VFX Artists Debunk UFO Sightings sent by FANS

0:01 This past year we have been helping to educate

0:02 people on how to spot fake AI videos.

0:04 This is why this is why we're all in trouble.

0:08 [laughter] Look look real to me.

0:09 We're changing it up.

0:11 Bringing it back to the classics.

0:12 We [music] can't let that distract us from the eternal alien presence.

0:16 We're not debunking AI, we're debunking ET.

0:23 [screaming] We are here to once and for all prove

0:25 that aliens are not only real, they're among us.

0:28 Which is why we have an email

0:30 called debunk@corridor.digital for people to send us clips.

0:32 And this episode is focused entirely [music]

0:34 on those clips that we've been sent.

0:35 These clips, some of them have never seen the light of day.

0:38 These are homegrown organic [music] UFO clips,

0:41 and we're going to take a look

0:42 at these with our scrutinizing visual effects eyes.

0:44 Our email right now might have actual real evidence of [music] aliens.

0:48 That's true.

0:49 Are they among us?

0:50 LET'S FIND OUT.

0:55 [laughter] EXCUSE ME.

1:01 SINCE OUR LAST UFO debunking episode,

1:03 there has been an ocean of fake AI generated video hitting the internet.

1:07 And the UFO community has been hit hard by this fakery.

1:10 So now we have to ask the question, what if ET AI?

1:13 What if ET AI?

1:15 Let's find out.

1:22 Whoa.

1:24 Is that Star you?

1:26 Star [laughter] you?

1:27 Is that Pokémon?

1:28 What do you guys think?

1:29 Is this real?

1:30 Well, but as much as I'd love it to be, I'm going to say heck no.

1:35 And I can just tell immediately that this is AI.

1:38 [music] The light looks so good though.

1:39 Like it actually looks like a real light source.

1:40 How the shadows from the trees and the plants actually move as it gets closer.

1:44 It does look good until it doesn't look good.

1:46 If you watch the shadows in this thing moves around,

1:48 it's giving the approximation of a correct looking light.

1:51 But the easiest thing to look at is

1:52 the shadow at the base [music] of the telephone pole.

1:54 As that light moves,

1:55 that shadow should be rotating around that base of the telephone pole,

1:59 but it stays pointed the same direction the whole time.

2:01 Oh, you're right.

2:02 Yep.

2:02 100%.

2:03 There is one other huge tell to this being an AI image,

2:06 and that's when the security camera starts moving.

2:09 Yeah, I was There it is.

2:10 Yeah, I was going to say the whole camera is actually moving on the door frame.

2:14 I do like it from the perspective of like it's just cool imagery.

2:17 Like it's fun to look at, but yeah, this thing is obviously it's AI.

2:20 Security cam footage or like Ring doorbell type

2:23 footage [music] is pretty widespread with AI video.

2:27 Yeah.

2:28 Debunked.

2:28 Boom.

2:29 Man.

2:31 We got sent this email.

2:32 It's a Red Horizon Pulse.

2:34 Let's take a look at angle number one.

2:35 Two angles, multiple angles is the first indication that it would not be AI.

2:45 But this is definitely AI.

2:47 [laughter] I didn't even give me a chance to look at it.

2:50 I didn't even you could tell within a second that it's AI.

2:53 Where is the lightning coming from?

2:55 There's like little flashes of lightning from up above,

2:57 but we're looking down at the clouds.

3:01 Well, now there's an explosion.

3:03 Let's see the other angle.

3:08 Is this a different angle or is this just It's a totally different thing.

3:12 Totally different thing.

3:13 THAT'S A DIFFERENT IT'S ON IT'S UNDER THE CLOUDS NOW, and it's a beam.

3:15 It's a freaking beam.

3:17 That's dumb.

3:18 So the number one most common tip for spotting

3:21 AI video is is it 10 to 15 seconds long,

3:23 because that's what all the services give you these days.

3:25 [music] But wait a minute, this clip is longer than 10 to 15 seconds.

3:29 How are they making them longer than 15 seconds?

3:31 This is a technique known as image to video.

3:33 They take an image, they generate a video

3:35 from that, and partway through this video and hits the end,

3:38 they just take that last frame and continue feeding it.

3:42 Whoa.

3:43 That was That was the 15 second mark.

3:45 So That's the 15 second mark for sure.

3:47 just saw the part where they ran out of time and they fed in the last

3:51 frame to be the first frame and it starts a new video generated from that frame.

3:54 You can tell cuz it kind of looks like a jump cut,

3:57 but there's not really a jump cut happening.

4:00 Now I'm curious about the other one,

4:01 cuz the other one was roughly the same duration.

4:03 I'm guessing we have that same moment at 15 seconds

4:06 where it's going to kind of bug out a little bit.

4:07 Right here.

4:09 Boom.

4:09 There it is.

4:10 Immediate slow down on the explosion and then different action.

4:13 Yeah, it goes from all right, here's some red fire,

4:15 but if you take that as a still frame to prompt a new video,

4:18 it's going to be like, oh, big red fire, must be explosion.

4:22 Yeah.

4:22 I love that he didn't react to the massive

4:24 explosion in terms [music] of framing at all.

4:26 He didn't like even look at what that was.

4:30 [laughter] Oh, shoot.

4:30 No.

4:31 Debunked.

4:34 Well, I got a video clip for you that is not AI.

4:37 Really?

4:38 This is from a recent event where a UFO destroys two Russian missiles.

4:44 Hmm.

4:44 Oh.

4:45 Y'all look at this.

4:46 UFO [music] freezes the missiles in the air.

4:49 Pop.

4:49 Whoa.

4:50 They missed.

4:51 Uh-oh.

4:53 Boom.

4:54 So, do you recognize this shot?

4:56 Cuz I remember seeing this when it came out.

4:58 Yeah, these aren't UFOs.

4:59 This is the actual anti-missile system in Israel

5:01 trying to shoot down Iranian missiles coming in.

5:03 That's That's exactly it.

5:05 So those aren't two Russian missiles, they're Israeli [music] interceptors.

5:09 So the reason why people are like, oh, it's UFOs,

5:11 because we're kind of losing the context of where these are in 3D space.

5:14 Kind of looks like they're flying across the sky.

5:16 In reality, they're flying from the ground way up into the sky.

5:20 And that other star we see coming from the right,

5:23 it's not actually coming this way,

5:24 it's coming from way up there and coming down.

5:28 And these guys are coming up to meet it,

5:29 and they try to explode near the rocket that's coming in, but they miss.

5:33 And the rocket just keeps going.

5:34 It's moving way too fast.

5:36 And that's why it seems to accelerate towards the end.

5:38 It's not an alien speeding away, it's just getting closer to the camera.

5:42 I've always been watching this knowing that the missile's

5:44 coming in, but I just changed my point of view here like imagining it's an alien

5:47 running away from those and scooting across the sky.

5:49 I see now why people would be seeing that like, oh, the alien's waiting.

5:52 Oh, it got attacked and then it runs away scared.

5:55 But in reality, it's coming down towards us.

5:56 Now it's below the clouds and boom, it's the ground there.

5:59 Yeah, it's perspective.

6:00 Yeah.

6:00 We know what we're looking at here because

6:02 of the context of having seen other video clips.

6:04 But if you just think of it in a purely 2D fashion,

6:07 they're just moving across the sky.

6:08 Yeah, it looks completely static in the air there.

6:10 Debunked.

6:12 Whenever I say the UFO is real, they mean it's the UFO is real.

6:16 [laughter] [laughter] I got a funny story to tell you.

6:23 Come with me.

6:24 A while ago, I was in the middle of a video call,

6:28 but then it kind of got boring.

6:30 So what do I do?

6:30 Go on YouTube and just start watching videos in the middle of the call.

6:34 But what I don't realize though, is that I have a beautiful piece of art behind

6:38 me with a clear reflective piece of glass on it.

6:44 You can see exactly what I'm looking at at my screen.

6:47 [laughter] And so I sat there for a half hour.

6:49 I was on Reddit.

6:50 I was just looking at memes.

6:51 I got to change my ways.

6:53 I have to take this down and replace it.

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8:02 May the fourth be with you.

8:03 Back to bunking.

8:05 This submission comes to New Mexico, and while they were there on this trip,

8:14 he saw something floating up in the sky, and he couldn't figure out what it was.

8:18 Honestly, I'm not really sure what to think of it.

8:20 Let's take a look.

8:25 That's the object floating up in space right there.

8:27 And his argument was that it's not moving with the wind.

8:30 Like the clouds are moving, but it's not moving.

8:33 It could be a drone.

8:34 A drone wouldn't appear white like that.

8:37 That's like bright white.

8:37 It's It's catching the sun.

8:39 It has to be catching the sun.

8:40 It's illuminated.

8:41 Like clouds are bright white like that because

8:43 they're being illuminated internally from the sunlight.

8:47 I'm inclined to say this is a weather balloon,

8:49 but that's like the biggest cop out.

8:51 It is, but it's also the biggest likelihood, unfortunately.

8:54 First and foremost, we as we learned in Project Loon,

8:57 there's different air currents in different parts of the atmosphere.

8:59 So if it is a weather balloon, it could be moving differently from the clouds

9:02 just by being at a different height.

9:03 I don't know if it's a weather balloon,

9:05 but I do think it's a high altitude [music] balloon of some sort.

9:09 And that would explain why it's not moving

9:11 as much because it's so much further away,

9:13 the parallax would create the illusion of no movement.

9:16 It says here that NASA runs its annual fall balloon campaign at Fort Sumner,

9:20 New Mexico at that time.

9:24 [laughter] Either way, we're seeing a lot of balloon activity around that time.

9:27 I mean, it's a balloon.

9:29 It's a balloon.

9:31 It's a balloon.

9:32 Debunked.

9:33 Thanks, Joshua, for submitting that.

9:34 You guys are always pointing out balloons,

9:36 but you're never pointing out what's inside the balloon.

9:40 So this footage comes to us from Colombia.

9:43 This is a real UFO.

9:45 I see a real spaceship here.

9:47 Let's take a look.

9:49 Look at this.

9:50 We found a UFO.

9:52 That is a UFO.

9:54 Oh, let's go.

9:56 Let's go.

9:58 That's like traditional design.

10:00 Oh, dude, this They followed the traditional design.

10:02 Oh, yes.

10:03 The most efficient shape for aliens.

10:05 Yeah.

10:06 So, first off, AI?

10:08 No.

10:09 feeling AI on this.

10:10 No, me neither.

10:11 I don't think so.

10:11 But I know what this is.

10:14 Wait, don't say it.

10:16 It's an alien.

10:17 Thank you.

10:18 Unless [laughter] it's an alien.

10:19 I'm sorry.

10:20 I'm going to say balloon again.

10:21 Feeling a little loony.

10:22 Hate to say balloon.

10:23 what about the jet engine in the beginning of the shot?

10:25 So, I know what this is, and it is not a balloon.

10:29 It's not a balloon?

10:32 Is hot air involved?

10:34 Am I looking at some hot air inside

10:37 of fabric that legally wouldn't be a balloon, but is basically a balloon?

10:46 Um actually, YOU'RE CORRECT.

10:49 YES!

10:49 YES!

10:49 IT IS not technically a balloon.

10:52 It's a lantern.

10:54 Oh.

10:55 Yeah, it's like one of those lanterns that they send up.

10:57 Yeah, they essentially use fire to heat up the air,

10:59 and because that hotter air is more buoyant

11:01 than the colder air around it, it floats upwards.

11:04 Same exact principle as a hot air balloon.

11:07 [clears throat] This is technically not a balloon.

11:09 What makes it not a balloon?

11:11 I consider a balloon to be a sealed container.

11:15 Uh-uh.

11:16 You said I consider.

11:17 That's subjective.

11:18 I'm looking for objectivity.

11:21 What defines a balloon?

11:22 A balloon is a flexible bag made of rubber, latex,

11:25 or other materials filled with gas such as helium or air.

11:28 Sealed at the neck.

11:34 [groaning] Well, leave a comment down below on who you think is right.

11:36 What is a balloon?

11:37 Where do you stand?

11:38 Whether or not it's a balloon or a lantern, this shot is debunked.

11:43 This next clip is from Eli Smith.

11:45 He sent us this weird line in the sky.

11:48 Saw a line in the sky?

11:52 Yeah.

11:51 Flying lions?

11:56 The heck is that?

11:57 That's a weird line [music] in the sky.

11:59 line in the sky?

12:01 I know what that is.

12:02 It's a chemtrail.

12:03 There's giant weather modification systems,

12:06 atmospheric terraforming, geoengineering.

12:09 I've heard of chemtrails before.

12:10 What's the conspiracy theory around these?

12:12 So, Nico, chemtrails are what the government puts into the airplanes

12:17 to disperse over all of us to control our thoughts.

12:20 And I don't like that you called it a conspiracy theory, by the way.

12:23 [laughter] Yeah.

12:22 So, people believe that the vapor trails of airplanes are actually

12:26 chemicals being spread by those airplanes that somehow influence our thoughts?

12:30 And make the frogs gay.

12:31 AND THE FREAKING FROGS GAY.

12:35 [laughter] THERE'S ZERO evidence supporting anything

12:37 about the entire concept of chemtrails.

12:39 But how how much chemicals do you even need to put in the air

12:42 from that high up to even have any

12:43 meaningful chemical get into you on the ground?

12:46 Like thousands of airplanes worth for a local area.

12:49 Look at me.

12:50 I made the gay frogs.

12:53 I think what we're seeing here is perspective match-up with a contrail

12:58 from an airplane that's going perfectly away from [music] us,

13:01 but is so high up, it looks vertical.

13:03 I've seen this with my own eyes before.

13:05 It's a trippy sort of illusion.

13:07 I legitimately think that's what it is.

13:08 I think it's a contrail as well.

13:10 Contrail, for those who don't know, by the way, condensation trail.

13:13 It's basically when like incredibly hot engine exhaust

13:16 meets the moisture in really cold air at altitude,

13:19 the soot particles inside of that exhaust serve as a condensation nuclei,

13:23 basically a surface that interacts with the moisture

13:26 on which it condenses and freezes into little

13:28 like icy crystals that we see form in the sky as like a vapor, so to speak.

13:32 But what's interesting about this one is it's dark.

13:35 Why is it dark?

13:36 Cuz the sun's not hitting it.

13:38 Yeah, you nailed it.

13:40 [laughter] It's I mean, look at the clouds around it.

13:41 It's the exact same color as the contrail

13:45 because [laughter] the sun is setting, of course.

13:46 The light is coming from behind, so it is self-shadowing.

13:49 The interesting thing, too, the fact that it just starts forming randomly.

13:52 Why is it not all the way along the horizon?

13:54 Oh, cuz of the conditions of the atmosphere during that section.

13:57 Yeah, exactly.

13:57 It's got to be specific conditions in which contrails can form.

14:00 And it has to do with humidity.

14:02 Yeah.

14:02 So, it's like usually you need high humidity for these to form.

14:06 If it's really dry, it'll form, but dissipate really quickly.

14:10 Humidity is not consistent across the atmosphere,

14:12 so you'll go through like literal like pockets of humidity.

14:15 And there's a bunch of, you know, this phenomenon having been witnessed.

14:18 Yeah, nothing to worry about, Eli.

14:20 It's just uh just a contrail.

14:21 Debunked.

14:25 So, we have an example of a contrail across the sky,

14:29 and then a star forms and disperses it.

14:33 But this is also like a 2-minute clip, so I sped it up.

14:37 Woah, it's burning it away.

14:41 This guy is crazy.

14:42 So, you can actually get rid of contrails by heating them up.

14:46 Interesting.

14:47 This feels a lot like visual effects.

14:49 I was wondering the same thing.

14:50 Do you guys want to get a better view of this because I stabilized the footage.

14:54 Oh, did you?

14:54 Notice we're not seeing any motion from the contrail.

14:57 It's just dissolving away.

14:59 [music] This does kind of look like a fractal noise transition.

15:03 That's what I was wondering.

15:04 I think if this was to be a visual effect,

15:07 he motion tracked the contrail cuz I think

15:09 it is real footage of a real contrail.

15:11 He comped in a clean plate of the sky around it and faded

15:14 out to have like a final sort of like it's all gone,

15:17 and then used [music] a combination of fractal noise and some masking,

15:21 and increasing the contrast of the fractal

15:23 noise pattern because the fractal noise

15:25 is going to give you like this interesting pattern of white and black,

15:28 and you can leverage that to make something

15:29 else [music] transparent where it's either white or black.

15:32 The thing that made me think this is a visual effects shot is

15:34 the ending plate there with like the feathered edges of the cloud going to blue.

15:38 It just clouds don't do that.

15:41 You know, there's edges to these clouds, so if there's an edge to the cloud,

15:44 it'd be a hard edge like everywhere else.

15:45 It's a hard edge.

15:47 It would just be a feathered transparency dip down to blue.

15:50 That's a really good point.

15:51 It is cool how he or she approached it

15:54 in that it does look like it's eating the cloud.

15:56 Like it doesn't feel like it's just like fading out in areas.

15:58 It feels like it's eating the density of the cloud.

16:00 Yeah, like the easy version of this with a less skilled

16:04 VFX artist doing this, it would just be a simple mask,

16:06 and you would see a feathered edge just kind of creating

16:09 a circular hole in the contrail there as it expands outwards.

16:12 [music] Do you guys think he's using like an animated fractal noise?

16:15 Like there's a little bit of motion in that noise pattern?

16:17 I think so.

16:18 What I'm looking for is density being added

16:20 back in [music] as that noise pattern evolves, and in that bulbous area,

16:24 I feel like there's a little section of density

16:26 that arose and actually comes back a little bit.

16:28 Uh-huh.

16:29 But I Do you see it?

16:30 Do you see it?

16:30 Yep.

16:30 Cuz that would be indicative It's not going to Nothing's going

16:33 to be adding the vapor back in once it subtracts it.

16:35 It doesn't [music] make any sense.

16:36 The final thing that speaks to me that this is

16:38 a VFX is you watch the motion of that white dot,

16:40 and you can just you can see that Bezier smooth in and the Bezier smooth out.

16:45 So, it feels like it's a two-dimensional animation.

16:48 It's This is once again a very good UFO VFX shot.

16:52 Yeah.

16:52 Really smooth.

16:53 Really very well done.

16:54 In theory, this is possible.

16:57 If there is some sort of spaceship that could emit a bunch of heat

17:00 and melt the ice particles back to just regular water vapor, I don't know.

17:05 But it would have to be a lot of heat,

17:06 and you would be seeing a lot of other artifacts.

17:09 [music] This is a good one.

17:10 Bravo.

17:12 Yeah.

17:14 [laughter] Debunked.

17:17 This next clip shook me to my core.

17:20 This one's not for the faint of heart.

17:22 All the things that we highlight as being

17:23 indicators of it being fake are not present here.

17:27 This has everything you could want.

17:30 It's like, okay, what are some of the issues that you

17:31 have with like traditional things that we watch on this couch?

17:34 It's clearly explained by being a balloon or like that or fake or the

17:37 super grainy footage.

17:39 Oh, we're not actually seeing like anything of substance.

17:42 Roll the clip.

17:47 I'm watching with my eyes so peeled open right now.

17:53 Oh.

17:54 What's that?

17:56 Are they all looking at it?

17:58 That's kind of cool everybody's coming to look at it.

18:04 What the freaking heck is that, dude?

18:09 Yo, what's this guy doing?

18:15 You freaking What?

18:18 What are they looking at?

18:20 What?

18:22 It's a little alien.

18:26 [laughter] Look at that little guy looking at us.

18:38 Uh guess what?

18:39 He's gone.

18:41 Woah.

18:43 Look at all the tracking markers on the ground.

18:45 DO YOU SEE THAT?

18:48 [laughter] SERIOUSLY.

18:51 WHAT ARE THOSE?

18:52 THOSE ARE TRACKING MARKERS.

18:53 Those are alien beads, dude.

18:55 Alien beads?

18:55 Yeah, how do you think they summoned the alien to that spot?

18:57 Ran, I was waiting for you to see those tracking markers.

19:01 [laughter]

19:01 That's the only place where there's a CG character in contact with the ground,

19:05 so you want as many points of, you know,

19:06 contrast as you can, and I think back then,

19:09 you know, you just got to you got to drop something.

19:11 Okay, they could be tracking markers, or they could be alien beads.

19:14 We don't know for sure.

19:16 You can write off a faraway UFO.

19:18 You can maybe write off a gray somehow.

19:19 I don't know how you would.

19:20 But how the heck do you write off this?

19:32 [laughter] [screaming] Oh, no.

19:42 We're done.

19:43 Debunked.

19:45 You know, this is actually really pretty cool.

19:47 I dig this.

19:48 Whoever did this did a really good job of it, honestly.

19:51 Yeah.

19:51 Whoever or whatever did this.

19:53 Once the little guy starts moving, you can just you can feel the 3D animation.

19:57 But you know what?

19:58 It's really cool to see a shot that has

20:00 people in it all with the coordinated reaction.

20:03 Then of course by the end when you

20:04 hit the big chrome spaceship and the light beam,

20:06 it's clearly visual effects by that point.

20:08 But it's really convincing in the opening.

20:10 But dude, I love it.

20:12 We actually saw like a real hoax video.

20:15 Like most of the time we're looking

20:16 at stuff that people captured and it's real stuff,

20:19 but we just don't know what it is.

20:20 Yeah, this is a high effort.

20:22 This is good.

20:22 This is good this is good.

20:23 Debunked.

20:26 I have one tiny one I just want to toss in there.

20:28 Might not even make the video.

20:31 Okay.

20:31 Dragons are real.

20:32 Okay, Dean just said dragons are real.

20:34 Dragons are real.

20:35 Okay.

20:39 Hey look, it's a lizard.

20:45 EXCUSE ME?

20:49 [laughter] WHAT?

20:50 WOW.

20:52 Look at that.

20:53 What?

20:55 He just burps fire.

20:57 All right, hold on.

20:57 Click on his Instagram page.

20:59 This guy does a lot of stuff.

21:01 Oh, there's an AI one.

21:02 There's an AI one.

21:03 There's an AI one.

21:04 Is there anything else that tells you this is AI?

21:06 Do you think it's an AI takeover?

21:08 There's a moment right Oh.

21:13 The zoom.

21:13 Image to video.

21:14 You're right.

21:15 That's why it's so realistic.

21:17 It's all real and then right The motion stops.

21:21 wow.

21:21 The zoom is high with the zoom.

21:23 It even changes its posture at the same time.

21:26 Yeah.

21:26 Everything works a little different.

21:27 Yeah, when the camera stops having the handheld look to it also.

21:30 Look at the camera movement.

21:31 It's so shaky.

21:32 So shaky and now it's perfect.

21:34 Yeah, yeah.

21:34 [laughter] They're there.

21:37 The tails are still there.

21:39 You just got to look.

21:40 Debunked.

21:41 Debunked.

21:43 Everything we watched today was submitted to us debunked@quarterdigital.com.

21:47 It's an email address that you can actually email to and we will read it.

21:50 We [music] want your help to prove aliens are real.

21:52 Send us irrefutable footage.

21:54 The fight continues and we'll see you next time.

21:56 Uh-huh, is my hat falling off?

21:58 I know.

21:59 I'm a brave [laughter]