The videos were uploaded to the Enigma Labs website, which hosts UFO sightings in California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada.
The videos were reportedly shot in different locations.
Alejandro Rojas, a UFO consultant at Enigma Labs, said all the images looked the same and suggested it could have been a rocket, but “there were no rocket launches planned at the time.”
Enigma Labs has built a huge catalog of incidents to sort out what’s real and what’s a hoax.
The company forwarded seven videos of these unidentified flying objects to the Daily Mail portal. Engima said it gathered more than 20 witnesses to the same incident.
“We live near the airport. It was not an airplane, a planet, a star, a comet, a fireball, a drone, a satellite or a rocket, said the witness from Oroville, California. – We recognize them all. We are used to rocket launches and their appearance. It was something that came out of nowhere and disappeared into thin air.”
Enigma confirmed that multiple videos show the object disappearing.
“There appeared to be searchlights on both sides of the object,” another witness wrote on the website.
One of the videos captured in Palm Springs clearly shows an arc-shaped object whose lights appear to point in opposite directions.
Some reports indicate that the object may have come from a test site.
“If these were military tests, that would explain why they’re not listed on public websites like Spaceflight Now,” Rojas said. “We will continue to investigate this, but we do not have an explanation yet.”
The Covid vaccine that may have initially saved the most lives is now dying itself
It doesn’t happen often that a pharmaceutical giant is applauded, and certainly not at a festival. AstraZeneca received this honor in March 2021. On the grounds of the Dutch Lowlands, festival goers loudly chanted “Astra! Zeneca! Astra! Zeneca!” After all, the Covid shots from the British-Swedish vaccine maker would herald the road to freedom.
Those cries of joy have long since faded away. On Wednesday, AstraZeneca finally pulled the plug on its Covid vaccine. A day earlier, the European Medicines Authority EMA had withdrawn its approval. It is the final end to what then Prime Minister Boris Johnson described as a “triumph for British science”.
Second rate
The vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford, used a known technology based on a cold virus. This caused less fear than the brand new mRNA technology used by competitors Pfizer and Moderna.
It also did not have to be kept extremely cold, which was necessary with the mRNA vaccines. And also: Oxford and AstraZeneca offered their vaccine at cost, making it seven to eight times cheaper than the mRNA vaccines. The European Commission ordered 300 million doses and wanted to make AstraZeneca the workhorse to contain the pandemic.
But AstraZeneca never lived up to the sky-high expectations. The company initially faced major delivery problems. Moreover, it had not done its homework properly. Because it had included too few seniors in the clinical trials, the EMA could not say whether the vaccine was effective for the elderly. That’s why many countries initially did not give it to people over 55. It never even received approval in the United States. Moreover, the EMA estimated the effectiveness at only 60 percent. That gave the impression that Vaxzevria (the brand name) was a second-rate vaccine.
But the biggest setback was yet to come. In March 2021, many countries noted a rare but serious side effect. In the United Kingdom alone, 81 people died from a thrombosis linked to Vaxzevria. In Belgium, three deaths were attributed to the vaccine, one of which was related to thrombosis.
Because this side effect mainly occurred in young women, many countries imposed a minimum age for a shot. Other countries, such as Denmark and Norway, quickly decided to stop using the vaccine. Many countries forwarded their doses to poorer countries.
Smaller market
Yet the merits of the vaccine are much greater than the setbacks indicate. In the UK, which continued to inject its ‘own’ vaccine for a long time, the efficacy rate turned out to be not much inferior to that of Pfizer.
Because production eventually picked up steam, and it was often used in poorer countries, The Economist concluded that AstraZeneca “almost certainly saved more lives than any other vaccine” in 2021. A later analysis by data company Airfinity qualified this somewhat. AstraZeneca was in first place with more than six million lives saved in the first year of vaccination, but it also had to tolerate Pfizer in its wake.
In a press release, AstraZeneca looks back with pride on the role the vaccine played in ending the pandemic. The British-Swedish group cites an oversupply of adapted vaccines as the reason for the discontinuation.
Virologist Johan Neyts (KU Leuven) follows that explanation. “The market has become a lot smaller. How often will it be boosted? Probably only in high-risk patients. Although perceived and real problems also played a role in the decision.”
The question is also whether there is a future for the technology at all, Neyts points out. Because so many people have been vaccinated – 3 billion doses worldwide, of which 1.4 million in Belgium – the question is whether there is no immunity against the cold virus from which AstraZeneca started, as a result of which the vaccine no longer works.
In addition, the rare thromboses also occurred with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which uses the same technology. That vaccine is also on the verge of death: it is no longer authorized in the US, among others, and has no longer been commercialized in our country since last month.
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Facebook wants to better inform Internet users about deepfakes
2024-05-07 06:30:45
False content has become more and more numerous since the “democratization” of generative artificial intelligence. To better inform Internet users, the social network will begin in May to affix “Made with AI” labels to videos, images and sounds generated by this technology and published on its platforms.
Some find them funny or don’t pay attention, others are shocked and worried. AI-generated videos abound on the internet. As any election approaches, we see such clips appear, which present themselves as parodies or schoolboy diversions. But the risk of misinformation is permanent.
All countries are affected. A fake AI-generated interview broadcast days before Slovakia’s September 2023 parliamentary elections attempted to present Progressive Slovakia leader Michal Šimečka as having discussed with a journalist how to rig the vote.
Fake audio content has falsely implicated a presidential candidate in plans to manipulate ballots in Nigeria’s February 2023 elections. In Bangladesh, doctored videos of opposition members in bikinis and in a swimming pool have were published before the national elections.
France is not spared from deepfakes. Two TikTok accounts broadcasting videos young girls, exposed navels and long blond hair, with the faces of Marine Le Pen and Marion Maréchal, were deleted.
Disinformation and fake news
Disinformation, AI-generated content and fake news pose a serious threat to democratic processes as half the world’s population participates in more than 80 national elections in 2024 – including the European elections in June.
To stem this scourge, the European Parliament reached an agreement in December 2023 on the proposed European Media Freedom Act (EMFA). It aims to harmonize the national laws of EU member states on editorial freedom, pluralism and media independence.
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is at the forefront of this scourge. After years without real action, the group announced that it wanted to label the videos broadcast on its platforms to differentiate “real” videos from those generated by AI.
The labels will be applied either when users disclose the use of AI tools or when Meta detects “industry standard AI image indicators.” However, the company did not provide further details about its detection system.
Furthermore, it is not yet clear what impact “deepfakes” could have on elections and we could even see this type of content used in ways that have not yet been imagined.
Finally, it is also worth remembering that disinformation is not always a high-tech affair. There are other ways to attack or destabilize a democracy: rumors, conspiracy theories, electoral fraud, etc.
Even if Meta’s announcement is to be welcomed, no system can be perfect in detecting deepfakes. Errors, or even abuse, could be noted. In 2018, Facebook censored the bare breasts in “Liberty Leading the People” and “The Origin of the World” by Gustave Courbet…
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