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Friday, April 01, 2011

Jerusalem UFO Video: Case Closed

By Benjamin Radford
news.discovery.com
3-31-11

In January of this year, a series of videos showing what appeared to be a UFO hovering over Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock caused a stir. As Discovery News space producer Ian O’Neill wrote, "The footage shows the light drop and seemingly hover just above the shrine. After a few moments, and a brief flash of a strobe, the light took off, disappearing into the night sky. Videos have surfaced of the event and have since gone viral on YouTube."

Based upon my experience investigating images of UFOs and other "unexplained" phenomena, O'Neill asked for my analysis. I researched both the video and the circumstances surrounding it, and provided a list of reasons why I concluded that the videos were "almost certainly a hoax."

The reaction among UFO believers was both swift and dismissive. . . .

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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Aliens Submit 'Photographic Evidence' That They Did Visit The Dome of The Rock!!

Editor’s Note–Just in case: the above picture IS NOT AUTHENTIC; These aren’t real aliens; nor is it a real alien spaceship; it was created in jest (and admittedly with partial disgust) with the Jerusalem Hoax UFO Videos in mind.–FW

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

UFO NEWS | Yet Another Jerusalem UFO Hoax Video Surfaces . . .

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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Jerusalem UFO Videos | Dome Of The Rock UFO: Hoaxes Are Easy

By SkepticOverlord
Above Top Secret
2-14-11

As the "Jerusalem UFO" incident flared-up to epic proportions here on ATS and elsewhere online, the majority of people ended up on the widely-accepted conclusion that the videos were hoaxes. However, a insistent and not-insignificant number of people where expressing a high-degree of skepticism regarding the hoax conclusion. An often-heard refrain from those unable to accept that the videos may be a hoax was that they've not seen a proper reconstruction of the effects used in the fabrication of a convincing video.

In just a tad more than two hours (yesterday evening, on a whim), I've used a combination of images found via a Google image search and the "out of the box" features of readily available software -- Motion 4 (part of the Final Cut Studio) on the Mac.

The images were overlaid on a 2D plan within a 3D space, and a standard software camera pointed at the long rectangular image.

A simple randomizing effect was used on the x/y parameters of the camera to simulate being hand-held. Basic blur effects were added to simulate a consumer video camera auto-focus.

Jerusalem UFO Video Still From ATS Recreation of Hoax

The bright "object" is oblong with a glow, light, and rotation effect added.

Masks were used to create the simulated visual effect of the object's light having an effect on the surrounding area.

No other complicated 3D or lighting effects were used.

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Thursday, February 10, 2011

UFO NEWS | VIDEO: A look at NASA, Alien Life Forms & The Jerusalem UFO Videos

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Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Jerusalem UFO Videos | Hoax in the Holy Land: Jerusalem UFO a Proven Fake

By Benjamin Radford
www.space.com
2-8-11

Several videos have surfaced online that supposedly show a UFO hovering over an Islamic shrine known as the Dome of the Rock on Jerusalem's Temple Mount some time after midnight on Jan. 28. The videos have sparked a furious debate about whether we finally have evidence of UFOs.

As a veteran investigator of many UFO photos and videos, these images strike me as highly dubious, and all signs point to a hoax.

Why are the Jerusalem UFO videos suspicious? SPACE.com's sister site, Life's Little Mysteries, counts the ways:

First, no one knows who took the videos. In UFO reports, as in police investigations, anonymous reports are usually a red flag that something's bogus. There are very few legitimate reasons why a genuine witness would not want to be identified. (For example, fear of reprisals from gang members or the mafia; though it seems unlikely that the aliens threatened anyone to keep quiet.)

If you were one of the first people in the world to capture some of the most amazing video footage of a UFO taken in the past decade, why would you post it anonymously on YouTube instead of either submitting it to professional analysis, or making money by selling it to CNN or MSNBC? (In fact, there's some speculation that most or all of the videos were actually posted by a single person, which would guarantee a hoax.) Surely at least one of the videographers -- or someone working with them — would have come forward in the past 10 days to sell their story to a newspaper or tabloid. Suspicious.

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Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Jerusalem UFO Videos | Close Encounters of The Fabricated Kind

By Jonah Mandel
The Jerusalem Post
2-7-11

Fake YouTube videos showing lights over Dome of the Rock spark Internet debate ranging from theology, eschatology, one user’s genealogy.

The lack of higher intelligence seems more acute than ever, with at least three fabricated YouTube videos recently posted showing the same spot of light floating above the Temple Mount in Jerusalem with the unconvincing oohs and aahs of those witnessing and filming the “UFO” in the background. The videos have garnered over 2 million views by Sunday. . . .

HOAXkiller1 is leading the pack of debunking videos, with some 350,000 views on Sunday evening for six separate pieces, showing the original photo available on Wikipedia Commons that was the backdrop for the rather primitive work done in an attempt to make it look like part of a video shoot.

Besides close-ups that showed the background image was actually a static image on a screen and pointing out the faults in the attempt to show flashes of light, an effect called “motion tile” was also used in eligael’s video to enable the deception of an authentic video camera shot.

Motion tile mirrors a bit of the edges of a static image “to hide the black edges created when they added fake camera shake to the video,” HOAXkiller 1 explains. “The camera movements are fake. That is why the mirror lines follow the movement of the camera.”

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Friday, April 01, 2011

Jerusalem UFO Video: Case Closed

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Aliens Submit 'Photographic Evidence' That They Did Visit The Dome of The Rock!!

UFO NEWS | Jerusalem UFO Hoax Videos | Now Featuring Number '6'

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

UFO NEWS | Yet Another Jerusalem UFO Hoax Video Surfaces . . .

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Jerusalem UFO Videos | Dome Of The Rock UFO: Hoaxes Are Easy

Friday, February 11, 2011

Jerusalem UFO Videos | 3 Videos Running in Synchronicity

Thursday, February 10, 2011

UFO NEWS | VIDEO: A look at NASA, Alien Life Forms & The Jerusalem UFO Videos

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Jerusalem UFO Videos | Hoax in the Holy Land: Jerusalem UFO a Proven Fake

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Jerusalem UFO Videos | Close Encounters of The Fabricated Kind