A landed UFO spotted at an undisclosed mountainous location in Mexico is going viral. In the incredible footage - uploaded to YouTube by IvanHator TV - two individuals are seen pointing a telescope at a nearby hill as one of them apparently places a camera in front of the eyepiece to capture what many are describing to be one of the best flying saucer close-ups in recent times.
The craft, closely resembling one of Billy Meier's alleged alien ships, is already stirring controversy among skeptics, who think the video's lack of background information - and the fact that Mexico's news outlets have yet to cover the story - makes the event suspect. What do you guys think? Real, or an elaborate hoax? Watch the video below:
No easy way to tell really, doesn't look edited but that doesn't mean it is real either.
I was thinking about these types of videos and paranormal videos. People often say oh the video has been edited, well yeah there are certainly plenty of places that can edit a video to add a ufo or a ghost. But as someone who has been around this stuff for a long time, it is not as easy as you may think. People yell "Photoshop" at every image, yeah OK you try it. I have done a fair bit of it and it is easy to do a half arse job, but it is another thing alltogether to do a convincing enough job that it takes "analysis" to pick it. And all the good software is expensive, Adobe is notoriously difficult to hack. It is cloud based now anyway.
Then you step into video, yeah well go try that too. Industrial strength software like Vegas Pro, Premier Pro, also expensive, also hard to hack, harder to find. Is very bloody hard to do a good job. I did some green screen stuff for my niece and it is just not that simple. So while there certainly are a lot of people out there that could do it, given the propensity of UFO videos, paranormal videos out there, it is silly to think that every person posting them is capable of this kind of video editing. Some are for sure, and surely do. But it is just not that easy. Try it yourself, go try and make even a single convincing ghost photo.
Take a pick of a family member, then add a ghost, watch what happens with Photoshop when the it notices the two images are using different color pallets and are scaled differently. See if you can do it good enough to have it need analysis to be detected. Then try video.
I am not saying all these clips are real, far from it. But the most common opt out for skeptics is to call Photoshop (lol even when it is video) I would hazard a guess that 90% or more of people would not know where to start.