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UFO expert claims to have

made a shocking discovery
about alien visitations of

Earth

By Jon Austin

A UFO expert has sensationally
claimed there is one thing that unites
ALL unidentified flying object images
and videos that have been captured
across the globe.

Fox News Hears About Aliens, Sees
Dollar Signs, Says Sure

Scott Brando has spent several years examining
thousands of so-called UFO photographs and
videos, and concluded there has NEVER been
an alien craft captuted on camera or that has ever
visited Earth.
He says every single one of them can be
explained away by normal science. An unofficial blacklist of hoaxers has
Mr Brando, who runs the website been drawn up by these websites. History’s Most Infamous
ufoofinterest.org which exposes false and In an article about hoaxers on his UFO Sightings
misleading alleged UFO and alien revelations, website, Mr Brando said (translated from
says there has never been a photograph or video Italian): "The Internet, video sharing and social
recorded of a real UFO, flying saucer, or alien networks, such as YouTube, YouReporter,
craft, even though he does believe their is extra Facebook and Twitter, on the one hand led to a
terrestrial life out there somewhere. rapid dissemination, consultation and feedback
He said he has been able to come up with of the UFO phenomenon, and on the other,
plausible explanations for every one he has seen unfortunately have determined the uncontrolled
so far. viral spread of false sighting products through
The Italian initially set out to research the manipulation of photos and videos that have
the subject in the hope of finding proof of aliens, seriously altered both the regular perception of
but while many UFO buffs appear to allow their the phenomenon."
will to believe to cloud their judgement when it While many UFO website feature
comes to a suspect shot, Mr Brando will not be articles with headlines such as 'conclusive proof
convinced by anything short of the real deal. of aliens,' ufoointerest.org's are more along the
He told Express.co.uk: "At this time lines of 'UFO Sightings of 2015: another year of
there are no REAL unexplained UFO sightings. fakes and hoaxes'. UFOs aren’t a new phenomenon. In fact,
I have been looking for them for many years." One case which made recent headlines in humans have been describing unidentified
He said he has examined most well the Derbyshire area was a "possible UFO" flying objects for millennia, with depictions
known cases and many new ones, but admitted caught on camera by Ernest Redfern, 85, who of disk-like objects and unusual atmospheric
there were too many to have investigated all found a strange white shape in a picture he took objects found in the art and literature of
cases. of a rainbow over Derby last month. ancient civilizations from the Sumerians and
He said: "Yes I (have looked) into most Express.co.uk asked Mr Brando to cast the Egyptians to the Greeks and Romans.
UFO pictures, but you know there are too many his eye over the UFO image. But the modern era of UFOs took off
cases, so it is impossible to analyse them all." He quickly responded with a still taken in the middle of the 20th century, right around
But of the thousands he has looked at, he from Mr Redfern's Facebook page. the time rockets and high-tech aircraft were
said: "Over the last five years, on thousands of He said: "About the supposed UFO being devised, often in secret. Coincidence?
investigated cases, 30 per cent were lens flares." sighting over Derby, I found the best images Paranoia? Perhaps.
His website is billed as 'UFO sightings, from the Facebook account of Ernest Redfern.
alien and related phenomena under thorough It's just a seagull." 01: Kenneth Arnold, 1947
investigation'. So what next for his website?
It features sections on the various types Mr Brando said: "My main interest is to 02: Roswell, 1947
of alleged UFO pictures, and whether they really verify the true origin of each supposed ufo
are such as lens flares (when a light source being sighting to understand what it hides: a real 03: Lubbock Lights, 1951
photographed gets internally fractured inside the event? a hoax? a misunderstanding?
camera and appears elsewhere on the final "So I'd like to know what remains of 04: Levelland, 1957
image), blurbs (blurred birds, planes or ufology when you clear it of all falsehoods.
balloons), reflections snapped through windows, "I truly believe in an extraterrestrial life, 05: Tehran, 1976
blimps (airships), clouds, and those that are out but I don't know if there is an alien intelligence
and out hoaxes. over our Earth, but I like to think there is. 06: Rendlesham Forest, 1980
Mr Brando and those behind other "However, I believe in evidence and
similar websites, such as Ufotheater.com, are objectivity, and at the moment there are no 07: The Belgium Wave, 1989-90
campaigning against YouTube UFO hoaxers proofs that aliens are visiting our world." []
who release fake and misrepresented footage.