Australian Film Commission. . .and UFOs?
The Australien (ha!) Film Commission spearheaded an impressively convincing digital video art project entitled “UFO Wave 2006″ which provided funding of short segments involving UFO sightings. The clips were then scattered throughout the internet, most notably YouTube (which is where I found them), and hired writers to craft “background stories for the sightings, and answered thousands of e-mails using a fictional persona”. In one particularly chilling clip, a family driving a car is suddenly terrified by a blinding white light and a deafening sound. The segments were created “to give people a taste of the drama and excitement of a UFO Close Encounter, creating a genuine sense of wonder” and “to show skeptics that they often rely on faith rather than evidence (Many skeptics made bold statments about the clips being nothing more than balloons, space junk, stars etc – without doing their research).” Check them out for yourself here .
July 9th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
fake.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:09 am
I am having a book published, probably before the end of the year, and would like to use your photo among about a dozen others. I don’t know how to further identify the photo, unless it is clear from the form i am using. I would first like to ask your permission to use it. Second, I would appreciate knowing something about its origin: name of photographer if available, date taken and some circumstances, if known. I assume the reference to crafted background stories and fictional personas does not imply that the photos are not genuine. I would also appreciate your assurance of that.
I am the author of seven published books, but this will be my first on UFOs and will be entitled “Our Interplanetary Future: A UFO primer for skeptics.
Thank you in advance for your consideration, for your permision, and for any information you can furnish.
Kindest regards,
Milton Brener