{"id":1052236,"date":"2021-11-24T13:58:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T18:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1052236"},"modified":"2021-11-24T13:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T18:58:37","slug":"fact-check-no-these-are-not-real-photos-of-a-ufo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-these-are-not-real-photos-of-a-ufo\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, These Are Not Real Photos Of A UFO"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-no-these-are-not-real-photos-of-a-ufo%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1052236&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Images <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unexplained.mysteriestv\/posts\/303398941789405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> over 1,200 times purportedly show a UFO flying near an Air Force base in Utah.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The images actually come from a video made with computer-generated imagery (CGI).<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There have been at least 29 alleged UFO sightings in Utah reported in 2021 as of press time, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuforc.org\/webreports\/ndxlUT.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data<\/a>&nbsp;collected by the non-profit National UFO Reporting Center. Now, a Nov. 16 Facebook post claims to show an unidentified object in the air with a helicopter flying nearby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelicopter next to a UFO photographed near Hill Air Force Base, Utah, United States,\u201d the post\u2019s caption reads. Hill Air Force Base is the second-largest Air Force base, according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill.af.mil\/About-Us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/09\/08\/fact-check-air-force-pilots-resign-mandated-covid-19-vaccines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did 27 Air Force Pilots Resign Over Mandated Covid-19 Vaccines?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Facebook post does not, however, show a genuine UFO sighting in Utah, or anywhere else. Through a reverse image search, Check Your Fact found that images in the Facebook post are stills from a video posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oAlNycyl-1w\">YouTube<\/a> in January 2018 titled \u201cUFO over RIO DE JANEIRO (CGI).\u201d The video was posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/SECTION5120\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UFO SECTION 51<\/a>, a group of French visual effects artists, according to the channel\u2019s \u201cAbout\u201d page. UFO Section 51 has produced many similar&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/SECTION5120\/videos?view=0&amp;sort=p&amp;shelf_id=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">videos<\/a> with CGI that garnered millions of views.<\/p>\n<p>A July <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/350096\/americans-believe-ufos.aspx\">Gallup poll<\/a> showed that about 44 percent of U.S. respondents said they believed some UFOs were alien spacecraft, an eight percent increase from the results of a similar poll the company conducted in August 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time social media users have shared false claims about UFOs being filmed. In March 2020, Check Your Fact <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/03\/04\/fact-check-international-space-station-ufo-video\/\">debunked<\/a> the baseless claim that the International Space Station captured footage of a UFO on its livestream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images shared on Facebook over 1,200 times purportedly show a UFO flying near an Air Force base in Utah.Verdict: False The images actually come from a video made with computer-generated &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}