Exposed: The UFO video that would fool the world

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It was long regarded as one of the best Swedish videos of a UFO. A man on a scooter sled manages to film in daylight a saucer-like object which with great speed moved at a relatively near distance. After thorough investigation UFO-Sweden’s Göran Lengqvist has managed to track down the anonymous persons behind the video and shown that it is a hoax. A hoax that was staged not at Orsa but at Tidaholm in Västergötland.

By Göran Lengqvist

On 19 February 2012 an anonymous person uploaded a video online where a saucer-like object is seen flying at a low height over the forests outside Orsa. The video brought much attention and has been seen by million on YouTube. And many still thinks that the video is genuine and it has been called one of the best ever taken.

But UFO-Sweden has shown that it was all a hoax.

The images are dramatic and brief. During the 19 seconds long sequence a woman is seen driving a four-wheeler through a snowy landscape. In a wire behind it follows a sled where a man is sitting with his camera running.

After just eight seconds the man shouts, while waving one hand to the woman to turn off the engine. Two or three seconds later a metallic disc shaped object appears at two tall pines a few hundred meters away.

On 19 February 2012 the video was uploaded online where it is said to have been made around the woods outside the township of Orsa.

Hunterfir, as the uploader calls himself, says the object was filmed by his cousin from a sled, dragged by a four-wheeler driven by the cousin’s sister. Sometime later another video was uploaded where the cousin himself tells of the observation. There he says that he and his sister had been out all day and that it was at night that the object was filmed.

Sometime later Hunterfir puts out more videos on YouTube, including one where an “American visual effects expert” has reviewed the video and with a distorted voice affirms its authenticity. At that time what was the original video was also made available for download.

Hunterfir also had a number of other videos published on his YouTube channel, videos unrelated to the observation, and this is where I started hunting for clues, hoping that the people in and behind the video could be found.

From the start I firmly believed the video to be real but soon I became more skeptical to whether the event took place the way Hunterfir wanted us to think.

My search for the person behind the video took me to a time-lapse video on his YouTube-channel. In that video you can see the surroundings of a house or a farm, photographed from the same position during a whole year, with one image for each month.

The surroundings of the farm with fields and a long straight path can also be recognized in other videos on the same channel and I drew the conclusion that this is where Hunterfir lives.

Judging by the angle of the sunlight the road from the house goes to the west and this is a detail to keep in mind when the search for the farm continued using maps and satellite images. The flat landscape, early spring and the brief and snow sparse winter further drew suspicions that the farm were likely not in Dalecarlia but further south in Sweden.

Another video which was crucial in the hunt for the people behind the UFO video, and the site where it was shot, was recorded on an airplane. And once again I could see how Hunterfir aimed the camera towards the long straight road leading to the farm. It was clear that it was the same farm and further strengthened the suspicions that this was his home.

An important detail toward the end of that video is that one of the recently landed aircrafts at the airport was shot from angle where the aircrafts call sign was seen, which following a Google search led to Falköping’s Aero Club. A comparison of satellite images and what is seen from the camera’s perspective prior to landing, proves that it really was Falköping’s airport.

In the video it can be seen that the airplane went in for a landing with a left turn and therefore the search for the farm could be limited to the areas east of Falköping, towards Tidaholm. With the help of satellite images the farm could be found in this area and through the Swedish address search engine Hitta.se it was revealed who were living there.

At this point in the investigation we had some names to search for, and Google and Facebook answered most of it. Hunterfir and the cousin were in reality brothers and the girl who drove the four-wheeler was actually the brother’s daughter.

We couldn’t reach Hunterfir or his brother by phone. However I talked to their father, who when he heard the reason for my call, had a hard time holding back a laugh and said “No, we don’t know of any UFOs”. Which would be strange had the video been real.

When I looked a little closer to Hunterfir’s father I could see that he was the owner of a timeshare apartment in Sälen, which is likely where the idea to place the event in Orsa came from.

There’s no doubt that the video is fake. In a sequence where the driver obscures the object the ”saucer” appears over the driver’s collar for three frames. This error was later corrected in the video which was said to be the “original”. However, opening the video in a text editor such as Notepad++ reveals that it’s not an original as it says in plain text which software that was used to edit it and the time for said edits.

The program used was Adobe After Effects, a program used to create visual effects.

A mystery remained though and that was the location of the recording itself. Had it been made outside Orsa as Huntefir claimed? Or do I have to search elsewhere?

Here too there are some clues to look at. In the video light falls in from the northwest, but the sun doesn’t shine from that direction in Sweden in February. But Hunterfir stated later that the video was shot at night (and in that case the illumination should have been made by a full Moon).

But that doesn’t work out. The light and color temperature in the video indicate that it was made during the day, which is also revealed by the fact that the cameraman’s hand is brightly lit in a way the Moon could hardly do.

This made me investigate the site of the claimed observation (around Orsa where Hunterfir had supplied coordinates to pinpoint the observation) a second time and this showed that something didn’t match up when comparing satellite images and the surroundings in the video. On the satellite images there are large rocks in gravel pits, but no such things could be seen in the video. My conclusion was that the coordinates Hunterfir gave were made to mislead.

The search for the correct site then turned to the areas around the brother’s home and there a gravel pit could be found just a kilometer away which would match what was seen in the surroundings in the video.

To confirm this was the spot two people from Falköping went there with a camera, Erik Kyrkander and Daniel Svensson. They would both quickly conclude that this was the site. The trees in the video matched the trees on the site exactly as did other topographic features. What would have been a forest area near Orsa turned out to be a gravel pit in Tidaholm. This was where the “Orsa video” was shot.

As the correct site was now found, I could now see that the vegetation was too thick in the area where the object was seen flying for a few seconds. In the last sequence of the video the disc is seen flying at a very low height before reaching the trees in the glade. But there’s no passage there, it’s thick leaf and fir woods and unapproachable for a flying vessel as well.

Despite several emails to Hunterfir UFO-Sweden has never received any response. However he has submitted a report to UFO Evidence, an American website. The site of the observation is said to be Skövde and the date is 20 February 2012. Here Hunterfir says he is the cameraman and the four-wheeler is driven by his nephew. Entirely different information from what had been previously claimed.

The correct time for the recording would likely be during the school break on the 15th or 16th February 2012, as there was fresh fallen snow and the time around 11 or 12 before noon, not at night as Hunterfir claims, this can be seen from the angle of the incoming sunlight and the height of the Sun.

During the following three or four days the “UFO” was then added in with Adobe After Effects and on 19th February the video was ready to be published on YouTube – not without some mistakes where the biggest one was corrected two months later in what was then called the “original video”

There is no doubt that the “Orsa video” is a hoax created to fool millions of interested people.

Footnote: UFO-Sweden knows the names of the people behind the hoax but has chosen not to publish them.

Original article: Göran Lengqvist

Translation: Fredrik Aldhagen

Editing: Clas Svahn

Source: www.ufo.se