By now everyone knows about the infamous picture that appeared in numerous news outlets including the interview with the school teacher claiming they
were balloons from her school. The teacher was wrong about the image, although her balloons were seen as well that day. Oct 13, the day that will live
in Ufology infamy, not really. The day will live in hoaxer history, especially for one production company out of NYC. Here is the image for those who
havnt seen it.
Brief history of the image: uploaded via twitter on Oct 9th with the tags #NYC, #ufo, #october13, and #disclosure.
twitter @jasondiamond
Unfortunately he or someone else deleted the picture from wikipics, so it is no longer there. Between he and a few others, there are numerous tweets
about this subject. I will not link to them all here since it was covered in another thread.
The purpose here is to bring to light that the original poster of the image is in fact the owner of a production company known as MBSProductions.
Along with his brother Josh, they maintain this business in NYC and employee only a few people according to
manta.com
manta link
According to this business site, one of the primary focuses of the company is post-production, anyone who has every seen a Hollywood film with major
special effects or cgi know that this is down in post production. So the pieces are seeming to fit here. Hoaxed image tweeted 4 days in advance by the
owner of a post production company. In fact the diamond brothers seem to be well enough known in the industry that they were speakers at the recent
Creatasphere/EXPLORE Entertainment Technology Exposition at the New Yorker Hotel last month on Sept 21-22. You can see the page
here
Not only is he well known in the entertainment technology world, a quick check on imdb of Jason Diamond shows that he has been connected to Hollywood
for since as early as 1998. Nothing big, but enough to say that there is a significant link here to creating a hoaxed image. you can see his imdb
page
here
Whether this is some sort of viral marketing for an upcoming project, I can not say that yet. Is it believable that a Hollywood level post production
company could produce such an image and promote it to viral levels as a joke or hoax? I think so. For what reason we may never know. If it was all in
good fun then I hope that they had theirs. But let me just ask all of us, the next time an image like this pops up, why don't we do our research a
little instead of immediately touting it as a the genuine artifact because maybe, just maybe someone is having a little fun at the behest of us
believers.