After highly realistic looking videos hit the web via YouTube showing UFO’s both in Haiti and the Dominican Republic and dubbed by many as ‘the best UFO videos ever’, Barzolff, a 35 year old professional animator going by the name of barzolff814 and who attended one of the most prestigious art schools in France, has finally owned to David Sarno of the Los Angeles Times that he made the video himself - its all fake.
The videos, especially that of the one supposedly filmed in Haiti, caused perhaps the most intense discussions on its authenticity amongst UFO believers and non-believers alike. The video in Haiti begins with a woman gasping but continuing to film an apparently massive UFO pass over her in Haiti. A couple of things were strange with the videos though they largely looked very authentic:
- In the Haiti UFO video, the woman who catches the UFOs on film gasps when the UFO comes into view but does not continue gasping throughout the video - we thought that was fishy for someone witnessing the massive underside of one flying overhead as it flew alongside another UFO. In addition to this, she has her camera trained on the section of sky (behind a coconut tree) before the UFO comes fully into sight - the behavioral pattern should have been in sequence:
- gasps,
- asks herself ‘what is that?’,
- trains camera,
- gasps again,
- gasps all the way through and moans in disbelief whilst filming.
- Either that or was she supposed to have been innocently filming a couple of coconut tree heads just for the fun of it before the UFOs suddenly come into sight? What was Barzollf918 thinking when he thought up this sequence - did he want it to be like this in order to leave clues?
- The Haiti UFO did not look like any other ever witnessed before - it had suction-like spinning nodes on its underside that seemed unusual to many; not disregarding the fact that they looked either like upside down coconut trees or short spider legs.
- The Haiti UFO had a discernible humming of the engines as they flew overhead -from what we all knew about UFOs, they were supposed to be silent
- The Dominican Republic UFO had a sort of thin diamond shaped structure atop its shape which seemed very fake.
- In the Dominican Republic video, the same type UFO appears that appeared in the Haiti video but (and this was the fishiest part) the shot seemed to have been taken from a different angle as that UFO seemed to take a course identical to the one in Haiti - miles away as though the UFO was filmed by another witness from another angle right there in Haiti - it was then I really began to doubt the authenticity of the two films.
Although the topic of the coconut trees busied many that they all looked too much alike, I myself could not identify with this theory since, living in a tropical island, I found that many coconut trees of the same type could be quite that similar. I laughed at that one with the view that some people think that all Japanese or Asian people looked alike, especially if they were not familiar with such people.
Barzolff informed David Sarno of the Los Angeles Times that it took him a total of 17 hours to make both the Haiti and Dominican Republic videos. He did it all by himself using a MacBook Pro and a suite of commercially available 3-D animation programs, including Vue 6. The videos are 100 percent computer-generated.
The videos, he said, were intended as research for a feature film project he’s been working on with Partizan, the France-based production company responsible for, among others, Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” When contacted to verify the story, “Eternal Sunshine” producer Georges Bermann said it was all true, and that Barzolff was “an absolute genius” who could “make anything look entirely real.”
The videos, he said, were research for a feature film project. Barzolff called the results of his experiment “entertaining, thrilling, completely addictive and a little scary.” The scary part, he said, was that in spite of the evidence, “many people refuse to believe it’s a hoax.”
To contact David Sarno of the Los Angeles Times: david.sarno@latimes.com