That time a fake UFO video from Roswell had me fooled for 2 hours

I was scrolling through Facebook last Saturday and saw this wild video claiming to show a UFO hovering over Roswell, New Mexico. It had 50k shares and looked legit with shaky camera work and distant lights. But then I noticed the date stamp didn't match the weather forecast for that day - they said it was clear but local news showed rain. I cross-checked with NOAA satellite images and the clouds didn't line up at all. Has anyone else gotten tripped up by those old hoax videos that resurface with new dates?

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murray.robert5d ago

Respectfully disagree because satellite shadows don't lie and that footage was obviously a drone.

abby_martinez5d ago

Man, I totally get it. You said "satellite shadows don't lie" and you're right but the feeling of being fooled is still real. I fell for one of those old fake moon landing clips that had a new timestamp on it once, spent an hour trying to prove it was real. It's a bummer when you put in that detective work and it still turns out to be a hoax.

baker.christopher5d ago

Wait, you're saying she spent two hours digging into satellite images and weather reports just to get punked by some old video with a new date? That is a truly epic level of commitment to being wrong.