ramirez.vera•2mo agoMost Upvoted

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.robert2mo ago

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

abby_martinez2mo 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.

jessica92111d ago

Got a buddy named Mike who fell for a fake Loch Ness Monster video last year. Spent his whole Saturday tracking down old sonar readings from the 1970s trying to match the shape. @baker.christopher would've loved it - Mike even called the local tourism board in Scotland to ask about boat traffic that day. Turned out the video was just some guy's drone with a plastic model strapped to it. Mike still jokes about it at barbecues, says he's never trusting a "clearly authentic" video again. Took him three hours to admit he got tricked, even after the drone guy posted the bloopers.

baker.christopher2mo 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.