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Images, clips & hoaxes
Browse 33 source-linked records about images, clips & hoaxes, with evidence labels, original sources and limitations.
Historical artifacts, claims and scientific context retain their own labels. Inclusion in this collection does not establish a claim as true.
- fabricated discovery
600-million-year-old tiny humanoid fossils
Snopes found no supporting scientific publication and documented manipulated skeletal imagery and inconsistent institutional details.
- satellite-image interpretation
A 400-foot ship is concealed in Antarctic ice
The reporting documents a shape-based interpretation, not an inspected vessel or authenticated wreck discovery. Resemblance in remote imagery alone cannot establish a ship.
- image hoax
Antarctic retrieval photos
Modern artwork, not photographs.
- misidentification
Artificial Antarctic pyramids
Pyramid-shaped mountain peaks are natural geological formations.
- image hoax
Black structure in an iceberg proves a lost city
The particular article and images were not evidence of a discovery. The conclusion should not be generalized into a claim that every subglacial feature is fully known.
- hoax
Buzz Aldrin evil warning
Tweet fabricated; documented evacuation concerned altitude sickness.
- image interpretation
Eltanin seabed antenna
The standard identification is a carnivorous sponge, Chondrocladia concrescens. This is Southern Ocean expedition lore, not a land feature.
- admitted image fiction
Frozen giant hand image
Creator explicitly disclosed Photoshop artwork; not an archaeological find.
- AI hoax and synthetic media
Frozen unknown creatures discovered in 2024 video
Teyit traced the video to an account identifying its AI production and documented visual artifacts; it is not verified discovery footage.
- image interpretation
Giant Antarctic staircase or landing installation
These are competing readings of one image, consolidated as one entry rather than counted separately.
- image interpretation
Giant door near Showa Station
The thread contains incompatible explanations. A satellite resemblance does not show a functioning doorway; no on-site investigation is provided.
- misidentification
Giant pre-Flood tree stump
Sampled rock is dolerite/diabase, not petrified wood.
- misidentification
Google Earth Antarctic kraken
Object identified as rocks, not a verified organism.
- fabricated discovery
Heat-emitting crystal orbs
No authenticated discovery; futuristic visuals are not physical evidence.
- digital-video hoax
Helicopter footage captures an Antarctic UFO
The video was traced to visual-effects artist Colton Kirkegaard and described as rendered in Unreal Engine, rather than filmed evidence.
- hoax
Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer
Discover April Fool fiction.
- hoax
IceBridge buried settlement
Fabricated story used unrelated imagery including Saqqara, Egypt.
- image interpretation
King George Island disappearing cave cover-up
Snow cover and seasonal changes are ordinary alternatives; the cited discussion does not establish intervention.
- AI hoax and synthetic media
Lost Byrd photographs show ancient monuments
Creator Tim Boucher told France 24 the pictures were generated with DALL-E; the book contained an AI disclaimer.
- video hoax
Marines investigating three pyramids
Altered Alaska exercise footage and natural peaks do not establish this mission.
- misidentification
Neumayer webcam Nibiru
Reported conventional explanation is an atmospheric research balloon.
- imagery misinformation
No genuine Antarctic photographs from space
NASA and other public satellite programs publish Antarctic imagery; incomplete coverage or mosaicking is not absence of orbital observations.
- image interpretation
Oates Land alien face carving
The cited page documents the claim at 72°00′36″S, 168°34′53″E, not archaeology. Facial resemblance alone cannot establish construction.
- AI hoax
Opium Bird
AI-created internet fiction; Erosion Bird is an alias, not a second species.
- image hoax
Photographed dimensional gateway
Published photographs were edited stock images; discovery unsubstantiated.
- imagery interpretation
Rectangular iceberg cut by aliens
The photographed object is a tabular iceberg; sharp fracture edges need not be artificial.
- fabricated announcement
Russian announcement of living underground cities
No authenticated announcement; radar evidence cited does not show such cities.
- misidentified footage
Serpents Gate wave generator
Video shows Greenland glacier calving, not an Antarctic device.
- image interpretation
South Georgia glacier object is a crashed spacecraft
Zoomed-out imagery connects the track to avalanche debris. South Georgia is subantarctic, not the Antarctic mainland.
- image interpretation
Swastika-shaped Antarctic megalithic city
The video description establishes circulation of the claim, not reliable location, age, imagery provenance, or construction.
- image interpretation
Tanks guard an Antarctic crashed UFO
The page itself contains objections about buildings, scale, and coordinates. No verified vehicles or recovered craft are established.
- satellite-image interpretation
Tiny living humans visible on Google Earth
The source offers a visual interpretation, not biological specimens, an independently observed population, or a reliable size determination.
- leak interpretation
WikiLeaks Antarctic photographs concealed a UFO war
The article offers associations, not an authenticated record of a UFO conflict. Ordinary leaked travel imagery would not establish it.