After Hill posted his "merging UFOs" video to Abovetopsecret.com, a popular paranormal discussion board, the thread took on a skeptical slant. Hill claimed he pointed his camera directly north, toward Canada.
But with the help of a flight-tracking map, one skeptic claims Hill's camera is more likely pointing to the west and is probably filming the incoming flight path of two distant planes in an S-shaped landing pattern. AboveTopSecret.com has labeled Hill's video a hoax.
Hill denied the video is a hoax. "It can't be an airplane because there's no blinking lights," he said. "It's one solid light (and) the lights are also flying in two different directions." The Federal Aviation Administration requires that planes flying at night turn on blinking or pulsating lights.
An official from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport said the airport went to a "near simultaneous" take-off and landing plan in 2003, which sent planes in flight patterns over Lake Erie.
After adopting the new system, people began calling the airport saying they witnessed a near-air collision, but it is an optical illusion: The planes look like they are on top of each other, but are actually miles apart, said the official. In addition, Hopkins runs a smaller airport near the lake, not far from where Hill films. Both airports share the same northerly flight paths.
Ben Radford, a paranormal investigator and managing editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, said YouTube is fueling a UFO frenzy.
"The problem is anyone can post anything and call it a UFO, a ghost, but there's no filter," he says. "You don't know if that person has a history of hoaxes or mental illness. What happens is a real case is drowned out by a sea of hoaxes, mistakes or misidentifications."
The Examiner Reports on MUFON Investigator Comments...
Bright light activity over Lake Erie near Euclid, Ohio, continued Tuesday evening as a regular pattern seemed to emerge, according to Ohio Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Field Investigator Tom Wertman.
Wertman was reached this evening by cell phone at the beach area overlooking Lake Erie near the Euclid apartment building at 9 p.m. where witness Eugene Erlikh, 20, has been reporting continued UFO activity.
But Wertman had two groups set up Tuesday. His group was at Euclid. A second group was to the west at Lakewood and just north of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport southwest of Euclid.
Wertman said the first sighting was at 8:24 p.m. of a bright light at 297 degrees which started dim, but got brighter on the horizon.
"The object came out of the northwest as something approaching," Wertman said. "You could see it getting brighter. And it moved toward the southwest, toward the group at Lakewood."
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