UFO Hoaxing 101

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Thanks for the videos, interesting story. And yet people still believe the 1997 Phoenix Lights were alien space craft.
 
If Joe Rudy and Chris Russo ever dare to show their faces around these parts, I'll give them a six-pack of the best beer that ever came out of the Chateau de Fnorde Garage, Brewery and Winery.
 
Monza said:
Thanks for the videos, interesting story. And yet people still believe the 1997 Phoenix Lights were alien space craft.
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Phoenix Lights?
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:D
 
I agree that the fire hazard is just too great to be doing this sort of thing. There are chemical "glo sticks" that would have been even more mysterious and no smoke trails. These guys are just as idiotic as the people who assumed that they were alien space ships. I'm not real big on dangerous, ill conceived pranks.
 
I despise hoaxers...

May all of you suffer from a fungus that causes your testicles and nipples to fall off.

Seriously, such efforts should be ridiculed and demeaned, and such actors should be brought up on fraud charges.
 
Dangerous, yes, but the results are very interesting nonetheless. A good study of the way people's memories start to embellish events (like the couple who saw two of the lights "break off" from the group and head south at extremely high speed etc.).
 
I thought it was pretty funny that the hoaxers called a tv station to report seeing the mysterious lights and then get some face time on camera. Wankers.
 
King of the Americas said:
I despise hoaxers...

May all of you suffer from a fungus that causes your testicles and nipples to fall off.

Seriously, such efforts should be ridiculed and demeaned, and such actors should be brought up on fraud charges.
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:p PTHPTHPTHPTHPT!!!

... light sticks, eh? Well, they do weigh less than a road flare ...
 
Olowkow said:
I agree that the fire hazard is just too great to be doing this sort of thing. There are chemical "glo sticks" that would have been even more mysterious and no smoke trails. These guys are just as idiotic as the people who assumed that they were alien space ships. I'm not real big on dangerous, ill conceived pranks.
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An earlier thread on this here

But, I agree. Road flares are pretty safe on the road. On the roof of my house, tangled in the limbs of a dead cedar tree, or on the forest floor - not so much. These guys hearts were in the right place, but they didn't fully engage their brains.

I'm sure folks here could pull off a more effective - and safe - hoax without much effort...
 
I've often contemplated buying a largish balloon, a tank of helium & some vari-coloured chem lights. :D
 
HeyLeroy said:
Dog, I love a good hoax! Especially when it makes self-described experts look like idjits.
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Yeah, the guy who kept crediting himself to have been 20 years in the aviation, and never "seen something like this". As if being a pilot made them automatically a reliable witness.
 
Patricio Elicer said:
Yeah, the guy who kept crediting himself to have been 20 years in the aviation, and never "seen something like this". As if being a pilot made them automatically a reliable witness.
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That has always annoyed me too, the way Pilots are cited as reliable witnesses automatically because of their job :boggled:

If I can be bothered I usually answer along the lines of:
"well if that's the case then astronomers would be even more reliable because it's their job to look out into space... and funnily enough they never see UFO's at all."
Which can of course bring out the old "That's because they're being told not to talk about it by the Illuminati" nonsense.
 
Stray Cat said:
That has always annoyed me too, the way Pilots are cited as reliable witnesses automatically because of their job :boggled:

If I can be bothered I usually answer along the lines of:
"well if that's the case then astronomers would be even more reliable because it's their job to look out into space... and funnily enough they never see UFO's at all."
Which can of course bring out the old "That's because they're being told not to talk about it by the Illuminati" nonsense.
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Oh, nononoNO!

It's because the astronomers are all looking into space! Of course they won't see UFOs flying through the air!

;)
 
madurobob said:
An earlier thread on this here

But, I agree. Road flares are pretty safe on the road. On the roof of my house, tangled in the limbs of a dead cedar tree, or on the forest floor - not so much. These guys hearts were in the right place, but they didn't fully engage their brains.

I'm sure folks here could pull off a more effective - and safe - hoax without much effort...
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Thanks, mb. I looked back through this section and couldn't find a thread on this.

Garbage bags work almost as well as balloons; they look like bags of garbage floating away upside-down.

Or, so I'm told... :P
 
madurobob said:
An earlier thread on this here

But, I agree. Road flares are pretty safe on the road. On the roof of my house, tangled in the limbs of a dead cedar tree, or on the forest floor - not so much. These guys hearts were in the right place, but they didn't fully engage their brains.

I'm sure folks here could pull off a more effective - and safe - hoax without much effort...
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Thanks, mb. I looked back through this section and couldn't find a thread on this.

Garbage bags work almost as well as balloons; they look like bags of garbage floating away upside-down.

Or, so I'm told... :P

ETA: I should've started looking back through threads starting 1st April.
 
Wow, it makes me envious I didn't think of something like this first! Also, that reporter on the second station in the reaction video was just way too hammy. Geez...
 
There is a fine line between a hoax and a practical joke. If your intention is to jump out and say "ha ha, I fooled you" then you are playing a practical joke. I always felt a good hoax should never reveal who did it and a good hoaxer will never be known or caught. Bad hoaxers end up looking foolish like these guys or people who freeze bigfoot costumes.
 
Starthinker said:
There is a fine line between a hoax and a practical joke. If your intention is to jump out and say "ha ha, I fooled you" then you are playing a practical joke. I always felt a good hoax should never reveal who did it and a good hoaxer will never be known or caught. Bad hoaxers end up looking foolish like these guys or people who freeze bigfoot costumes.
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But they clearly did intend to jump out and say "ha ha I fooled you," didn't they? Isn't that why they filmed all their preparation so carefully and then released the film?
 
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