IsaacKoi
Paranormal Maven
A video has gone viral on Facebook and various gullible UFO websites in the last few days showing an alien-looking entity supposedly being interviewed in 1964.
One copy of the video on Youtube has approximately 0.5 million views after just a few weeks online. Whitley Strieber (author of the book "Communion") wrote an article about this video on 21 August 2016 entitled "Profound Wisdom from an 'Alien Video' by Whitley Strieber" which stated "The material presented in this video is consistent with what I have learned in my close encounter experience over the past 30 years".
(Most of the videos have titles referring to an "alien interview", even though the being in the video actually says that it is an "evolutionary descendant" of humans, from our future).
Since this video is popping up all over the place, I spent a few minutes tracking down its source. In the hopes that it will save some of you a bit of time, I thought I'd pass on the results of this minor diversion:
Koi UFO Video 127 - IsaacKoi
As I discuss at the link above (with supporting links and evidence), the various copies of this video can easily be traced back to an original upload to Youtube on 6 July 2016 by Canadian visual effects artists Aristomenis Tsirbas ("Meni Tsirbas") of MeniThings Productions. Meni Tsirbas has been a digital artist on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, various movies (including Hellboy and Titanic) and other projects.
This is not his first excursion into the field of ufology. Meni was responsible for direction, animation and lighting of another well-known UFO hoax (see "UFO over Santa Clarita" on the page Koi UFO Video 080).
He admitted that hoax and posted a video effects breakdown of it years ago and is well known as the creator of viral/hoax videos.
His other uploads to the same Youtube account include an amusing viral video of a flying car.
I find it somewhat bemusing that many people appear to have spent 5 minutes watching the video and posting about it on various forums but not bothered spending 1 minute looking into the uploader of the video, which would have easily revealed these facts.
I'm regularly bemused by the conduct of some people in ufology... So many things within online discussions regarding "UFOs" are the basis of speculation when a little bit of work would reveal the relevant facts. This applies to government documents in various archives as much as it does to "UFO" videos on Youtube.
One copy of the video on Youtube has approximately 0.5 million views after just a few weeks online. Whitley Strieber (author of the book "Communion") wrote an article about this video on 21 August 2016 entitled "Profound Wisdom from an 'Alien Video' by Whitley Strieber" which stated "The material presented in this video is consistent with what I have learned in my close encounter experience over the past 30 years".
(Most of the videos have titles referring to an "alien interview", even though the being in the video actually says that it is an "evolutionary descendant" of humans, from our future).
Since this video is popping up all over the place, I spent a few minutes tracking down its source. In the hopes that it will save some of you a bit of time, I thought I'd pass on the results of this minor diversion:
Koi UFO Video 127 - IsaacKoi
As I discuss at the link above (with supporting links and evidence), the various copies of this video can easily be traced back to an original upload to Youtube on 6 July 2016 by Canadian visual effects artists Aristomenis Tsirbas ("Meni Tsirbas") of MeniThings Productions. Meni Tsirbas has been a digital artist on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, various movies (including Hellboy and Titanic) and other projects.
This is not his first excursion into the field of ufology. Meni was responsible for direction, animation and lighting of another well-known UFO hoax (see "UFO over Santa Clarita" on the page Koi UFO Video 080).
He admitted that hoax and posted a video effects breakdown of it years ago and is well known as the creator of viral/hoax videos.
His other uploads to the same Youtube account include an amusing viral video of a flying car.
I find it somewhat bemusing that many people appear to have spent 5 minutes watching the video and posting about it on various forums but not bothered spending 1 minute looking into the uploader of the video, which would have easily revealed these facts.
I'm regularly bemused by the conduct of some people in ufology... So many things within online discussions regarding "UFOs" are the basis of speculation when a little bit of work would reveal the relevant facts. This applies to government documents in various archives as much as it does to "UFO" videos on Youtube.