Mystery of the UFO Haiti youtube video solved!

[Joanne98]

(edited for copyright purposes-proud patriot moderator Democratic Underground)

I posted this video a while back because it was so real looking and it had gotten so many hits. I didn't think it was real because it was TOO real... Anyway it wasn't. Here's the story on it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up5jmbSjWkw

http://www.insidebayarea.com/bayarealiving/ci_6724977
CSI: UFO? The 'get a life' pursuit of the hoaxster with the moster
By David Sarno, Los Angeles Times
Article Last Updated: 08/26/2007 08:42:34 AM PDT

THOUGH the island in the Caribbean shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic was spared a direct hit from Hurricane Dean this week, it may be that other, stranger entities made landfall there.
Evidence "UFO Haiti" and "UFO Dominican Republic" — two authentic-looking home videos recently posted on the "News and Politics" section of YouTube. The films, which were uploaded from two anonymous accounts, both appear to record close-up sightings of Area 51-type craft hovering above the island's beaches at sunset. As the ships pass eerily over, wind whips through the palm trees, dogs bark and a woman gasps.

All very real-seeming. The jerky, amateur camera work easily could be that of a panicked Caribbean tourist.

The videos hummed to the top of YouTube's "Most Viewed" list and from there invaded discussion forums and news aggregator sites across the Web, where debate raged about their origin and authenticity. Skeptics pronounced the videos a computer-generated fraud, probably a viral marketing ploy. Microsoft's Halo 3 was coming out soon, wasn't it? Or maybe it was for Nicole Kidman's movie "Invasion."

Still, with all the cries of fraud and corporate opportunism, even the most steadfast doubters couldn't find anything in the footage that was obviously bogus. No matter where you stood, you had to agree the quality of the movies was surpassing. More than a few observers called them "the best UFO videos ever."

"Frankly, I'm worried about this," wrote

one observer on the conspiracy site AboveTopSecret.com. "If people feel it necessary to flood the Internet or the UFO community with increasingly more 'realistic' hoaxes, what will happen in the event of a true landing?"
They're fake, right? Right?!

http://www.insidebayarea.com/bayarealiving/ci_6724977

[Flabbergasted]

1. Got To Read this.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Joanne98 - your post is way over the 4 paragraph limit for copyright purposes

Please limit your excerpts from copyright source to 4 paragraphs in future, as specified in the DU rules. Thank you.

[slowry]

3. I just figured it was viral marketing for Halo 3. n/t