10 Most Infamous UFO and Alien Hoaxes

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00:00He got word of some mummies in Peru that didn't look human.

00:03This is Unveiled, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 UFO and alien hoaxes.

00:09I just don't believe them, no.

00:11But their best evidence was less than convincing.

00:13And who knows, maybe one day someone will shoot a video of an actual alien coming down,

00:18in which case hopefully it'll be better than the ones we're seeing now.

00:21For this list, we'll be looking at infamous alien or UFO encounters that have since been

00:25thoroughly, if disappointingly, debunked.

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00:3810.

00:39Crop Circles

00:40A term coined in the 1980s, crop circles were long held as proof of aliens visiting our planet.

00:46There are theories of extraterrestrial visitation, there are lots of theories about

00:52aquifers, these underground water systems that carry forces of energy,

00:58there are theories of portals to other dimensions within the Earth.

01:03These geometric patterns appear in large fields with no apparent trace of where they came from.

01:08Or at least they did, until the hoaxers came out to take credit for their handiwork.

01:12In 1991, Doug Bauer and Dave Chorley admitted to having created many of these crop circles

01:18using simple tools, just rope, a plank, and a baseball cap with a loop of wire.

01:23We wanted to make the UFO society think that a UFO had landed, you see.

01:27And after a few years, they didn't know whether to believe it or not.

01:32Since then, crop circles have come to be considered more of a fringe form of art

01:35than any type of message from the heavens.

01:37So the idea is that perhaps some of these crop circles indeed are messages from elsewhere.

01:46And elsewhere, in my opinion, means of extraterrestrial origin.

01:51They may look cool from above, but they're made right here on Earth.

01:56Number 9. The London Mothership and Fleet

01:59In June of 2011, video footage was released showing bright objects flying over London.

02:05As usual, some believers were quick to jump on the bandwagon and claim these to be genuine UFOs.

02:10Why? Well, because it's on the internet, we guess.

02:14However, the footage isn't dated and was uploaded anonymously.

02:18Furthermore, as experts have pointed out, the blobs or crafts are so small and blurry

02:24that they'd be incredibly easy to fake even with rudimentary knowledge of VFX.

02:29There's no additional footage of them, either.

02:42Number 8. Jerusalem Lights

02:442011 sure was a good year for dubious UFO sightings.

02:48In February, video footage of a purported UFO over Jerusalem went viral.

02:53Much like our previous entry, there's not much in the way of detail.

02:57The dot of light could easily be faked with computer software.

03:00According to a report from the HuffPost, one clear sign that the video is, in fact,

03:04a hoax is that nothing else is moving during the entire video.

03:08It's theorised that it was actually made using a still photo with animation drawn on top of it.

03:14The Bad UFOs blog also analysed the video and highlighted several elements, giving it away.

03:20Number 7. UFOs over India

03:23In 2016, this viral photo caused a stir on social media.

03:27The image seemingly depicted a giant flying saucer hovering over the state of Uttar Pradesh

03:32in northern India. The photo had been uploaded by a mobile device and, well,

03:36that's really all we know about the source. Given that there was no other sightings of a

03:40massive craft in the air, local authorities did their best to put people's worries at ease.

03:45We're not sure what makes this less credible, the fact that it looks just like a scene from

03:49Independence Day, or that no one else seemed to recall seeing something that giant floating in the sky.

04:00Number 6. The Chile Video

04:02In 2010, an apparent UFO was caught on camera at a US Air Force base in Chile. It was reportedly

04:09only seen on camera after the videographer slowed the footage down and noticed it later. However,

04:14when you watch the playback, it's nothing more than a handful of black dots that seem to appear

04:19at random. The clarity of the images is really poor, even by the low standards of UFO sightings.

04:24Furthermore, no eyewitnesses reported seeing anything other than the actual planes flying

04:29in the air. Under scrutiny, the footage in the video has been dismissed as likely being

04:33little more than minor defects in the video, or even bugs in the foreground.

04:38Number 5. Aliens Invade Haiti

04:42Is this video legit?

04:47Nope, but at least it's more creative than most. In 2007, videos of several UFOs floating over

04:53Haiti began to appear. Many thought that these were some of the best videos of UFOs ever seen.

04:59Was this the proof that we'd been looking for? Sadly, no. As it turns out, the footage was

05:05created as part of some test video for a feature film the original poster had been working on.

05:11This was later backed up by film producer George Berman, who worked with the artist who had

05:16created the videos. It was just a case of Hollywood special effects accidentally tricking the public.

05:22It took him about 17 hours to make the videos and they are 100% fake.

05:27Number 4. Mexico's Mold Earth

05:30In 2017, Mexican journalist and ufologist Jaime Maussan announced the discovery in

05:35Peru of alien mummies. Pretty exciting, right? Well, don't celebrate just yet.

05:40Maussan's first images looked incredibly contrived, to say the least. However,

05:46he participated in a documentary, Unearthing Nazca, that revealed a more realistic example,

05:52found by some guy named Mario, apparently.

06:01Sadly, based on x-rays, experts suspect that this is an actual Peruvian mummy who'd been

06:06butchered to superficially resemble an extraterrestrial. Maussan has made such

06:11false claims before, presenting a photographic slide of a supposedly alien mummy that turned

06:16out to be a child in 2015. He's involved with a website, Gaia.com, that charges a subscription

06:23fee for access to content, including about his latest mummy.

06:28Number 3. Dead alien in Russia

06:31You decide to go for a stroll through the snowy landscape of eastern Siberia.

06:35Suddenly, just below a tree trunk, you find something unusual.

06:42With camera in hand, you take a closer look and are surprised to find what looks like an

06:47alien body curled up on the ground. This is the surreal experience that two Russian men had in

06:532011, or so they wanted people to believe. After racking up millions of views on YouTube, the

06:58video began receiving more scrutiny. It's an impressive-looking hoax, made from what looks

07:02like gelatin and raw chicken or some other meat. But who breaks out into laughter when they think

07:08they've just found an alien? Number 2. English spaceship landings

07:12We have to give props to these students. They really went out of their way to test how people

07:17would react to UFOs. In September of 1967, a series of humming metallic saucers were found

07:24in the Isle of Sheppey off the coast of England. They were so convincing that local authorities

07:29got involved. Police were reportedly fearful, but blew one up and drilled inside another.

07:34Soon after, their true origin came out. Apprentices at Farnborough's Royal Aircraft

07:39Establishment had created and distributed the objects to see how law enforcement would react.

07:45It garnered far more attention than they'd expected, but in the end, their experiment

07:49was a success. Number 1. Alien autopsy film

07:53Ray Santilli took out a tape, he popped it into a machine, and my mouth dropped open.

08:01In 1995, Fox Television aired a special entitled Alien Autopsy, Factor Fiction. Hosted by Jonathan

08:09Frakes of Star Trek The Next Generation fame, it was allegedly a real video of an alien from

08:14Roswell being autopsied. Watched by millions of viewers, the black and white footage became a hot

08:20topic in the UFO community. However, in 2006, the filmmaker, Ray Santilli, admitted that the video

08:28was fake. However, he claimed it was a recreation of actual footage of an alien autopsy that had

08:34become unusable. Of course, the original footage has never been seen nor verified by any credible

08:40source. What do you think? Is there anything we missed? Let us know in the comments, check out

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