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My brother sent me a 4 second clip of a "UFO" over his neighbor's pool in Bakersfield and I spent 2 hours frame by frame before I noticed
I used to just watch these leaked clips on my phone and vote fake in like 10 seconds flat. Now after that Bakersfield one, I download everything to my laptop and scroll through frame by frame looking for that one smudge that gives it away, and let me tell you, a pool skimmer net at 1:47 AM looks exactly like a saucer if you squint. Turned out to be his neighbor Dave's pool cover floating up, and my brother still swears it hovered. So what's your go to giveaway when you're staring at a clip, shadows, reflections, or that weird warp around the edges?
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shane_hayes24d ago
Man, I felt this in my soul. Used to be one of those people who'd watch a clip for five seconds and just go "yep that's fake" and move on with my day. That Bakersfield thing kind of broke my brain though because once you actually slow it down, everything looks way weirder than it did at full speed. I got burned by a "craft" that turned out to be a drone with a plastic bag stuck on it, and the giveaway was this little shimmer along one edge that was just the bag flapping. Now I always check reflections first, especially anything near water or glass, because a wet surface will mess with light in a way that's super hard to fake but also super easy to mistake for a craft glowing. Shadows are my second look, since a lot of these clips have shadows going the wrong way for the time of day claimed. Edge warp is the last thing I check now, because compression artifacts love to hang out right where someone cut the clip.
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