I've never been terribly impressed by the "Skinny
Bob" videos. This viral series was uploaded in 2011 by a YouTube user
known only as "Ivan0135". We know nothing about who he really is.
Mike Hallowell of
UFO Matrix magazine
quickly spotted some continuity errors and scale discrepancies in the videos
too. The channel includes four short, black-and-white clips showing a grey
alien in what looks like a government facility. Other clips show multiple beings
walking and running outside a country house. The narration claims that these
videos are leaked film reels from
Russia
dating back to the 1940's, held by the famous Soviet intelligence service, the
KGB. There is no soundtrack except the whirring of a projector that must have
been added for effect. Source:
https://www.youtube.com/@ivan0135/featured.
That was all we ever found out though. The source of the films never came
forward and the original media stock has never been examined. Skinny Bob was
mostly forgotten after a couple of years, but some new footage has recently
surfaced that has reopened the debate. This time we have three new videos
uploaded to a new channel called "qtecqot"; nobody has worked out
what the name means. They were uploaded over a two month period and include a
lot of cryptic narration. The implication in the text and the upload titles is
that the footage is brief clips of UFO close encounters from much longer reels
made between 1942 and 1969. They are highly classified and published under
strict anonymity. The sources are listed by name and have unusual tags such as
"Tin bird", "taxi", "pace lap" and
"virgin". The first and second videos include the projector
soundtrack; and the first is a view out of the window of a human military
aircraft. It shows what looks like a shiny, metallic ovoid UFO flying alongside.
A man can be seen in the foreground wearing epaulets with insignia that looks
like that of the
USSR.
We see a brief scene of a grey alien pointing at some strange markings on a
curved metal surface and then it cuts to a similar scene to the first, except
this is in colour and dated "1961". There is some Russian language
text embossed in the frame; hopefully some Russian-speaker will translate these.
You can hear voices on the soundtrack very faintly behind the noise of the wind
and engines. There is a spinning propeller visible. The second video shows a
closer shot of a silvery UFO, maybe the same one, with markings visible that
resemble the ones in the first video. The object is closer to the ground and
some human or humanoid figures can be seen in the background beside an aircraft
hangar. The place appears to be an airport or airbase of some kind. This cuts
to the scene of a fire with black smoke rising from it. There is then a beach
with both humans and greys walking around, although this is a short scene in
which the frame pans chaotically, as if from a handheld camera in which the
operator has lost control. We then see a grey lying on the sand, unconscious or
dead. This implies that the fire at the start was from an ET vehicle crash. The
video ends with a scene that looks like a continuation of the original Skinny
Bob collection. We see a very similar creature, walking around, lying in a bed
and sitting in a chair. The third video is the longest, at 2 min 26 secs, and
the most interesting in my opinion. It is entitled "interior walkthru
(sic) and examination 8mm disclosure footage ufo". The first scene shows
somebody shining a torch around a dark room containing objects that I cannot
recognize. There are what looks like black eggs, mushrooms, a crystal ball and a
dark surface with simple abstract symbols on. Together with the title I gather
this is the inside of the vehicle that crashed in the previous scene, or a
similar one. The final scene is the most remarkable in the series. We see a
tabletop with a notepad and what looks like medical tools on it. A human has
placed their hand on it and next to it is a second hand that looks similar to
the human's, but obviously is not quite the same. It is thin and only has four
digits, including an opposable thumb. These are much longer and thinner than on
a human hand. Another pair of hands appears from the top of the frame wearing
rubber gloves and places a pulse oximeter on the little finger of the alien
hand. To the right of both hands is a panel of electronic buttons or switches.
This film is completely silent. Source:
https://www.youtube.com/@qtecqot.
The quality of the videos is poor by modern standards and
about what you would expect from amateur cine recordings in the mid-20th
century. Apart from the brief scene in the first video, there is no original
soundtrack and they are all in black and white. They match the format and style
of the original 2011 Skinny Bob release perfectly. What we are shown appears to
be part of a visual report on a crashed UFO and the retrieval of its occupants,
Roswell style; although this
example appears to be in
Russia.
There have been numerous UFO incidents reported in
Russia,
by far the largest country in the world, dating back throughout its history.
Most of the best evidence was gathered when it was the central state of the
Soviet
Union, 1917 to 1991. The collapse of that regime led to a catastrophic
leak of KGB files. Its successor, the FSB, has recaptured some of them, but not
all. During the 1990's most valuable items of any kind in
Russia
fell into the possession of gangsters; and these were then touted on the black
market. For a few years, anybody could buy a top secret UFO file for the right
price; and indeed some people did, see:
https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/04/russian-roswell-fact-or-fake.html.
Therefore it is not theoretically unfeasible for these new Skinny Bob videos to
be real. The problem is that without more information there is no way of knowing.
Modern AI image creation is now so good that the best of it is
indistinguishable from real photography. It is therefore also at least equally
feasible that somebody created these videos with an image generator. Photographic
evidence alone simply just does not carry the same weight that it used to.
There are literally hundreds of images out there in social media similar to
Skinny Bob that are proven to be faked; therefore we have a terrible
signal-to-noise ratio problem. If we are seeing something real now then the
publisher, through no fault of their own, is the ultimate little boy who cried
wolf. Unless the creator comes forward and demonstrates what they did; or the
person who found this secret movie footage goes public with the corroborating
evidence, forensic examination of the reels or official documents etc, then
this mystery cannot be solved.
See here for
background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/11/alien-interview-update-with-jon-stewart.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2014/01/alien-autopsies.html.
