Iranian media dived deep into a bizarre conspiracy theory around a badly edited video on YouTube that claimed to show an unidentified flying object on the deck of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the US’s newest supercarrier.
Tasnim News Agency, an Iranian website with close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, wrote up a YouTube video from SECTION 51 2.0, a channel that promises: “Exclusive UFO Footage from all over the world” while adding a disclaimer that the videos are for entertainment purposes only.
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Tasnim buys hook, line, and sinker the UFO’s presence aboard the deck of the Ford, while mistakenly referring to the US Navy aviation units captured on video as US Air Force jets.
Here’s the conspiracy video:
Here’s the real, unedited video from July 28, 2017. It shows the first ever US Navy F/A-18 fighter jet’s arrested landing and catapults launch from the Ford.
Tasnim’s story on the fake video of a UFO on a US aircraft carrier has been its most-viewed article for days now, despite obvious factual problems.
Whether the world has lost respect for the US military as a result of this article, or perhaps lost respect for Tasnim, remains an open question.
