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Viral Orbs

Chris Kaplan
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A dazzling ball of light was seen over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on January 26, 2011. Several videos show the UFO hovering over the sacred dome before shooting upwards and disappearing from sight.

Two days prior to the sighting in Jerusalem, UFO's were reported over Utah in the form of red lights that were "flying in perfect formation," and, according to eye witness reports, dropping silver and golden orbs.

Two strange, and spectacular sights back-to-back has the web blazing amongst believers and spectators.  Some feel it is an elaborate hoax while others feel that the sighting of an orb of light above Jerusalem, center-point to three of the world's major religions might be the light that rocks the foundations of these religions and frees them from the malice between them.

See the sight here. 

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Does anyone know if this was

Submitted by Lunk Rat on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 22:31.
Does anyone know if this was seen by any witnesses that didn't have video cameras? Did anyone else see this other than the groups of people who recorded these videos?

Sadly looks to be a fake

Submitted by Gibber on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 23:06.
I was a believer until I saw this convincing debunking video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5s78wr0UF0

Re: Sadly

Submitted by Nick Meador on Wed, 02/09/2011 - 14:26.

I'm a skeptic myself, but I'm also skeptical of the "debunking" video. I'm not convinced that it's a photo background instead of video (but I'm also not totally sure which video version they're talking about).

Look down at the roads at the beginning of this video (0:02) and you can see car headlights moving (and again around 0:14 and 0:18-0:22): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDJXg8o8CMQ

And the video in this news report has people in the foreground: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axr8j9ORcJ0 Not only would they have to be standing in front of a green screen for the background to be a still image—but also, the Today Show will be liable to run a correction if real evidence turns up that it was a hoax. All in all, I think this is more interesting than the "phantom horseman" phenomenon.

Well yeah...

Submitted by Jokagetto9 on Tue, 02/15/2011 - 16:54.
The link you've posted does appear quite plainly to be fake.  The problem is that this is not the only video.  The video you linked is not the same as any of the three videos shown above.  It appears to me that someone was jealous of the hype over this recent citing and wanted to post their own video of the event.  Hell, in the example you posted there isn't even a reflection of light on the dome, which is present in the central image of the above video.

NOt a HOax

Submitted by David Priego on Wed, 02/09/2011 - 06:47.

I am quite sure it's not a hoax, I work with video material all the time. The debunking video mentioned by Gibber is remarkably fake, as Nick already pointed out.... A different issue here is whether this got the proper News coverage or not, I find this to be the main cause for most people to believe in this kind of events or disregard them as a hoax. We depend on the system to tell us whether is true or not, to tell us what is right and what is wrong, what can we believe and what can we not...If this event was treated like any other news, the footage is revised not to be fake and later looked at from an objective point of view and exposed to the world to know, what would our opinion on this subject be?

As many of you out there might know, the big News, CNN, NBC, NYTimes ect ect, is not always interested in telling the truth, isn't it ?..... 

 

 

Flight of the Navigator

Submitted by Nick Meador on Wed, 02/09/2011 - 14:27.
This reminds me of the '80s movie Flight of the Navigator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnB7rIL2fy8

Nice! Love that movie!

Submitted by Lunk Rat on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 12:28.
Nice! Love that movie!

W/O Original Video, Just Opinions...

Submitted by mahajohn on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 11:55.
http://mahajohn.com No amount of analyzing is worth anything in this context without access to the source videos that were uploaded to Youtube. Without those, all we have are compressed 2nd or 3rd (or beyond) generation copies of the video, and nothing can be said about those that isn't just conjecture and opinion. Any "deep" analysis of the Youtube videos is fundamentally flawed by the fact that the videos lack resolution and further, because electronic noise is introduced into the equation. It reminds me of people who use imaging software to "analyze" photographs and jpegs. Anyone who works with those softwares knows that performing an action on a still image actually changes what you are looking at. The same with analyses based on Youtube videos. It's quite laughable actually. Without being there ourselves, there is NO way of knowing for certain if these videos represent something that actually happened. All we have is opinion and belief. Nothing more, nothing less. That said, they are awesome videos. Better than the Norwegian spiral, I'd say (which I'm still not convinced is anything special beyond the visual novelty of the whole thing).

Source Photo

Submitted by Gibber on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 14:42.
I want to believe, but it seems pretty clear that the video producer used this photo to create the video. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jerusalem_night_7088.JPG Just put it in a picture editor and increase the exposure. I guess we'll never really know for sure unless we were there.

Hmm . . . this video from 2009 makes it all very fishy

Submitted by Lunk Rat on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 12:25.

Ok this makes one think:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZwl-NSQWgE

Why is this video--which is obviously fake--depicting the same exact event (a UFO over dome of rock)?

 Are the recent UFO videos just a more refined version of the same hoax attempted in the link above?

I am always dubious as well but...

Submitted by Liber8 on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 13:56.
there are many angles that have been presented, the ones with the american women seems like maybe it was faked but these three do seem very legitimate... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTQVtyh4XkI

ALL VIDEOS HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO BE A HOAX

Submitted by teleomorph on Sat, 02/12/2011 - 16:03.

I was very dismayed to learn that the other videos (aside from the one made with the photograph) have also been debunked.

:(

see:http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread658652/pg103#pid10502693

skepticism

Submitted by Nick Meador on Wed, 02/16/2011 - 16:43.

We should be at least as cautious with debunkers as we are with the sighting videos. For example, I went to that link and saw a still image with a circle supposedly pointing out that the image had been doctored to create a mirror effect. But that area isn't even on the sighting video I saw from that angle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axr8j9ORcJ0

 

How do we know that the person didn't take a still shot of the video, create the mirror effect, put a circle around it, and then post it online as a "hoax"? I'm still undecided myself, but so far I don't have sufficient evidence to accept that "all videos have been proven to be a hoax." Very little in our universe is "proven."