Don’t get me wrong. I’m a major skeptic when it comes to the whole alien UFO/abduction nonsense, but there was a clip on that crappy Fox show (which is now airing on Foxnews as I write this) which had me a bit shaken. The video was taken before 9/11 (not the bogus “Aliens behind 9/11” shtick from Asia), and apparently from a civilian chopper. A woman is pointing to the towers and shouting about something, and the cameraman zooms in. A bizarre shining craft is then evident hovering next to one of the towers, and then abruptly speeds off.
The cameraman hastily zooms, and the woman resumes her pointing and wailing. He turns halfway, now peering out the other window, and zooms in just to catch the shiny craft disappearing at an alarming rate into the horizon.
I just did a quick Google search (fox ufo “world trade center”) and was unable to come up with anything. I admittedly have not been keeping up on the UFO news as well as I should be lately, considering that unexplained stuff in general is a hobby of mine. If anyone can track down any screen shots or background info on this one, I’d love to see it.
The video itself is nothing a talented computer/video artist couldn’t whip up in his spare time. The story, though, is so goofy it must be read to be (dis)believed. This woman claims to have footage of a bona fide UFO, which could be the biggest story of the century … but she doesn’t want her boyfriend to know, so don’t use her full name? (But, uh, SHE’S IN THE VIDEO, so why does not using her full name help?) Plus, of course, she decides to send it to the SciFi Channel, and not, oh, NASA, or the New York Times, or even Fox.
Meanwhile, this thing has been around for a year and the only verification comes, not from the guy who shot the tape, not from the helicopter pilot, not from the surely thousands of eyewitnesses on the ground in Manhatten, but from some guy on … the SciFi Channel message board. Can you say “viral marketing?”
Ah, okay. I’d seen some stuff on EZBoard referencing it as a computer animation experiment, but it was rather vague. Sorry for being snappy earlier, Wumpus.
If you are talking about the one from the chooper view point and the reporter ( that chooper is a two seater you aint gonna fit a camera guy + a sound guy in the back)
Secondly the reflections on the “ufo” are simply wrong.
Its old pre s11 - wa sjust re - released… nasty when people do that.
Thanks for the video link. In general, I think it’s pretty suspect when a major UFO sighting in an urban area is reported by only one or two witnesses. There’s just no good reason for it. An example of a less improbable major sighting is here.
bump!!
i downloaded the file, and i am unsure. on one hand the way that it zooms toward the camera and off into the distance looks very authentic (possibly hard to replicate) there is a problem in that someone in the WTC probably would have reported seeing it, i know that if there was a human-sized object floating outside the window of my school, i would probably see it. also when it is first spotted and it flies off at great speed to the right of the screen, it looks quite hoaxed. any other opinions? can someone correct me and tell me that a sighting of it was recorded from in the buildng.
Trader of Shots- it looks like the inside of a Bell ranger series helicopter. It’s a small craft but it does have a full back seat. I’ve flown in them before with three adults in the backseat with no problems, though it is a snug fit. In fact, I once took a hellicopter tour of Manhattan that flew by the WTC like they are in the video. That time I and a friend were both in the back seat of the jetranger.
However, the UFO is quite clearly fake. They went up in the hellicopter and recorded the scene, and then later added the ufo. The most telling mistake is near the end of the .mov on the sci-fi.com clip. If you step through frame by frame, the contrail left by the virtual spaceship moves around quite a bit relative to the cloud in the background, it looks very unnatural. They should’ve removed that cloud and just had it be a clear day, then you wouldn’t have that frame of reference to track the contrail’s movement.
No to mention that, if you step thru it frame-by-frame, you see the contrail dim for a frame, like it loses density for a split secont. Also, the contrail is created from the point of the helecopter approach to the end, due to its great speed, but left no contrails during its other super highspeed manuvers.
Fake.