Good call! The video seemed a bit creepy at first, but it quickly jumped into my mind as I watched the camera pan and then zoom giving the “stick” the appearance of moving. Videos that play on perspective have been appearing since YouTube was born.

One that jumps to mind is the “ghost that walks across the road”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyyiMiQr1lE

It turns out to be nothing more than a dirty windshield, but thousands of people were caught up in this video as it made the rounds years ago.

This begs the question of the other videos of stick men. How are these being created and is there any merit to the claims of these creatures being real?

If we surmise everything to be known, no one needs to be a skeptic since we know the disposition of everything. In reality, that is not the case.

Belief in something need not be rooted in factual evidence. Years ago scientists believed in the existence of black holes, yet had no evidence. Mathmatically, Einstein proposed the theory, yet it was not conclusively proven until recently, historically speaking. Religious belief is the equivalent of faith, and faith is the trust or hope in something. To say “I believe in something” is just the trust or hope in the subject at hand.

I think you bring up good questions.
We cannot (and should not) fully proclaim what this is unless we have the full video at hand to analyze as well as other evidence we can attain.

Unfortunately, this is all that was given to the investigators. (I know spanish)

Which also brings me to the “Fresno Stick alien” case. I got a response from the person who has a copy of the original security camera footage of the supposed aliens, but they do not want to release any of this footage.

So this brings up the other question you had. Could this just be another CGI hoax, if they video owners do not want to release the full original (and better quality) videos?

I don’t speak good Spanish either but here’s why it might be a hoax:

Why are the two men filming this sequence of events? Is the man being filmed talking about seeing a creature in the jungle? If he is, then that totally makes me believe this a CGI HOAX. It’s just to coincidential that all this would happen in a 1-2 minute frame.

Going further to prove it a hoax, where is the original footage past the 2 minute clip we see. What do the men do after that clip? Where is the original footage so that it can be translated and observed for analysis? Why hast the original filmmaker come forward to identify himself? He has nothing to fear, in my opinion being they are near the jungle perhaps they discovered a previously unknown lifeform? But no ofcourse not. As usual there are too many of these obvious questions that merit honest answers but that no one has the power to answer.

In other words, skepticism that starts from the premise that everything “possible” is already known.

In my opinion, that’s more akin to a religious belief than a philosophical underpinning.

Richard, skepticism is not really a belief ’system’ as much as it is a philosophical underpinning. The circumstances leading to someone to say “I Believe” are the same as those who come to say “I’m a Democrat/Republican” or “Vegetarian”. You learned/experience something, and right or wrong, you ‘buy’ into it and thus it becomes part of your philisophical psyche. Skeptics do not question *everything*, just some things. I gaurantee you a bonafide skeptic has his/her subjects where someone else may be skeptical, yet the skeptic is not.

I am staying away from the Fresno video until we have something more concrete. It was, after all, a video of a video and I’m still curious why the original has not been released, stating authentic or fake.

I agree, the videos are very interesting to all sorts of people.
I emailed Victor Camacho from Desvelado.com.

I believe he might have a hi-res good quality video of the “fresno alien”.

I like your opinion on how it could be elementals or a hoax using stilts.

Let’s see if we can get a copy of that video…..

Another thing that Greg Bishop pointed out. Why do these figures, if genuine, have to be “alien?” If anything, they appear more like nature “elementals.”

Or maybe they’re another example of John Keel’s “ultraterrestrials.”

If anything, whether genuine or fake, they are neat little pop culture artifacts, aren’t they?

It’s interesting that you brought up the UFO report in London that was recently in the news:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/5007735/UFOs-photographed-over-London.html

I saw that and I immediately recognized ceiling lamps reflecting on a window. This is probably why the photographer reported not seeing the “UFO” craft while looking out the window.

As far as the “stick alien” video; it’s difficult to make a sound decision based on poor quality video. Still, when I review the video I still see the stick/twig in the foreground.

Who’s to say. I would still love to get a better copy of that Fresno video.