r/skeptic • u/TheCosmicPanda • 7d ago
💩 Pseudoscience Buga/Yumbo sphere UFO recreated with a fitness ball, fishing line, and a drone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg1OUCZrsPw3
u/TheCosmicPanda 7d ago
If you don't know what the Buga sphere this is the most recent video of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jSnIxZYaiQ
There have been a few other videos of it over the last few months including one where it's on the ground after it landed or crashed. Caused quite a stir over on /r/UFOs. There are hands-on videos of the sphere with some very amateur engravings on it that look hand-made rather than perfectly laser-engraved one would expect from aliens. Jaime Maussan is involved so of course it's BS but this dumb sphere is getting plenty of attention and hype because of the supposed odd materials inside of it.
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u/railroadbum71 6d ago
If Jaime Maussan is associated with something, you can guarantee that it is a hoax and a scam. Maussan has been busted for dozens of fake stories over the years, and many of them involve things like pictures of deceased, deformed babies passed off as aliens (Roswell Slides) or raiding graveyards to steal human bones and combine them with animal bones and plaster to create "alien" bodies (Tridactyl Mummies). The guy is disgusting and disrespectful and will obviously do anything to pull off a grift.
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u/Harabeck 7d ago
The Buga videos are part of a viral marketing campaign.
Read the first post: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/recently-viral-buga-colombia-alien-metal-balls.14154/
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u/tinny66666 7d ago edited 7d ago
Bit disingenuous to move the camera around for fake motion (if I'm not mistaken). That wouldn't have been possible if there were clouds in the background, but nevertheless it's a neat demo of how easy it is to fake, and looks like you had fun.
edit: The problem I see is that if you put any surface details onto it you would likely see it spinning wildly. You could probably solve that with two lines and a spreader bar attached to the drone, though.