Is this Viral marketing similar to the sort of Alternate Reality (?) kind of scavanger hunts that some companies use. I think one of the rock bands--Nine Inch Nails used something like that. Anyway, it was to sell music. So maybe this is a way to sell some new technology. Fedex drone delivery service.

@Jeff-Minor: I think it's some kind of Google product. Something to do with Android?

Must be for them new-fangled floating chandeliers.
"I get the how of it but not the why..."

Comment on CGI Artist Did Not Create UFO Pics -- Who Did? I frequent Abovetopsecret.com quite a bit and I think the consensus there was that the photos were in some way linked to the ethanhaaswasright.com viral stuff which ended up being related to this new RPG type game www.alphaomegathegame.com ...which supposedly shares similar symbology of that on the aircraft/drones in the pictures. it would be cool if it was a mystery though.

@Grey_Area:

I wouldn't mind one of those hanging in my dining room.

Myabe it's purpose is as a hoax.

Why did you think it was a viral marketing campaign in the first place?

Ok, I confess.

It was me.

I'd rather have the brain trust here take on some of the stranger NASA footage.

I mean, just because something is wierd doesn't mean it's conspiracies and little green men.

Might be fun.

@lonewolf333: Because I am so jaded that I just assume all cool things are intended to sell me something.

That Kris guy really hooked up that video though. Wicked.

@dingleberry: I agree; I'm really getting into it. Not rip-up-the-landscaping-and-toss-it-through-the-living-room-window, but more I-want-to-paint-my-bike-with-the-glyphs.

this is most likely a hoax, but i don't think part of any viral marketing campaign. if so, they need a new ad agency, because these pics have been around for a year now, with no product having emerged. last summer, everyone was convinced that they were viral marketing for halo 3.

again, i think it is probably a hoax, but if you need some conspiracy in your life, do a google search for "isaac" and "caret", and feel the plot thicken...

@Jeff-Minor: The term you're looking for here is ARG: Alternate Reality Game. Which have become a particularly popular method for marketing towards the tech savvy internet youth demographic.

Ok, so let me get this straight. He didn't make the photos, but he did make very accurate 3D models based on the photos. Which he then used to make a video.

He didn't create the CARET document, but he did piece it all together, and then animate it.

Wow.

I am not sure I buy it. I have zero experience with making complex 3D models, but I would assume that it would involve some work. Could those early photos have given him enough data to make such accurate representations?

Is there anyone with anything approaching the knowledge needed to say if that is plausible?

Otherwise I am still calling shenanigans.

@btgoss: Depending on the quality and number of the photos, the angle they're taken from, and the skill of the modeller, it is possible to reconstruct a 3D model that arbitrarily matches the images. It's not easy by any means, but for something that's kind of angular and mechanical looking, like the machine pictured here, it could be done by a good modeller.

As a side note, there's a whole sub-branch of computer graphics and computer vision work, called "image based modelling" or "shape from vision" that deals with automating this process. It wouldn't work very well on the objects in these shots, because of all their self-occluding bits, but again it's not outside the realm of possibility.

Yeahhhh, you got it right. lol

Here's a real in depth article I did on the new discovery by the private investigators and what they HAVE found over the past week.

Alien Casebook Blogspot
[aliencasebook.blogspot.com]

@btgoss: I sit beside one of the guys who modeled the Nebuchadnezzar (Matrix)...I've worked with him for about 5 years - I'll put money on him being able to make this model, based on the pictures that were, no pun intended, floating around the net last year in less than an average 8 hour day at work, texturing would be not much more than another day...this kind of abstract hard surface stuff is quite easy...
and these days with cameras that can get HDR imagery doing something like this : [i214.photobucket.com]
isn't hard at all...when I first saw this I said it was CG...but very good CG...a video will tell a different story, Avery's "Drone" video is clearly CG - the animation gives it away immediately...
I love this shit :)
aliens - no aliens...either way I'm happy!

oh and this stuff:
[isaaccaret.fortunecity.com]
the CARET report thingy
I'm calling bullshit on...
these types of images are in a VERY popular style of CG...
look in the galleries
[www.maxwellrender.com]
[www.suurland.com]
the high gloss, diffuse lighting and the 'infinite background' are standard fare...

I find it incredibly hard to believe that the photos aren't linked to the video. This guy is really going to completely take the design from the photos, without knowing who did the original work, and put them into a music video giving himself the credit?

I could see him making models that looked similar... But identical? I don't believe it.

@Annalee Newitz: Wow that is jaded.

Anyway I think its more of a Government Black Ops disinformation campaign. I've been listening to too much Art Bell.

aren't these those pictures that were released just before Transformers came out last year? Part of some alternate reality thing they were doing? Maybe they're for Transformers 2 or something.

If the UFOs were real, we'd have more than these few pictures, I'm sure.

@Naikrovek: Those pictures outdates the movie.

Ello. I just wanted to respond to the below comment...

"I find it incredibly hard to believe that the photos aren't linked to the video. This guy is really going to completely take the design from the photos, without knowing who did the original work, and put them into a music video giving himself the credit?

I could see him making models that looked similar... But identical? I don't believe it. "

There were a number of reasons to the music video. The main ones are known. But... depending on which side of the fence you fall, there is a reasoned argument, that creating something such as the music video, which uses the images/models/diagrams that were put out there, that it had the potential to draw out the hoaxer/s and for them to sue me. To date that hasn't happened. This maybe bodes well for the case that it might be real.
As such, it was put out there as an alien design, so if the aliens want to sue me, then so be it.

I still come down on the side of this being a hoax, but, I also still hold out hope that it might in fact turn out to be real. Time will tell.

What many people miss is that I didn't set out to debunk this case, more to level the playing field. Many people, including someone who has posted a comment above, said that my graphics didn't match up to the quality of the images that were originally out there. So I worked hard to do so. It seemed ridiculous to me, that someone would use the argument, that because my graphics didn't look as good as the original images, that it only goes to prove that they are more than likely real! Madness.
There are CG artists out there that are many times better than me, and to use such a comparison is a little ignorant.

Some wouldn't accept CG in any way. Their blindness to possibilities only made my will that much stronger. My detractors ironically are the ones that pushed me on.

The drone case is one without conclusion. No solid facts either way. Merely theories. To theorise that it is a hoax, and study it from that angle is as valid as studying it from the point of view that it is real.
To openly believe something is real without checking that it isn't a hoax first is folly.

We all know that the alien crafts in Spielberg's close encounters are special effects. But what if the film had never come out, but those effects had been created and put out on the net as real. Could anyone prove them to be fake? If you just blindly believed them to be real, without looking from the opposite side of the fence first, then you believe in something that isn't real. Essentially, propagating a lie.

To me, the best way of looking at UFO images, is to start out with the premise that they could be fake, and when all avenues of investigation turn up nothing, only then can you can start looking at the potential that they are real.

The images in the music video will never look as good as the stills. Creating a moving image that stands up to scrutiny is extremely difficult. But creating a still, you have the luxury of spending time on it. Everything can be touched up in photoshop in post. All traces of fakery (especially in the digital realm) can be removed.

The drone case raises many more questions than it answers, and I don't presume to hold any keys. All I have is merely one solution and angle. It may not be correct.

One last thing. The music video was a solo production. Kaptive Studios is one man. Me. I had no funding, and have made zero money from it to this day. It was created as a personal project, and it was all done in my spare time. I had a big gap between jobs back then, and it seemed to be a perfect opportunity to create a music video. Something I had wanted to do for a long time. I don't know about anyone else, but personally, I like to keep busy. I also like to try out new things. The music video presented that chance.
There is no Government, no organisation, no no one behind this video but me and Drone the musician. It is free to copy, download, share, show. I want people to enjoy it for what it is, and not use it as some sort of proof of anything. I just hope that enough people see it, so it draws more attention to this very strange UFO case.
If these drones are real, and people have seen them (as there are supposedly many people who have seen them that haven't submitted a report), then the truth will eventually out. If they are real, then fantastic! But only time will ever tell.

Sorry for the essay, but I just think that these things needed saying and clarifying.

Cheers ears,

Kris

these old images arent viral anything. They are what is known as a hoax.

@ideaman2020: No, I am Spartacus!

He's in completely the wrong job lol.

I've seen better drones/droids. The one on Hoth was a great evil drone.

@btgoss: Yes it's possible to create a 3D model of those craft based on the photos.

As much as I want to believe those are real, the fact that they used Katakana characters as a supposed alien language is just silly. Or maybe the Japanese know something we don't? ¬_¬

Hoax or no, kewl design.

It was me, there.

If you look at the documents with the strange writing, it is the same as the writing that Alienware uses to customize their computers. If you go and customize a laptop, near the end, you can put an engraving on the bottom, and the writing is the same. Currently I am trying to decode as much as possible. But my theory is that Alienware saw the language and then used it for their own purposes.

Comment on CGI Artist Did Not Create UFO Pics -- Who Did? Why do they always have to be created by humans? Why does it always have to be CGI and a hoax? Why is that always the default position of most people? It mystifies me. After all, they have as little proof that they are hoaxes as I do that they are real. Yet this point of view is supposed to be the 'sensible' one! Well, prove it then! Who did them and how? I'm waiting...

I looked at this in October last year:

[www.wunderkabinett.co.uk]

It was interesting to see that people were suspicious but Kris dropped a note in and I'm happy to believe he isn't responsible. I've seen a few of these pass before and if it is a fake for promotional purposes (either a viral ad for something or a demonstration of your skills) then the reveal would have happened long ago. This has rather gone off the boil and the moment has passed. When Whitley Stieber claimed to have seen one at the end of last year. it was just met with eye rolling (and probably some face-pulling too ;) ):

[www.wunderkabinett.co.uk]

If it is a fake (and the difficulty in tracking down witnesses and sites of the sightings suggests so) then we may to look for another explanation - a joke that got out of hand, memetic engineering, etc?

The most recent explanation seems to be that it is a human-made anti-grav device based on the Philadelphia Experiment:

[www.wunderkabinett.co.uk]

It has become an almost unkillable monster but I'd be very interested to see how it pans out and the reports from aliencontactee show there is still some forward movement in this. I'll be watching developments with interest.