Recently, a suspected UFO was sighted in the eastern sky in the wee hours, and the news spread like a wildfire. Apparently, one Farhan Akhtar from his 10th floor flat at Kalikapur (on EM Bypass) was intrigued when at 3-20 in the morning of Oct 30 he stared at the eastern sky and happened to locate a bright object that continuously changed size and shape. See this Yahoo news / IANS story.
Eager to capture it as a video, he fished out his handycam hurriedly and caught the unique spectacle therein, which he showed later in the day to the astronomy scientists at the MP Birla Planetarium. Seemingly the same video was thereafter telecast in a Bengali TV channel for a long time.
A raucous publicity such as this was enough for unscrupulous people to reap as much benefit as quickly as possible – if necessary why not do a little trick! After all, anything is game in ‘breaking’ news. Let’s have a look at some tenuous attempts.
Several videos appeared in YouTube, but the one that stood out was by Arunava Mukherji, a 60-year old gentleman who joined YouTube just a day back. See below.
No sooner than Arunava’s video debuted on YouTube, at least 2 websites made it their own with no proper credits one would normally expect. Here they are:
Now won’t you agree to what veteran web watchers have all along maintained that content remains the king on the web – then, now and ever!
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