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From:  "Carl Wilson" <carl@k...>
Date:  Sun Aug 4, 2002  4:35 am
Subject:  Fw: How to Fool a Saucerhead, Part 4



----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Wilson" <carl@k...>
Newsgroups:
alt.binaries.ufo.files,alt.alien.research,alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranormal.
alt.paranormal.crop-circles
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 2:39 AM
Subject: Re: How to Fool a Saucerhead, Part 4


> On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 06:59:45 -0400, Michael Davis
> <mdavis19@i...> wrote:
>
> >Carl Wilson wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 03:51:21 GMT, "John Baker" <jb@s...>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Step 3:
> >> >
> >> >Choose a background. Anything will do, just don't make it too "busy."
Use
> >> >the Lasso Tool to crop out your edited "UFO" image. Cut and paste it
onto
> >> >your background. Use the Move Tool to position it where you want it.
Merge
> >> >the layers using the "flatten image" command. Use the Rubber Stamp
Tool to
> >> >blend your "UFO" in with the background. This part takes a bit of care
and
> >> >patience. Finally, use the Lasso Tool and the mask tool to isolate the
> >> >"UFO." Apply a bit more gaussian blur to the "UFO" only, *not* to the
> >> >background. Voila! There you have it. A "UFO" photograph guaranteed to
give
> >> >any saucer geek a woody. LOL!
> >>
> >> Actually, you don't even have to do that much work!
> >>
> >> Step 1: Get a digital camera
> >>
> >> Step 2: Turn off all lights in the room where your PC is
> >>
> >> Step 3: Take a jiggly picture of the front of your PC/DSL Modem/DSL
> >> Router with the flash turned off.
> >>
> >> Step 4: Submit resulting picture to Saucer Head Web shite of your
> >> choosing.
> >> http://www.ufowisconsin.com/county/reports/r2002_0720_langlade.html
> >>
> >> Or, if you want to be a bit more creative:
> >>
> >> Step 1: Get a digital camera
> >>
> >> Step 2: Turn off all lights in the room where your PC is
> >>
> >> Step 3: Take a picture with the flash turned off of the front of your
> >> PC/DSL Modem/DSL Router *and* the bottom of your optical mouse.
> >> http://www.kook-watch.net/fakes/P3110004.JPG
> >>
> >> Step 4: Submit to "UFO expert" for "analysis"
> >> http://brumac.8k.com/LawtonTriangle/LawtonTriangle.html
> >>
> >> Step 5: Repeat same process a few months later using a different
> >> alias.
> >> http://www.kook-watch.net/fakes/ufo.jpg
> >>
> >> (Picture of "Lawton Triangle" with the flash turned on)
> >> http://www.kook-watch.net/fakes/ufo2.jpg
> >
> >I was wondering when you were going to finally own up to hoaxing all
those UFO
> >photos and fooling the gullible saucer heads. Your experience proves that
the
> >silly rubes will believe absolutely anything. Has there been any fallout
yet
> >from the so-called "experts" who pronounced them "genuine." Has the
massive
> >backpedaling started yet?
>
> So far they haven't pulled the picture down, but that's not a bit
> surprising.
>
> Take a look at the following web page
>
(http://web.archive.org/web/20010410112754/http://www.caus.org/hk051600.htm)
> and scroll down to where it says, "Sighting at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma"
>
> If you read the article, it says:
>
> "Another report comes in from
> http://members.tripod.com/~ok_sightings/index.htm On the night of 28
> January 1997 while on field maneuvers with the United States Army a
> friend and myself viewed one of the most awesome sights of our lives.
> It was either a secret government experiment gone crazy or Ft. Sill,
> Oklahoma is holding secrets yet to be released to the general public.
> The pictures were taken from some distance away and the strange craft
> moved at a very high rate of speed across the sky, stop hover and then
> move to a different section of the sky. Finally the object shot
> straight up and disappeared into the heavens.
>
> Another person that contacted us took the following pictures. He saw
> the same object on the same night as we did. These photos were taken
> from his backyard in the nearby town of Lawton, OK."
>
> If you click on the link mentioned in the article, you'll see the web
> page they lifted the pictures from. If you look all the way at the
> bottom of this web page, it says, "These pictures are fake. Thanks for
> playing!"
>
> In this case the "UFOs" were nothing more than toy balloons and
> fishing bobbers.
>
> As you said, these silly rubes will believe anything that confirms
> their faith. Even after I exposed these photos as fake, they
> continued to keep the web page up for months.
>


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