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1.I learnt how to find fake  news
2.how to find out facts from opinions
3.to trust facts

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- Do not believe everything you see online

- Believe more in facts than opinion

- Facts are more reliable than opinions

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1.Always trust more facts than opinions.

2.Verify facts and opinions before you trust them.

3.Look for telltale signs that any certain news is fake.

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if there are like info like numbers, dates it should be a fact but if you are not sure, you can do your research

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1) I have learnt how to differentiate facts and opinions

2) I have learnt how to verify facts by checking other sources

3) I have learnt that facts deserve more trust than opinions

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1. Look for facts, not opinions. Trust the facts more.
2. Combine the opinions with other opinions.
3. Compare the facts with the combined opinions and see which one feels correct.

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1. facts are true
2. opinions may not be true
3. find what makes it facts and opinions

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1.Verify facts from opinions.
2.Compare opinions.
3.How to differ facts from opinions.

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1.How to spot fake videos, pictures and articles

2.Trust facts more than opinions

3.How to get more opinions to get the full picture rather than trust 1 opinion

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1. Compare different opinions
2. Look for research, data and numbers
3. Look out for keywords in opinions

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Trust facts more than opinions and when you encounter opinions get more opinions to get the full picture of whats happening.

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1.learnt what are opinions and facts 2.check if the source are reliable.3.do not believe anything you see.

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Always believe more in facts than opinions.

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1. Do not believe everything you see
2. Separating facts from opinions
3. How to identify facts and opinions (keywords to identify facts and opinions)

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1. To differ from facts and opinions
2.How to locate the source the right way.
3.Look out for clues to find out the fact or opinion

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About 3 years ago, my grandparents and my parents fell for a fake car crash in a country, the video claimed to say that a car overun 4 people to ladys some how after getting runover ,managed to escape and not a bad injury at all, sadly the two other men did not manage to escape after a what seemed to be 10 minutes, my family concluded it was a fake piece of news

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My mother fell for a scam call and lost all of her money in her bank account

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My friends dad got a call saying: "Hi , I am from the bank. You are almost bankrupt. Please send money over to us. Can you give me your username and password?" My friends father believed the scammer and became bankrupt.

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1)Trust facts
2) Opinions are someone's thoughts on something
3) Facts are reviewed by actual experts and has true data.

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If you're unsure what to belive find the main source.

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I suggest my father to see if the seller is reliable and Check with the source

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Always trust more facts than opinions. Verify facts before you trust them .

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Verify facts from opinions.

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The internet is usually trying to trick you. Don't trust it

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Do not believe everything you see

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My 2nd sister thought that it was possible to walk on water when she saw a 'professional article' about it

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Always find the true facts, not the fake facts and opinions

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My friend thought it was only 2 people building the underground buildings. But they had more help behind the scenes that was cut out of the video.

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My friends mom got a call saying:
hello it's me your childhood friend! My company is bankrupt please send me 1K to save me! And my friend's mom believed it.

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do not read anything that you think is fake

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Separate opinions from facts and trust facts more.

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Do not believe everything you see online, verify facts from different sources before you believe the piece of news

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my mother bought 4 Boxes of wet wipes but recieved 2

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My sister got scammed from her friend and lost $100

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my father tried to buy something on Instagram and got scammed

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No one close to me fell into fake news.

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My father fell for a scam call and lost all the money in his credit card

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I have not encountered ever. Not once my family members fell for a scam.

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My brother fell for a YouTube video and keeps thinking that the fake news are true

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My grandfather fell for a scam call when he was on holiday and lost some money

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Do not listen to opinions

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Michelle Yeoh winning Oscars 2023
Opinion 1: Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar win hailed by Hong Kong film producer who helped launch her career
Opinion 2: Michelle Yeoh makes history at this year's Oscars

Opinion 3: She is too old to be given the award

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Facts: Albert Einstein is a German born physicist.

Opinion 1: People thinks that he is a mad scientist.

Opinion 2: He was a bad student in school.

Opinion 3: He invented the atomic bomb.

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Because UFO's aren't real.

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Friends and colleagues have urged me to write something about UFOs, because the topic is hot again and I'm sort of the space alien reporter on staff. This refers not to where I'm from, but to the kind of stuff I used to write about. I wrote a book (" Captured by Aliens," 1999) that was primarily about the scientific search for extraterrestrial life and included a long section on UFO mythology. I've been to Roswell. I wrote about the mass suicide of the 39 Heaven's Gate cultists who thought they would be transported to a spaceship trailing comet Hale-Bopp. I've interviewed people who think their bodies have become inhabited by aliens from the Pleiades.

But I'm wary of returning to that strange universe, because anything I write is guaranteed to be unsatisfying for everyone involved. My strong suspicion is that the number of UFO sightings that involve actual alien beings, from deep space, with the tentacles and the antennae and so on, is zero. I would put the likelihood at 0.0000 and then add some more zeros, before eventually, begrudgingly - because I'm so intellectually flexible - putting in a little 1 out there somewhere to the right, a lonely sentinel, because who knows? (Yes, I'm saying there's a chance.)

This skeptical take, however,is the boring take. A better story would be that, after all these decades as a skeptic, I've converted, because the recent rash of UFO sightings has persuaded me that these are, in actual fact, spaceships from somewhere else in the universe, or perhaps from the future, and could even be future humans, such as grad students getting their PhDs in paleoanthropology. Much better story.

Science journalists regularly disappoint people by refusing to confirm really cool things like UFOs, past-life recall, astral projection, telekinesis, clairvoyance and so on. When I wrote my aliens book I made a disastrous marketing mistake by not including any aliens in the story, focusing instead on people who believe in aliens. Thus it was a major disappointment for readers who bought a copy after finding it in the "Occult" section at Barnes & Noble.

Over the years I havefound less joy in telling the believers that what they believe is not true. It gets old, always telling people to stop reading the horoscope. We all rely on our beliefs to get through the day. They are our handrails on a shaky planet. People don't need someone with a fanatical desire to be correct to come along and pry their fingers loose.

Make no mistake: I want to be the reporter who goes out on a limb and breaks the space aliens story. I want my name on a front-page story with a 72-point headline saying THEY'RE HERE. That would be a great, career-making story. But the aliens never deliver. It doesn't matter how many front-page stories there are about UFO sightings, or that the Pentagon acknowledged it had an in-house UFO-probing office, or that some government officials think UFOs might be aliens. None of that means they're here.

There are practical, mechanical reasons for being reluctant to engage on this. To do any kind of UFO story requires a descent into the rabbit hole of ufology, and that hole is bottomless. And this isn't the kind of story where you can do a lot of fieldwork. Earlier this year, in an appearance with late-night host James Corden, former president Barack Obama spoke about videos of UFOs shot by Navy pilots: "[T]here is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don't know exactly what they are." But Obama could have gone further: We don't know where they are.

The classic UFO narrative - the interesting conjecture, the one with extraterrestrial beings in it - involves a ziggurat of unknowns and unknowables. We're talking about elusive spacecraft piloted by unknown beings, of unknown biology, using unknown technologies. Whose motives are unknown. And who come from ... somewhere. And who right now are ... hiding? Watching us? Their location cannot be discerned because they have special cloaking technologies. But which mercifully are not perfect, thus allowing military pilots to see them, sometimes, and even capture them on poor-quality videos.

The lack of resolution to the UFO debate appears to be built into the inquiry. The subject is interesting only to the extent that the phenomena under scrutiny remain mysterious - and therefore outside the normal boundaries of logic, journalism and science.

Let's review the UFO renaissance for those of you who have been paying attention to other, purely terrestrial stuff, like the pandemic. On June 25, the U.S. national intelligence community released a long-awaited report on UFOs. The report by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force followed a series of prominent articles in recent years about videos taken by Navy pilots showing mysterious objects, some of which appeared to be moving at astonishing speeds and with motion unlike any known terrestrial aircraft.

Interest in UFOs had beenboosted further by the revelation that in 2007, at the behest of several U.S. senators, the Pentagoncreated a secret office dedicated to studying such enigmatic reports. It was called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, and, after it was disbanded, its existence was disclosed by the New York Times in 2017. The fact that the government was secretly studying something previously considered pseudoscience helped rehabilitate the image of UFOs. (The Pentagon had decided that unidentified flying objects should be rebranded as UAPs: unidentified aerial phenomena.)

Prominent figures in and out of government added further credibility. Former CIA director John Brennan, for example, said last year that the sightings could be "some type of phenomenon that is the result of something that we don't yet understand and that could involve some type of activity that some might say constitutes a different form of life."

The U.S. intelligence investigation looked at 144 reports involving UAPs. It solved only one of them: "With the exception of the one instance where we determined with high confidence that the reported UAP was airborne clutter, specifically a deflating balloon, we currently lack sufficient information in our dataset to attribute incidents to specific explanations," the report said.

Instead, it offered five distinct categories of explanations: "airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, [U.S. government] or industry developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, and a catchall 'other' bin." But despite the inconclusive nature of the report, it received robust news coverage and much attention on social media. From the New York Times: "U.S. Has No Explanation for Unidentified Objects and Stops Short of Ruling Out Aliens." From Reuters: "Watershed U.S. UFO report does not rule out extraterrestrial origin."

The report was greeted as something of a triumph by people who are active in UFO research. "The UFO Report is out. The implications are profound. UFOs, as we have known for a long time, are real, defy conventional explanation, and until more is learned, pose a serious potential threat to U.S. national security," wrote Christopher Mellon, a former Defense Department official who had pushed for the disclosure of UFO sightings. He added, "But don't just take my word for it," and linked to the U.S. government report.

What UFO proponents have long wanted is for the government, the media and the scientific establishment to take the subject seriously. The intelligence report does that. It says that some of the reports appear to involve real objects, because they were observed by multiple instruments or witnesses. There's something there; it's not imaginary. So, yeah: Unidentified flying objects do exist!

This UFO moment is strikingly reminiscent of how the UFO mythology began in 1947. On June 24 of that year, a pilot named Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine mysterious objects traveling near Mount Rainier at high speed. Arnold said the objects "flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water," and the media took it from there, inventing the concept of "flying saucers." Soon the whole nation was quite obsessed. Not long afterward, a balloon-borne military surveillance instrument crashed on a ranch near Roswell, N.M., and even though it looked nothing like a flying saucer or, for that matter, anything remotely extraterrestrial, the debris somehow spontaneously generated a series of increasingly dramatic narratives, culminating in a sturdy hoax about recovered alien bodies and reverse-engineered alien aerospace technology.

In those early days of ufology, the classic story involved something in the skies seen by pilots or ordinary citizens. Mysterious lights. Scientists would weigh in and say this was due to some kind of perceptual error. People were fooled by Venus, by the moon, by "swamp gas." Intensive investigation by government experts and the Pentagon failed to find any evidence of alien spacecraft.

Then the mythology took an interesting turn: People started getting abducted by aliens. It happened in their sleep. Science fiction writer Whitley Streiber wrote a book, " Communion," that claimed that such an abduction happened to him. Then a Harvard professor, John Mack, wrote a book saying that the reason people believed they were being abducted by aliens is that they were, in fact, being abducted by aliens. They came from ... another dimension?

That mythology ran its course, maybe after being so thoroughly narrativized by "The X-Files." Now we've come full circle: Pilots are once again seeing things they can't understand. The difference is this time there are videos.

The "republic of science" is engaged in the study of "observable natural phenomena." I have lifted both phrases from Richard Rhodes's monumental book " The Making of the Atomic Bomb." This is why science and science journalism are not well equipped to fact-check religious beliefs. Religions typically involve events that are neither natural nor necessarily observable on demand. And that is where science runs into trouble with UFO reports. The videos and photos are ambiguous to say the least. Eyewitness reports, even from credible witnesses, are not the same as having a piece of an alien spaceship to scrutinize or, better yet, some alien DNA.

The republic of science has some cultural norms and ground rules. One of them is openness. That means you have to show your data. Also, scientists have to be honest. They are allowed to be wrong, but they can't be liars. There's a great deal of trust that's built into the scientific enterprise.

And so, scientists (and science reporters) tend to be wary of conspiracy theories, which have secrecy as their essential, defining feature. Most UFO narratives are conspiracy theories of sorts. They posit not only the existence of extraterrestrial visitors, but also a conspiracy of silence, obfuscation and intimidation of witnesses by the government, or maybe the news media, private corporations, the globalists, etc. Or even by the aliens who are secretly running everything.

Science is often mistaken for a list of things we know. It is really just a system, a set of techniques and principles for investigating the world. It's extremely successful as a method of interrogating the natural world. It revealed, among other things, that the universe is imponderably vast and marvelous.

Unfortunately, this system, although able to penetrate the cosmic darkness, is less useful for detecting things conjectured to be in some manner cloaked, or able to duck into a different dimension or parallel universe. Maybe the aliens traverse the universe in wormholes that are invisible to us. But how would you know?

The UAPs may turn out to have prosaic explanations. In fact the intelligence report mentions many of them. Consider the first two of the five explanatory categories:

"Airborne Clutter: These objects include birds, balloons, recreational unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or airborne debris like plastic bags that muddle a scene and affect an operator's ability to identify true targets, such as enemy aircraft."

"Natural Atmospheric Phenomena: Natural atmospheric phenomena includes ice crystals, moisture, and thermal fluctuations that may register on some infrared and radar systems."

Let us all agree that plastic bags, birds, ice crystals, moisture and thermal fluctuations are not exciting explanations for mysterious observations. What's exciting is alien spacecraft. Which is why the Times, in covering the intelligence report, wrote, "There was no affirmative evidence that the unexplained phenomena are alien spacecraft in the report. But because the government has offered no explanation for so many of the episodes, the new report is sure to fuel the enthusiasm of those who believe they could be."

This is true, but it should be noted that the intelligence report does not actually mention "alien spacecraft" or anything of the sort. Not only did it not produce "affirmative evidence" of such extraterrestrial vehicles, it did not broach the topic.

The allusions to space aliens in the news reports were not entirely out of the blue. Officials gave background interviews to journalists. Reuters quoted an unnamed "senior official" saying, "Of the 144 reports we are dealing with here, we have no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation for them - but we will go wherever the data takes us." Make of that what you will.

The presence of aliens in these stories is understandable: It's a possibility that is far more interesting than the sightings being caused by, for example, classified military aircraft. The headlines did not say "Pentagon Report Does Not Rule Out Classified Military Aircraft," although that would have been more accurate since such things were actually mentioned in the report.

The intelligence report notes that a small subset of the UAPs "exhibit unusual flight characteristics," and UFO proponents say these vehicles move in ways that defy the laws of physics. To my eye this suggests a prosaic explanation, which is misperception, instrument malfunction, etc. The contrary cannot be ruled out, however: We cannot arrogate to ourselves the assumption that the known laws of physics are incontrovertible or comprehensive. But I am reluctant to write about physics-defying objects because I am busy enough covering stories involving things that obey the laws of physics. I do not think this makes the scope of my journalism too narrow.

Others are more open-minded. Among them is Luis Elizondo, a former Pentagon employee involved in UFO research. Recently he gave a live-streamed interview to The Washington Post: "This may not necessarily be something from outer space. In fact, this could be something as natural to our very own planet as us. We're just now at a point we're beginning to technologically be able to interact and collect data. This could be something from under the oceans. This could be something from, yes, from outer space. We really don't know."

He offered a brief tutorial on the history of physics: "[S]omeone once described it as you have this box sitting on the ground, and in walks a dog, and all of a sudden two cats walk out. And as crazy as that may seem, that's precisely what we're seeing in these observations with quantum physics, proverbially speaking of course."

What this view does is create a kind of epistemological can't-miss landscape in which anything is possible. Because of the quantum thing. But if anything is possible, then nothing is disprovable. And if it ain't disprovable, it's arguably at the very outer limits of what science can deal with. Other than to say that a dog walking into a box and coming out as two cats is unlikely.

The alien explanation for UFOs requires a massive infrastructure of presumptions, not least of which is that the aliens, whatever their motivation, have found a way to get here. Deep space is deceptive, because it is generally transparent and we see things that are incredibly distant. The nearest star is about 25 trillion miles away, and although this sounds like hyperbole, it is, in fact, the correct number. So to do space travel you really need warp drive. And there is no such thing as warp drive.

Okay, now there is no such thing, but as we get better and smarter, we might figure it out, and the aliens who are billions of years older than us may have solved warp drive long ago. This is speculation, though. It's not based on anything at all. It's what scientists refer to as arm-waving.

You know the dictum that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." This is a gatekeeper rule of sorts: Your belief is welcome into the community of science provided it is backed by evidence, and provided that the evidence is solid and commensurate with the novelty of the claim.

Most amazing, stunning, mind-boggling new concepts are wrong. The bolder the idea, the more likely it will evaporate in the harsh glare of scientific sunshine. Like cold fusion. That doesn't mean bold new ideas are always wrong. Einstein's theory of relativity was a bold new idea that was not universally embraced for many years, indeed not until astronomers went to tremendous lengths to measure the displacement of starlight as it passed near the sun during a total eclipse. That was the extraordinary evidence. And a century later, scientists are still prodding the theory to see if there are any soft parts.

The unhappy reader thinks: This guy is refusing to think outside the box. And that's a fair criticism. Science writers tend to linger in the box, and that can lead them to miss important developments. The pandemic comes to mind.

We wrote a story in The Post on Feb. 22, 2020, saying this thing was probably going to be a pandemic. That was fairly early in the crisis, and sobering news. But the pandemic turned out to be much worse, more lethal, more protracted and certainly more disruptive than anything we imagined in those early weeks. None of us had lived through a pandemic of this magnitude (the 2009 influenza pandemic kind of fizzled). We didn't see the scale of the disaster in advance because we had no template for it. Maybe that was a moment when some outside-the-box thinking could have helped.

Indeed, some intellectual humility must come into play in these debates about UFOs and other contentious topics. One of the first things you discover in science journalism is that the best scientists tend to be transparent about their uncertainties. This is partly because much research is conducted on the edge of the known, in fuzzy territory. But it's also because scientists tend to view knowledge as provisional.

While covering the pandemic over the past year and a half, the statement I've heard most from scientists is "We don't know." When will the pandemic be over? "We don't know." Why do some people get really sick or even die after a coronavirus infection and others don't even get the sniffles? "We don't know." Where did the virus come from, exactly? "We don't know." This is not a failure of science; it's what makes science so effective. The good scientists don't start with the conclusion.

One thing I discovered while reporting my book is that people who believe in ideas that I found extremely improbable were not crazy or uneducated. Nor uninformed. They did research too. They just processed information differently. They had different sources of information. They used different factors and probability estimates in their mental equations as they searched for answers. So their answers were different from mine. They could be right. I could be wrong. (But I'm right.)

Inside-the-box thinking has some considerable virtues, though. The biggest problem facing the United States in the summer of 2021 is not that too many people refuse to think outside the box, but that too many people think that what's in the box isn't true. We need more people thinking inside the box. Science is a candle in the dark, to use a phrase Carl Sagan chose for a book he wrote shortly before his untimely death in 1996. There are millions of Americans who have been lied to about the pandemic, lied to about the vaccines, lied to about the motivations and credibility of the nation's scientists and the mainstream media. So they think they shouldn't get vaccinated. They subscribe to outside-the-box claims that are outside the box for precisely one reason: The claims are not true. Please, people: Get in the box!

UFO skepticism can sometimes be mistaken for anthropocentrism, a kind of biological arrogance. The issue of whether a UFO sighting involves an actual alien spaceship can turn, with head-snapping speed, into a philosophical debate, with an accusation at its core. The believer says to the skeptic, "So you think in all the universe, among billions and billions of galaxies, each with billions and billions of stars and untold numbers of planets, we humans are the only form of intelligent life?"

An adjunct to this is the assertion that, among intelligent beings in the universe, humans are likely relatively primitive, since we've only been around for, what, 100,000 years or so, and the Old Ones out there may be billions of years ahead of us.

It would actually be reassuring, at a deep existential level, to know that interstellar space travel is possible. That it's something we might do someday. Alien visitors by their mere existence would imply that we can overcome our worst instincts (war, hatred, pollution, Twitter) and survive. It would be nice to know that the kind of intelligence humans possess, and which gives rise to technological civilizations like ours, won't always backfire, that it's not only a nifty evolutionary adaptation in the short run but something that's durable. The aliens give us hope. In fact, in many UFO narratives that's why they're here, to help us along and save us from ourselves. They're a little bit like angels.

What's more anthropocentric is to assume that human beings are so fascinating that aliens want to visit us and study us. The aliens seem a bit obsessed with us. These are not tourist trips. Some UFO narratives imagine that we have something the aliens are missing. Like: feelings. When you're doomed to life as an intelligent reptilian from Rigel you will go a long way to get some warm-and-fuzzy human DNA.

Another common theme is that we humans were, in fact, engineered by the aliens. We are their prized creation. In this scenario, we're not just a highly successful (so far) species of primate. We're super special! That's straight out of the Book of Genesis.

Question: Why would the human-obsessed aliens come all this way in big, hulking, too-easily-spotted spaceships to monitor us when they could surely do it remotely or through miniature probes? If we learned nothing else during this pandemic, it's that you can still do your job from home.

Let's cut to the key question: Are we alone? The plaintive tone of that question tells you how much we want the answer to be "no." Unfortunately, there's only one solid, incontrovertible answer: "We don't know." No one knows. It is among the biggest unknowns in science. If anyone knows what the answer is, whether positive or negative, please email me at The Post because that's a great story.

A couple of decades ago I posed the "are we alone" question to Stephen Jay Gould, the Harvard paleontologist and prodigious author of popular science books. Gould had long thought through the question of the evolution of the human species in the grand context of life on Earth over the course of 4 billion years. Gould argued quite vociferously that if we were to start the whole biosphere over again from scratch, with primitive forms, and rerun the process, the likelihood of human beings appearing again would be infinitesimal. The real question, though, is not whether humans would arise a second time if we started from scratch, but whether an intelligent species would.

The Drake Equation is the handy tool for thinking through the probabilities. Developed by astronomer Frank Drake in the early years of radio astronomy, it provides an estimate of the number of extraterrestrial civilizations that are communicative. That is, if we turn an instrument, such as a radio receiver, toward deep space, how likely is it that we will get a signal? The smart thing about the Drake Equation is that it doesn't pretend to provide an answer, because many of the factors aren't known. We don't know the likelihood of life appearing on a planet, or the likelihood that it will evolve into intelligent, communicative life-forms that manage to stick around a long time.

Back to Gould: When I asked him about intelligent life beyond Earth, he answered, "No data." This was true then, and remains true today, with the caveat that astronomers have discovered that planets are common, and many appear to be small, rocky, Earthlike planets. The abundance of plausible habitats for life boosts the odds that life is common, and therefore has plenty of opportunities to achieve - through the trial-and-error of natural selection - complexity and perhaps intelligence.

My assumption is that intelligent life is out there. What happened on Earth probably has happened, or will happen, on other worlds, perhaps frequently. But this is just a hunch. It's not a belief. And it's certainly no evidence that those UAPs floating around are aliens.

I believe in a bunch of other stuff, though. I believe in the usefulness of science. I believe in footnotes. I believe in peer review. I believe in the value of expertise.

I also believe that holding views that are provisional and potentially subject to change is not a sign of intellectual weakness but rather one of intellectual modesty. And I believe the future will surprise us. There could come a day when we make contact with the Old Ones.

But in the meantime, UFOs are a distraction. We have pressing concerns that merit our full attention. Viruses. Humans. The biosphere. Terrestrial life. And let's never assume someone from space is going to save us.
Joel Achenbach is a science writer on The Washington Post's national desk and has covered the pandemic since January 2020.

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Interesting. Frustrating. Potentially even "credible."

But nothing that science can work on in its current form.

That was how physicists and astronomers interviewed by The Hill described recent allegations that the U.S. government has been hiding evidence of multiple alien crash sites.

To take those claims beyond buzzy conjecture, the country needs a plan to acquire more hard data, scientists said.

On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee will hold controversial hearings about "unidentified aerial phenomena," or UAP.

Those hearings will focus on eyewitness accounts by U.S. military pilots of what have appeared to be strange craft moving in ways that known human technology cannot, and on the broader claims of a cover-up made by former Air Force and intelligence official David Grusch.

The hearings are part of a broader - and unusually bipartisan - congressional mainstreaming of a long-taboo question: Has the U.S. military made contact with craft or creatures from another world?

In July, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced legislation that would require the Pentagon to release any information it has gathered around contact with "non-human intelligences," among other UAP.

But as an old scientific saying goes, the plural of anecdote isn't data - and scientists told The Hill that the trouble with all these claims by Grusch and others isn't that they're impossible.

It's that while they are compelling, they give the scientific apparatus almost nothing to work with.

In June, Grusch told NewsNation that as an official with the Defense Department's National Reconnaissance Office looking into UAP, he became aware of a secret "crash retrieval" program to which he was denied access.

"These are retrieving nonhuman-origin technical vehicles, you know - call it spacecraft, if you will - nonhuman, exotic-origin vehicles that have either landed or crashed," Grusch said.

Beyond his own status as a decorated veteran and former intelligence officer, Grusch was unable to provide any hard evidence for his claims - though he says he was shown classified documents, he has not released them.

But he said the Pentagon has up to a dozen alien spacecraft - complete with the bodies of pilots.

When Grusch's interview first aired, one prominent astronomer described his immediate response as "frustration."

"It's so exciting, but it's another example of personal testimony, and nothing beyond that," said David Kipping, an astrophysicist at Columbia University who specializes in the search for life on worlds around other stars.

Congress is right to be intrigued, Kipping said. Grusch's claims are built on years of leaked Pentagon videos and eyewitness accounts of what appear to be aircraft behaving in bizarre and even otherworldly ways.

These have attracted attention at the highest levels of Congress and the Defense Department for decades: In 2017, the New York Times released evidence of a secret Pentagon UFO-spotting program begun at the behest of onetime Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada.), and in 2020, the Pentagon itself released three grainy videos of UAP.

These are part of a larger investigation within the military, which included an unclassified 2021 report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

"In a limited number of incidents, UAP reportedly appeared to exhibit unusual flight characteristics," officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence wrote in that report - though they emphasized that natural explanations existed.

And a 2023 follow-up to that report identified more than 170 instances worthy of further study - including some which "appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities."

All that, Kipping said, suggests that "something strange is going on."

As a member of that internal UAP task force, Grusch is "a credible source," Kipping added.

"There's no reason to believe [he] is lying or disingenuous."

But after 70 years of UFO culture wars, conspiracy theories and cynicism, "it is not enough to move the needle to have another anecdotal account," Kipping said.

The questions Americans should ask about allegations of possible alien contact are the same ones they should ask of any new and dramatic claims, said Melissa Finucane, a sociologist at the RAND Corporation and vice president of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

"The first question I asked myself is: What is the motivation of the communicator sharing this information? Why are they sharing it? Do they have training or expertise? Could they have a bias?"

"And who benefits if we don't apply a rigorous, systematic scientific approach to the claims?"

Finucane said other important questions about new claims are whether they're "transparent" - arising from a public data set that scientists can double-check - and whether they stem from sufficiently "independent" sources to rule out the risk of cross-contamination - or collusion - which could make claims less credible.

On almost every front except, possibly, the question of personal credibility, Grusch's and the Pentagon's accounts offer the same scientific problems inherent to anecdotes or isolated reports, scientists told The Hill.

"There's nothing hard there," said David Spergel, an astrophysicist and the head of NASA's internal advisory team on UAP.

Gruch's claims, Spergel said, offer "no locations, no sites. It's reports of reports."

If the military does have such data, they need to release it, said Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb.

"If there are really objects from beyond earth, they should be shared by all humans. You can turn it into a matter of national security - 'let's have an advantage compared to other nations' - but this is completely inappropriate."

"If you do this, then you are not a true scientist," he said. "You are a politician."

But it's also possible, Loeb conceded, that Grusch is wrong - that he is lying or was himself misled, possibly in an attempt to cover up secret, but very human, weapons programs.

"It's hearsay. It could be fabricated; or it could be that some sections developed special weapons that they don't want us to think the U.S. has."

The broader problem with all eyewitness UAP accounts - even those from the military - is that "we have no idea what the false alarm rate is," said Columbia's Kipping.

Kipping's point is that some amount of mistaken identity is a constant feature of human life, and that when people encounter unexplained phenomena, they tend to slot it into culturally familiar categories.

This, he noted, is why UFO sightings are a largely American phenomenon - in the U.K., where he comes from, people are more likely to think the anomaly they saw was a ghost.

Kipping explained that even in a world without alien visits, pilots will still see unexplained phenomena sometimes - some of which they will report, and some presumably smaller portion of which will remain unexplained.

And without understanding how common the "anomalous phenomena" reported by pilots are, and how often they turn out to truly be unexplainable, we can't really know how significant the Pentagon's leaked videos really are.

If sightings of anomalies that ultimately prove to have other explanations happen "once a century, UAPs are really interesting because the recent sightings are way above baseline," Kipping said.

"But if the number of mistakenly identified UAPs is comparable to the number that we're actually seeing, then we're done - then none of them are likely, legit, and it's probably just a sequence of errors."

The 2021 Pentagon report similarly complains that data from fighter jet cameras and spooked pilots raises questions it cannot provide answers for.

The conclusion that without a comprehensive data set, there's no way to answer the question of how unusual the findings are has groups both public and private debating how to put such records together.

Spergel's group will likely advise NASA to invest in gathering UAP data that is "well-calibrated, verifiable and testable" if it is to have any hope of making sense of the reports, he told The Hill.

Meanwhile, public and private institutions are working on a broad-based new push to get data related to extraterrestrial life - from new monitoring programs to "space archeology" and the U.S.'s own interstellar research mission - that might allow scientists to draw usable conclusions about both UAP and the possible existence of alien life.

Grusch's claims that the government has sufficiently intact spacecraft for federal agencies to have pulled technology - and the remains of pilots - from them is plausible on at least one level, said Kipping, the Columbia astronomer: Intelligent alien life-forms, if they do exist, may have reason to come to Earth.

Kipping said that if he were an extraterrestrial biologist studying Earth, this would be a great time to do so. "We face many existential threats, with problems like nuclear disarmament, climate change, transition to [artificial intelligence] - so there are things about coming now that might make sense."

Looking outward, Kipping added, that's where he would want to check out: civilizations on the precipice and how they transition - or fail.

"If you're going to monitor [our] planet at any time in its entire history, this is the most interesting," he said.

And if aliens did want to study Earth at this "special phase in our development"? They wouldn't have much choice but to send a ship, Kipping said.

In support of this point, he noted that earthbound scientists are trying to send a probe to the nearest solar system - the Breakthrough Starshot initiative - in part to investigate whether an apparently rocky, earthlike planet is in fact as friendly to life as it seems.

As a scientist who looks for alien life in the cosmos himself, Kipping is very aware of the shortfalls of using a telescope to do so. To remotely view the surface of another planet from light-years away would require a telescope "larger than a star" - in which case, he noted, the subjects would be able to detect it reflecting light back at them.
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Interesting. Frustrating. Potentially even "credible." But nothing that science can work on in its current form. That was how physicists and astronomers interviewed by The Hill described recent allegations that the U.S. government has been hiding evidence of multiple alien crash sites. To take those claims beyond buzzy conjecture, the country needs a plan to acquire more...

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Fact: Blackpink's Lisa got offered $81 million dollars to leave Blackpink in December 2023
Opinion 1: Lisa does not deserve to leave
Opinion 2: Everyone is getting upset that Lisa is leaving
Opinion 3: People are posting on social media everywhere

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Opinion 1: She earned the award for herself
Opinion 2: she was too old to be given the award
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It’s Getting Harder to Spot a Deep Fake Video

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Opinion 2: You are a fine height
Opinion 3: You are tinier than short

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Opinion 1: Despite it being a parody video, BLACKPINK fans aren't pleased with the harsh lyrics used in the song.
Opinion 2: It is all done lightheartedly. It’s a parody.”
Opinion 3 :This is clearly a parody video."

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Opinion 1: He was hungry after skipping breakfast
Opinion 2 :Damaging a work of modern art could also be [interpreted as] artwork
Opinion 3 :He came up with the idea to reattach the peel as “a joke”.

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Opinion 2: People think she is too old
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opinion 2. he grew up in China
opinion 3. he is a China business man

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Opinion 1:Michelle Yeoh Dedicates Her Historic Best Actress Win to Moms Everywhere
Opinion 2:Michelle Yeoh Wins Best Actress at Oscars 2023, and Makes History
Opinion 3:Michelle Yeoh becomes first Asian to win Best Actress award

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Opinion 1: She deserved the award.
Opinion 2: Malaysians are proud of her.
Opinion 3: She was too old to be given the award.

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Opinion 2: She is a very good actress.
Opinion3: she has won the award for herself
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Opinion 1: She is an amazing actress so she deserves the award.
Opinion 2: She has done Malaysians proud.
Opinion 3: She is too old to be given the award.

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When it comes to aliens, the truth is out there... just not necessarily on YouTube, TikTok or Facebook.

Both the CIA and the Pentagon have released information on 'unidentified' flying objects, however, so The X-Files enthusiasts can be forgiven for acting a bit smug these days.

SPYSCAPE examines the world's best alien 'hoaxes', searching for signs of intelligence.
‍

1. Dead alien found after UFO sighting in Russia ‍

Two Russian men were out for a walk in 2011 when they came across what appeared to be a frozen corpse in the snowy countryside near Irkutsk, in eastern Siberia. But this wasn't just any old corpse - it was an alien, or was it? Only a month earlier, villagers swore they'd seen bright orange lights in the sky. Could the two incidents be related? Perhaps there had been an extraterrestrial crash? Nyet. More than 12m people viewed the YouTube video and police investigated. It was at this point the men sheepishly confessed: they'd actually made the 'alien' out of breadcrumbs and stuffed it into chicken skin as a practical joke.
‍

2. New Jersey spacecraft stops traffic

A large, threatening spacecraft crept slowly across New Jersey's sky in 2020 and it wasn't long before the Twitter and TikTok videos went viral. The extraterrestrial ship with blue flashing lights slowed traffic on the turnpike - some people even got out of their cars to take a better look. Turns out, a Goodyear blimp was passing over New Jersey at the time, getting an aerial television shot of an NFL game at the MetLife Stadium, just west of New York City. And yes, the blimp came in peace.
‍

3. UFO visits India‍

A 'spaceship' hovering precariously close to buildings in Uttar Pradesh, in northern India, created panic in 2016, with photos of the large object spreading feverishly. The UFO photographer quickly disappeared (beamed up?) and the cell phone number couldn't ever be traced. Despite the mystery, experts decided the UFO was probably created by an app, noting it bore a striking resemblance to a UFO in the movie Independence Day.

4. UFOs terrify Haiti

An eerie, realistic home video captured 'UFOs' soaring over Haiti in2007. A woman can be heard gasping. A dog barks. Surely the video must be real? A second video from the Dominican Republic seemed to provide independent corroboration. The Los Angeles Times decided to track down the videographer and others who immediately re-posted the 'evidence' and got a swift response from barzolff814 - aka Heather, a 17-year-old Irish girl who'd racked up 2.2m YouTube hits (now 20m!): "Umm yeah. Whatever. You people are stupid. Find something better to do with your time. And get a life." The Times finally found the source, a professional animator who'd spent 17 hours creating the UFO videos on his MacBook and didn't want to reveal his name. It seems the animator was just testing his work, thinking he might get a few likes...

5. Six 'spaceships' land in England

Wiltshire in southwest England has always been a draw for the alien conspiracists - it is, after all, the home of the legendary Stonehenge, multiple crop circles and a UFO hotspot since the 17th century. But even the locals were astounded when six UFOs landed in Wiltshire, London and four other locations across England in 1967, bleeping, hissing and triggering a major police and military response. The hoax was conjured up by the engineer apprentices at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (later part of the Ministry of Defense) who scattered them overnight. The pranksters wanted to know if the government had a plan if aliens invaded. The Army responded by blowing up one saucer, dropping another and brushing themselves off when one imploded. Police decided not to take action against the apprentices, with one officer saying authorities were "taking it like gentlemen".
‍

6. Australia's X-Files

Melbourne's Kelly and Andrew Cahill said they were driving in August 1993 when they spotted a weird object in the sky with circular orange lights, but that isn't the shocking part of the story. The couple said they were abducted by tall, skinny aliens with red eyes who burned a triangle into the skin around Kelly's navel. The couple 'awoke' in their car having lost an hour's time. "I felt this blow to my stomach and went flying in the air and I heard my husband say 'Let go of me', and this male voice that said, 'I mean you no harm'," she told journalists. The Cahills' story was such a sensation it was mentioned by agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) on The X-Files. Ms Cahill published a bestselling book, did the rounds of the talk shows, then went quiet. The UFO experts at Phenomena Research Australia (PRA) investigated the claims and compiled a 300-page report. In 2020, 27 years after the 'abduction', PRA said they were considering releasing their findings - just not any time soon.
‍

7. Canada's closest encounter

Canada has big skies and plenty of land so it should be fertile ground for an alien landing. In May, 1967, amateur geologist Stefan Michalak was prospecting in Manitoba when he spotted two glowing objects. One of the silver crafts landed and Michalak said he had a look inside at the blinking lights. The craft took off quickly, knocking him on his back, and an opening appeared in the upper portion of the 35-foot disc that hissed and smelled of sulfur. (Luckily, the craft hovered long enough for Michalak to sketch the spaceship above). The UFO spotter became ill afterwards, displaying signs of a radiation burn. Years later, a twisted piece of metal was recovered from the site, which was radioactive. Was it a hoax, military test or an alien landing? Neither Canadian nor the US military have been able to explain the event. Tour guides swear it was a UFO sighting, however, and include it on their trips. The Royal Canadian Mint has even issued a commemorative silver coin that retails for $129.95. The one-ounce coin comes with a black light that can be shone on the currency to reveal a yellowish blast resembling the one that (supposedly) burned Michalak.
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8. South Korea is a UFO magnet

‍For a small country, South Korea has a lot of extraterrestrial activity. There have been sightings of 'Tic Tac' UFOs (bullet-shaped spacecraft with no wings) and videos showing discs with domed tops hovering over cities and mountain ranges. South Korea's military took UFO reports rather more seriously in 2019, however, when radar detected 'traces of flight by an unidentified object' heading across the frontier from North Korea. Jet fighters were scrambled. Helicopters buzzed over the demilitarized zone separating north and south. Former US president Donald Trump was in the region to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, so the world's media covered the updates in real time. The frenzy ended minutes later with an announcement from the US Joint Chiefs of Staff: the UFO was a flock of about 20 birds.
‍ ‍

9. Mexico's Mulder

There have been so many UFO sightings at Volcán Popocatépetl, Mexico's largest volcano, it has a UFO-spotting camera trained on it 24-7. 'Spaceships' have been seen floating behind it, hovering above, flirting with the flames and even flying directly into its mouth. So it should come as no surprise that UFO-mad Mexico also has its own celebrity UFO-ologist, Jaime Maussan. Maussan visited Peru in 2017, hoping to analyze mummies discovered near the UNESCO World Heritage Nazca Lines (there's speculation aliens created the lines too). At least one of Peru's mummified bodies apparently had an elongated skull and hands with only three fingers, so Maussan teamed up with a TV crew to gather evidence of alien life. Unfortunately, the alien theory was debunked. Snopes, the fact-checking website, pointed out that the website that streamed Maussan's documentary charges just under $100 a year for videos about alien abductions, crop circles and contact with angels.
‍

10. Roswell, New Mexico's flying saucer

‍The Roswell Daily Record newspaper headline was clear: 'RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region'. It was July 8, 1947, and the Roswell UFO was the best evidence so far that aliens existed. At first, the Roswell Army Air Field announced that a flying disk had landed on a ranch in a thunderstorm but then changed the story, calling it a 'weather balloon'. In fact, a rancher may have gathered debris related to a classified US military project to detect atomic bomb tests in the Soviet Union, but that information wasn't immediately released. UFO believers suspected a cover-up. More than 40 years after the crash, an ex-mortician named Glenn Dennis remained adamant that a Roswell Army nurse had walked in on doctors who were bent over three creatures with small frames and huge, bald heads. (Dennis ran Roswell's International UFO Museum at the time.) Roswell now hosts a UFO festival and science fiction 'Galacticon' celebration each July, inviting visitors from around the world to decide for themselves.

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Alien 'Hoaxes' That Went Viral From Roswell's Flying Saucers to Mexican & Australian X-Files

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Explanation

A 1:56-minute video clip purportedly showing a man walking on the water in a swimming pool is widely shared to claim that the video is of a man really walking on the water's surface. The same video clip is circulated with a similar claim on Twitter.

moment a man walked on water.😮😮

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When reverse-searching the keyframes of the viral image it is found that the man in the video is a magician and walking on the water is his trick and not a real incident.

The video is found posted on an Instagram page named Julius Dein on 25, May 2021 with the caption " walking on water cos yolo ". The bio part of his profile reads 'Artist' along with the sentence "riding a magic wave". Magician's hat emoji is also seen in his Instagram bio.

The same video of 3:43-minute length is also found uploaded on his YouTube channel on 25, May 2021 with the caption "Magician walks on water". The video shows Julius Dein walking on water and others swimming under him to portray that there is nothing placed under for him to walk on.

The same video clip is also uploaded on Julius Dein's Youtube channel two weeks back and after which the video went viral. The description part of the video mentioned that Julius Dein, a 27-year-old Magician from London uses magic to walk on water over a 1000$ challenge with his friends. It further mentions that he performed a magic trick that defied all logic and reason.

A Youtube channel named 'Magic Secrets Unrevealed' uploaded a video on 22, January 2016 about the trick used by Magicians to walk on water. This channel has multiple other videos revealing other magics performed by magicians. At the 1:31-minute timestamp of this video, when the masked person is walking on the water's surface, another person can be seen swimming under him.

Further, the video shows secret transparent glasses placed under the water making a path for the masked person to walk on it. Another clip of a woman lying on the water surface (on the glass placed below) is also shown as a demonstration.

We could not ascertain that the magician in the viral video used the same trick but we could confirm that he has used an unbelievable magic trick as mentioned in his Youtube video and did not walk on the water's surface with nothing under him.
Conclusion
It is found that the video claimed as a man walking on water is nothing but a magician's trick.

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Video of a man walking on water is Magician's trick. - You Turn

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Video of a man walking on water is Magician's trick. - Tamil Nadu's 1st and leading Fact-Check organisation.

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Aliens are not real

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When it comes to aliens, the truth is out there... just not necessarily on YouTube, TikTok or Facebook.

Both the CIA and the Pentagon have released information on 'unidentified' flying objects, however, so The X-Files enthusiasts can be forgiven for acting a bit smug these days.

SPYSCAPE examines the world's best alien 'hoaxes', searching for signs of intelligence.
‍

1. Dead alien found after UFO sighting in Russia ‍

Two Russian men were out for a walk in 2011 when they came across what appeared to be a frozen corpse in the snowy countryside near Irkutsk, in eastern Siberia. But this wasn't just any old corpse - it was an alien, or was it? Only a month earlier, villagers swore they'd seen bright orange lights in the sky. Could the two incidents be related? Perhaps there had been an extraterrestrial crash? Nyet. More than 12m people viewed the YouTube video and police investigated. It was at this point the men sheepishly confessed: they'd actually made the 'alien' out of breadcrumbs and stuffed it into chicken skin as a practical joke.
‍

2. New Jersey spacecraft stops traffic

A large, threatening spacecraft crept slowly across New Jersey's sky in 2020 and it wasn't long before the Twitter and TikTok videos went viral. The extraterrestrial ship with blue flashing lights slowed traffic on the turnpike - some people even got out of their cars to take a better look. Turns out, a Goodyear blimp was passing over New Jersey at the time, getting an aerial television shot of an NFL game at the MetLife Stadium, just west of New York City. And yes, the blimp came in peace.
‍

3. UFO visits India‍

A 'spaceship' hovering precariously close to buildings in Uttar Pradesh, in northern India, created panic in 2016, with photos of the large object spreading feverishly. The UFO photographer quickly disappeared (beamed up?) and the cell phone number couldn't ever be traced. Despite the mystery, experts decided the UFO was probably created by an app, noting it bore a striking resemblance to a UFO in the movie Independence Day.

4. UFOs terrify Haiti

An eerie, realistic home video captured 'UFOs' soaring over Haiti in2007. A woman can be heard gasping. A dog barks. Surely the video must be real? A second video from the Dominican Republic seemed to provide independent corroboration. The Los Angeles Times decided to track down the videographer and others who immediately re-posted the 'evidence' and got a swift response from barzolff814 - aka Heather, a 17-year-old Irish girl who'd racked up 2.2m YouTube hits (now 20m!): "Umm yeah. Whatever. You people are stupid. Find something better to do with your time. And get a life." The Times finally found the source, a professional animator who'd spent 17 hours creating the UFO videos on his MacBook and didn't want to reveal his name. It seems the animator was just testing his work, thinking he might get a few likes...

5. Six 'spaceships' land in England

Wiltshire in southwest England has always been a draw for the alien conspiracists - it is, after all, the home of the legendary Stonehenge, multiple crop circles and a UFO hotspot since the 17th century. But even the locals were astounded when six UFOs landed in Wiltshire, London and four other locations across England in 1967, bleeping, hissing and triggering a major police and military response. The hoax was conjured up by the engineer apprentices at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (later part of the Ministry of Defense) who scattered them overnight. The pranksters wanted to know if the government had a plan if aliens invaded. The Army responded by blowing up one saucer, dropping another and brushing themselves off when one imploded. Police decided not to take action against the apprentices, with one officer saying authorities were "taking it like gentlemen".
‍

6. Australia's X-Files

Melbourne's Kelly and Andrew Cahill said they were driving in August 1993 when they spotted a weird object in the sky with circular orange lights, but that isn't the shocking part of the story. The couple said they were abducted by tall, skinny aliens with red eyes who burned a triangle into the skin around Kelly's navel. The couple 'awoke' in their car having lost an hour's time. "I felt this blow to my stomach and went flying in the air and I heard my husband say 'Let go of me', and this male voice that said, 'I mean you no harm'," she told journalists. The Cahills' story was such a sensation it was mentioned by agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) on The X-Files. Ms Cahill published a bestselling book, did the rounds of the talk shows, then went quiet. The UFO experts at Phenomena Research Australia (PRA) investigated the claims and compiled a 300-page report. In 2020, 27 years after the 'abduction', PRA said they were considering releasing their findings - just not any time soon.
‍

7. Canada's closest encounter

Canada has big skies and plenty of land so it should be fertile ground for an alien landing. In May, 1967, amateur geologist Stefan Michalak was prospecting in Manitoba when he spotted two glowing objects. One of the silver crafts landed and Michalak said he had a look inside at the blinking lights. The craft took off quickly, knocking him on his back, and an opening appeared in the upper portion of the 35-foot disc that hissed and smelled of sulfur. (Luckily, the craft hovered long enough for Michalak to sketch the spaceship above). The UFO spotter became ill afterwards, displaying signs of a radiation burn. Years later, a twisted piece of metal was recovered from the site, which was radioactive. Was it a hoax, military test or an alien landing? Neither Canadian nor the US military have been able to explain the event. Tour guides swear it was a UFO sighting, however, and include it on their trips. The Royal Canadian Mint has even issued a commemorative silver coin that retails for $129.95. The one-ounce coin comes with a black light that can be shone on the currency to reveal a yellowish blast resembling the one that (supposedly) burned Michalak.
‍
‍

8. South Korea is a UFO magnet

‍For a small country, South Korea has a lot of extraterrestrial activity. There have been sightings of 'Tic Tac' UFOs (bullet-shaped spacecraft with no wings) and videos showing discs with domed tops hovering over cities and mountain ranges. South Korea's military took UFO reports rather more seriously in 2019, however, when radar detected 'traces of flight by an unidentified object' heading across the frontier from North Korea. Jet fighters were scrambled. Helicopters buzzed over the demilitarized zone separating north and south. Former US president Donald Trump was in the region to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, so the world's media covered the updates in real time. The frenzy ended minutes later with an announcement from the US Joint Chiefs of Staff: the UFO was a flock of about 20 birds.
‍ ‍

9. Mexico's Mulder

There have been so many UFO sightings at Volcán Popocatépetl, Mexico's largest volcano, it has a UFO-spotting camera trained on it 24-7. 'Spaceships' have been seen floating behind it, hovering above, flirting with the flames and even flying directly into its mouth. So it should come as no surprise that UFO-mad Mexico also has its own celebrity UFO-ologist, Jaime Maussan. Maussan visited Peru in 2017, hoping to analyze mummies discovered near the UNESCO World Heritage Nazca Lines (there's speculation aliens created the lines too). At least one of Peru's mummified bodies apparently had an elongated skull and hands with only three fingers, so Maussan teamed up with a TV crew to gather evidence of alien life. Unfortunately, the alien theory was debunked. Snopes, the fact-checking website, pointed out that the website that streamed Maussan's documentary charges just under $100 a year for videos about alien abductions, crop circles and contact with angels.
‍

10. Roswell, New Mexico's flying saucer

‍The Roswell Daily Record newspaper headline was clear: 'RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region'. It was July 8, 1947, and the Roswell UFO was the best evidence so far that aliens existed. At first, the Roswell Army Air Field announced that a flying disk had landed on a ranch in a thunderstorm but then changed the story, calling it a 'weather balloon'. In fact, a rancher may have gathered debris related to a classified US military project to detect atomic bomb tests in the Soviet Union, but that information wasn't immediately released. UFO believers suspected a cover-up. More than 40 years after the crash, an ex-mortician named Glenn Dennis remained adamant that a Roswell Army nurse had walked in on doctors who were bent over three creatures with small frames and huge, bald heads. (Dennis ran Roswell's International UFO Museum at the time.) Roswell now hosts a UFO festival and science fiction 'Galacticon' celebration each July, inviting visitors from around the world to decide for themselves.

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Stormtrooper Falls Down Stairs On The Way To Star Wars Premiere

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The Truth about Hatsumi Rou | Exposing Hatsumi Rou

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Real Life Vampire?! He Drank Blood To Keep Himself Alive - The Terrifying Story of Richard Chase

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How fake images change our memory and behavior

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The year was a memorable one - looking back at the unforgettable images over the past 12 months, you might think of apocalyptic-looking clouds over Manhattan during Hurricane Sandy, or Mitt Romney's children mistakenly standing in a line spelling out the word " MONEY", or even the winning US Powerball lottery ticket that became the most shared picture on Facebook. There's only one problem. All these images are fake.

It would be fine if we could dismiss these images as a fleeting joke, an amusing but harmless tidbit shared among our friends and followers, if it weren't for the fact that our minds appear to have a curious but fundamental glitch. People tend to think of their memories as a transcript, a rough history of events from some early age until the very moment they are experiencing. But human memory is far more like a desert mirage than a transcript - as we recall the past we are really just making meaning out of the flickering patterns of sights, smells and sounds we think we remember.

For decades, researchers have been exploring just how unreliable our own memories are. Not only is memory fickle when we access it, but it's also quite easily subverted and rewritten. Combine this susceptibility with modern image-editing software at our fingertips like Photoshop, and it's a recipe for disaster. In a world where we can witness news and world events as they unfold, fake images surround us, and our minds accept these pictures as real, and remember them later. These fake memories don't just distort how we see our past, they affect our current and future behaviour too - from what we eat, to how we protest and vote. The problem is there's virtually nothing we can do to stop it.

Old memories seem to be the easiest to manipulate. In one study, subjects were showed images from their childhood. Along with real images, researchers snuck in doctored photographs of the subject taking a hot-air balloon ride with his or her family. After seeing those images, 50% of subjects recalled some part of that hot air balloon ride - though the event was entirely made up.

In another experiment by Elizabeth Loftus, one of the pioneer researchers in the field of altered memories, researchers showed people advertising material for Disneyland that described one visitor shaking hands with Bugs Bunny. After reading the story, about a third of the participants said they remembered meeting or shaking hands with Bugs Bunny when they had visited Disneyland. But Bugs Bunny doesn't live in Disneyland - he's a Warner Brothers character. None of those people had ever met Bugs, but seeing images of him and reading the story made them remember something entirely fabricated.

Childhood memories may be the easiest to manipulate, but recent, adult memories are at risk too. In one experiment, researchers asked participants to take part in a gambling task alongside a partner. When they came back for the second part of the experiment, they were shown doctored footage of their partner cheating. Despite not actually having seen their partner cheat, 20% of participants were willing to sign a witness statement saying that they had. Even after being told that the footage was doctored, participants sometimes recalled the cheating that never happened. "They say things like 'I remember seeing it, I saw them taking too much money'," says Kimberly Wade, a memory researcher from the University of Warwick, who carried out the study.
Political trickery
Of course, people aren't walking around doctoring false images of your childhood or your recent past, but you've probably seen thousands of doctored photographs in your lifetime without you knowing it. From advertisements to political campaigns, altered and faked images surround us every day. Restaurants make their food look more appetising, magazines make their models skinnier and blemish free, colleges and politicians splice people into photographs to make their students and crowds look more diverse.

In political campaigns especially, faked images show up again and again. In one famous photograph that surfaced during the 2004 US election campaign, Senator John Kerry is sitting next to Jane Fonda, with the caption explaining that both Kerry and Fonda were at a Vietnam war protest. The New York Times cited the image, and many anti-Kerry blogs and sites displayed it prominently. The problem is, the photograph is a fake. John Kerry and Jane Fonda were never at any anti-war protest together - someone had combined two different photographs.

More recently, a photograph surfaced of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's children, who each wore a shirt with one letter of their last name. The children mistakenly lined up spelling out "MONEY", rather than "ROMNEY". Or at least that's what the picture will have you believe. In reality, the children lined up properly, spelling their own last name, and someone later simply switched the letters on the image.

But like a balloon ride or Bugs Bunny, these fake images can have very real effects on memory. In 2010, the online magazine Slate ran an experiment showing readers a handful of political photographs. Some of them were of real events, while others were doctored. Readers were then asked whether or not they remembered those events happening. Nearly half of Slate's readers claimed they remembered the fake political events happening. And that's in an uncontrolled setting, where they could have easily cheated and looked up the answers. Many people are adamant that John Kerry and Jane Fonda protested together, simply because they saw that photograph.

Seeing these fake images goes even beyond altering our memory of events. It can actually change our behaviours too. One study convinced people that egg salad had made them sick in their childhood. Four months later those participants were less likely to want to eat egg salad, even though the memory that made them feel that way was entirely false.

Another study showed participants images of two different protests - some from the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square, others from 2003 anti-war protests in Rome. The researchers doctored some of the images to make the protests more crowded and violent than they really were. When asked about the events later, not only did the participants remember the protests being violent, but they also expressed more hesitance to attend a protest in the future. And when asked for comments about the events, people wrote about conflicts, damage to property and injuries from the police and participants that were never documented at the time of the event.

Whether or not these sorts of false images could radically change someone's mind on political issues has yet to be proven, says Steven Frenda, a memory researcher from the University of California in Irvine, who has a forthcoming paper examining the results of the Slate survey. But he thinks "yet" is the operative word. "I believe it probably is true," he says, "but we don't have the evidence to say that." Researchers are still pushing the limits of just how far they can go with doctored photographs, Frenda says, and they're planning some experiments to assess whether long-held political beliefs can be swayed by faked imagery.
Why we're fooled
Images are really good at fooling our memories for a number of reasons, Wade says. A big part of it is because people trust photographs. "We still think of them as frozen moments in time," she says, even though most people know that photographs can be, and often are, doctored. In fact, people trust photographs so much that they actually place more weight on information that is accompanied with an image, regardless of how related or useful that image is. If you show participants a statement, and an image that provides no proof of that statement, they are far more likely to find that statement true than if it had no image alongside it.

And there are certain things that make a fake image more believable and more likely to be imprinted on our memories. People are more liable to be persuaded by false images that add weight to their beliefs. So those who were already opposed to John Kerry were quick to buy into the image of him and Jane Fonda protesting the war. Democrats are more likely to remember the Romney/Money mix-up. The Slate study found that Republicans were more likely to remember Barrack Obama shaking hands with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while Democrats are more likely to remember that George Bush was on vacation with the baseball pitcher Roger Clemens during Hurricane Katrina, even though neither event really happened.

Another reason we're duped so readily is that we're really bad at telling fake photographs from real ones, says Hany Farid, an image doctoring expert from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, United States. "It turns out that while the brain and the visual cortex is very good at many things, like face recognition, it is really really bad at analysing lighting and reflections." When presented with doctored images, humans are remarkably inept at telling which ones are fake and which are real. And we're bad in both directions, Farid says, judging fake images to be real, and real ones to be fake.

What's worse is that even when we're told the photographs we've seen are wrong, it doesn't seem to help. One of the first things that fades in our memory is where the information came from. Which is why you probably can't remember who first told you that joke that you tell all the time, says Wade. "When we're faced with doctored images, even if up front if we know they're fake, over time we may remember the image but not remember knowing that it's doctored."
Brain games
In the end, there's not much anyone can really do to guard against being duped by these images, says Wade. Her lab has done studies in which subjects are told that they're about to see both fake and real images. Even with the warning, people will still remember the fake photographs as real. "Warnings don't seem to have much of an effect," she says, "that's how powerful some of these fake photo manipulations can be."

Reverse image searching online can reveal fakes, but time can erase that extra context. And even with specialisation and technology, verifying an image can be nearly impossible. "Proving that something is fake is possible," says Farid, "but proving the image is authentic is virtually impossible." All experts like Farid can really say is whether or not they could find evidence of tampering.

The worry is that with images pouring in from citizen reporters from all parts of the globe, people will be confronted with more doctored images, not less. But as Farid points out, photographers have always been doctoring images in some way. They choose what to frame, what to photograph, what moment to capture and what to crop out. And some famous photographers have staged their photographs not in post-processing, but in real time. In one famous photograph from the Crimean War, bombs littered the road. But the photographer had moved them there, to make things look more dramatic. Many of Mathew Brady's famous photographs of the American Civil War were staged, the photographer dragging bodies about to make things more gruesome. You could call these contrived, or perhaps even fake, but these images would have passed even the most rigorous of image doctoring tests.

Yet, the way we remember events has a lot to do with the photographs that go with them - from Dorothea Lange's classic image of a mother during the Dust Bowl, to the single man standing up against tanks in Tiananmen Square. Many probably remember Romney's Money gaff that wasn't, or images from Hurricane Sandy that never happened, just as well as they remember real images. When asked in the future, they'll recall those pictures, and they'll swear they remember those things happening. "That's the most fascinating thing about memory," says Frenda, "the way that it can be so flagrantly non-factual, but we have really high confidence in the accuracy of it." And it seems there's nothing anybody can do about it.
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How fake images change our memory and behaviour

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Doctored images can affect what we eat, how we vote and even our childhood recollections. The question is why there's nothing we can do to stop it.

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UFOs do not exist

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