By Mark Dunphy
A video of a UFO reportedly flying over London has been deemed a fake by experts.
The video, which was posted on the popular social networking site Youtube, is said to have been recorded on Friday, 24 June last near the BBC Radio One building. It shows a large oval object moving across the skies, accompanied by three smaller objects. The video has since gone viral online.
Another video posted online shows a similar number objects in the skies over London’s Tower Bridge. The objects appear similar to those spotted over the Dome of the Rock on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in Israel on January 28 last (see Videos).
Benjamin Radford, Deputy Editor of “Skeptical Inquirer” science magazine told space.com that the mothership and its UFO siblings videotaped over London are among the absolute easiest images to fake: glowing ovals and dots.
There’s no detail, he said, “no flying saucer windows or aliens waving hello from high above. Just white moving dots that anyone with some video-editing chops could create with little effort.”
He continued: “Another sign that this is a fake is the way the video begins. The cameraman is apparently randomly videotaping a mundane sidewalk, and then moves quickly to a street corner, where he takes careful note of the reactions from passer-by before aiming the camera up into the sky to see what, exactly, it is that has so captivated their attention. He videotapes the skies for about a minute, then once again brings the camera down to show us a small crowd of people who are also staring into the sky and getting photos.”
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