One way Fred Baker's CE5 experience could have been faked

[humanoid]

In the interview with Fred Baker (associate of Jake Barber), Fred describes two sightings from his CE5 experience:
Source: https://youtu.be/o72BBZYXm9c?si=5XQMJ-qsF1tfXueC&t=828


"It fell like, if you imagine putting a really small pebble in the water, and it flutters down, that's what it was doing, and as it got closer and closer it got brighter and brighter." "And it did the same movement all the way back up into the atmosphere." "It did that three times." "How do you fake this?"

Here's how I would fake that: If the viewer expects the fluttering to have the same amplitude all the way down, then you can use that to mess with the viewer's sense of how close or low the object is coming by increasing the amplitude over time, likewise with the brightness. That could give a sense that it's coming down much faster than it really is. Do your linear algebra correctly, and it would be indistinguishable to someone on the ground from an object that was descending at a much higher rate. As long as it "descends" at a high enough altitude relative to the viewer, it never has to actually move very fast to give the impression of falling much faster, in the same way that, eg, if you show a movie of an oncoming train, the projection of the train isn't actually approaching the audience, but the audience will feel like it is because it's visually 'growing' at the right rate, well, how do you make a drone look like it's 'growing'? I'd do it by giving it a repetitive motion with increasing amplitude and increasing brightness, and this one had those features, which is interesting.

I'd love to see a reconstruction of this, it would be a neat illusion.

Then he describes the next one: "this massive triangle was in the sky. And please don't ask me to figure out how big it was or how far away it was. It was huge." "[Football field size?] Bigger." "There are lights on each of the points" "there was nothing in the middle" "It had little 'minions' if you will, flying all around it" "spiralling around this thing" "[it was a solid object?] Yes." "again, how do you fake this"

First note that drones with lights on are going to be much brighter than the stars behind them to the point that you wouldn't be able to see any stars behind them, so if you had a bunch of drones around, it would look opaque even if it isn't, right? So, first, position a bright drone at each point of the triangle. Then the 'minions' serve to obscure the stars behind the body of the triangle, while also contributing to the perception of the triangle as a solid object by flying 'behind' it and turning off as soon as they go behind, to give the impression that the triangle is solid, that it's obscuring them. This also strikes me as a perfect, clever way to fake this effect, so it's interesting that it had minions spiralling around it. It didn't need to. Most black triangle reports don't feature minions. But this one did.

I'd also love to see a reconstruction of this.

I'm totally open to the possibility that when Fred sees this theory he'll just say "no, there were additional details that ruled that out", but he didn't report any such details in the interview!

 

[Eburacum]

It is very difficult to analyse a verbal account and find a plausible explanation; the witness may have made some or many mistakes in observation, or subsequently misremembered the event in one or more ways.

For example, if the witness is particularly predisposed to see three dots as a 'black triangle', then any three lights (or any three externally illuminated objects - they don't need to be self-luminous) would form a triangle of some sort, unless they form a straight line. Even a straight line made from three dots could be interpreted as a triangle seen straight on.

If I saw three dots in the sky surrounded by a swarm of smaller dots (minions) I'd suspect I was looking at birds of some species flying around in the sky, illuminated by local sources of light on the ground. I remember the shock of seeing a flock of birds flying over one night while I was star-watching; I thought at first it was a fleet of military aircraft on night manoeuvres. The fact that they were totally silent eventually persuaded me that they were avian in nature, and I've seen night-flying birds many times since. Geese and seagulls in particular.

Maybe there were two different flocks, one group (of three) somewhat closer to the witness and appearing somewhat bigger and brighter.

 

[Ann K]

How do you fake this?

If it is just a story told by someone who claims to have seen something, there is no necessity to recreate a darn thing. Telling a tale is the easiest way to "fake" it.