Bem, aproveitando o tópico... pois é, os "hoax" estarão sempre conosco. O que sempre dificultará o trabalho de quem se interessa seriamente por estas coisas. Eu, confesso, tenho um "I want to believe" em mim mas, como gosto de saber se minhas crenças se referem a coisas tão reais quanto possíveis, é claro que descarto a imensa maioria absoluta das evidências anedotas (que, agora, somam-se os vídeos da internet). Mas algumas coisas sempre chamam atenção, no mínimo por serem hoax muito bem feitos. Olha este:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M6vP8-SbU0&feature=related
O que acham?
Fake. Veja abaixo.
Now, with the proliferation of the "balls of light create crop circle" footage (NR=1 AKA Oliver's Castle), where balls of light seemingly create the crop circle star shape,
it has long been established that this was a fake piece of computer art by a TV trained graphic artist called John Wabe who lives in Bath and works for HTV. He has taken investigating camera crews to his HTV studio in Bristol, and showed them the footage on his CGI workstation, and explained how he created it. The lid is on and sealed over this case being fake, yet you speak to 80% of crop circle lovers out there, and they are not having any of it! They will argue against you loudly and with great arrogance when confronted with the facts about this story.
If you don't believe me, check out my video (
) which has a link to the explanation footage, although now that I've just checked, National Geographic, who just did the piece, have pulled it off YouTube due to copyright infringement. Which means that loads of "it's real" videos remain, and not the original footage. I will see if I can track it down and get someone to repost it.[/i]
Fonte: The Polite Skeptic Interview: Matthew Williams, circlemaker -
http://thepoliteskeptic.blogspot.com/2010/09/polite-skeptic-interview-matthew.html