
I’m typing this post from under my bed with a butcher knife right besides me.
I beleive it people…they’re coming to get us before globle warming has a chance to fry us all.
Thanks to you Algore
Sgt. Khe Sahn
1GooDDaDDy on August 10, 2007 at 8:05 PM
I am Limerick. Resistance is futile.
Limerick on August 10, 2007 at 8:25 PM
This is correct. We have translated their book “To Serve Man”, and it’s a cookbook!
I think they’re looking for their missing crew member, Dennis Rodman.
Bigfoot on August 10, 2007 at 8:47 PM
Cookbook? Ya think they’re looking for Martha Stewart?
Kini on August 10, 2007 at 9:10 PM
That was funny!
Ballistic on August 10, 2007 at 9:13 PM
I think this is some network news coverage of the event:
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/breaking_news_something_happening
pedestrian on August 10, 2007 at 9:20 PM
If they’re in the Dominican Republic, they’re probably stopping by for a hot booty call on the cheap…that’s what I’ve heard….from freinds…who’ve been there.
Alden Pyle on August 10, 2007 at 9:20 PM
I know what to do. Let’s ask Reuters!
Dusty on August 10, 2007 at 9:33 PM
The gasp by the woman who was filming right at the beginning of the first clip seemed like a rather convenient sound effect.
Dusty on August 10, 2007 at 9:39 PM
Ron Paul.
Kristopher on August 10, 2007 at 9:40 PM
I’m sorry, but those “ships” were just not going nearly FAST enough to be true alien scout ships.
I mean they were positively lumbering along.
Evidently they like warm weather though. And Palm trees.
Cant say I blame them. They must come from the Ice Planet Hoth and are just looking for some rays.
Always Right on August 10, 2007 at 9:43 PM
I’ve been making this wierd shape out of my mashed potatoes all night….and my shaving cream….and have a sudden urge to uproot my shrubs and throw them through the basement window….
it….means….something….
JetBoy on August 10, 2007 at 9:45 PM
Ah, so they finally decided to come pick up Glenn Greenwald. Finally.
Seixon on August 10, 2007 at 9:48 PM
Its got to be fake.
There arent any palm trees at Area 51. :)
johnnyU on August 10, 2007 at 9:53 PM
Ah, but there aren’t any aliens at Area 51, so it’s a moot point.
Maybe this is Starcraft2, but those don’t look like carriers.
Asher on August 10, 2007 at 10:06 PM
Are we allowed to call them aliens? Or, are they just “Newcommers”?
BDavis on August 10, 2007 at 10:14 PM
Hey Allah. What is the deal with using the term Freaky Deaky when referring to aliens?
Are you trying to alienate them?
I for one am offended that you would use that term,. Please rewrite your headline.
I think everybody will agree.
TheSitRep on August 10, 2007 at 10:21 PM
Me tinks dems cool man! Dey jes be comin for da gunja man.
TheSitRep on August 10, 2007 at 10:28 PM
Dick Cheney’s private air force is almost operational, and it’s like nothing anyone has ever seen before. Haliburton can afford the best, and they outfitted the VP with several fleets of these crafts armed with levy buster bombs, school bus torpedoes and hurricane mix.
Hening on August 10, 2007 at 10:39 PM
Halo 3 Preorders Top 1 Million
The pre-order total for Microsoft’s forthcoming Xbox 360 game appears to break game industry records.
TheBigOldDog on August 10, 2007 at 10:46 PM
Oh please! Ever since the hand-held Google footage of rare tree & fauna lifeforms surfaced a year or 2 ago I knew that killer video manipulation was possible.
Ever see the YouTube video of kids turning a real train track into a loop-de-loop?
Coronagold on August 10, 2007 at 10:59 PM
Maybe Kodos and Kane were playing tag.
canopfor on August 10, 2007 at 10:59 PM
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