YouTube Channels and web sites producing and promoting UFO hoaxes
07TV - Creator of the Kassel, Germany UFO hoax that fooled quite a few people until some basic compositing errors were exposed. In July 2015 this channel had a new hoax supposedly shot by an airline passenger over the Swiss Alps, which was picked up by a few news sites and has also been debunked. Thankfully this project seems to have been largely abandoned, with the most recent single video posted in 2022 after a hiatus of 7 years.
Related: Kassel UFO Hoax
3CreepyTV - A channel that peddles "Illuminati" conspiracy material, trading on the proven concept that fear sells. Most videos include "Illuminati Exposed" in the title, and present unrelated clips compiled from news footage and set to music without ever presenting a coherent narrative. Instead, each video is a series of unfounded claims that the government, or evil celebrities, are conspiring to do... something. For example, "A MUST SEE! The BANNED Video With The Secret The US Government Is Hiding In Antarctica..." features a video that isn't banned, with someone on camera making a wild claim that Russian troops are poised to attack "an annunaki hive" in the frozen wastes (Do they live in hives? They must make some badass honey). Videos are often promoted with (of course) misleading thumbnails whose content appears nowhere in the video, and often stolen from other hoaxed videos or photos. 3CreepyTV is fear porn for the gullible, with the disclaimer "all videos are intended for entertainment purposes only."
Adam 1414 - Originating in Italy, this channel feeds off all manner of hoaxes and conspiracy theories, making graphic-heavy videos about sun anomalies, flat earth conspiracies, "reptilian shapeshifters" based on video compression artifacts, doomsday prophecies, and more. Promotes with intensely overwrought thumbnails.
ADGUKNEWS (see also StephenHannardADGUK) - Mostly misrepresentations of existing air and space footage, often of dubious origin. Some of the posts venture beyond UFOs into general oddities. A typical description will start with "A video has surfaced of what appears to be...", a weaselly method of creating plausible deniability. No new posts since 2014.
Alien Blog - (Facebook group) - Focuses primarily on CGI hoaxes alien sightings and interviews. Responsible for the Meni Tsirbas alien interview hoax getting thousands of shares.
Alien Disclosure Group - The channel started as a collection of UFO hoaxes stolen from YouTube, but has since expanded to include stolen UFO-related content featured on broadcast television. It's a mystery why ADG has not drawn a copyright strike from the dozens of news outlets they've reposted from.
Alien Planet - A collection of poorly conceived and executed UFO hoaxes. Most recent post was in early 2022. It has an apparent clone with an indentical logo (handles: @alienplanet4743 and @alienplanet4743) with much of the same stuff.
Alien Unleash - Originally laughably terrible CGI fakes, but recently the channel creator decided to come clean about their work and now describes the channel as "I make funny animations about futuristic stuff."
All Awesome - Similar in method to hoax channel Section 51 2.0, All Awesome finds background footage and adds in CGI spaceships and light effects, as well as copying and repeating old paranormal hoaxes that have been floating around YouTube for years. Also like Section 51, the hoaxes are easily detected and debunked by UFO of Interest. The domain contact for the related allawesome.net web site is listed as Chingan Cheng, and the related Facebook page is managed by Pheanyoun Vit, apparently of Nagano, Japan, who has apparently made some YouTubers unhappy by attempting to extort them by threatening false copyright claims. UPDATE: As of 2023 all YouTube, web site, Twitter and Facebook accounts for All Awesome have been deleted! Humanity wins!
Anomaly - Formerly titled "ISS UFO Watch", Anomaly presents lots of misrepresented lens flares, compression artifacts, and tiny bits of debris floating around the International Space Station. Also, a healthy dose of Mars pareidolia clips. "Finds" on the red planet include a number "7", a statue, a skeleton, a creature (posted twice), and a "strange figure." Most recent post is from 2021.
ApexTV - ApexTV once put together collections of CGI hoaxes, manipulated photos, misrepresented images and hoaxes aggregated from other sources including the usual viral UFO hoaxes from Secureteam 10, Thirdphaseofmoon, Streetcap1 and others. Recently it has focused on dozens of videos of "time travelers" and other topics include teleportation, strange and mythical creatures like mermaids, dragons and demons.
ArtAlienTV - This YouTube channel created by Joe White makes its living off crazy, baseless interpretations of Mars photos originally from the Curiosity rover and now continuing with Perseverance rover, adding up to 1,100 of unrelenting nonsense over 12 years.
Related: Mars Madness
Austin, Jon - This "Online Science Reporter" for the British tabloid The Express UK is a primary supporter and enabler of UFO and paranormal hoaxes that go viral online. Austin uses such stories as clickbait for his column, and subsequently lesser publications repeat the story without checking the quality of the source. Hoaxers Streetcap1, Scott C. Waring, Secureteam 10, Mister Enigma and others owe their high visibility and large subscriber bases to the free publicity provided by Austin and the Express UK.
Barney Winner 5 - Certainly a winner for most nonsensical channel name, most of the posts have titles that include the phrase "End Time Signs & Events". They feature scenes of disaster and strife (and a recurring hilarious illustration of Jesus boxing Satan) with voiceover of a Joe Frank-esque stream of consciousness religious sermon. You're only a winner if you stay away from this channel and its 5-7 advertising breaks per video. Most recent post is from 2020.
Beforeitsnews.com - Promotes any crackpot theory or hoax video clip/photo from any source in hopes of driving more traffic to the site. Watch for Disclosure to be predicted every single year of its existence.
Blast World Mysteries - Formerly named "Blast A", this channel once featured only ridiculous and insultingly bad UFO hoaxes, some created and some stolen. It has since expanded into poaching and misrepresenting paranormal news items from other sources, some years old and recycled to look new.
Budgetmoon - Nicknamed "Budgetballoon" and "Are You F*cking Serious?", this channel specializes in videos of balloons in flight.
Close Encounters UFO - Originating in Greece, this robot-voiced channel features primarily fake news, including "CIA Document Reveals the Truth about MARS, they have Discovered An Ancient Giant Alien Race" the source of which turns out to be an interview with a clairvoyant, and the "Earth Has A Second Moon" story, actually referring to an asteroid with a wide orbit around the Earth. Each post has a 30 second lead-in imploring you to "like" and "subscribe", and the channel is promoted using spam accounts on Facebook. Thankfully the most recent post was from 2020.
Conspiracy News Documentary - Mostly stolen content that was acquired with no regard to copyright or accuracy, including a second-hand theft of the hoax "UFO Attacks NASA Spaceship" from DarkSkyWatcher74, which was originally created by The Faking Hoaxer. A comment on the page that pointed to the original video was deleted, so there's no doubt this is intentional. Most recent post is from 2021.
Cousins, Blake and Brent - Arguably the two instigators who created the UFO hoaxing-for-profit model with their Third Phase of Moon YouTube channel. Armed with far more ambition than talent as CGI artists and filmmakers, their greatest "skill" has proven to be the ability to lie as a profession and ruminate at length about the contrived and composited videos they present. In recent years they appear to have farmed out their production and post work to other entities, who use a combination of visual effects and customized remote control drones to create hoax UFO video clips. As of July 2015 they've amassed a total of nearly 1,200 videos (some non-UFO related) and over a quarter million duped subscribers. In 2014 they released (free online) the science fiction drama Hangar 52: We Are Not Alone, demonstrating a stunning degree of ineptitude in screenwriting, direction, acting, visual storytelling and visual effects. The production makes it clear why the Cousins Brothers are relegated to creating fake UFO videos for a living.
DAHBOO77, DAHBOO777 - This channel started as mostly bad pareidolia-based misinterpretations of Mars images, but more recently focuses on conspiracy theories based on current events. Also posts re-reports of current events infused with his own conspiracy/doomsday theories-- usually these videos are simply a still image taken from the news with his own voiceover commentary. Will occasionally present a UFO hoax, or anything that might attract views.
Related: Mars Madness
Disclose.tv - Based in Germany, disclose.tv wil post anything they think will bring clicks and profit, including hoaxes of any kind; they seem particularly fond of fakes by Secureteam 10. The unique feature of this site is that all videos are *stolen* rather than linked. In other words, videos are downloaded from YouTube and re-uploaded to Disclose.tv in order to add their own advertising. This is done under the guise of being uploaded by the users of the site rather than the administrators, so Disclose.tv takes no responsibility for the material on its own pages. Videos by UFO Theater have been featured in this way no less than three times, and given the choice to link the original or remove the content, they've chosen to remove every time.
Disclosurer Radio - Modeled after the fear-mongering style of Secureteam 10 (listed in this channel's favorites), Disclosurer (?) pushes a narrative of persecution by the U. S. government. Some videos present mundane videos of aircraft misrepresented as something sinister (US Military Using Commercial Aircraft To Track Americans!), while others are visual effects composites (737 Commercial Jet Stopping In mid-air flying backwards). While the compositing is better than Secureteam's, mistakes are made with focus and perspective.
Earth & Space News - Stolen hoaxes from other sources including the Kaschuba Brothers, WTF Flow and anything else that might be floating around, including The Faking Hoaxer's Mission to Mars video. Most recent post was from 2017.
Enigma en la Historia -- Ovnis Actuales - An apparent side project of defunct hoax channel jmhz71, this channel originating in Mexico features balloons, misrepresented footage, and stolen UFO documentary segments; basically anything that can be scraped off the bottom of YouTube and used to generate some views. Over 1,100 videos and still actively posting.
EriGIA007 - Will post everything and anything of potential interest, including misrepresented Mars Curiosity and SOHO images, viral hoaxes (example: "Alert: Bananas were found infected with AIDS in Mexico"), and UFO clips with the classic characteristic of starting and ending for no reason. Made fun of these jokers in UFO Theater Episode 1 for their ridiculous graphics.
Related: UFO Theater Episode 1
ExtraterrestrialMind - Hoaxes and non-UFO footage stolen from around YouTube, including a Brazilian telecom commercial represented as a real sighting, and an entire stolen documentary called "Thrive," broken into three parts titled "UFO's & Free Energy". Most recent post is from 2013.
FindingUFO - While not as awful as some other 100% hoax channels, FindingUFO has refused to remove numerous hoaxes identified in their playlist, and should not be trusted to provide authentic sightings.
gm30001 - Clips without any attribution or context, most often low resolution shots of balls of light in the sky, at least one of which is clearly a police helicopter. Every video has the same creepy drone audio track with a heartbeat sound effect. The real giveaway is that every one of the thumbnails for their videos is a completely fabricated image that doesn't actually appear in the video. Most recent post was from 2016.
Igor Kryan - Channel featuring bizarre animal attacks, sexual images. Most relevant to UFOs is a video titled "30 Best 2016 HD Alien UFO Encounters Caught On Camera That Will Make Skeptics Believe" that features all manner of hoaxed and misrepresented footage including mylar balloons, bad CGI and reflections in windows. Video titles look like a mashup of keywords designed to game YouTube's search function, such as "Turkey HAARP Earthquake Tectonic Weapon Spawn Mega Quake Tesla Earthquake Machine." Don't review this garbage without a hot shower and some brain bleach handy. Or preferably don't view it at all.
Ilias, "Dr." J. Andy - Longtime shill for the Third Phase of Moon YouTube hoax channel, this decidedly non-Phd attorney showed a penchant for filling time with useless chatter. Consequently he now has his own YouTube channel, and a radio show on Art Bell's Dark Matter Digital Network. After spending time with the Cousins Brothers exploiting the Malaysia Flight MH370 disappearance for profit, there's nowhere for Andy to go but up.
Incredible News E3 - Incredible News E3 - Incredibly ridiculous paranormal stories, many duplicated from around YouTube but with misspelled titles. Based on older posts like "Pacu, el pez que come testiculos humanos" (Pacu, the fish that eats human testicles) the unnamed channel owner is likely a Spanish speaker. Robot-voiced videos include "EXTRATERRESTRIAL SORCERERS [sic] FOUND UNDER THE POLAR ICE CAPS" (taking a cue from hoaxers UFOVNI and Secureteam 10), "Mysterious vortex appear on the Large Hadron Collider" (stolen from hoaxer Section 51). Incredible News E3 simply regurgitates existing stories with a minimum of effort, in some cases only presenting two still photos for an entire 3 minute video. Very active in before 2021, but few current posts.
iufosightings - Formerly called NDestination Unknown before it disappeared from Youtube, this is not so much a UFO channel as a 3D model asset catalog. Over 2,400 videos and not a single authentic sighting. Every UFO clip is a computer modeled spaceship composited against a landscape background or still photo. Every. Single. One. This uploader is so prolific they have resorted to recycling the same spaceship models in multiple videos with a different background thrown in. iufosightings represents a dogged commitment to the constant creation of utterly worthless trash, and its scope is mind-blowing.
Related:
UFO Theater Episode 2
The Best UFO Catalog
Kaschuba Brothers - Purported owners of the audiocolorworld.com domain (anonymized through the registrar) and creators of at least eight hoax YouTube channels, debunked by Scott Brando (ufoofinterest.org) Metabunk.org and others.In sum, a herpetic rash on the body of UFOlogy. Their techniques include use of CGI 3D models, fake camera movement, and blurring and obscuring of key details that would clearly reveal how their images have been manipulated.
Latest UFO Sightings - A number of CGI and misrepresentation hoaxes, in addition to content stolen from around YouTube including episodes of a Czech paranormal TV series called Odhalení Mimozemské spisy (Disclosure of Alien Writings).
Looknowtv - What started as a poorly executed hoax factory has morphed into a compilation of shock videos stolen from around the internet. In order to find the UFO content you'd have to scroll back to 2019.
marinodelfino - Not confined to UFOs, this channel covers several kinds of hoaxed paranormal activity, mostly presenting digital video artifacts as evidence of "shapeshifting reptilians." They're quite fond of using eerie sound effects and glitchy motion graphics and stock images to dress up their nonsense. Most recent post was from 2022.
misterio canal - A Spanish language channel that features any number of sensational clips including unusual insects, and giant snakes, as well as insultingly bad UFO hoaxes. Prime example is the"Teletransportación de nave nodriza" video featured in the tabloid Daily Express in September 2016. Also a smattering of stolen hoaxes, including Section 51's "UFO Portal Over CERN." Thankfully, their most recent post was in 2019.
Mr Anomalous - Balloons of all shapes and sizes. Activity has slowed down of late. Most recent post is from 2022, and only 4 total videos from that year.
NowYouKnow - A collection of standard paranormal news tripe, including Mars pareidolia clips, questionable cryptozoology photos, bigfoot, witches, mermaids, etc. Appears to be content taken from another channel as most of the posts were uploaded en masse once a month starting in August 2016. Most recent post is from 2019.
Of Sound Mind And Body - New name for an old hoax channel. See Mister UFO/Mister Enigma.
Omega Ovnis Ufos - Has the distinction of being the first Facebook group to be added to The Black List. There's no hoax too unbelievable to be downloaded from YouTube and re-uploaded to their pages, which seem to get shared constantly. Regularly posts stolen content. Most of the branding appears to have been removed, but we were able to identify at least one hoax from Secureteam 10, and others look straight from the Kaschuba Brothers. Thankfully activity has slowed to around 4 posts per year as of 2022.
Paranormal Crucible - Channel mostly dedicated to wild and ridiculous interpretations of unusually shaped rocks on Mars, using photos taken by the Curiosity rover. Will sometimes engage in UFO clips, mythical creatures, an 800-year-old mobile phone found in Austria and other nonsense. Most recent post is from 2019.
Related: Mars Madness
Plasmoid Anomalies Study Group - Originally titled just "Anomalies Study Group, this is a "study" of various types of balloons in flight mostly made of mylar, infused with technical sounding nonsense. For example, a semi-inflated balloon with ribbon attached is a "morphing anomaly with floating tether." Too ridiculous to parody.
Pot Boys - YouTube channel dedicated to doctored photos, hoaxes repeated from other channels and misrepresenting lens flares and the moon in ISS footage.
Sandboxten - Features hilariously misleading thumbnails promoting faked videos UFOs, witches and ghosts. The UFO clips are hoaxes stolen from other channels and several bad CGI fakes. The "witch" videos are the most absurd, one featuring a silhouetted peacock perched in a tree, and another a woman simply gesturing in an open field. How this train wreck of a channel accumulated over 300,000 subscribers is anybody's guess. They seem to have stopped posting in the last year, so we can only hope this is the end of Sandboxten.
Scary Videos - Not exclusively featuring UFOs, but the UFO videos this channel presents are all nearly 100% poorly executed CGI and composited fakes. The "About" YouTube page links to hoaxer Alien Planet, so the same person likely owns both.
SecretScienceTV - Another Kaschuba brothers project that never quite gained momentum. Less than 700 subscribers and last post was in 2013.
secureteam10 (Tyler Glockner) - The story of this channel is... a journey. Originally Tyler Glockner simply used deceptive interpretations of footage and some silly Photoshop work, but eventually grew its viewership with significant help from pretend journalist Jon Austin of the Express.co.uk web site. He attempted to have a UFO Theater debunking video removed from Youtube and Vimeo with false copyright claims. UFO Theater later released a more comprehensive debunking video that essential puts to rest any notion that Glocker's work is legitimate. secureteam10 continues to be promoted by a number of disreputable tabloids and as a result has collected a large number of subscribers, giving his channel the appearance of authenticity. In December 2019, Glockner was arrested for domestic violence and assault, later claiming he was "set up" by unnamed persons who wanted to put a stop to his YouTube channel. For a time Secureteam 10's videos were made "unlisted" due to a copyright claim against his channel logo, which was stolen from a graphic artist named J.J. Ying. Glockner has ceased using the stolen logo, and videos are now being posted using a new one. Sadly, none of Glockner's experiences have caused him to reflect on his misdeeds and focus his attention elsewhere; with over 2 million subscribers it's probably too profitable. And, it's likely all he knows how to do.
Related:
Speedebunking: Secureteam10
On The Wings of Fail: Secureteam10
The (Annotated) Truth About Secureteam10
Tyler Glockner’s public arrest record
UFO of Interest: Secureteam10’s stolen logo
Slapped Ham - It was easy to dismiss this compilation of "countdowns, lists and facts about everything" as another viral trash collector, until this: "Thanks to Section 51 for collaborating with us on this one. For more amazing UFO footage check out their channel." Obviously, facts are not a concern, so paranormal viral hoaxes are littered throughout the Slapped Ham playlist. Most of the posts are poorly executed paranormal hoaxes, with thumbnails featuring the ridiculous red circles and arrows that are a dead giveaway the channel is nonsense.
Strangeness Video - Varied faked material stolen from around the net, including the "Massachusetts UFO Releasing Orbs" hoax and the Michigan UFO hoax, both animated over still backgrounds. Plus alien attacks, shape-shifting Obama, blah, blah, blah.
StrangeThings - Typical of the common low cost, quick-profit UFO hoax channel: stolen viral clips, misrepresented photos and insultingly bad CGI fakes; has since expanded to include any kind of shock video. Tries to generate views via at least one social media shill account.
Streetcap1 - Created by Scotland resident George Graham (aka George Orwell Smith), this channel relies on gross misrepresentation of images, primarily in video feeds from the International Space Station. There seems to be no lens flare, moonrise, or anomaly in a Solar and Heliospheric Observatory image that Streetcap1 won't pounce on and present as evidence of an extraterrestrial visit. Tabloids promoting Streetcap1's videos will often attempt to beef up the story with an opinion from know-nothing Scott C. Waring, who will confirm any sighting as authentic in order to promote his name and web site. Graham passed away in June 2018 (and was memorialized in a video by Waring) and thankfully no one has taken up the mantle, because no posts have appeared since then.
SuspectSky - Originally created as a promotional channel for an online science fiction series which never materialized, this has devolved into just another hoax channel. Some of the clips are original CGI hoaxes, and the balance are misrepresented phenomena and clips stolen from channels like Thirdphaseofmoon.
THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE - As it turns out, it is very possible to misrepresent ordinary phenomena with a load of nonsense and gain over 50,000 subscribers. Lens flares misrepresented as multiple suns, clouds are said to be lit "wrong" and claimed to be hiding planets, lights in the sky are called SCARY UFO PORTALS. And then of course, the usual nutty mermaids, Nibiru "sightings", Nazi UFOs, and plenty of over-the-top sensational video titles that include the phrases "footage included" (pushing the envelope by putting video on YouTube) and WOW! BREAKING! SCARY! WTF! UNREAL! At least that last one is accurate. Not real at all. TII doesn't stoop to putting bright red circles and arrows in their thumbnails like other crap channels; instead, theirs are green.
The Cosmos News - Re-hashes of trending events from other channels using some extra graphic flash, and their own fact-free embellishment.
Related: No, Edward Snowden Did Not Reveal Anything About UFOs
The Inquisitr (inquisitr.com) - In an online ecosystem overpopulated with cut-and-paste news sites, The Inquisitr sits at the bottom of the heap. Will repost any idiotic paranormal news story from any hoax source, even those too stupid for British tabloids. Low point so far: promoting a debunked photo of a solar farm in Nevada, represented by hoaxer Mister Enigma as a giant UFO. The substance of the article was a "debate" regarding whether the photo was a solar farm or a giant UFO in the exact location of a known solar farm.
The New Dawn - Spanish language channel featuring stolen hoaxes and misrepresented footage from around YouTube, including Thirdphaseofmoon, Section 51 2.0, The Faking Hoaxer, the Meni Tsirbas alien interview, an Aphex Twin video, and many others.
Thirdphaseofmoon - As best I can tell, some time between 2008 and 2011 a couple of mediocre filmmakers discovered that posting UFO videos on YouTube was a viable business model, and they've done very well for themselves. It was a perfect area for them to exploit: production standards are extremely low, and plausibility is almost a non-issue. Producers/CGI artists Blake and Brett Cousins may not create all the hoax UFO shots on their channel (only around 90% of them are hoaxes) but they certainly don't care about authenticity; it's all just more content. They've made their channel a full-time business and crank out 2 to 3 videos a week, some of them hoax videos, some of them inane interviews devoid of originality or insight. Due to their large audience the Cousins brothers made a comfortable living for themselves over the years, upgrading their equipment and CGI models. And you know the idiotic red arrows normally seen in the thumbails of garbage channels? Theirs have drop shadows! Classy! In 2014 they exploited the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, suggesting the plane disappeared due to a "mass alien abduction." In March of 2023 Thirdphaseofmoon celebrates its 15th anniversary, and has the continued distinction of being the dumbest UFO channel on YouTube. Now THAT's saying something.
Related:
UFO Theater Episode 1
UFO Theater Episode 2
Thirdphaseofmoon Is Dumb, Thinks You’re Dumber
Hoaxplosion! Thirdphaseofmoon Blows Up
Hoaxers, Where Are You Going With This?
UFO Field Research Organization (Fausto Perez) - Another balloon show in which light/reflective inflatables of various shapes drift lazily across the sky. The hook for this channel seems to be the coverage of peoples' live reactions to the balloons as they're being taped.
UFO Release - A collection of dementedly bad CGI spaceship clips similar to those created by hoaxers iUFO Sightings and Section 51 2.0, only more ineptly conceived and executed. As one comment put it, "I can see the polygons."
UFO SECTION 51 - Previously titled "Section 51 2.0" this channel created by French CGI artist Jean "JH" Wzgarda that once exploited authentic military footage by adding CGI spaceships. At one point the original channel, was "limited" by YouTube, possibly due to fraud complaints, so it split off into a second channel named Aurora 51. In a bizarre about-face, Wzgarda then started referring to his hoaxes as a "web series" and asking for money to support it. He later stopped using military footage and renamed the channel Section 51 2.0, but continued the use of ridiculous-looking computer generated UFOs that sometimes earn him tabloid publicity. Wzgarda was outed by Scott Brando of ufoofinterest.org, and an amusing back-and-forth between Wyzgarda and UFO Theater ensued on Facebook. In February of 2017 Wzgarda lodged a privacy complaint against a video that directly associated him with his Section 51 2.0 YouTube channel, but that complaint was rejected when YouTube discovered he had been publicly identified as the owner of domain associated with the channel in registrar records. His videos continue to be debunked as viewers have recently started locating the stock and found footage he uses for backgrounds. In December of 2018, Wzgarda finally came clean in a video confessing that "sorry guys, it was all CGI," and has since labeled all his remaining videos as such.
Related:
Section 51 Goes Section 8
Hoaxers, Where Are You Going With This?
A Brief History of Section 51 2.0
UFO shack - Rehashed collections of hoax videos from other channels with extremely misleading thumbnails. Most recent post is from 2015.
UFO Sightings Daily (Scott Waring) - No practitioner of visual effects, Mr. Waring makes his living using narration to misrepresent images as evidence of UFOs or strange activity: an oddly shaped cloud, a strangely shaped rock on Mars or the moon, and the like. In one video he spends 4 minutes trying to convince us a smudge in a still photo of a volcano (likely the blurry image of a bird) is a UFO. Claims there's a speedboat on Mars. Waring uses his malware-infested ufosightingsdaily.com web site to act as carnival barker for well-established hoaxers such as Streetcap1, Secureteam 10 and LookNowTV, and others. Writer Jon Austin of the UK tabloid The Express once fooled Waring into claiming a video clip of planes landing at Heathrow airport were UFOs, yet continues to quote Waring in UFO stories.
Related: Scott Waring Stupidity Level: Legendary
UFO TV - Not to be confused with the channel of the same name, different handle (@UFOTV vs. @UFOTV1) that features UFO documentaries, this channel posts 100% CGI fakes stolen from other hoax channels, promoted with completely unrelated thumbnail images stolen from hoaxers Secureteam 10, LookNowTV and Section 51 2.0. Most recent post is from 2022 .
UFO World - Just 5 videos that are compilations of dubious footage, all posted in 2022. In spite of the meager offerings, somehow this channel has accumulated over 4,000.
UFODI - A "backup channel" after the original was deleted for a variety of YouTube violations, UFODI eatures hoaxes from LookNowTV, Secureteam 10, Streetcap1 and Scott Waring. Most recent post is from 2019.
UFOfilesTV - CGI hoaxes likely created by the Kaschuba brothers.
ufointernationalproject.com - After raising a profanity-laced stink over being included on the Black List, these jokers were taken off and given the opportunity to remove hoaxes featured on their site: LookNowTV, Streetcap1, Mister Enigma and others shat out by the tabloid press. Not only has the site not been cleaned up, but in March 2016 decided to go with a ginned-up story about an offhand joke made by space station astronaut Scott Kelly as an admission of the existence of aliens. This was disingenuously combined with a long-ago debunked tweeted photo of a "UFO", which was proven to be part of the space station. Their return to The Black List resulted in more personal threats, profanity, accusations of a DDOS attack, a torrid campaign of anti-UFO Theater Facebook posts on various pages, and sworn promises of legal action. Difficult to tell if the site is still active because all articles are undated.
UFOmania - The truth is out there - Another robot-voiced channel full of fake news, with each post presented as photo montage around a fabricated story. Examples include "Mass Evacuation Of Antarctica as Special Ops And Military Moving In", "The CIA Explored Mars And Discovered An Ancient Giant " and "Doorway Into Pluto Found In Latest NASA Photo." Scientifically baseless trash that will only leave you dumber. The byline "'Ufomania' is an entertainment Youtube Channel" tells you all you need to know.
Ufomania 2015 - Hoaxes stolen from other channels and set to music, with (sometimes multiple) icons applied to cover up the source branding. Uses extremely misleading thumbnails. Most recent post was early 2022.
UFONEARSUN - myunhauzen74 - Created by Russian Alexey Sapozhnikov, posts to this channel are all based on wildly misrepresented specks and errors in Solar and Heliospheric Observatory images, colorfully described as UFOs, angels, spheres, and in one case, a giant worm. A slow but steady pace of posting since 2010, amounting to over 2,200 videos.
UFOs & Aliens Santana - Yet another garbage trove of viral hoaxes stolen from around YouTube.
ufothetruthisoutthere.blogspot.com - Companion web site to the UFOmania YouTube channel. Posts any sensationalist trash to drive traffic to their advertising-heavy site, including material from hoax channels like Secureteam 10 or Thirdphaseofmoon.
UFOvni2012 - Created by French amateur astronomer Éric Giavedoni, who also serves as on-camera host , this channel is s mishmash of misrepresented atmospheric phenomena, bad interpretations of NASA images (very first video: Discovery Of Live Animals On MARS), including completely unfounded speculation that the MH370 disappearance was a mass abduction, since removed.
Related: Hoax! UFOvni2012 Debunked
UFOvnis - Posts sensational paranormal videos of all kinds with Spanish titles, though the channel claims to originate in Japan. Includes stolen content and clips enhanced with badly executed visual effects. Most thumbnails involve provocatively dressed women and a ubiquitous red arrow, one assumes because the channel manager read somewhere that this will increase clicks.
VARBAGE - Daringly, appropriately rhymed with garbage, yet another computer-voiced channel that capitalizes on hoaxes and big lie headlines including "DOOMSDAY WARNING: Moon is on COLLISION COURSE with Earth, say scientists!", failing to mention that "doomsday" will becoming around the time our sun starts to die. The channel no longer exists, but it's listed here because we're happy to report it's been replaced by the Baby Fun Time Channel. What could be better?
Vik Mancini - Mr. Mancini is a Facebook enigma. At first glance he seems to be a regular guy who enjoys making music and playing with his dog. However, if you frequent UFO-related pages and groups, he's a distribution hub for UFO hoaxes. Mancini is fond of posting video clips of bad fakes that are never sourced, and defy analysis because they've been uploaded to Facebook, which degrades the image quality to the point that the method used to create the fake can't be discerned. Every video is captioned with one of several broken English phrases ending in a question mark (?), most frequently: Mystery sky ? Time ? Hey ? He has been asked why he does this, and won't respond. Now, there are plenty of simple minded people passing around ridiculous looking UFO hoaxes on YouTube. If they ever decided to organize, Vik Mancini would be their king-- the King of Simpleton. His videos inexplicably get shared tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of times. It's likely you wouldn't be able to frequent UFO groups for a week without being exposed to one of the silly, badly constructed fakes he's pushing. Why he does it, and why they are shared so often is anybody's guess-- could Facebook be using his videos as a honeypot to collect data on gullible people? We may never know.
ViralDark7 - A showcase of the idiotic, ViralDark7 features easily or previously debunked hoaxes and sensational footage collected from other channels on YouTube, served in easy to digest "Top 5" or "Top 10" format. "5 Angels Caught On Camera Flying 2016" for example, features amateurish CGI clips mixed with a long-ago debunked clip from a computer game. Thankfully the most recent post is from 2018.
x-u-f-o.blogspot.com - Simply reposts links to hoaxes by Secureteam 10, Myunhauzen74, UFOvni2012, Art Alien TV and others.
xxxdonutzxxx - Likely created by the Kaschuba brothers, this collection of blurred CGI videos have hung around without any new posts since 2013.
ZV UFO - A few rarely seen clips, but most stolen from Secureteam 10, Thirdphaseofmoon, Section 51, LookNowTV, and others that have gone viral. No posts since 2015.