Video: Freaky deakiest UFO clip evah debunked?

posted at 8:50 pm on August 12, 2007 by Allahpundit

I wanted to believe.

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I’m sooo disappointed.

Sigh.

Bob's Kid on August 12, 2007 at 9:01 PM

Aw shucks!

Weight of Glory on August 12, 2007 at 9:05 PM

That’s a good thing because while I could get used to the tinfoil hat, the tinfoil underwear was starting to chafe.

FloatingRock on August 12, 2007 at 9:05 PM

Come on, AP – you know it was just a matter of time before someone burst your bubble. Poor AP, no IPhone and now, this…

pullingmyhairout on August 12, 2007 at 9:06 PM

The second video could have nothing to do with the first – so saying the second one debunks the first is wrong. So, the whole debunking of the first video rests on the tops of 2 trees. I’m sure it’s a fake but this debunking is weak.

TheBigOldDog on August 12, 2007 at 9:07 PM

Shades of Rathergate! It’s like the Charles Johnson Times New Roman animated gif!

see-dubya on August 12, 2007 at 9:09 PM

Ah.. the leaves on the trees are moving in the first video, no? So how is it a still?

TheBigOldDog on August 12, 2007 at 9:10 PM

Geraldo doesn’t care, he’s still coming down..on his weekend pass form the NutHouse..straightjacket and all.

Legions on August 12, 2007 at 9:10 PM

Cool song accompanying the video! Fitting…who is it?
Phydeaux

Phydeaux on August 12, 2007 at 9:10 PM

oops..from..like in from now on proof read before post

Legions on August 12, 2007 at 9:15 PM

Ok people. Check me out here. GO watch the other video again. It appears these guys changed the tops of one of the trees in the first video to create a match. If I could post a pic here I could show you a grab I just did where they are clearly different. No?

TheBigOldDog on August 12, 2007 at 9:16 PM

agreeed…the music kept me watching.

what a spoilsport. I was hoping this would begin to suck up all the time of the Truthers.

TexasDan on August 12, 2007 at 9:19 PM

Ron Paul.

lorien1973 on August 12, 2007 at 9:20 PM

Fake but accurate!

Blacklake on August 12, 2007 at 9:25 PM

Gee, Allah, when did you go all Area51 on us?

Blake on August 12, 2007 at 9:26 PM

They aren’t the same trees. AP do a screen grab. You’ll see.

I’m sure they aren’t real but this “analysis” does not prove they are fake.

The purpose of the second video could be to discredit the first or is just a sloppy copycat.

TheBigOldDog on August 12, 2007 at 9:32 PM

The music is from a fondly remembered (by me, at least) little film called “Bugsy Malone”. It starred Scott Baio, Jodie Foster and the fat kid from the Barney Miller spinoff “Fish” as kid gangsters.

Loved that movie as a kid. Wonder if it holds up.

MikeZero on August 12, 2007 at 9:52 PM

Trees, shmees. I want to know what they used to make the UFO’s. I mean, this wasn’t an Unidentified Flying TREE video, was it???

Debunk the saucers, not the foliage…

unamused on August 12, 2007 at 9:55 PM

Why would anyone bother to “debunk” something that was meant for fun and was obviously satire to begin with? Anyone who would bother debunking a “UFO sighting” has as much spare time on his hands as the comedian that made the youtube video.

jihadwatcher on August 12, 2007 at 10:03 PM

The music was incredible… I watched it twice just hear it again.

Ugly on August 12, 2007 at 10:17 PM

Nawww, man. The UFO’s are real. The tree are fake.

petefrt on August 12, 2007 at 10:18 PM

Okay… one of the songs is from the soundtrack to Bugsy Malone…

Ugly on August 12, 2007 at 10:20 PM

The real question is, how did the aliens move the tree?

a4g on August 12, 2007 at 10:46 PM

The real question is, how did the aliens move the tree?

a4g

They had Louis Farrakhan do it.

petefrt on August 12, 2007 at 10:48 PM

I like the “Fight against truth decay” at the end.

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I was hoping this would begin to suck up all the time of the Truthers.

TexasDan on August 12, 2007 at 9:19 PM

Truthers need a plausible explanation established before they can get revved up to deny it. Call it deniable plausibility.

Dusty on August 12, 2007 at 10:50 PM

If you have about 45 minutes of your life to give away, here’s a pretty good documentary on the subject. I really have no idea how factual any of this is, but at first glance, it appears credible, with many credible sources. I’d be interested in another take on it as I’m still incredibly skeptical of the actual existence of UFO’s.

thedecider on August 12, 2007 at 11:08 PM

But why not have some fun? Having seen Tiger take home another PGA win in the awful heat at Southern Hills today in Tulsa has probably made me delirious.

thedecider on August 12, 2007 at 11:11 PM

Did I hear Chris Matthews on the clip say “Come Closer…….”

William Amos on August 12, 2007 at 11:36 PM

How does that go….oh yeah.
This is false, but accurate.
:)

SuperManGreenLantern on August 12, 2007 at 11:36 PM

Here’s a pretty good documentary I’ve seen debunking UFO myths.

thedecider on August 12, 2007 at 11:36 PM

Worst. Debunking. Evar.

The entire argument rests on the description (often screwed up as dozens of people load the same video having no idea or not caring what the facts are once it hits YouTube – in addition, who knows what the relation is between the person who shot the video and who posted it?), and the trees (they appear to have been edited for THIS video – if so, All Hands Down).

In addition, people often change names & places “to protect the innocent,” as well as because they just don’t care.

The “chronological order” thing is complete bullcrap, I don’t recall the original videos claiming they were in chronological order.

Also, the “debunker” converted the already-compressed YouTube videos to use their editing program, introducting even more “artifacts” into the picture.

Yeah, the original videos are probably CGI. But this “effort” at debunking is so bad, it will probably INCREASE the credibility of the videos with the GP.

Merovign on August 13, 2007 at 12:00 AM

The Truthers Is Out There

Kini on August 13, 2007 at 12:06 AM

The UFOs are real! It’s the trees that are fake!

This is nothing more than the Men in Black trying to cover it up!

Oh, and this explains how a politician can be a conservative during the election and then go liberal while in office. It’s a conspiracy by the aliens. They wait for them to get elected and then SWITCH.

The problem is, they coppied McCain too well and they can’t tell which is the copy, so they keep switching him back and forth.

- The Cat

MirCat on August 13, 2007 at 12:35 AM

The problem is, they coppied McCain too well and they can’t tell which is the copy, so they keep switching him back and forth.

- The Cat

MirCat on August 13, 2007 at 12:35 AM

Check for pods in the basement.

Texas Nick 77 on August 13, 2007 at 1:08 AM

I would be I don’t have a baseme . . . THEY STOLE MY BASEMENT!

- The Cat

MirCat on August 13, 2007 at 1:35 AM

I believe that the proper superlative form would be, “freakiest deakiest UFO clip …”

:)

progressoverpeace on August 13, 2007 at 3:33 AM

Maybe that tree trimmer gets around?

EricPWJohnson on August 13, 2007 at 5:35 AM

My sumation, You never can always sometimes tell.

leanright on August 13, 2007 at 7:16 AM

I like this kind of stuff

Mortis on August 13, 2007 at 7:45 AM

All palm trees look alike to me anyway.

Buzzy on August 13, 2007 at 8:29 AM

They could have pulled it off if it hadn’t been for those four meddling kids and their stupid dog! : )

pilamaye on August 13, 2007 at 8:31 AM

Great…the aliens are cloning palm trees…and we’re next!

JetBoy on August 13, 2007 at 8:41 AM

I thought this was already told to be a Halo3 viral vid?

RiteWingFascist on August 13, 2007 at 9:03 AM

The second video could have nothing to do with the first – so saying the second one debunks the first is wrong. So, the whole debunking of the first video rests on the tops of 2 trees. I’m sure it’s a fake but this debunking is weak.

TheBigOldDog on August 12, 2007 at 9:07 PM

Yeah, I have to agree here. It proves for a fact that the trees were fake, which makes it highly probable that the second video is a fake but doesn’t say anything about the first one and never even addresses the UFOs.

I’m still hoping for more on this one.

Esthier on August 13, 2007 at 9:09 AM

I like turtles.

CyberCipher on August 13, 2007 at 9:11 AM

Don’t you remember the Coptix gag? They didn’t have to change the pic above the entrance door into those…weird creatures, I never watched the show. They did it because they could, just to prove that Twofers are easily fooled. And that’s the tooth.

Kids in kollege have A/V equipment as powerful as Light & Magic studios. They can create & animate & radiosity anything they want to. The cloning of the treetops was a “just so you know” waterstamp.

AP, if Jesus or an iPhone were aliens, would you believe?

Coronagold on August 13, 2007 at 9:21 AM

There are billions of stars in our galaxy and there are billions upon billions of galaxies. So the odds are very good that there is another planet somewhere with life. However the distances are so great it is beyond conception.

To hold on to a belief in extraterrestrial visitors is pure folly. It is akin to pondering time travel.

You see, it is like this, there is no past and no future. There is only a constant now. The conception of time is a construct of the mind.

TheSitRep on August 13, 2007 at 9:32 AM

That first UFO looks like a hang glider upside down.

right2bright on August 13, 2007 at 11:26 AM

DAGNABBITT! Can’t we have some time to enjoy our hoaxes before some mulder wannabe shreds it?!

Might as well finsh packing to climb the twin peaks of Kiliminjaro…

allie on August 13, 2007 at 11:27 AM

Oh brother. Twenty bucks says he debunks the Transformers movie next. What a weinie.

And could that music have been any more pompous and annoying? I had it stuck in my head for about half an hour, until the Chili’s Baby Back Ribs jingle came on and obliterated it. Thank god.

Tanya on August 13, 2007 at 12:26 PM

A UFO video debunked? No way…

Next, someone will come along and debunk spirit photographs and dowsing for water.

Krydor on August 13, 2007 at 1:03 PM

All the palm trees at my house are identical,cos I bought them from alien palm farmers
Bob

Bobnormal on August 13, 2007 at 3:31 PM