UFO filmed over Jerusalem.

[psynapz]

It hovered until the bright flash then it leapt away. Somebody ask the Mossad what they shot it with.

Whatever the hell it was, it wasn't the first time its use was televised:

[brainpanhandler]

The count seems to be 23 seconds stationary over the spire.

The time is given as 1:00 AM for both video locations, which is awfully close to a date change of course. Given the Gregorian January 28th date, I see the Hebrew calendar's equivalent is the 23rd of Sh'vat 5771. The Hijri (Islamic) calendar's equivalent is the 24th of Safar 1432.

FWIW...

Do we know what language the people in the first video are speaking?

[justdrew]

ok, click through to youtube to watch it in full resolution.

it almost seems like there's some dark stuff around it as well. looks like they were videoing this though a window screen too...

[barracuda]

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... t_7088.JPG

[brainpanhandler]

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jerusalem_night_7088.JPG

That correspondence is almost too good.

[barracuda]

Almost?

[justdrew]

ahhh, it's a time machine!


(that's a 'cuda up there in case anyone doesn't recognize the model)

that pics from 2008, and I can't find a streetlight that's changed position, sure they could have been taken from the same hotel room, but they're so identical,

[brainpanhandler]

Almost?

Ok. It's too perfect. Maybe Nordic was right about the background?

[Saurian Tail]

Almost?

Ok. It's too perfect. Maybe Nordic was right about the background?

Busted. Nicely done. Wikipedia commons photo? That's ridiculous.

-ST

[nathan28]

:cues creepy music

Congrats, internet, you've just shown the CIA and NSA that we can identify a UFO hoax in a matter of hours now. Prepare for the next item to be really spooky.

[/unwarranted speculation]

[psynapz]

Busted. Can't help but feel more crestfallen than smug about it. Like seeing the end credits on a good episode of the X-Files.

So for future reference (attention optics nerds), the star diffusion on those streetlights definitely should be rotating along with the handheld camera's left-right rolls, right?

Much Harder Bonus Question: can anyone identify the audio source? Is that on fucking Wikimedia Commons too?

[brainpanhandler]

it almost seems like there's some dark stuff around it as well. looks like they were videoing this though a window screen too...

Yes, it does. Why isn't that in the wikimedia image? The hoaxsters filmed the background through a window screen for authenticity?

[barracuda]

The screening is an artifact of videotaping an LCD.

[justdrew]

yeah, at first I thought it was videoed through a screen, but it is THE screen. Looks like they're videoing an image on a LCD monitor, then putting the 'object' as an overlay.

here you can see the pixels in the LCD monitor when zoomed it...

[brainpanhandler]

got it.