Brian’s Bullshit-Free Zone

Brian’s Bullshit-Free Zone

A simple solution to a famous UFO photo

It's easy when you ask someone other than a UFOlogist.

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Brian Dunning
Oct 31, 2023
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This is the Tuesday edition of my newsletter. Mondays are always free; paid subscribers get both my eternal gratitude and additional editions on Tuesday and Thursday.

I have a number of Google alerts and one of them is for news stories about aliens or UFOs. This is one that came into my inbox today.

It’s in the news — I found it on quite a few news websites (like this and this) — because someone is trying to drum up publicity for what the reports says is a new documentary on UFOs. This story concerns a photo (reproduced in whole below) that was taken way back in 2010 and been featured on a number of UFO pseudo-documentaries, including the October 13 episode of HISTORY’s The Proof Is Out There called “UFO Over the Andes”:

Wow! See that mysterious red object up in the clouds? What could it be?

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