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Aluxe
Some people claimed the Mexican airforce video was just oil riggs however
Arbitrageur
.. It's an idea worth thinking about though.
JimOberg
It would save newbies, whom we always need and welcome, a lot of time and some embarrassment, but I'm still baffled on how to implement a 'Wiki-UFO' kind of summary of opposing views for big cases. Let's keep pondering ponderously.
_BoneZ_
DeadSeraph
Which makes me wonder why some people feel the need to hoax videos/pictures in the first place. From a psychological point, it seems alien to me. I don't understand the motivation behind it at all.
Some people do it for attention. A lot of people right now try to do it for income on YouTube. If you can get a decent-looking fake advertised on several UFO sites, it spreads around. The more YouTube video hits you get, the more money you can make from ad revenue.
Sites like YouTube don't care if a video is fake or not. All they care about is the traffic for ad revenue. That is caused a massive jump in fake hoax videos being produced. It's a sad reality in this day and age of UFO research.
But, once you know how standard CGI software works, you can (most of the time) spot the fakes. There are almost always tell-tale signs that the "UFO" is CGI instead of a real object on a string, for instance.