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re: "Ethical Hoaxing"

Several years ago, a coworker and I discussed creating a UFO hoax video. He is a very talented graphics artist and we were doing 3D animation on the job. We had access to SoftImage software (the same used to create the dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park") and George certainly had the talent to pull it off. It would've been easy.

The idea was to create some "video" showing a UFO flying over Colorado and release it to the usual suspects, then sit back and laugh. We thought it'd be funny to have a "This is a hoax" label on the UFO and see if any of the "UFO experts" would see it.

We never did it in large part because it would've been a misuse of company resources and probably could've gotten us fired. Besides, picking on the mentally ungifted would've been cruel.

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