Here's how some UFO photos and pictures have been fake hoaxes
How UFO pictures and photos are faked
The photo at right, of a car chasing a UFO in Queensland, Australia, in 1998, is superb. It even looks impressive when enlarged.
But good graphic artists can produce pictures like this in less than an hour. All they do is get a picture of scenery, a picture of a UFO (either out of a science fiction book or one they have created themselves), and use Photoshop or another graphics program to combine the two pictures. Superimpose the UFO on the other photograph, add a few touch-ups with graphics tools, and you have a great UFO picture.
In the picture above, some branches or leaves at top center slightly cover the left “wing” of the UFO. This adds a realistic touch.
But the creator of the photo has made a mistake you don't often see in UFO photographs. He has used a photo with a car in it. And if a UFO photo contains a real car, people can enlarge and improve the picture and adjust it until they can read the vehicle's license plate. When you track down the driver of this car, who was driving to church on a Sunday morning, you find there was no UFO in the sky at the time.
Before modern computers …
Primitive ways of faking UFO photos — before modern computers — included throwing objects in the air (such as trashcan lids, breakfast bowls, hats, or ordinary dinner plates) and photographing them against whatever scenery they thought would look good.
It was usually best to get the object against a clear part of the sky so people could not easily work out its size. (The photo at right is typical of the style of that time. It is part of a series of photos supposedly showing a UFO that visited the Italian Alps in July 1951.)
Another method was simply to draw, paint, or paste a disk or cigar-shaped object on to a picture and then photograph it again. The new picture would be a little more blurred than the original, and would look more realistic and less detectable as a fake.
Modern computer generation
Today's UFO pictures don't even need a photograph.
Look at the picture at left of one or more UFOs streaking through the night sky. A graphic designer created the picture in seconds on a computer specifically for our Creation Tips website. There was no UFO, no sky, and no camera.
Some graphics programs can create thousands of UFO pictures in a few seconds. The pictures below are also computer formed. They may not look like UFOs now that you know what they are. But they are better-looking UFO pictures than many of the blurry photographs that fakers have passed off as real UFO pictures.
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