[meteorite-list] San Luis Potosi hoax

[Eric Christensen]

Hi all,



I'll add my voice to the doubters: this is not a real event.  A rather rudimentary analysis of the videos show some obvious signs of fakery:

http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=5F7ySYpB1RM

If after watching this video you are still convinced that this was a real event, then consider the source for the videos, especially the first one showing the putative bolide "incidentally" recorded while filming a train.  The YouTube user "Estrella Verde" originally posted this video.  Around the same time, this user also posted two other videos, one showing floating spheres above San Luis Potosi, and another showing "earthquake lights or HAARP attacks", also filmed from a car while on the highway.  Both appear to be digitally manipulated.  Other videos that this user posted or commented on reference paranormal or UFO activity.

The parking lot video looks like someone applied the "security camera filter" in Photoshop.  Was that the only security camera in all of S.L.P, home to 1 million people?  Also, where are the other 6-8 videos from the people holding up their cell phones in the plaza (video #5)?  Why are none of the videographers or surrounding people shouting in surprise?  There is a complete lack of corroborating evidence for an event of this magnitude outside these 5 videos.  Where are the eyewitnesses, newspaper reports, sonic booms, or data from scientific sensor networks?  I checked English and Spanish language newspapers from central Mexico for the days around Aug 21, and came up completely empty...not a peep until the first video appeared on Aug. 23.  Compare this to Chelyabinsk, when there were dozens of videos online within hours of the event.

Add this to the already strong evidence presented by Rob Matson and Marco Langbroek, and I think there's really no room left for doubt.  This is not even a meteorite hoax.  It's a UFO hoax.

Regards,

Eric Christensen
Principal Investigator
Catalina Sky Survey