Faking UFO photos for the twenty-first century: for a modern planetarium show, an astronomer/program producer created a variety of fake UFO images as a way of showing audiences how easily such photos can be done. From: Skeptical Inquirer | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: Callen, Tom | COPYRIGHT 2003 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

As the producer responsible for bringing Cosmonova's * latest public planetarium show, "UFO--The Truth is Here," to reality, I knew that one aspect of the UFO phenomenon that would be important to cover would be that of fake photographs. Ever since so-called flying saucers were first spotted in the 1940s, a variety of people around the world have created fake images that they claimed were authentic. The vast majority of these images have been exposed as the frauds they are. And yet...