I've always been a strong believer in aliens and UFOs (as in actual craft from another dimension/planet/whatever). I do recognize though that most of what we see online is fake. I've sometimes wondered why people do it and besides the obvious juvenile answers I assume many of the fake vid makers must just be looking for a challenge!

I happened to think of a great challenge for these faux-UFO artists!

Here's the scene and idea:
A person in a lightly forested area somewhat near a residential or populated area sees a craft and snaps a pic with his/her phone. The object gets closer and a few more pics are snapped. Suddenly the craft is right upon the person so they grab one more askew picture before running for the trees. Next a green beam of light emits from the bottom of the craft (*snap pic*) then lastly would be a picture from about 20 feet in the air with a green hue around whatever pic is snapped.

The result would be 6-8 pictures of this faux abduction set together with a headline like this phone was found near ____. Police have attained no evidence but have reported the person who owns the phone is still missing after 4 days. Any information regarding this case should be reported blah, blah, blah.

Mods feel free to move this to an "Off-Topic" forum if it should belong there instead.

Any takers??

Was hoping it was an official competition or some such!

To be honest, the vast vast majority of these types of hoaxes are done by hobbyists. I can count on one hand the ones that are done by people with any form of credentials that I recall. The fake wings one stands out.

The reason I think you rarely see really well made and convincing ones with multiple angles etc ... is simply because of the question 'why?'

It's a lot of effort for very little to zero payback.

Sort of Blair Witch like. I think this would make a fantastic shaky cam flick.

go to the movies ...that's what ppl can do with computer generated imagery