Comments on: Thunderbirds Are Go!

By: BronzeSteel

BronzeSteel — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:45:09 +0000

The brunette in the blue distracted me from the video on my first viewing.

It’s a hoax, a very clever hoax.

By: GreatNorthBlades

GreatNorthBlades — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:31:26 +0000

@Goodfoot…….There is a population of Golden Eagles on Isle Royale in Lake Superior. I have personally seen a group of them, probably laying over during a migration, at Lake Hudson State Park, apx. 25 miles north of the Michigan/Ohio state line last June.

They’re fairly rare in these parts, but they do occasionally move through. Bald Eagles (I actually think the bird in the video is an immature Baldie) are much more common.

By: mandors

mandors — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:29:55 +0000

Loren, we need the link that confirms the hoax, if it is one.

By: chewbaccalacca

chewbaccalacca — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:42:15 +0000

I don’t know whether this video is real or fake, but either way it’s an interesting study in gullibility vs. skepticism–though perhaps not in the way some would think.

When the video came out, skeptics (rightfully) questioned its authenticity, since anything can be faked on video these days, and so asked to see more evidence. Just as I did.

But then when someone in Montreal comes out and says his students did the video, skeptics universally accept this claim at face value–without asking to see any evidence to back it up, strangely. (This, despite the fact there could well be a profit motive behind a computer animation school taking credit for something like this, as a way to generate more enrollment.)

Fascinating, how one’s standards of evidence shift when the claims are in line with one’s own beliefs.

By: D2K4

D2K4 — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 07:05:56 +0000

Could someone share a link confirming that this is fake please instead of just posting that it’s been confirmed as such?

By: Cryptidcrazy

Cryptidcrazy — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:34:04 +0000

I’m no bird expert, but that doesn’t look like any golden eagle I ever saw. It looks more like a Stellars Sea Eagle which is significantly larger. They are an intimidating bird. I can’t be sure, but something just looks off about it.

By: keeganjohn

keeganjohn — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:25:40 +0000

Hey Loren, would you mind explaining how exactly it was faked? My first thought was that it was a fake baby with a trained eagle, but I’ve never been very good at telling how something is faked.

By: Goodfoot

Goodfoot — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:58:44 +0000

Anyhow, don’t believe there are golden eagles in eastern North America! And I saw golden eagles in NM regularly – this is one outsized eagle! Nice piece of fakery, though…

By: Bill Macgregor via Facebook

Bill Macgregor via Facebook — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:35:26 +0000

looks pretty legit. the clearest shot of it lifting off has to be slowed down to be seen. plus it’s not shot from inside a tent or behind a bush

By: cryptokellie

cryptokellie — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:34:54 +0000

A very nice job but…fake.

I loved the original “Thunderbirds”. Did you know that the Tracy brothers were named after the Mercury Astronauts?

Allen, Virgil, John, Scott and Gordon.

Fab.