UFO Videos and the People Behind Them
In the last couple of decades, hundreds of video clips of suspected UFOs have come to light. Almost all of them are most likely hoaxes or misidentifications of natural or man-made objects. The stories behind them are almost always interesting, or hilarious.
This one has been floating around the internet for about 7 months. It supposedly shows the crash of a UFO at or near the White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico, circa 1997. The footage was “surfaced” by a guy named Ted Loman, who is a story in himself.
In 1973, Loman was convinced that a flying saucer was going to pick him up on a mountaintop in Baja California and take him back to his home planet. He never made it to the rendezvous, but in 1989, Loman had a serious accident while working with melted silver and lost his left eye. He stayed at his parents’ Idaho home while recuperating and his father read UFO books to him.
By 1997, he had moved to Tucson, Arizona and was producing a cable access program called UFOAZ Talks. His 15 minutes of fame arrived as the result of an interview he conducted with representatives of the Heaven’s Gate group, just a few months before they all did away with themselves. After a run of 5 years, and a couple of name changes, the show went off the air. Loman returned to Idaho to work on a crash-retrieval documentary called It Fell From The Sky. The White Sands video was apparently supposed to open the film with a bang, as it were.
When asked about the source of the video, Loman is apparently evasive and has hinted that he received it from Mexican UFO media maven Jaime Maussan–hardly a monument of integrity himself. Some observers like Peter Gersten, have commented that the clip was probably computer-generated. This interview with Loman doesn’t impress me with anything in particular, but perhaps he simply wants to be well-liked, like the character (also named Loman) in Arthur Miller’s famous play, Death Of A Salesman.
The video looks to me like a rocket test gone awry. The glowing “disc’ shape may be some sort of exhaust. What do you think?
This entry was posted
on Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 at 1:11 pm and is filed under Crash Sites, Hoaxes, UFOlogy, UFOs On Film, Videos, Wake Up Down There. You can follow responses via RSS 2.0 feed.
You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is not allowed.
del.icio.us Digg Reddit Ma.gnolia Technorati Help
- Related News Stories:
- YouTube Videos Mystery Solved »
- Not Another UFO Video! »
- “Living Alien” Video To Be Shown Today »
- Aliens Shot Down Meteorite To Save Us »
- It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane… »
|
Jun 05 2007 
June 5th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Greg:
I think the real story behind the vast majority of so-called UFO videos is the people themselves, and not the videos. Billy Meier would be at the top of that list.
Paul
June 5th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
i’d have to agree, probably computer-generated. whoever made it did a pretty good job though, admittedly.
June 6th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Wow! Nice to finally see the footage I’d been hearing about. Thanks for posting a link to it Greg.
Interesting footage whether simply a failed rocket test or otherwise. Love the big skip effect, “like a saucer skipping on the water…” - until it bursts into dazzling sparkler-works!
Ted Loman! There’s a name I’ve not heard in ten years. I’ve still got some vids of his old UFOAZ TALK shows.
SMiles
June 12th, 2007 at 9:49 am
I recently wrote three articles about this video for the New Mexico Daily Lobo, and you can read them at http://www.mystrangenewmexico.com. It’s a very interesting piece of footage.
Personally, I now believe that Ted Loman did not make this video–I believe it’s some sort of test footage from White Sands Missile Range, circa 1996–but I do believe that Mexican UFOlogist hand quite a hand in dishonestly promoting it.
See my articles for more info: “UFOs Will Crash, Parts I, II, and III” at http://www.mystrangenewmexico.com.
Great website, by the way! I like the concise entries and skeptical humor.
June 12th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Mike,
I saw your site, a couple of weeks ago and immediately liked it. I have also read the articles. It seems that some of the best UFO investigating is done by open-minded people who otherwise have little abiding interest in the subject.
I didn’t think that Loman made it either, but was possibly taken in by whoever supplied it to him, as you reported in part 3 of your series on the the video. Don’t get too caught up in UFO stuff, it’ll drive you nuts!
Is the Daily Lobo published by the University there in ABQ? Also, are you working on/ aware of the “Weird New Mexico” book coming out from the Weird US people? I wrote a greater portion of the California volume.