A “new” photograph taken by a nanny vacationing in the Black Country has British investigators puzzled, with one claiming “it could be one of the most convincing pieces of evidence collected about aliens from the UK ever.”
http://www.expressandstar.com/2008/10/20/flying-saucer-photo-hailed/
Detective constable Gary Heseltine of West Yorks is a collector of UFO photographs, and says that he has turned the photo over to a former Navy physicist specializing in analysis of such photos.
So far as we’re concerned, that’s where this story ends. However, in the article I came accross which discusses the photo, immediately after it states that the Navy physicist will be examining the photo, the article trails off into discussing the story of Milton Torres, who I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, and then into the disclosure of the 4,500 page MOD document involving UFOs. What’s funny about that is that Milton Torres has little to do with the release of the MOD document (our friends over at Alien Casebook pointed this out to us today), let alone this new photo of a “Dorito-shaped” triangle UFO. And as for our photo of the flying Dorito included with the article? You guessed it; we have a mis-match.
Although the Express and Star haven’t made it clear if this image was intended merely to be a graphic they used to accompany the article, or if it is indeed supposed to be the photo they are discussing, the image used does not match the story they report. This is due to the fact that the image they supply is of a known UFO allegedly photographed over Glasgow, Scotland, in 2002, whereas in this new story, a 52 year old nanny was said to have taken the photo last April. Why is it that, in the absence of any other photo illustrations, news sources see fit to take just any old UFO photo and smack it in there, void of any caption stating what the object or photo really represents?
I can’t say that this is truly a “hoax”… but more likely just a harmless attempt to provide an illustration (in the absence of the “real” photo, which we presume is currently being analyzed by those parties mentioned in the piece). However, earlier this month a similar video, presented on the web as a new “Irish Triangle UFO,” did indeed turn out to be a craft made by a gentleman I am well acquainted with: Jeff Wilson, winner of Joshua P. Warren’s annual Speaking of Strange UFO Experience. L.E.M.U.R. Chief Engineer Mobius happened to film Wilson’s craft, which had been suspended by a weather balloon, with his video camera while Jeff dazzled and amazed us with a tin foil triangle-shaped UFO he had built, complete with a laser which “scanned” the audience below. The video Mobius made, which subsequently appeared on the web, was then taken and used in a hoax, which Joshua brought to public attention during a recent appearance on Coast to Coast AM. Ah, what a tangled web we weave…
Regardless, though the growing number of UFO sightings (or “UKFOs”, as I’ve begun calling these British Saucers we see so many of) have many more of us looking to the skies, sadly, it’s just as likely that what we’re seeing are hoaxes. Keep your eyes peeled… what you’re seeing may not be a flying saucer at all, but rather
a) a Chinese Lantern
b) a cluster of Mylar Balloons
c) a photograph of a known fake being billed as a real UFO
October 21st, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Dude, you forgot options d and e:
d) a weather balloon
e) swamp gas
Stories like these are why a lot people don’t believe in UFO’s. Same thing with Bigfoot. People have no respect. And what an interesting twist with the UFO competition winner. Funny how interconnected everything is. Plus, if I was going to hoax a UFO, it would not have any characteristics that would have it described as “Dorito-shaped”.
Popular Mechanics page describing the use of Photoshop in UFO/alien hoaxes