Koi UFO Video 070: F14B Tomcat / UFO Recovery ("The Orion Conspiracy")
[DEBUNKED] Koi UFO Video 070 ("The Orion Conspiracy") shows various still photographs (including the one below), apparently as part of a slide show in a secret briefing.
Some of those still photos (particularly the one below) have become popular on social media website such as Facebook.
As detailed below, the video is in fact a short fictional movie by Seb Janiak (a French photographer and director) containing numerous hoaxed photos (some of which were created for the video whereas others were hoaxes borrowed from other sources).
Sections below:
2. Stories and claims relating to this video
3. The real background to this video
4. Relevant online discussions
1. The relevant video
The futuristic F-14 / UFO photograph is a still photograph shown 48 seconds into Part 2 of "The Orion Conspiracy" video embedded above.
A screenshot is included below for ease of identification.
2. Stories and claims relating to this video
Some members of social media websites have posted this video (or photographs in it) as evidence that flying saucers were built by the Nazis and later by the USA.
3. The real background to this video
In fact, "The Orion Conspiracy" video was created by Seb Janiak. He is a photographer and director living in Paris, France with a long-term interest in creating realistic images using computer software.
Seb Janiak has a website relating to his work which includes a biography that refers to his photographic career spanning 25 years. That biography includes details of his use of computer software to create realistic images of a sci-fi world :
"In 1987, images could be created and digitally enhanced using Quantel Paintbox. Seb Janiak was one of the very first people to extend its use beyond the TV and film applications for which it was originally designed in order to produce photographic images for exhibition. In these photographs, scenes of unbridled fantasy were reconstructed with a hitherto unprecedented degree of realism. This marked the dawn of a new photographic esthetic. A variety of different shots taken all over the world could be assembled digitally into large-format images conjuring up a sci-fi world suffused with the staggering transparency of photography"
Seb Janiak's website includes copies of the various photographs used in the video and allows access to larger versions of those photographs upon entry of an access code shown after the credits at the end of his movie (Orion99).
http://theorionconspiracy.com/
The original (unedited) photo of the above photo can be traced back to a photograph entitled "F14 - Crete" taken on 8 June 2002 and posted by "Jack" on his Flickr account.
According to a press release issued by Phoenix International Inc in 2002 (embedded below), that company located and recovered the relevant US Navy F-14B Tomcat from 9,840 ft. in the Mediterranean Sea south of Crete. The F-14B had been lost during carrier launch operations aboard USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV 67). Phoenix’s Remotely Operated Vehicle, Remora II, re-located the aircraft using a CTFM forward looking sonar. The main body was recovered on June 6th using the Navy’s Fly Away Deep Ocean Salvage System.
That press release includes another image of the recovery of the F14. An enlarged copy of that image is embedded below.
Not all the photos in "The Orion Conspiracy" were created for that video. For example, the slide-show in the video aslo includes:
(1) photos of a dummy in a well-known display at the UFO museum in Roswell (i.e. Koi Alien Photo 34).
(2) A hoaxed of a giant skeleton. This photo which won third prize in an online Photoshop competition in 2002 called "Archaeological Anomalies 2" on the Worth1000 website. That competition invited contestants to create a hoax archaeological discovery. The artist that created this image used the username "IronKite". He entitled the image "Giants".
4. Relevant online discussions
Relevant discussions on the AboveTopSecret.com forum include the following:
2008 (June) discussion entitled "The Orion Conspiracy video"
2008 (July) discussion entitled "The Orion Conspiracy"
2010 (October) discussion entitled "SpaceShip found by scientist in Antarctic picture (From Movie: The Orion Conspiracy)"
2011 (November) discussion entitled "The Orion Conspiracy"
2012 (January) discussion entitled "Is this real or from a movie? Recovery of a crashed F-14"
2008 (June) discussion entitled "The Orion Conspiracy(Recovered)"
2008 (June) discussion entitled "Look at the size of this thing! (Faked images from Orion Conspiracy movie)"
2008 (June) discussion entitled "UFO Discovered Under Ice .. Disclosure Imminent??"