# What Are the Source Images for this Fake Hurricane Sandy Photo? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 7, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-source-images-for-this-fake-hurricane-sandy-photo/640251 "2012-11-07T18:17:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MorrisCody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MorrisCody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MorrisCody)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-source-images-for-this-fake-hurricane-sandy-photo/640251/1 "2012-11-07T18:17:59Z")
I’m doing research on collaborative memes, and I’m using [this fake photo of the Statue of Liberty](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X-zr5EsZ4vY/UJCGRWqAYkI/AAAAAAAABk4/awyyr17ECnw/s1600/NYC2.jpg) as reference. I’ve found the original images for the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, Godzilla and Jaws, but I can’t identify the monster behind the statue or the source of the flying saucers. Does anyone know what they are? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![geneb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e4f/32.png) [@geneb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/geneb)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-source-images-for-this-fake-hurricane-sandy-photo/640251/2 "2012-11-07T18:51:07Z")
The one behind the statue is the Queen alien from Alien: [http://ghostradio.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/alien-queen-560x400.jpg](http://ghostradio.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/alien-queen-560x400.jpg) I’m not sure what the other is, but it looks like it -might- be from Mars Attacks. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-source-images-for-this-fake-hurricane-sandy-photo/640251/3 "2012-11-07T19:29:17Z")
The flying saucers look like they could be poster art or cover art rather than a movie still, possibly for Earth vs the Flying Saucers. [http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/reviews/evfs2b.jpg](http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/reviews/evfs2b.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![MorrisCody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MorrisCody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MorrisCody)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-source-images-for-this-fake-hurricane-sandy-photo/640251/4 "2012-11-07T20:21:26Z")
Awesome! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Blakeyrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blakeyrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blakeyrat)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-source-images-for-this-fake-hurricane-sandy-photo/640251/5 "2012-11-08T19:28:40Z")
> [@MorrisCody](#): > > I’m doing research on collaborative memes, and I’m using [this fake photo of the Statue of Liberty](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X-zr5EsZ4vY/UJCGRWqAYkI/AAAAAAAABk4/awyyr17ECnw/s1600/NYC2.jpg) as reference. I’ve found the original images for the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, Godzilla and Jaws, but I can’t identify the monster behind the statue or the source of the flying saucers. Does anyone know what they are? Thanks. Wow do you have a version that hasn’t been resized and re-compressed jillion times? It’s so blurry the monster behind the Statue of Liberty could be almost anything. The only Kaiju monster it resembles to me is one of the snakes in Dragon Wars, [link](https://www.google.com/search?q=Dragon+wars&sugexp=chrome,mod%3D0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=uQecUOuGDOmoiQK714CoBw&biw=1214&bih=777&sei=ugecULiVLa7viQL4hIH4Ag). it’s much bluer but that could just be from the image being such low-quality. ---
**Author:** ![Blakeyrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blakeyrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blakeyrat)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-source-images-for-this-fake-hurricane-sandy-photo/640251/6 "2012-11-08T19:29:50Z")
> [@geneb](#): > > The one behind the statue is the Queen alien from Alien: [http://ghostradio.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/alien-queen-560x400.jpg](http://ghostradio.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/alien-queen-560x400.jpg) > > I’m not sure what the other is, but it looks like it -might- be from Mars Attacks. Oop you win. Good catch on that one, it doesn’t look anything like the queen alien to me, probably because the features that matter on the head are blurred-out. But the image you link has got to be the source. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-source-images-for-this-fake-hurricane-sandy-photo/640251/7 "2012-11-08T19:31:48Z")
> [@MorrisCody](#): > > I’m doing research on collaborative memes, and I’m using [this fake photo of the Statue of Liberty](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X-zr5EsZ4vY/UJCGRWqAYkI/AAAAAAAABk4/awyyr17ECnw/s1600/NYC2.jpg) as reference. I’ve found the original images for the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, Godzilla and Jaws, but I can’t identify the monster behind the statue or the source of the flying saucers. Does anyone know what they are? Thanks. That’s fake?!?! Damn, I owe someone 50 cents. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-source-images-for-this-fake-hurricane-sandy-photo/640251/8 "2012-11-08T19:41:13Z")
I see the [Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d8/Stay-puft-marshmallow-man.jpg/300px-Stay-puft-marshmallow-man.jpg) from _Ghostbusters_. ---
**Author:** ![MorrisCody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MorrisCody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MorrisCody)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-source-images-for-this-fake-hurricane-sandy-photo/640251/9 "2012-11-08T19:57:22Z")
I couldn’t find the exact flying saucers, but I think [I did a pretty good job recreating the rest](http://imgur.com/a/bw3Gl). ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-source-images-for-this-fake-hurricane-sandy-photo/640251/10 "2012-11-08T20:00:49Z")
> [@MorrisCody](#): > > I couldn’t find the exact flying saucers, but I think [I did a pretty good job recreating the rest](http://imgur.com/a/bw3Gl). Man, that’s some menagerie. You left out the atomic bomb.