From: Santiago Yturria Garza <syturria.nul>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 04:49:58 +0000
Fwd Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 13:01:47 -0400
Subject: Bessent Phoenix UFO Video Is Fake


KTVK-TV News Phoenix: The UFO Video Is A Fake

On Friday June 17, 2005 KTVK-TV News Phoenix announced that the
alleged UFO video over Phoenix is a fake. The tv newscast
denounced Brian Bessent as the hoaxer.

Brian Bessent, a Texas resident and owner of the UFO Theatre
website sells the DVD Signs from the Sky for a living. He is
also a musician.

As a colaborator for Scott Davis, Producer KTVK-News Phoenix I
have been involved in this investigation that comes to a
conclusion in a short period of time, just two weeks.

I would like to point out some relevant facts that lead to this
conclusive end for the investigation. In chronological order as
an account of the events in the two weeks period.

A) On wednesday June 8, 2004 a story of a new UFO sighting was
published at Rense.com. The report submitted by " Brian " told
about his alleged UFO sighting on Sunday June 5, 2005 at around
10:00 PM outside the Wal-Mart parking lot in Phoenix. Brian
presented a video as well as several still frames. Brian
declared he shot the video using a tripod at first and later on
handheld. The camera was in night shot mode.

B) That same morning June 8 I read the article and visited the
UFO Theatre website. I took a look into the Signs from the Sky
webpage and I discovered the same still frames from the video on
display there along with other images. The DVD Signs from the
Sky has been for sale for sometime and this is the webpage to
place orders. Credit cards banners are all over.

I got disconcerted as the legend above the frames said: Screen
shots from Movie implying this alleged new June 5 2005 video
shot just two days before was included already in the DVD.

Exhibit No. 1:

http://www.evox.com.mx/google_new_mirror/

I immediately sent a message to them asking for an explanation
of this anomaly and questioning if these images were just being
uploaded to the DVD, intentionally, to increase the sales
of the DVD displaying the new spectacular images along with the
others. At the same time I denounced displaying video images
that were not included in the DVD was a fraud on customers.
Therefore my inquiry had these two interrogative issues that
needed to be explained.

The next day I received a reply saying that in fact it was an
error in indexing files etc. The mentioned still frames were
removed.

C) On June 9, 2005 KTVK-TV News CH-3 Phoenix released the story
and began an investigation on the case. The next days they
followed the story with updates and more interviews.

D) On June 10, 2005 I joined the Scott Davis, Producer KTVK-TV
CH-3 Phoenix research team as a colaborator/consultant for their
investigation on this case.

E) On Sunday June 12, 2005 Jim Dilettoso, video analyst from
Phoenix was interviewed on national radio show in Mexico City
regarding the alleged UFO video. Delattoso declared the video
was a fake and gave details of his findings.

Exhibit No. 2:

http://www.evox.com.mx/google_new_mirror/

Select MP3 # 1

F) Scott Davis Producer and KTVK-TV requested Brian Bessent to
submit his original footage to be properly analyzed to clear any
doubt about it's authenticity. Bessent finally agreed. On June
14, 2005 I was informed by Scott Davis that Jim Dilettoso will
be allowed to analyze the original footage by Brian Bessent in a
meeting to take place the next day June 15 with tv cameras
recording the event.

"Bessent finally agreed to submit his camera and original
videotape for professional analysis and he also agreed to allow
our news cameras to document the process."

That same night June 14, Brian Bessent was interviewed by Jeff
Rense on radio. Bessent declared that he was going to allow Jim
Dilettoso to analyze the original footage.

Exhibit No. 3: http://www.evox.com.mx/google_new_mirror/ Select
MP3 # 2

G) June 15, 2005. Everything was ready and set for the meeting
with Jim Dilettoso, Scott Davis and the KTVK-TV News crew with
cameras ready to roll. Brian Bessent NEVER SHOWED UP !!

He later sent an email saying he just changed his mind.

However KTVK News continued with the programmed video analysis
in Brian Bessent's absence using the digital copy of the footage
taken  from the transfer made before by them.

G) June 17, 2005. KTVK-TV News announced at 8:00PM on Channel 3
that the June 5, 2005 UFO over Phoenix story was a hoax exposing
the facts of the faked footage made by Brian Bessent.

This is not the first time that Brian Bessent has been in
trouble with fake videos. In 2003 Brian Bessent tried to deceive
the people claiming he videotaped a ufo flotilla over San Saba
Texas. The video was posted in his website UFO Theatre. The
footage resulted a flock of birds and was disqualified
immediately by the ufologists. See Brian's birds flotilla:

Exhibit No. 4:
http://www.geocities.com/brian_bessent/sansaba2003.mpg

Short later Brian Bessent surprisingly attempted again to
deceive the people with a new alleged ufo flotilla video he
claimed this time was the real thing. This new video resulted
another flock of birds. The ufo community began to laugh about
Bessent's naivety. Needless to say Brian removed immediatelly
both videos from his ufo theatre website.

Here's Bessent second birds flotilla video:

Exhibit No. 5:
http://www.geocities.com/brian_bessent/ufotheatrehoax2.mpg

During the course of this investigation I got a video from
Germany made by Wahrheit recreating Bessent's footage and
describing the step-by step proccess of how Brian's fake was
made. Interestingly the term Flash animation was also mentioned.

Exhibit No. 6: http://cmath.free.fr/signes/wahrufopart2MP4.mov

At the same time I sustained a correspondence with Jerald Doerr,
Hollywood's award nominee and CGI wizard in reference to the
alleged UFO footage by Bessent. Jerald also gave me his tutorial
of a step-by- step proccess how this footage was produced.
Jerald has been kind enough to offer to make his own recreation
as a contribution to this investigation. We are waiting his
recreation to be finished these days.

As a summary of this Brian Bessent's affair I may say that it
has been  so unfortunated, so regrettable that this man from
Texas arrived to Phoenix just to contaminate the Phoenix Lights
scenario with his controversy and his ominous hoax.

This has been certainly an offense for all of those honest and
legitimate ufo witnesses that put Phoenix at the top of the
Ufological scenarios in March 13, 1997. It's clear that Brian
Bessent not only deceived the people, the Phoenix residents and
KTVK-TV News but also tried to take advantage  of the Phoenix
Lights case in order to sell his DVDs.

This was a short investigation indeed due to the evident facts
of the hoax commited along with the obscure background of the
character. There are more elements and facts in this
investigation, I just appointed some of them here.

A complete report and summary by KTVK-TV News Phoenix here:

http://www.azfamily.com/video/

Santiago Yturria