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Since January 28th, the internet has been buzzing with talk of the Jerusalem UFO supposedly filmed by a few people and sighted by several more.  The supposed alien craft came to hover in the sky just above the Dome of the Rock, Atop Jerusalems Temple Mount.

In the first video, purportedly shot from a balcony, we can plainly see the light directly above the Temple Mount drop to a very low altitude, hover just above the Dome of the Rock for a short period, flash brightly and then shoot off into the night sky.

A second video from the same location was shot by another person, this one with a camera phone.

A third video taken from a from a much closer proximity to the Dome of the Rock shows a close-up of the UFO as it stopped in the air before its rapid acceleration straight up. This video features audio of the reaction from American tourists in the background.

Speculation from the blogosphere about the identity of the object in the videos has the usual claim of extraterrestrial spacecraft going head-to-head with more reasonable but also unsupported version involving experimental military drones. The problem with both proposed explanations is that they assume the videos are authentic.

The evidence suggests they aren’t. They are likely the result of a hoax. Take a look a nice review of the various videos offered by Marshall Brain at howstuffworks. The first video shows just how easy it would be to produce a fake version of a video like this. The second video shows why it almost certainly is a hoax. Watch the two highlighted lines. If the video was unmodified, the lines would remain parallel. The lines do not because the background and the foreground (the wall) are probably not from the same video.

The next video show how easy it would be to fake the original video.

A video pointing out several failings in the video 1.

The next video shows that after you stabilize the shot to notice that the lights of the city are not moving, blinking or flashing like the lights in a real video. This show that a static image was filmed with a video camera to make the shot.

Not only was the image static. It was an LCD image. You will see that as the video camera zooms in the image is clearly beyond the capacity of the LCD screen.

Next we get to see the tell-tale splices in the audio track that was added to make it all seem as if it were shot live.

The longer we look at this the more we realize that it has all just been a huge waste of time. No aliens, no spaceship just bullshit.

The Bermuda Triangle (also, Devil’s Triangle) is a huge triangle formed by the islands of Bermuda and Puerto Rico, and the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is said to be an area of profound danger for anyone or anything venturing into it. It was first so designated by a writer for Argosy magazine.

The whole legend began in December 1944 when five Avenger bombers of the U.S. Navy were lost while on a routine training mission out of the Fort Lauderdale air base. A sensational 1974 book by Charles Berlitz, The Bermuda Triangle, brought this supposed mystery to the attention of the public.

The Berlitz book, written thirty years after the loss of the bombers, contained invented details, distorted and exaggerated figures and descriptions, and even fabricated radio conversations that were claimed to have taken place between the naval pilots and the Fort Lauderdale air base. The event was not that unusual, if the invented details are ignored, and as evidence for any sort of mystery in the triangle, the Avenger bombers matter is a very poor example, but it remains as the event most quoted by the believers.

Other ships that are said to have vanished in the area either did not exist, or sank or capsized in other areas——even in the Pacific or Mediterranean——or went down due to perfectly ordinary and well understood causes.

The Bermuda Triangle, an area subject to violent storms and rough seas, does produce problems, but no more than any other similar area anywhere in the world. There is no need to ascribe supernatural or even unusual causes to any losses that occur there. Unless, of course, you want to sell lots and lots of books.

9/11 and Kennedy aside, no event in world history has generated quite so many conspiracy theories than the Apollo moonlandings. But do they stand up? Here are the best reasons why it couldn’t have happened, and the rebuttals. Of course, you may disagree.

Launch the Apollo Hoax Guide at: The Independent