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AUSTRALIAN UFO WAVE
”Produced in Association with the Australian Film Commission.”
In April 2006, the Australian Film Commission funded an experimental more...digital video project by director Christopher Kenworthy. Between June and mid-August 2006 thirty-one clips of UFOs were created. The UFO videos were distributed over the internet via websites and video podcasts, as well as being presented at a website titled the Australian UFO Wave.
By the middle of 2006, word about the videos spread, as new videos continued to be added - some were excited by the footage, others remained cynical. The project was hugely successful, being viewed by many millions of people. Very few people suspected that the clips were manufactured. Gradually, the level of plausibility was reduced, but only when the last two clips were uploaded did a large number of people get suspicious. (At the start of August, a new video - this time of an actual alien - seemed to tip the scales for most everyone in favour of the site being a hoax.)
So, in mid-August, an Australian filmmaker by the name of Christopher Kenworthy stepped forward to claim responsibility, describing the project not as a hoax or deception, but as "an immersive artwork".
Christopher Kenworthy also revealed that the site was part of a larger project, that of creating a documentary about the 'immersive artwork' and public reaction, which was made possible by a grant from the Australian Film Commission.
So can it still be classed as a funded disinformation campaign when it’s openly stated as such? (Well, it was stated a couple of months after the first clips were uploaded.)
Anyway, here’s the 31 clips in their entirety.
(I added the, “Fake Footage” text, just in case, well, you know…….) less
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