VFX Artists DEBUNK Internet UFO Videos

[@essaerae_g]

Remember, if you're bad at identifying flying objects anything can be an UFO

[@jasethomas5198]

That's a great point

[@williamsonlavioser8042]

Technically, you are not wrong

[@soyitiel]

I mean, that's what it means, so yeah, I guess you're right >:(

[@kunjupulla]

But what about the military footages?

[@MarvinCZ]

They explained the military footage in an earlier video.

[@prima08]

Hey Corridor Crew, an astrophysicist here. The second clip of the moon actually is normal and the line is turbulence from the atmosphere. When different layers of air current shift due to temperature gradient it can cause such an optical effect. Atmospheric turbulence is the biggest obstacle to ground based telescopes and is the purpose for creating adaptive optics in modern astronomy.

[@drsupermonk7831]

that's the same reason why stars shimmer sometimes, right?

[@MovieFant]

This is trails from plane

[@avatar-so2li]

Wow, Thanks for the knowledge, Stefan

[@sntxrrr]

It looked like a trail from a plane flying by, nothing special.

[@eefneleman9564]

Atmosphere? Oh wait, here on Earth you mean?

[@johnterpack3940]

It continues to amaze me that even though we have excellent 4K cameras in affordable cell phones these days, complete with image stabilization and other processing tools, every UFO video ever released looks like it was filmed through wax paper while the videographer was having a seizure.

[@BobTheToadSage]

Mostly because those 4k cameras arent made to take pictures of things thousands of feet away. That being said, why are there so few close ups? My guess is that strange things far away, are pretty normal looking up close.

[@kingchucklesthe1st252]

True dat

[@nmarbletoe8210]

@@BobTheToadSage yup, try taking a picture of a huge amazing full moon and it looks tiny in the picture

[@Pauly421]

It's because 100% of UFO videos are horseshit, and if there were more pixels even the tinfoil hats would have to admit it's fake. This way it's just blobs of crap that you can claim are anything you like.

[@DocFear]

While you know those cameras exist you clearly have no clue how they work or how expensive they are

[@therealduckshow]

I saw what I thought was a dead-solid UFO in Japan in 2010. I noticed four or five black triangles hovering motionlessly on the other side of the city, maybe 100-200m up in the air. I sped across town trying to get as much footage as possible and the closer I got the more UFO-like it became. One triangle split into two equally sized triangles, like cells dividing. Sometimes they would move independently at different speeds, sometimes they would mimic each others movements and do this... slow, choreographed dance. When we finally got there... it was kites. It was a dude who just happened to be flying like five gigantic, black, triangular kites - all connected on the same string - because I guess he just really liked kites. Adding to the confusion was the fact that because they were so simple in shape and color, I couldn't accurately tell their size and distance until I was close enough to see details. They were big, yes, but still 10x smaller than what I was expecting, and closer to my initial location. The point of that story is... even if you see something you're 100% convinced is extra-terrestrials, the odds are just so enourmously stacked in favor of it being a dude with a weird hobby, some unusual piece of garbage in the wind or... anything else you'd never think up on your own - rather than aliens.

[@nandano.1656]

That's just the Enterprise's escape pods.

[@cruzefx3652]

One time at night I was in my backyard doing nothing and looked up to the sky and saw a triangular shape moving and stopping above me, moving like an animal, a predator idk, that still makes me confused to this day, the lighting looked like a star but it was closer than an plane would ever be, and stopping mid air. I sure hope someone was flying a triangular reflective kite

[@hieverything123]

@@cruzefx3652 same here

[@MilkTeaLessSugar]

confirmation bias.

[@noahwilke]

You make a heresy point. I don’t believe in aliens but one night out on the beach in Florida I saw these light moving in a way that I still don’t understand, they were making sudden movements that a plane couldn’t do and it was fairly windy out so they definitely weren’t drones or anything like that. My best guess if that it was fighter jets a couple dozen miles out over the ocean doing training or something.

[@dcbradshaw]

I’d love to see an “Icarus” VFX challenge on making a fake cryptid footage video. So each person needs to make a mock video showing a cryptid (Big Foot, Nessie etc) supposedly captured on camera. The “Icarus” factor is they need to fly close to the sun. The winner is the person who shows the most of the creature in their video without it being deemed by the team to be blatantly fake-looking

[@shanus11]

Even better, they do it to try n make it go viral. They keep it secret for a few months before they tell us the results

[@adamhollis226]

this better get upvoted like crazy

[@inspirationalgoosebumps6006]

This is good

[@steeljawX]

Well they've got to do it and get a "Peter Special" in there as well. . . .probably have some cryptid eating all of the others in some graphic and gory scene. Every one else will fly reasonably close to the sun. Peter will yeet himself in as best of a parabolic arc as he can estimate at the sun to leave the best looking crater behind.

[@HauntedHollow_]

This idea is dope. This has to happen

[@danielbroome5690]

The ones at the end show pretty telltale signs of being balloons and whipping around in a wind stream while tied together. That explains the weird orbits they have as they are ripped apart, then you see the tension and they get whipped back into another orbit. Balloon related UFOs are actually well known to be more common in Mexico because for whatever reason, more people tend to just release large amounts of balloons into the air for parties, etc. So someone releases a huge bundle of balloons, they fly up into the sky, get hit by a cross-current of strong air and it rips them apart and then some credulous person with a camera starts recording them thinking they're a UFO.

[@deadturret4049]

To add onto that, for parties and whatnot you can gold or silver lookimg baloons that would be perfect for reflecting a lot of light and getting that nice glow effect..

[@jackvos8047]

Nope what is really going on in the end is 2 separate things. Firstly they show something breaking up on (re)entry to the atmosphere. Then they show 4 birds attacking a larger bird, probably to drive it out of their territory.

[@SunnyHippies]

Lizard aliens from beta reticulum

[@NetherStray]

I legit was thinking they looked like something lightweight being lifted around by air currents because it reminded me of a meteorologist demonstrating how hailstones form by putting tennis balls in a skydiving chamber. They moved around in a similar way, just kind of bobbing around in the air like it was water.

[@zJoriz]

That's exactly what it looks like -- one object being either heavier or lighter than the other four, being dragged around on tethers by the wind. How difficult would it be to animate parts of the footage to make it look like the small ones emerged from the big one? Like Nico alluded to, the grain, sharpness and bokeh are sorted already, seems to me like it's just a case of rearranging the parts on the screen...

[@Silent002]

The final one around 12:44 to me looks like a kite. The large object on the right is the main body and the smaller parts appear to be attached to it and each other as part of the tail, which explains why they undulate together - they're being pulled around in a sort of spiral within 3D space behind the main body. There's a couple points (especially around 18:42) where, to me, it looks like there's a string / cable catching the light from the 'rear' of the main body, towards the direction of the smaller bodies which provides further evidence.

[@F3A5T]

Yeah I think its a bunch of balloons tied together and they separate from the bundle but are still tied together at the ends.

[@derekadams961]

I agree with that, to me it looks like the items following are tethered together. My first thought wasn't kite but that isn't a bad suspicion considering how long I've seen kite tails before. All the items tethered do seem light weight or have some degree of maintaining altitude being why they are getting jerked around so much.

[@marzkenz1577]

i doubt it since if kites moved like that, the string will most likely get tangled

[@Rompler_Rocco]

I suppose it could be kites, but why are aliens flying kites around Mexico City? Do they mean us harm?

[@Highwaym4n]

/\ This. There seems to be a ... Vector relation? between the two smaller and one larger, (of each) very reminiscent of kite controls

[@mahatmarandy5977]

Back around 1978 or 79, my dad gave me an old polaroid instamatic - the kind that actually had the extendible lens - and a ton of old B&W polaroid film - the kind you actually had to peel the lining off of - and I took a golf ball, glued some chunks of an egg carton to it, and threw it as high as I could in the air, then I snapped as many pictures of it as I could as it fell. One of them was really good, had trees in the background, for scale, but it looked like it was way behind them and it was *just* blurry enough that you couldn't see it was a golf ball. I showed that thing around for ten years claiming it was a UFO, and most people believed it, and even the people who couldn't believe it couldn't explain what it was, not a one of 'em ever said, "It's jut a golffball with some styrofoam glued to it that you tossed in the air." Given how incredibly easy it was to fake stuff even back then, I've never really believed any of these things are real.

[@GfP838]

I would really like to see this picture :D Sounds very interesting!

[@mahatmarandy5977]

@@GfP838 Thanks. I can't find the damn thing. Last time I moved it disappeared, and I have no idea where it went. But if I find it, I'll put it up on my channel, perhaps with some eerie theremin music

[@mvv700]

@@mahatmarandy5977 Make sure to put in the video description that you found the photo in an old box hidden under a floorplank while renovating. Now you start to wonder, your father mysteriously disappeared years ago, a case never solved. Also, he was an astrophysicist working for the military, never disclosed his research to anyone, including his family. Your mom and siblings know nothing about the box you found and it's contents including this 'mysterious photo'. It must be your dads, he build the house himself after all, no previous owners.. When it catches on and starts to hit the front page on all conspiracy websites let us know, we will mass report your channel so it will get suspended. That way you will be 'silenced' for 'showing the truth'.

[@mahatmarandy5977]

@@mvv700 I gotta admit the middle part of that shook me up unexpectedly, since my dad was a NASA engineer on Apollo and Skylab, so that kind of derailed my laughing. Not your fault, just odd almost-coincidence.

[@binauralauto3621]

Look up Chris Lehto.

[@checkle1]

I loved the satelite skit that you guys did because that is 100% real for some people. I had a neighbor who was staring up into the clear sky and said very casually, "oh hey, a UFO"....this was kind of a nice neighborhood. My rent was $900/month for the cheapest single room apartment. Me, being a skeptical/open-minded person, stared at the UFO for about 5 seconds and said "I think that's a satellite". She says "no, look how it disappears and reappears". I say "mmmm, I see what you mean, that's interesting.....but I think what you're seeing is that there are thin clouds in the sky and they are blocking the faint satellite light. Look at how it goes in a straight line across the the entire horizon, if it viered a tiny left or right, or if it stopped or reversed, I would agree." When anyone is married to an idea, you have to meet them in the middle, you have to hear them out, but that doesn't mean you have to be an idiot...

[@fisk0]

Nowadays with all the starlink satellites up there, I can definitely understand why some would identify them as alien spaceships, there are so many of them placed at regular intervals throughout the sky, so you see these massive formations of glowing things at times.

[@bobjones7776]

We saw 2 satellite looking and moving objects at night moving towards each other in opposite directions, typical seen it many times. The two then spun around each other and off they went back in the direction they came from. Weird.

[@SquadXmpA]

The guy in the last video is Jaime Maussan, a well-known ‘ufologist’ in Mexico who used to have a TV program just to present these types of videos. Most of those videos would rarely look to be CGI, much more likely to be either practical props or just camera effects. This one looks very much a practical thing, to me they look like a bunch of balloons caught in a high wind.

[@ordinarynewt3210]

Actually, I was thinking that if this was recorded in December-January it could have been ballons for Los Reyes. Schools used to organize events for the children to release them simultaneously.

[@walpurgisknight5772]

yeah, I remember that guy and also some guy called Carlos Trejo who was a paranormal investigator. Jaime and Trejo had beef with each other and would always slander and try to debunk each others videos. Those days were pretty fun and it was amazing to watch them beef so seriously lol.

[@tk_the_onion]

"Ufologist" I imagine they arent making much ground in the field of ufology

[@walpurgisknight5772]

@@tk_the_onion Not sure what u meant by that but just to clarify.. Jaime Maussan was a Ufologist and Carlos Trejo was a paranormal investigator, as in Trejo would look for ghosts and other stuff related to that.

[@Jhos16]

I was about to comment the same thing about Maussan, you forgot to mention the fact that he has been debunked multiple times tho.

[@Dargonhuman]

Were I a man with a more devious mind, I would use these debunking videos to make the perfectly undetectable paranormal/UFO hoax video because the breakdowns you guys give for why the videos look fake (i.e. the types of camera blur and why they happen) are so detailed, informative and educated that you're giving hoaxers the tips they need to make their hoaxes look more realistic.

[@binauralauto3621]

Look up Chris Lehto.

[@Talguy21]

That "birthing orbs" one looks to me like a bundle of balloons that hit some turbulence, came apart, and starting getting blown around.

[@penginator89]

to my fellow weeb yes

[@Anomalocaria]

maybe. it's strange that the video starts with a lot of them moving in a straight line. maybe they hit a jetstream, but jetstreams are still pretty turbulent and you'd expect them to slip out of the jetstream at some point. it's the best explanation that i can think of right now, though lol

[@brademerick9181]

I've seen this one from two different angles , and they both look the same . It's a out of focus Spider's web . you shake the web and the baby spiders go moving about the web in weird patterns .

[@brademerick9181]

I had a huge spider's web going across the back corner of my yard years ago and i almost ran into it and just tapped the web and the mother spider was in the middle of the web and as i tapped it the babies ran around in this pattern . Like I said It's an out of focus spider's web

[@tarialorehand]

@@brademerick9181 hmm I wonder if it can be recreated. that would be interesting to see. I for one will not being doing because I am not going anywhere near a spider web. nope.

[@elliothein8142]

You guys should do a challenge where you guys fake ufo footage and try to fool everyone else. I think that would be an awesome video!!! Edit. Wow I’ve never gotten so many likes! Thank you! Hopefully they see the comment!

[@Jimbo1221]

Yeah! Upload it to an empty KZbin channel and try to make it go viral ;)

[@TRIPPAH]

Mad idea ngl

[@getawayalex1022]

There's no way they haven't already done this, it must have just not gone viral enough to make a video about it

[@Dave1507]

How would that work? i mean they would know they were in a challenge, so yeah, everything is fake.

[@Raasclark]

What if one of their videos was already in here 🤯

[@BornAgainstAll]

I think Sam missed a vital point in his guess at the end. If those were flawless CGI, as Niko had said, there is no way the artist would have let that crossfade through.

[@ohheyitsguy]

Unless it was done intentionally, to lower everyone's expectation

[@The_Curious_Cat]

Or it was intentional to hide the fact that the two guys talking about it at the conference are the aliens, in order for people to accept it but not fully, but also question it, but not too much, so they can move freely and eat brains.

[@acapitala4936]

@@ohheyitsguy Gigabrain moment.

[@dethhollow]

I think the crossfade says it all. What we're looking at has to be a bunch of tethered balloons strung together as an intentional hoax. Otherwise, why hide who was taking the footage? The only way that crossfade makes sense is if the person filming knew they'd be called out for a hoax if they were recognized. So they just filmed on their own then phones a friend to get the ground shot.

[@sirkiz1181]

@@dethhollow yup seems like the best explanation so far

[@pauladamson9459]

The worst case I remember was when Fact of Faked Paranormal files tried to pass off a spider in the center of its web suspended from a tree as the light of an on coming ghost train. It was so obviously a spider and none of their people could see it for what it was, allegedly. That was the first time I caught the show. It was also the last time.

[@Astronomy_Live]

"Do people just film the moon for long stretches of time?" I felt that remark.

[@NaughtyShepherd]

Same… it cut deep.

[@jackkraken3888]

Nah (hides Nikon P950)

[@MrGhostTheBigRoast]

hah space nerds

[@jordanwood9289]

Me too!

[@binauralauto3621]

Look up Chris Lehto

[@stludachris]

I want Corridor to create a UFO hoax video and secretly release it, then later reveal it was them who created it.

[@Harabeck]

People have done that. UFO enthusiasts still believe the video is real after the confession.

[@Khronogi]

I think that is morally unsound.

[@trasda2475]

who says they haven't...

[@Kris_A]

Yeah, as CG guy who is actually pretty internet famous in UFO circles, that has been done already, and all it does is create resentment and serves no purpose. I was out there in 2007 trying to explain to the wider UFO community that a home PC was good enough to fool them (relating to the "californian drone" images that appeared in that year). However, I have seen several actual UFOs, and so i know they are up there. So despite my stance, and I still work on occasion to bring clarity to fakes here and there, I also know that many phenomena caught on camera are something else. But top and bottom of it... Trying to trick people with the purpose of making people look stupid never ends well. Side note... the very first video on my YT channel was dubbed "not animation" by a famous UFOlogist on national US radio. I received a crazy amount of views given the year it came out. I even labelled it CG, but back then, that wasn't in the lingo. It even looks a bit crap at this point, but it had many fooled. Tricking people wasn't the intention by the way... I created a model based upon the photos that were circulating, and wanted to see it in motion. I never expected all that to happen. But it still happened. Strange days.

[@blew1t]

@@Khronogi yeahh, they've faked stuff like the "keanu reeves stops an armed robbery" thing but that was just harmless fun. there's already so much misinformation around like aliens and ufo's and stuff, it might be harmful to put more fake stuff out there. but then i suppose, even if they released it alongside an explanation of it being fake, bad actors would just take it out of context and peddle it as real ufo footage

[@placidandy]

The "Wave on the MOON!" video angers me. Because for a pressure wave so energetic that it can be seen from Earth to be moving across the surface of the moon so incredibly fast, easily thousands of miles per hour, there should be a wave of absolute devastation behind it. The surface of the moon would seem to be "wiped clean" behind it as the surface is utterly devastated and reformed. It would be an impact sufficient to crack the moon like a porcelain dish. This is an example of when the fiction doesn't even engage with the far more interesting ideas that the reality of the situation would require to happen, a failure of imagination!

[@anna_in_aotearoa3166]

🙈 That's the thing that annoys me so much about most conspiracy theories.... Our world is literally full of both so many bugf*ck crazy interesting natural phenomena AND awful examples of political corruption & corporate greed. Why waste time making up extra rabbit holes to dive down?? 😤 Although having said that, most kinds of speculative fiction are pretty cool! 😏 But mostly where they take something real & extrapolate it out to see how far it could go in the future/an alternate timeline or universe? Particularly where this helps us think more clearly about the present issues we face and how they could be addressed...

[@aceinspace4340]

It would be cool if someone could make a CGI video where that happened. Seeing the moon's surface suddenly get wiped clean and then cracked, even with the naked eye, would be horrifying1

[@MeepChangeling]

@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 Because to a conspiracy theorist, the idea that things just HAPPEN is more terrifying than their comforting lie of "Something is causing everything!"

[@Grimmjow654]

The way Niko explains how a blur works and being serious about it while doing all those hand gestures. I couldn't hold the laughter 😂😂😂

[@Dikahar]

From now on, that hand gesture is light-coming-into-lens gesture. No lewd value anymore. If someone scold me when I do it, I'll just them this video. 😁

[@darkspell1176]

True

[@contac_optics6257]

I actually didn't even notice until I saw your comment 😂

[@StevenConning]

Love this series! You guys should do the same kind of debunks on ghost videos too.

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

their sponsor needs a tag though, so we know when to skip it

[@darth_hylian]

They already have

[@TheSleyar]

They should do a challenge to make the best paranormal video with vfx

[@harbirsingh7266]

They already have one ghost debunk video on their channel. I'd like to see more as well. They're awesome.

[@StrangerThanWeThink]

These were obviously fake videos lol. No debunking needed. The ufo phenomenon is still real.

[@michaelfox2433]

The fact that the air would literally catch on fire due to outrageous speed is a great point and debunks so many stories and "videos".

[@prekatori]

Kind of disappointed that nobody freaked out about Wren having caught an alien on camera himself

[@eliaspeter7689]

Going at Mach 15...

[@kaidoitel]

@Mysterygamer26 0000 yes, a perfect scenario in which the only thing the object could POSSIBLY have been is a UFO. How convenient, and not suspicious at all...

[@WayStedYou]

@@kaidoitel You do know what UFO stands for right?

[@illgottengains1314]

@@kaidoitel watch the original video (if you can find it) of the drone footage. Try to use some critical thought, ie why is this insect massive, white, rod shaped and travelling in a straight line at over 1000 mph? Then find the analysis video that shows the insect flying over the trees about 5 miles away before it reaches the camera within seconds. Even if you can’t be bothered you should open your mind a bit. Life’s better 👍

[@Birdgeeks]

This has reminded me of a problem with pretty much all the ghost effects I’ve ever seen. They’re always translucent 2D comps, but if a real thing was slightly transparent then you wouldn’t just see the stuff behind them, you’d see their insides and the backs of their heads, like a deep sea fish

[@binauralauto3621]

Look up Chris Lehto.

[@Oddi0]

@@hexorth3580 Why wouldn't it? All the external organs are there.

[@jamesjesse9773]

@@Oddi0 Ghosts don't need guts. I've seen actual spirits and quite a few of these "ghost videos" are a joke in comparison.

[@Oddi0]

@@jamesjesse9773 I don't need my belly button anymore, but it's still there.

[@jamesjesse9773]

@@Oddi0 😆 Well, I've never seen a ghost take a dump in the woods, let alone at all.

[@panathentic]

I really appreciate how when they get stumped by something, they show the deliberation, and the process of conversation in detail. It makes them feel very credible and honest, which I never doubted in the first place, but it rules out that they cut it down to make them "Look good".

[@DanteWilcox22]

After getting ideas from others on here, this is my theory: It is initially a large bundle of balloons, about 30, all tied together simply floating up, then the bundle intercepts a strong air current. Once this happens, most of the balloons break off (either because they weren't actually tied together or because the wind was strong enough to break their strings/rip the balloons off the string) then the camera follows the core group of balloons, which includes one of those big metallic party balloons, making it extra bright and extra big, and the remaining five dots are simply still tied together as the air current carries them off.

[@D.Enniss]

My thoughts exactly!

[@z3dar]

Couple problems with this idea: 1.The center object seems to be spinning around but stays locked in place (until being jerked around by the four balloons in the other shot). 2.The balloons that get deployed in both directions move outwards at fairly constant rate. Balloons I've handled tend to dampen linear forces a lot, also being that high up I'd expect more turbulence. Although being tied together would give them bit more rigidity I guess. Here's some more footage: /watch?v=AGxPHcOIMIA 12:00-> 19:25-> 25:35->

[@DanteWilcox22]

@@z3dar It could just be five balloons and the other dots are lens flares

[@MrAlsachti]

@@DanteWilcox22 Yeah, but what about the second footage. The objects are dark, not bright like lens flares.

[@DanteWilcox22]

@@MrAlsachti As the man states in the video, it's from the opposite side. So if the sun is hitting the bright side, causing a reflection, it will cause a sillouhette on the other side.

[@ericsweeney3759]

Ok I have an idea, we need you guys have another competition in the office on who can make the most realistic looking ufo footage.

[@MrHandsomeStudios]

That's a sick idea :D

[@tbotalpha8133]

I can't wait for them to release it into the wild, for the footage to blow up on Facebook (sans watermarks, of course), and for someone to then send it back to Corridor saying "this would be a good fit for your UFO Reacts series!"

[@martinharris5017]

I cracked up laughing at 15:50 because as a veteran Ufologist I'm very familiar with this shifty character. It was great to see you make "dot joining" moment. Sadly the world is full of guys like this who are muddying the waters.

[@Ragzzy-R]

Holy Shit! Niko's explanation on why blur happens is exactly why people need correction glasses for short/long sight. blew my mind

[@the_quadracorn]

The "maybe" one reminds me of skydiving teams who have lights on them. There's a great video of somebody seeing them at night and freaking out and repeatedly yelling "ALIENS! ALIENS! THEY'RE MOVING INTO FORMATION!" It was very funny

[@anna_in_aotearoa3166]

😂 Skydiving teams with particularly evil senses of humour who knew where their local UFO enthusiasts hung out at night could definitely have a lot of naughty fun jumping at just the right time...!

[@KeelanJon]

Amongst all of the noise and nonsense on KZbin, I'm glad we have genuine intelligent characters sharing free education with the world. Thank you Corridor.

[@DigitalJediMaster]

"Do people just go out there and film the moon for long stretches of time?" Well, yeah. Amateur astronomers record all manner of footage, since that's kinda how we know what happens in space in the first place. There's a A LOT we don't know about celestial phenomenon and a lot we do. We record to sky to catch either one of those.

[@jordanwood9289]

Yep.

[@Silvertongue8]

Exactly, there is more evidence for UFOs than any god, there are plenty of ufo channels where you can just tell when they are real or fake, yes there is lots of fake stuff, but LOADS of stuff that clearly isn't, no I'm not saying it is aliens, but if anyone can believe that we are the only intellectual species in the entire universe, that's absurd, there are millions of chances just in our universe, and there are billions and billions of galaxies in the universe, that the hubble can provide just in the observerable universe, there could be trillions in the none observerable,, I've seen 3,,no that's no evidence for you, but what I saw definitely was not an aeroplane or a helicopter,, it kind of annoys me when people like these are so confident that they are right, an there is no chance that they could be wrong,

[@thecommenter578]

Ok but, why would you film the moon at 200fps when it's barely moving?

[@Silvertongue8]

@@thecommenter578 because it is probably his passion, he is almost certainly fascinated by our solar system, most people wouldn't buy a very decent expensive telescope just for a bit of fun, I'm a pianist of 14 years, I'd love a steinway grand piano, but they're worth upwards of 500k,,,but one can dream,, that's my opinion on your comment anyway, take care man, 🎶🎶🎹🎹🙏🙏

[@DigitalJediMaster]

@@jordanwood9289 The moon might not noticeably move, but stellar phenomena does.

[@drangus3468]

Sam is my spirit animal. 99% skeptic but willing to entertain your idea in order to prove that it's stupid.

[@blowc1612]

Niko is better at understanding and knowing effects. I'd listen to him more than Sam. Niko can identify VFX better than Sam does.

[@MrWolfe-nu6wz]

It would be fun if you guys could debunk footage of famous cryptids (loch ness monster, bigfoot, etc.) both old and new!

[@gowdsake7103]

Its been done MANY times none can be shown to be true

[@SenseiSeth]

WAIT.. when did the “UFO birthing” video come out? 2009… looks like a bunch of little balloons flying around right?? When did Pixar’s “UP” release? 2009. Mystery Solved.

[@kingcannonade7282]

Don't quit your day job karate man. lmao. jkjk

[@Dargonhuman]

Oh come on, you had a perfect opportunity for a cross-Pixar reference with "Coincidence? I. Think. NOT!" and you whiffed it...

[@shanus11]

It does look like a load of tethered balloons flying about

[@mmcd0904]

Love you channel Sensei! Nice to see you here

[@Luxalpa]

Personally they reminded my of parachutes.

[@a-ron-s3396]

This might be my new favorite type of video you all do. Love the instantaneous fake spotting, need more! More rectangle glasses please!

[@tk_the_onion]

Those glasses are just too good and scream "that's nonsense"

[@binauralauto3621]

Look up Chris Lehto.

[@Dob5on1an]

Hi, I’m an astrophotographer and I spotted something that looked basically exactly the same as the last “ufo” sitting you guys debunked whilst photographing the night sky, I took a long exposure image of it but it’s very short, still is visible, I can give more information if you need it and I could try sending the picture as well, also, great vid, really enjoyed seeing how you debunked it all

[@adarshvinayak]

That looks a lot like tiny spiders hatching out of an egg. I have seen the same pattern of movement before where the mom spider holds the egg under her belly and hundreds of tiny spiders spew out of the egg and make a big mess. Plus the fact that this is happening on a web could explain why they look like flying objects. Webs between 2 distant objects usually appear in a straight line. And the part where the the small objects are going around the big one could be the tiny spiders weaving their own webs and trying to navigate the environment.

[@alZiiHardstylez]

Bro, that's a pretty good take.

[@nuclearphish8051]

It's actually really hard not to see them as spiders now that you've mentioned it. You can even see their tiny legs flailing about, despite all the compression (and being out of focus, of course).

[@charlesmiller8107]

I think you figured this out bro

[@ShorterThantheEasel]

The main thing I want to say about that last one with the orbs, the original video almost looks like whatever it is is caught in a current and the smaller orbs around it aren't pulling it, they're being dragged along. It almost reminds me of like a bag getting caught in the wind, but something is tied to it. I'm definitely not saying aliens, but it looks like something caught in a current and that's all I can say from how it looks

[@droyd666]

Exactly what I'm thinking. It looks like some kind of bag and it has like small balloons or something attached to it and it's being filmed at an angle so that they appear to have that weird movement.

[@tekknorat]

"I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens." G. A. Tsoukalos

[@57harrierstrikes]

The problem with the idea that it's things tethered in a string is that both sides project several objects in opposite directions.

[@m.agilnajib345]

Some have mentioned kites of some sort.

[@matthewnash4953]

Birds maybe?

[@haerverk]

It's pretty astonishing how short the leap is between "I don't know" and "unfathomably technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilisation" for certain people..!

[@damagecase13]

I genuinely feel excitement seeing you guys continuously level up and get more and more views. Out of any of the KZbinrs I've watched for the last decade or so you guys are the ones that deserve Every bit of attention you get! Keep it up corridor crew!!!

[@KarlSmith]

I'm just here admiring the world-building Sam does by *always* having his hair out for the UFO videos.

[@commandertoastcz6256]

The funny thing is that a normal "UFO" is probably really, really ineffective. Like, unless you want to show up in style, use something practical - maybe a large tube-y thing, something like Pillar Of Autumn or In Amber Clad. Something that can be used effectively. Also a stereotype UFO is really easy to debunk just because of it´s popularity

[@henrywong7607]

Actually the Halo ships are pretty unrealistic too. Barring any giant leaps in technology spaceships would look very strange. The Venture Star from Avatar (blue people one) is a popular example. Also spaceships would probably not be able to land on or enter a planet, it just is a ton of extra work for little benefit.

[@platinum2714]

I love how Sam gets so into these videos, his theories and glasses I love it😂

[@roboninja3194]

He comes across like an arrogant douchebag in my opinion.

[@McStuffin414]

I absolutely love these debunking videos. It never comes across as pompous or condescending. Just really funny dudes.

[@MisterWealth]

It literally is them mocking people believing in UFO's lol. Who cares if they're being condescending anyways?

[@binauralauto3621]

Look up Chris Lehto he has done really good content. Very similar from all years.

[@frozenbacon]

I JUST noticed their chairs, and I love them! It is two seperate chairs that you can push together to make a couch. Brilliant! I want them!

[@paulpemberton6852]

Y’all should do a challenge where you have to create your most convincing UFO sighting shots

[@kiroto7429]

1. black backdrop 2. white dot 3. blurry ass camera quality from the 1800s

[@OrontesRM]

or the most convincing ghost

[@rgerber]

yes please

[@Will-bn9km]

@@OrontesRM yes most convicing UFO footage and ghost sighting would be really good videos.

[@binauralauto3621]

Look up Chris Lehto.

[@MFKitten]

the "moon wave" thing COULD be some simple atmospheric thing. It's supposed to be super slow mo, and it's super zoomed in, so even a very slight and uneven warbly distortion from heat could look straight and clean like that. So even if it's not faked, it's still not necessarily some spooky shit.

[@merkridge8780]

Aliens that have traveled billions of light years across the universe to earth, are able to avoid detection from every single sophisticated science in the world, yet are easily recorded by backyard amateurs and Space Force interests on a consistent basis. BTW- Big Foot remains the Hide and Seek Champion of the World!!

[@LiilYogurt]

That’s the thing I’ve never understood, if some unidentified object flew into America you know there would be jets in the air within seconds. So they’d have to have some kind of tech to hide, but why tf would they turn it off while flying around Utah lmao

[@blowc1612]

​@@LiilYogurt malfunctioning tech.

[@ryanmaguire8451]

Been waiting on more of this these are the best

[@ANTIStraussian]

MY favorite part is when the ufo nerds show up in the comments.

[@ryanmaguire8451]

@@ANTIStraussian English pls

[@ANTIStraussian]

@@ryanmaguire8451 I fixed it I think

[@Paradox-dy3ve]

Sam's reactions are always the best parts of these videos. He's just not having any of this nonsense. Lol

[@ieradossantos]

You trust your pilots to defend the airspace but if these same pilots turn around and tell you they see crafts dropping in from 60000 feet, being at ocean level an instance later only to go under the water another moment later you are like; nonsense

[@Khronogi]

@@ieradossantos well.they are trained to defend the airspace, not physics.

[@ieradossantos]

@@Khronogi O yes, your expertise in physics must be so much more valuable than his multi million dollar equipment and training that goes into becoming what David was. He literally FOLLOWED a craft that VANISHED and reappeared at his CAP point... This is his personal account. Go ahead and question that

[@yahertzel]

@@ieradossantos Who cares if they so aliens, spaceships or just some UFOs? Can you do anything about it? No. Does it prove aliens exist? Maybe. Even if they do, who cares? As long as they don't wish to contact us and we have no way of contacting them this whole conversation is pointless

[@tk_the_onion]

@@ieradossantos yes, it is nonsense.

[@saphironkindris]

11:20 TBH, I think these are also just balloons. The way they're moving makes it seem like they're attached via some kind of string to eachother and getting blown around by wind and shit.

[@tennessee3156]

You guys should do a challenge of the best warp (jumping into hyperspace) animation!! Would be awesome!

[@binauralauto3621]

Look up Chris Lehto.

[@IanWatson]

3:37 Assuming for a moment this is a natural phenomenon, I might have an answer: when we look at the stars, they twinkle. That's not due to anything the stars are doing, but because our atmosphere is a roiling mass of air that changes thickness all the time, so it distorts incoming light just enough that a star's precise location and brightness may seem to vary. You see the same phenomenon if you're zooming in on something far away, like on the horizon. So let's say that there are natural "waves" in the atmosphere, which doesn't sound totally far fetched. What can we look at beyond the atmosphere? The sun is too damn bright for our disgusting human eyeballs, stars and planets are too small for us to be able to discern a wave. The moon is the only phenomenon left where we *could* notice a wave happening.

[@subashpriyatharsanvlogs9831]

I like this

[@ukgcollection]

These guys know their shit, I love how they're just laughing when there's ufo nuts completely taken in by it

[@eddeh0772]

I still really want you to do an episode of this that looks at flat earther debunks of nasa footage. I think there would be a TON of interesting stuff to talk about the difference between VfX glitches and compressed video artifacts, of which they can’t seem to make a distinction, but also how that all compares to renders of space in movies

[@binauralauto3621]

Look up Chris Lehto.

[@bigbob82]

The 2nd item of the "Lunar Wave" is an scanning artifact, probably of a camera filming a screen. The screen draws the pixels in a raster, pixel by pixel, line by line. The camera is sampling at some rate (let's say 30fps), and each time it captures the pixel update at a slightly different position. the camera is slightly rotated, so you see it at an angle. The fact that there are 2 lines, just means that the camera catches the scanned lines in 2 places. it's like a harmony of the scanning frequency and the capture frequency. This was probably done by mistake, and not intentionally.

[@nickthoman2280]

It might be a shockwave from a jet flying by out of frame. I’m on the DCA flight path and I see the same thing now and then with my telescope when looking at the moon. It’s cool when it happens and once a jet went through my FOV while looking and the wave was clear as day.

[@r3d0c]

@@nickthoman2280 nah that's not how they look, they'd still have to be 3d, it's an entirely in camera effect because it only travels along a 2d plane

[@CroshVine]

Their argument is that the moon is a projection in our sky, not a 3d object, so wouldn't the wave be 2d in that instance?

[@NaughtyShepherd]

Condensation trails from a passenger jet.

[@nickthoman2280]

@@NaughtyShepherd yep… telescope is tracking the moon so more likely the moon is moving past the contrail of a high altitude jet.

[@publisher1066]

While I'm not a UFOlogist, back in 1980, in Greece, my friend and I watched very much the same activity pictured in the blue sky imaging in the last clip, but at night. We watched a big light spawn a bunch of smaller lights, that then acted independently. I know Unidentified Flying Objects are just unidentified, but it was amazingly similar. It could have simply been a meteor breaking up in the upper atmosphere, but the subsequent behavior was really weird. In any case, great video!

[@brechtdelaet6495]

You guys are so good at explaining!!! With the first shot i was like: HOW DO THEY SEE it THAT QUICK?! Half a min later: oh wow i can see clearly what they mean!

[@binauralauto3621]

Look up Chris Lehto.

[@fakename287]

@@binauralauto3621 >some nft bro on twitter lmao no thanks

[@satchtc]

I absolutely love that you’re using you’re expertise to teach critical thinking and skepticism in a way that is so cool and relatable.

[@binauralauto3621]

Look up Chris Lehto.

[@nmarbletoe8210]

12:26 "i'm going to give this one a maybe" high praise from the crew!

[@moogleydoot]

you can't stop this series until you find a genuine UFO

[@huangjun_art]

I keep thinking of that story Neil Degrasse Tyson once told during one of his lectures. A cop was panicing, and radioing his coleagues that he was chasing a UFO zigzagging across the sky. Turns out he was looking at Venus, and driving on a zigzagged road.

[@sqlevolicious]

The fact that every single of of these ufo "identifiers" happen to be extremely stupid is proof enough for me that these conspiracies were created by grifters to take money from stupid people.

[@jorgepeterbarton]

Yep majority of the recently leaked stuff was just Planet, Sattelite, Aircraft, Balloon, Lens Flare, Planet, Planet, Planet

[@Spennylado20]

When I was younger I thought I saw an alien above KFC so I told my friend the aliens where getting a fly through

[@samdelfavero]

I feel like the crew is accidentally giving us the secret sauce for making a perfect fake UFO video

[@e.d.5766]

I can't wait for them to react to Unexplained Goblin Sightings.

[@palecurve]

Oh my god, yes. After seeing Dunkey's reaction, I can only imagine that these guys would lose their minds.

[@bigd8122]

Goblins are real.

[@spinny2010]

The drone pilot of the "drone v bug" footage released the RAW files for this exact type of scrutiny. You might want to have a closer look at it by zooming in to the hillside. The same object can be seen sweeping out of the hill valley and turning right, towards the drone. That being said; one of the 5 observables in UAP/UFOs is that the objects can somehow move through air and water without friction. Electro-gravitic propulsion?? Another piece of footage for you to look at - type in Concorde with Orb. Filmed in the 1970''s or early 80''s from another Concorde flying along side. An orb just like the ones filmed in Mexico and the WW2 reports of Foo Fighters.

[@michaelross1452]

This channel is a gov shill channel. Bunch of paid off mouth pieces spreading disinfo

[@DC-oh7uu]

So fun to watch pros actually debunk these videos

[@morbintimeisrad]

ya

[@conoro774]

Just saying but if other "pros" prove some of the footage shown here, ( clip from 5:50) isn't a bug and back up their claims. What would you think?

[@Julio-Ces4r]

@@conoro774 then, get a real pro, not someone from reddit and try, I doubt

[@dwiprasetyaputra221]

@@conoro774 point me where's the pro

[@xanderguldie]

12:54: You can clearly see the yellow thing hang (dangle between) on the white ones around it. It's some kind of capsule or weather instrument hanging on parachutes

[@blowc1612]

You're just acting like you know what you're talking about.

[@dyscea]

It’s fantastic how you guys couldn’t debunk the Birthing Orbs. Whether Jaime Maussan is in fake cahoots or not, he does bring forward A LOT of footage, and we get some brain stumpers like this one. I do hope i find out in my lifetime. It’s really great living in this technological era and demystifying many things. Like knowing the magician’s secrets 🥰

[@Lord_JABA]

I seen something very similar to last one last week but just as they left the ground. Those are balloons tethered together. The ones I saw were 3 and it was "0","2" shaped ones and one round. Different shapes react differently so they pull each other around in the wind -just like on this video. After they are high enough you are not able to clearly see the shapes.

[@matheusjezini]

That's what I thought too, at some point you can see one spin around in the wind

[@oriontherealironman]

If they got caught in a jet stream that would also explain the erratic movements.

[@57harrierstrikes]

The problem with the idea that it's things tethered in a string is that both sides project several objects in opposite directions.

[@z3dar]

@@57harrierstrikes Also would balloons be that dark from the other angle? The second angle seems pretty weird.

[@jorgepeterbarton]

@@z3dar anything appears dark if backlit. A white piece of shiny card would if shot into the sun

[@bhuvaneshs.k638]

UFO debunks episodes are my favourite ❤️ We need these more.

[@Vaille32]

I find these debunking explanations to be really interesting. I and most others look at these videos and intuitively notice that *something* is off… but we can’t articulate what that something is. We just know it is wrong, somehow. Youz are actually telling us what it is that is wrong that we are seeing. Example: uniform blur vs. a natural blur.

[@capt_sanschagrin4717]

7:12 Wren, believe it or not, we have gone faster. The X-15 was capable of flying at hypersonic speeds (Mach 5 and up). This aircraft still has the world record for fastest, manned powered aircraft of flying at mach 6.7. Regardless the the SR-17 blackbird is pretty cool!

[@h3llboyyy407]

As someone who used to love this show called "fact or faked" around 2012 this was awesome 👌!

[@gertpacu3926]

They made new episodes of it. Just aired a few weeks ago. About 4-5 of them.

[@klaytonhulsberg4059]

I use to love that show

[@favoritemustard3542]

@5:50 **someone who never goes outside** 🐝🦋🦗: Are we aliens to you?!

[@grantcarter3972]

Just because Wren reminded me, and because it's cool and I figure he'd get a kick out of it, the fasted crewed and powered aircraft was actually the X-15, which flew at nearly Mach 7! If my memory serves me, which it often does not, there was actually a flight where some components of the plane began to melt from the friction with the air. Anyways, hope you guys find that neat

[@AstroComposerKarE]

Astropetgraphers do film the moon for long stretches. It’s a specific technique where the frames of the video become thousands of individual frames that can be stacked averaging out atmospheric disturbances to produce a final result that’s far superior than any single frame could have been. Sometimes this means many hours of video of the moon. Also, a good percentage of the frames get thrown out automatically from this process because of blur, or other image defect. The last one looked like two different events. First space debris or a rocket stage breaking up as it reentered and then a CGI artist embellished the footage to have orbs circling a brighter object and mashed those two together to presented as if it was a single event.

[@Anomalocaria]

3:10 of course lol. people who love astronomy _love_ astronomy. they don't care that they already know what they're going to see - they just want to see it with their own eyes anyway because natural sciences are dope. i'm wondering if the wave is moving as fast as it should be. i haven't done any of the math, but if this is supposed to be a shockwave, you should be able to calculate its speed across the surface of the moon.

[@oriele]

Love to see another debunking video! Its become my favorite series on the channel recently

[@danielvingaard3794]

A little dissapointed that you didn't look closer at the "bug" footage (5:55). But hey, its your show, and its entertaining to watch you guys go through the clips :-)

[@jashickey]

I know, right?! I remember analysis of the HD footage found you could actually see small glimpses of the "object" travelling behind a row of mountain peaks in the background a moment before it flew by. There's a video of the cameramen who were filming the b-roll where this footage came from discussing it. I leaned more towards it being a fake back when I saw it first, but someone deeply into video effects could analyze the way it disappears between the peaks to determine if the video could have been faked.

[@bufordfrink5554]

The first "birthing orbs" shot from below looks a like a high power hobby rocket separating at apogee, with some streamers tied onto a long cord, and a parachute. The motion matches very well. Since there are no visual cues to indicate alignment, the view could have been rotated to create the appearance that it was floating, rather than falling slowly toward the camera from very high up. If that was real footage, the view from above could just be a negative superimposed on some clouds.

[@FrenchPirate83]

10:17 end of Jake's promotional segment. You're welcome.

[@OfficialTubeYou]

2:35 I see you wren 😂😂😂

[@davidlogsdon7767]

At around 12:06 the guy actually hits the bug with his laser pointer, briefly illuminating it. That would only be possible if it were an object that was small and close to the observer, AKA: a bug, lol.

[@myztklk3v]

6:10 there's a really good breakdown of this video already, if you look closely at the start of the shot, you see whatever this object is come over the mountain and follow the valley before turning and flying passed the camera. If it's not an actual UFO, it's CG, definitely not a bug though.

[@Linkous12]

Didn't it look like it moved behind some trees also when zoomed in super far?

[@MrBlacksharpie]

Yeah, I've seen this one studied and I'm pretty sure they had a hard time debunking it. The object can be seen going behind foliage and following the revine in the far back and then making a right hand turn before zooming past the drone. This happened in Utah and was captured by a couple guys filming stock footage for commercial use. They swear (of course) that they did nothing to the footage. I think corridor was a little quick with this one.

[@1nvd]

Yeah what the fuck these guys lost ALL credibility after that one……they didn’t even look at the clip Edit: The clip is called “Utah Ufo” but it’s super hard to find now…the object went from the back of the mountains and foliage. Kinda spooky to see and analyze at the time. It’s not a bug. Idk I feel like there needs to be more attention to that video….

[@samuelbgthjfdr1814]

Fr these guys are clowns

[@feenux09]

So glad you looked into that case, the last one. It's nuts, I remember seeing this video a million years ago. It's definitely not cg but man, it's really hard to know what it actually is

[@binauralauto3621]

Look up Chris Lehto.

[@dietwater8769]

Once, a couple months ago, I was in a pool, and when I looked up, I saw this white dot that moved across the sky. I was confused and thought that that was a UFO. A couple days later, in the same pool, I saw it again. Months later i figured out that they were these special Elon Musk Satelites.

[@BiggCliph]

1:52 Me during my first time

[@justaguywithapowerpole]

U virgin

[@geomeopeoleo1740]

I never thought of it like this, but camera blur is very similar to how I see without my glasses. All the edges get fuzzy and the bright colors stick out more.

[@marya9364]

the eyes work very similarly to a camera which is probably why!!

[@jashickey]

That video at 5:45. Analysis of the HD footage found you could actually see small glimpses of the "object" travelling behind a row of mountain peaks in the background a moment before it flew by. See if you can find a video of the cameramen who were filming the b-roll where this footage came from discussing it. I leaned more towards it being a fake back when I saw it first, but someone deeply into video effects could analyze the way it disappears between the peaks to determine if the video could have been faked.

[@aiden_leven]

You guys should make your own alien videos, some kind of unexplainable phenomenon episode.

[@DrewishAF]

A few years ago, I was working a second job at a Lowe's and all the guys in my department were about 5-10 years younger than me. I would go out before we closed and grab a bunch of carts in the parking lot, especially when my ISS tracker would tell me there's about to be a good, visible pass. So I took a couple of the younger guys out and I showed them the tremendously bright satellite streaking across the sky. One guy named Wyatt was completely blown away by it so as we watched the ISS, he was stopping customers to tell them and we had about 20 people outside staring at the sky and everyone was just slack jawed staring at this little bright spot for about 5 minutes. It was honestly one of the coolest things I've seen. This kid downloaded the same app and every couple days he would call me and say, "dude, go outside because it's about to pass again!" I felt pretty proud that I was able to instill this child-like fascination with space and visible objects in at least one other person. I was also able to send him a couple pictures of Jupiter and Saturn through my telescope at home, leading to him spending several hundred dollars in a much better telescope than I had. I hope that great excitement for the field of astronomy is something we can pass on to the next generation. Once someone realizes the true size and scale of the universe around us, I honestly think it brings a sense of wonder and a humbleness to the soul.

[@halcyon1644]

That's a lovely story, thank you for sharing! Astronomy is such a lovely field

[@alepenagorbe9135]

At 1:44 I thought "Wow! They even made a 3d diagram to explain this! They must have had help from some VFX artist" And then my brain started working again and I was like "Wow. I am dumb"

[@greatdaner81]

The so called bug started over by the mountains if you zoom in and the makes a right turn towards the camera. I would give it a double check it starts further back. Either way I enjoy your content keep it up!

[@fakename287]

Yeah bugs don't usually fly in a straight line 👍

[@jashickey]

That's right. The guys here dropped the ball on that one.

[@Rayniel]

The Utah drone shot should’ve been examined from the beginning. You can see the object move through the mountains in the distance first. And then it moves past the drone

[@roboticunicorn59]

Thats what im sayin

[@jasonjuster8388]

Poor effort on their part, wont bother with these from now on if they dont properly investigate.

[@Rayniel]

@@jasonjuster8388 exactly how I feel

[@derELMO]

;)

[@samuelbgthjfdr1814]

Yess

[@dabcorn]

The Mexican "UFO" at 12:00 makes sense if you turn the video vertical - you know, how most folks use their cell phone cameras. It appears to be a mylar balloon with stuff falling off a string as it floats up and away. That would explain the weird spiraling motions. Mylar balloons are mandatory at any event/party/social gathering.

[@aaliyahhernandez9640]

Love this series

[@xane.2383]

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[@nottiification]

I flew in a UFO once... and then ATC reminded me to turn on my transponder.

[@MrSir2552]

At least you didn’t have in 7700 when you turned it back on

[@septicop]

12:45 those are balloons. Two of the balloon’s strings are tied together and the air currents are making them move erratically.

[@epictoe7179]

I wish there was a playlist of the debunking videos

[@dfhdf4214]

you can make one!

[@Attewir]

@@dfhdf4214 is right, you can!