Aliens

Was a man transported in broad daylight from a suburban neighborhood into a UFO in a beam of energy or light? No, that's not true: This video was made by the YouTuber idiotpie in 2010 to improve and test their CGI skills and to get suggestions from their audience. They were forthcoming about their intentions in the original video captions…

Does this brief video show an alien spaceship that crashed into the ocean? No, that's not true: This video shows a model or animation of the fictional starship from "Star Wars," the Millennium Falcon. The audio featured in this video clip is a fictional radio transmission from the video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2." There are traces of…

Was a video recently leaked showing U.S. Marines and an international team of scientists on an Antarctic expedition to investigate three ancient pyramids, and did they explore inside the pyramids after they lost contact with their base? No, that's not true: This claim has two elements, the question of pyramids in Antarctica and the images of a mysterious military operation.…

Was the existence of reptilian aliens living in underground bases confirmed by retired Romanian Gen. Emil Strainu? No, that's not true: Contrary to its headline, this article does not mention underground bases, and there is no evidence presented to confirm that claim. The body of the article is a recycled, translated and abbreviated copy/paste derived from a forward Strainu wrote…

Did a video capture a demonic winged figure climbing to the top of a cathedral dome in Vatican City and flying away? No, that's not true: This is a computer generated animation that blends an animated demon figure with real footage of the dome of Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral in Granada, Nicaragua. The CGI video was created in…

Did Canada invoke its Emergencies Act for the first time ever? Yes, that's true, but Canada has had a similar law in place since Parliament adopted the War Measures Act in August 1914, shortly after the beginning of World War I. The War Measures Act was last used by then-Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau in 1970 during the October Crisis,…

Do 22 million illegal immigrants live in the United States, receive public benefits and vote illegally? No, that's mostly false: Two experts in public policy told Lead Stories that the number of illegal immigrants in the United States is closer to 11 million. Because they are not citizens, they cannot qualify for most public benefits and cannot vote in most…

Did someone record the finding of a triangular-shaped UFO aboard a U.S. Navy ship, the USS Gerald Ford? No, that's not true: A spokesperson from the U.S. Navy told Lead Stories that this claim is false, and sent us the original footage with no UFO on board. The supposed UFO seen on the USS Gerald Ford was photoshopped into the…

Is Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming a remnant of an ancient giant tree made out of silicon? No, that's not true: Devils Tower is sedimentary rock that got pushed up to the surface millions of years ago. The National Park Service website calls it an igneous intrusion. The way the rock cooled has allowed it to form the tree-trunk-like…

Were several world leaders photographed in meetings with aliens? No, that's not true: This collection of edited photos do not all come from the same source, but all have clear clues that they are fabricated and that none of the scenes are real. The collection of photos appears in a Facebook post on December 16, 2021. It was captioned: Extraterrestrial…