The latest news on Tyler Glockner, producer of the Secureteam 10 UFO hoax channel on YouTube with over 800,000 subscribers, is not good. Glockner was recently shocked to discover that his earnings
By ufotheater.com
4-10-16
may be cut as a result of YouTube’s new monetization policies. But Tyler will not see his lavish ill-gotten income diminished, no sir! He’s now appealing directly to his subscribers for support.
According to this article in Forbes, YouTube is demonetizing videos that are not considered “advertiser friendly,” and it appears Secureteam 10 videos fall into this category. This is not surprising, as YouTube and its advertisers are staffed with functioning adults who have some critical ability. They are in contrast to the majority of Secureteam 10 followers, as evidenced by the fans’ comments on UFO Theater’s debunking video The Wings of Fail.
In a video message posted on April 6, 2017 (“SECURETEAM Shutting Down?”) Glockner laughably describes his channel as “alternative news” and refers to the demonetization as “censorship at its worst,” hoping his viewers don’t understand the meaning of the terms “alternative news” and “censorship.”
Will YouTube reverse its new policy? Hopefully not anytime soon.
Editor's note: In the article below, the author incorrectly writes, Constantine Guiliotis YouTube channel is "dedicated to debunking sightings of unidentified flying objects ..."–this is patently false.
Constantine Guiliotis of UFOTheater.com and his corresponding YouTube channel are getting major support, both financially and by posture from Google/YouTube. The former's goals are, in short–to expose UFO hoaxers, charlatans etc., as well as highlighting individuals & groups "providing accurate information and real insight" in regards to the UFO phenomenon.
YouTube to Pay Fees for Some Video Makers to Fight Takedowns
By CECILIA KANG
www.nytimes.com
11-19-15
WASHINGTON — Since its inception, YouTube has been embroiled in long and bitter battles over copyright infringement. And over the years, the video site has increased its policing of pirated material. But too often, the company says, the demands of copyright holders to take down videos go too far.
Now, YouTube is taking the unusual step of financially supporting YouTube creators so they can fight back.
YouTube said on Thursday that it would pick up the legal costs of a handful of video creators that the company thinks are the targets of unfair takedown demands. It said the creators it chose legally use third-party content under “fair use” provisions carved out for commentary, criticism, news and parody.
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Constantine Guiliotis, who goes by Dean and whose channel dedicated to debunking sightings of unidentified flying objects has just over 1,000 subscribers, is one of the video makers YouTube will defend. Mr. Guiliotis has received three takedown notices from copyright holders of videos that he has found online and posted to his YouTube channel, U.F.O. Theater. [...]
With allowances for the inevitable transmission glitches, something with extraordinary potential occurred Thursday evening in the new-media realm. Now let’s see where it goes from here.
In a 90-minute Skype chat, author Leslie Kean joined four characters who figured prominently in her 2010 New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record. Jose Lay of the Chilean government’s UFO research program, USAF officer veterans Charles Halt and Robert Salas, and retired Iranian air force general Parviz Jafari recounted some dramatic incidents they shared with Kean years ago. If you follow this stuff at all, you’re probably familiar with the talking points.
YouTube's fledgling 'citizen journalism' channel apparently has no aversion to addressing The Great Taboo.
For De Void, the revelation was the stage itself: Truthloader, a component of YouTube’s $200 million original channels initiative. Founded by ITN Productions last year in the UK, Truthloader — like most startups — trumpeted its ambitions with the prerequisite hype. Announced ITN’s “community producer” Phil Harper, “We take on the stories the mainstream news won’t or cannot cover.” Vowed ITN’s managing editor: “Our experts will separate truth from fakery and bring the very best in eyewitness accounts to audiences around the world.”
What fuels “the very best” of those eyewitness accounts? Video offerings from the bane of knee-jerk mainstreamers like, well, De Void. Truthloader promises, among other things, to champion “citizen journalism,” which is the traditional punch line to the truism that begins: “When you’re too lazy, cheap, or cynical to hire real reporters ...”
A quick scan reveals Truthloader’s uneven plane, like an unsourced clip asserting there were 300,000 attempts to access Internet porn last year using computers in the British Parliament. The accusation provoked a government denial, which also accompanied the piece.
And then there’s Truthloader’s uh-oh declaration that “We love science, tech, conspiracies, and weird stuff,” which, to De Void, initially reeks of garden-variety paranoia. Front and center are video entries dedicated to the Bilderberg Group. Typically, cyber-rants about blue-helmeted gulag-slaving jack-booted iris-scanning New World Order tyranny are incomplete without tossing the old Bilderberg saw into middle of the laundry basket.
But instead of regurgitating endless theories about this comically secretive, 59-year-old nexus of powerful corporate and political rainmakers, Truthloader actually puts boots on the ground at Bilderberg’s annual conventions, where protesters are kept at arm’s length by formidable security. The results can be enormously entertaining. Look — there’s Henry Kissinger in the back seat of a limo, looking as remote and grainy as an Everglades skunk ape. See former PM Tony Blair’s deer-in-the-headlights shock at being confronted about his attendance at a Bilderberg confab in 1993, especially when the question is Wasn’t that a conflict of interest? “Yeah,” Blair responds after some thought. He sighs, then offers a hopeful brushoff. “But it may have changed a bit since my day.”
And here’s where things get even more interesting. Described as an assembly of the “high priests of globalization,” Bilderberg's yearly gathering of CEOs, bankers, Euroroyals, and poohbahs as eclectic as Rupert Murdoch and Angela Merkel gets no media attention. Zilch. And it’s not just because the media aren’t invited. Truthloader manages to corner the likes of erstwhile ABC/CNN anchor Paula Zahn, who admits her cluelessness on camera. These guys are absolutely undaunted in the unplowed fields.
“I have no idea what that is,” replies MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell. “If ," the Truthloader presses on, "I could tell you it’s a meeting of the most influential people in the world —” “No it’s not,” O’Donnell interrupts. “I have no idea what that is, so it’s not.” Wow. That doesn't look arrogant.
Truthloader may well turn out to be another flash in the pan. For now, anyway, it is young, fearless, energetic and bristling with the kind of vibe that could really shake things up, maybe even with the UFO stalemate. Phil Harper, who hosted Thursday night’s UFO discussion, has demonstrated a command of the basic issues, and has so far avoided the dreck that often sidetracks so many naive intentions. Truthloader's framing of Leslie Kean's material wasn’t for the old hands — it was for a generation which has been screwed on so many fronts by the status quo.
If Harper and Truthloader can deliver persistent substance and context to The Great Taboo, who knows? Perhaps they could stoke an aggressive curiosity, with or without the mainstream media, and in the kind of numbers for whom complacency and indifference are no longer options. And maybe even convert the kind of people who vote with their wallets.
From the hopelessly opaque fusion of reality and CGI with YouTube comes the latest UFO rave from Jerusalem, a sequence that purports to show a mystery sphere descending above one of monotheism’s most sacred shrines. What makes this footage — said to be unfolding near the Dome of the Rock mosque at Temple Mount — a bit more compelling is that it appears to have been grabbed from at least two angles.
Things that appear too good to be true usually are, and already the critics are assailing its authenticity. And as Dr. David Halperin wonders, “I couldn’t see anything in these two videos that I could identify as the Dome of the Rock.”
Halperin, a retired professor of Judaic studies at the University of North Carolina, has a unique spin on UFOs, and it’s entangled in the protracted demise of his mother. Having suffered her first stroke when he was 18 months old, felled by a heart attack when her son was 3, and succumbing finally to heart disease when Halperin was 16, his mother’s illness was increasingly obvious. “But it became a truth we didn’t address,” he says from his home in Durham, N.C. “It became a family secret.”
Then he read Gray Barker’s controversial 1956 book, They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, which introduced the so-called Men in Black phenomenon to much of America. Still waters ran deep with Barker, and Halperin couldn’t get enough. “It seemed to mirror a faithful truth about what was going on in my own household,” he recalls. “It appeared to reflect something that was going on that nobody wanted to talk about.”
Before long, young Halperin was writing letters to USAF officers with Project Blue Book, conducting futile field investigations of local UFO reports, and feeling “like a perpetual outsider, like I was different and apart from everyone else.” The journey led him to explore his Jewish ethnicity, to the ancient Hebrew texts, particularly the Old Testament, where Ezekiel’s fabled wheels were preceded by a “whirlwind … coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself.” Remembers Halperin, “It struck me, as a little kid, as something exceedingly spooky.”
Halperin’s quest for clarity would produce a dissertation on the prophet Ezekiel. What followed was an adventure in the scholarship of religion and mythology, numerous trips to Israel — where he lived for more than two years — and ultimately a realization: “What UFOs were there for was to give me a mirror to work out my anxiety of my mother’s slow dying. And when belief lost its function, I gradually lost interest in UFOs. Once you lose faith in something that may be potentially important in these accounts, they nevertheless become extremely dull.”
So last month, all these decades later, Halperin produced his first novel, Journal of a UFO Investigator, a somewhat autobiographical fantasy which is receiving critical acclaim. But the irony of his conversion from “believer” to “skeptic” is not lost upon him.
“When I was a teen ufologist, I used to agree with critics who said, ‘Of course these skeptics don’t believe in it because they don’t even bother to read the reports! How true!’ I thought they were dogmatic. And I’m very dogmatic now. I’m the person I once accused others of being.”
Images of UFOs, purportedly videotaped in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, have Internet viewers watching and debating.
THOUGH the island in the Caribbean shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic was spared a direct hit from Hurricane Dean this week, it may be that other, stranger entities made landfall there.
Evidence "UFO Haiti" and "UFO Dominican Republic" -- two authentic-looking home videos recently posted on the "News and Politics" section of YouTube. The films, which were uploaded from two different anonymous accounts, both appear to record close-up sightings of Area 51-type craft hovering above the island's beaches at sunset. As the ships pass eerily over, wind whips through the palm trees, dogs bark and a woman gasps in disbelief. All very real seeming. The jerky, amateur camera work could easily be that of a panicked Caribbean tourist.
The videos hummed to the top of YouTube's "Most Viewed" list, and from there invaded discussion forums and news aggregator sites across the Web, where debate raged about their origin and authenticity. Skeptics pronounced the videos a computer-generated fraud, probably part of some viral marketing ploy. Microsoft's Halo 3 was coming out soon, wasn't it? Or maybe it was for Nicole Kidman's movie "Invasion" -- or even the secretive new J.J. Abrams project about some kind of monster attack on New York.
Still, with all the cries of fraud and corporate opportunism, even the most steadfast doubters couldn't find anything in the footage that was obviously bogus. No matter where you stood, you had to agree that the quality of the movies was surpassing. More than a few observers in either camp called them "the best UFO videos ever."
"Frankly I'm worried about this," wrote one observer on the conspiracy site AboveTopSecret.com. "If people feel it necessary to flood the Internet or the UFO community with increasingly more 'realistic' hoaxes, what will happen in the event of a true landing?"
They're fake, right? Right?!
With so many people scrutinizing every frame in the videos, it was not long before the first imperfections were spotted in the story's hull. For one thing, no one could find any reports of flying objects in the Haitian or Dominican press -- or anywhere else. Surely an extraterrestrial visitation would've at least merited a brief. Or, failing that, a blog entry?
And yes, after a few viewings, "UFO Haiti" began to feel a little too real. In spite of the camerawoman's shaky hand and trouble keeping focus, she still manages a cinematically perfect tracking shot of the ship as it flies directly over her head. Moreover, her gasp is rather glaringly mistimed. It comes after she's already aimed the camera at the UFOs -- seconds after she's first seen them.
But it was the trees that aroused the most suspicion.
Freeze-frame the Haiti and Dominican Republic videos side-to-side, critics found, and you will see a palm tree in both videos that appears to be almost the exact same shape.
Aha!
Wait.
Two palm trees on the same tropical island? And they look really similar? Have you ever seen two palm trees that don't look really similar? That was the best the Internet crowd could do?
Someone needed to look deeper. And perhaps that someone was named Web Scout.
False starts, red herrings The key would be to find the source of the videos. But there was a complication. For one thing, the videos had been posted and re-posted across the Net, and it was not trivial to identify which ones were the originals.
By the time I got in the game, there were several videos entitled "UFO Haiti" that actually predated the version that was on the "Most-Viewed" list. The best idea, then, was to contact the posters of several of the earliest "UFO Haiti" videos, including barzolff814, whose 2.2 million-view video was listed as the fourth to be posted under that name.
Within an hour, I got a message back from a 17-year-old Irish girl named Heather. It read as follows:
"umm yeah. whatever. you people are stupid. find something better to do with your time. and get a life."
A closer look at Heather's "UFO Haiti" revealed that it was 10 seconds of a still photo of her kissing her boyfriend, followed by a video short clip of a scared-looking squirrel, with the word "Pervert!!" flashing repeatedly in white.
Heather was a hoaxster, all right. Just not the one I was looking for.
As I waited for other "Haiti" posters to respond, I decided to make another study of the clues. In the discussion of the controversial palm trees, the name Vue 6 kept coming up. Vue 6 was a program by E-on Software that animators use to generate sophisticated-looking natural environments. A promotional clip on E-on's website included several scenes of tropical islands -- covered in hundreds of identical windblown palm trees. Furthermore, one of the promos even showed a cartoonish flying saucer skimming over a field!
I immediately tried to reach E-on President Nicholas Phelps at his office in Paris. (Another video -- "UFO OVER PARIS" -- had been posted in April. It was nowhere near as convincing as "UFO Haiti," but still -- vaguely reminiscent.)
Phelps' receptionist said he was not available. Soon afterward, I received a message from Phelps asking if we could conduct the interview by e-mail. Despite my repeated attempts to get him on the phone, he was recalcitrant.
On the matter of the video, Phelps admitted that it appeared "very much like the movie was created with Vue 6" but denied E-on had anything to do with creating it. "Although I admit it would have been smart marketing, lol!"
With my main lead blown, I could find nothing to lol about.
Somebody up there . . . It has been said that the harder you work, the luckier you get. But this is not always true. Sometimes you get lucky even if you barely work hard at all.
The next morning, with all the good leads exhausted and most hope lost, the telephone rang.
(Actually, the computer rang. The Scout uses Skype.)
It was a woman named Sam. From Corsica. "Hello," she said. "I am calling on behalf of barzolff814."
Barzolff814? Why, he was the person who had posted the No. 1 Haiti video!
Barzolff, Sam said, wished to remain anonymous, but he was prepared to share the full story of the videos. I agreed not to reveal his real name. Then I was all ears as Sam began parroting into the phone the words I could hear Barzolff saying in the background.
The 35-year-old Barzolff is a professional animator who attended one of the most prestigious art schools in France and has a decade of experience with computer graphics and commercial animation.
It took Barzolff a total of 17 hours to make both the Haiti and Dominican Republic videos. He did it all by himself using a MacBook Pro and a suite of commercially available 3-D animation programs, including Vue 6. The videos are 100% computer-generated.
The videos, he said, were intended as research for a feature film project he's been working on with Partizan, the France-based production company responsible for, among others, Michel Gondry's "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."
When contacted to verify the story, "Eternal Sunshine" producer Georges Bermann said it was all true, and that Barzolff was "an absolute genius" who could "make anything look entirely real."
To prove that he was truly behind the videos, Barzolff agreed to provide the L.A. Times with a new spacecraft video. Called "Proof," the video depicts a small version of one of the spacecraft floating above a Paris street. As the camera pans over, the viewer sees two elderly women at a cafe. One of whom is holding a remote control device. Humorously, of course, this video makes use of computer graphics as well.
The movie Barzolff is working on for the big screen is about two guys who create a UFO hoax so realistic that it spirals out of their control. "For better or worse," said Barzolff, who cited being "overwhelmed" by the response to his video as one of the reasons he didn't want to go public with his name.
Barzolff stressed the videos were not intended as a viral marketing ploy. His movie is still in the idea phase, and he created the hoax strictly as a "sociological experiment" -- in other words, just to see what would happen.
What happened far exceeded his expectations.
After he finished producing the videos, he posted them and went to bed. "I thought they would reach perhaps 2,000 people," he said through Sam.
"When I woke up the next morning there were 70,000 views," on the Haiti video. "Twenty minutes later it was up to 130,000 views. It grew exponentially from there."
Barzolff called the results of his experiment "entertaining, thrilling, completely addictive, and a little scary."
The scary part, he said, was that in spite of the evidence, "many people refuse to believe it's a hoax."
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— a bit more compelling is that it appears to have been grabbed from at least two angles.
which introduced the so-called Men in Black phenomenon to much of America. Still waters ran deep with Barker, and Halperin couldn’t get enough. “It seemed to mirror a faithful truth about what was going on in my own household,” he recalls. “It appeared to reflect something that was going on that nobody wanted to talk about.”
conducting futile field investigations of local UFO reports, and feeling “like a perpetual outsider, like I was different and apart from everyone else.” The journey led him to explore his Jewish ethnicity, to the ancient Hebrew texts, particularly the Old Testament, where Ezekiel’s fabled wheels were preceded by a “whirlwind … coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself.” Remembers Halperin, “It struck me, as a little kid, as something exceedingly spooky.”
What followed was an adventure in the scholarship of religion and mythology, numerous trips to Israel — where he lived for more than two years — and ultimately a realization: “What UFOs were there for was to give me a mirror to work out my anxiety of my mother’s slow dying. And when belief lost its function, I gradually lost interest in UFOs. Once you lose faith in something that may be potentially important in these accounts, they nevertheless become extremely dull.”
a somewhat autobiographical fantasy which is receiving critical acclaim. But the irony of his conversion from “believer” to “skeptic” is not lost upon him.
