Koi UFO Video 120 : Sphere UFOs over Bosnia (Section 51)
[DEBUNKED] Koi UFO Video 120 appears to show several spherical UFOs hovering over a town which has a river flowing through the middle of it. A caption at the beginning of the video states "April 2016 - Bosnia & Herzegovina, Mostar - Mysterious Sphere UFOs spotted flying over the village...". A logo on the UFO video refers to "Section 51".
This video was posted online in late April 2016 by "Section 51" with the title "SPHERE UFOs fly over BOSNIA !!! April 2016". Text accompanying the video stated "April 2016 - Bosnia, Mostar. Sphere UFOs were filmed by tourist while flying over the village of Mostar few weeks after the discovery of mysterious giant sphere near Zavidovici."
This is one of Section 51's more basic videos and has been less successful than most of the other videos on this channel. After about 6 weeks online, this video still had been viewed less than 17,000 views times (which is a very modest number by Section 51's usual standards of success).
As discussed below, the spherical UFOs have been added to a photograph of Mostar, a city in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina. The relevant photo is featured in a video of Mostar produced by a travel agency ("Balkan Tour"). The angles of the items in the photographs and the shadows can be seen to be the same in the "UFO" video. The background in the "UFO" video has been cropped just above the travel agency's logo that appeared in the source footage.
As I've been trying to point out to the UFO community since about the middle of 2015, "Section 51" is a small team that has previously describe THEMSELVES as "Internet-video creators specialized in dreaming up sci-fi, action YouTube videos, jam-packed with stunning VFX". They offer various incentives for those prepared to provide funding for their projects. For example, in return for a small fee, they offer to take the video of your choice and "we insert an original UFO on it". Few of the discussions of Section 51's videos mention these facts, which I consider rather important to any meaningful assessment of the reliability of the many "UFO" videos posted by "Section 51" - several of which I have previously discussed...
Sections below:
2. Stories and claims relating to this video
3. The real background to this video
4. Relevant online discussions
1. The relevant video
Koi UFO Video 120 appears to show several spherical UFOs hovering over a town which has a river flowing through the middle of it. A caption at the beginning of the video states "April 2016 - Bosnia & Herzegovina, Mostar - Mysterious Sphere UFOs spotted flying over the village...". A logo on the UFO video refers to "Section 51".
Screen shots from this video are included below for ease of identification.
2. Stories and claims relating to this video
This video was posted online in late April 2016 by "Section 51" with the title "SPHERE UFOs fly over BOSNIA !!! April 2016". Text accompanying the video stated "April 2016 - Bosnia, Mostar. Sphere UFOs were filmed by tourist while flying over the village of Mostar few weeks after the discovery of mysterious giant sphere near Zavidovici."
This is one of Section 51's more basic videos and has been less successful than most of the other videos on this channel. After about 6 weeks online, this video still had been viewed less than 17,000 views times (which is a very modest number by Section 51's usual standards of success).
3. The real background to this video
In fact, the spherical UFOs have been added to a photograph of Mostar, a city in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina. The relevant photo is featured in a video of Mostar produced by a travel agency ("Balkan Tour").
The angles of the items in the photographs and the shadows can be seen to be the same in the "UFO" video. The background in the "UFO" video has been cropped just above the travel agency's logo that appeared in the source footage.
The relevant photograph of Mostar appears at 3 to 4 seconds into the footage shown below (with thanks to Italian UFO researcher Scott Brando, who runs ufoofinterest.org and also regularly posts information on his Twitter page about UFO hoaxes, for finding this footage):
Here is a screen shot from 3 seconds into that original footage:
The source footage was uploaded to Youtube in early April 2016 by Balkan Tour, a tour agency. Thus, the source footage was online several weeks before the UFO video was uploaded.
The logo in the UFO video refers to "Section 51", a name which commonly appears on lists of known/probable hoaxers of UFO videos - such as a black list on the amusing "UFO Theater" website:
As I've repeatedly tried to communicate to the UFO community, behind the Youtube username that uploaded this "UFO" video (i.e. Section 51) is a in fact a small team that has described THEMSELVES as "Internet-video creators specialized in dreaming up sci-fi, action YouTube videos, jam-packed with stunning VFX". They offer various incentives for those prepared to provide funding for their science-fiction projects (which include planned movies). The incentives include offering, for a small fee, to take the video of your choice and "we insert an original UFO on it".
So now you know what present to get for the ufologist that has everything!
The various other "UFO" videos created by "Section 51" include Koi UFO Video 085. That appears to show a triangular craft causing a large explosion, with a tank in the foreground. It was uploaded to Youtube in May 2014 with a caption stating that it US marines had filmed a mysterious UFO attacking a Taliban cam in the Asadabad District of Afghanistan in March 2014. Many of the early comments on the video speculated that it should a TR-3B (a secret flying triangle aircraft operated by the US Air Force). One copy of the video on Youtube has approximately 2.5 million views as at October 2014. The video was the subject of an article by a popular British newspaper, The Daily Maill. In fact, the "triangular craft" was CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) inserted into footage of an explosion which had been online since 2007, i.e. for about 7 years before the "UFO" event supposedly occurred.
Other "UFO" videos created by "Section 51" (in relation to which I have previously posted the original footage into which a "UFO" was composited by Section 51...) include Koi UFO Video 104, which supposedly shows a UFO attacking China - but in fact is edited footage of a tanker explosion:
Other videos created by "Section 51" debunked on this website include Koi UFO Video 111:
4. Relevant online discussions
Quite a few comments on this UFO video were posted in the comments section on Youtube. As at June 2016, the number of "thumbs up" votes for this "UFO" video on Youtube were double the number of "thumbs down" votes.
