Michael Shermer on How to Fake UFO Photographs

The best evidence that UFOs represent spacecraft from other worlds consists of grainy photographs, blurry videos, and anecdotes about things that go bump in the night. In this episode Michael Shermer shows how easy it is to fake UFO photographs, enlisting the help of children and disposable cameras to create convincing photographic evidence that even fooled experts!

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[Jason Barr]

No. it's your "faith/belief" they saw something alien.They say they saw something unidentified, some think they saw flying saucers. It could be a foreign program from an enemy, not alien. It could be a program by the States, not alien. It could be from another dimension on earth, and not extra terrestrial at all. The videos/pictures are most likely fake, so when somebody sees something they can't describe, they may call it a UFO or flying saucer. You have not played the role of a Skeptic.

[AllHailDiskordia]

So you have old photographs? sort of like the ones that fooled Arthur Conan Doyle?

your "facts" are sadly not facts, they are hearsay and conjecture coupled with mostly faked visual material( the things not faked are usually quite explainable).

I for one know a little bit about the "history of UFOs", guess WHY I think its all bunk?

[Timzart7]

I believe Shermer's an alien. It's the hair.

[zuperjeesus]

Just because something flying in the sky is unidentifiable to you doesn't mean that it is from another planet or intelligence. It just means YOU have no idea what it is. It's like an illusionist trick - You don't understand what is going on.. until you do, after that it is not "magic" because you understand.

[Alec Johnson]

About some things.

[MNanme1z4xs]

A photo is very lose evidence especially for things like UFO or ghosts, because an image is only photons received by an eye or device, fake thing can appear real or real thing an appear fake depend on how the image is formed or treated.

[newmac]

anything seen in the sky; is by nature unidentifiable; since you can't get up close to it. It's likely a balloon; or a kite. A balloon with an LED light inside it is particularly strange looking. Oh; and the real aliens are using radio.

[bombla420]

Photos are never proof in UFOlogy.

[archjennie]

It's all well and good to fake a *photograph*, but try the same with a verified video. Say, military or government films such as recordings from fighter jets. I'm sure some of those pilots (civilian and/or military) would be very relieved to know the things they've encountered were hubcaps or bullshit on strings. Wouldn't you think?

[MrJohndl]

Shermer is brilliant, as usual.