Russian TV news reports on flying girl

From Russian TV news, evidence of a flying girl! "Летающая девочка в лесу."

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

More at Boing Boing

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek

Hackers prepare for first "national holiday" in their honor

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness

This is a sign that the transformation that happened at the end of the book Childhood’s End is beginning now. Fear the telepathic babies, fear them, for we are undergoing this transformation without the guidance of the Overlords.
- http://twitter.com/cstuckless Craig S. Stuckless
  
  1. Nice1 for the “Childhood’s End” tie-in.
  2. Its a fake! There is a strategically placed camera swipe, cut footage, between the time when the lil girl is floating and on ground. Good fake though.
mobuco

come on someone who speaks russian please translate for us
- http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki
  
  rough translation: guy is walking his Dog (Tarzan) and coincidentally decided to turn on his camera. He was certain that he saw the girl floating in air for several seconds then softly touching down, all this with the oversight of her mother.
  He could not catch up to them and they seemed to have flown off.
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BOOM27DBLMZQIJVK4BQLE7K5YA Nagurski
    
    Was he saying “come here, Tarzan,” or is that just a coincidence of the command in russian sounding similar?
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      How do you say Fenton in Russian?
    - http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki
      
      “ka mne” is “to me” in Russian, so I guess it sounds like it.
LagerVsAle

Wait…What?
http://blog.tysonwilliams.com/ Tyson Williams

LOL
http://www.xradiograph.com/ OtherMichael

“Flying?!?!?” She’s obviously just filled with helium, and tethered, at that.
- The._.Joker
  
  Now it’s all beginning to makes sense:
  
  “Last week researcher Oleg Kirichek had to postpone an experiment at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot when helium stocks ran out….”Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2118232/The-world-running-helium–thanks-party-balloons-warns-research-scientist-uses-gas-pioneering-experiments.html#ixzz1rfFsgkYs
mwiik

Oh what bs, she isn’t flying, just floating a few feet above the ground. That’s easy. Just stand up, believe you can do it, then slowly fall forward.
- http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher
  
  ”Flying is learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”-Douglas Adams
  - http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki
    
    Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.Terry Pratchett
  - Quiche de Resistance
    
    In Soviet Russia, ground misses you.
- Cowicide
  
  [cow slowly leans forward, slips and pops nose on floor]
LaylaSV

Everything in me is begging the universe to please, please let this be real. I am so tired of relentless, insufferable reality.
- http://www.xradiograph.com/ OtherMichael
  
  bug-ticket 987452837468185875124124 entered
  priority: 1
  category: ui
  - noggin
    
    I believe you mean guru meditation error. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation
- Cowicide
  
  I am so tired of relentless, insufferable reality
  
  Are shrooms scarce in your area?
  - LaylaSV
    
    Relentless, insufferable (collective) reality. There’s PIKALs enough in the hood but my own, individual, flying girls are no longer sufficient to elevate me beyond the chilly humdrum.
    
    Wanna fake a UFO landing?
    - Cowicide
      
      Fake? I’ve got better than that. In July of 2002, I saw real UFO’s over Washington D.C. and NORAD dispatched jets and chased the things only to be dusted by them after they bolted into space.
      
      I first saw these things myself that night and even called police non-emergency to ask if there was other reports of strange glowing shit flying around in the sky. The next day I figured it was just some old acid flashbacks or maybe holograms or I dunno… but I did mention it to friends and family.
      
      It wasn’t until I later saw the incident reported in the Washington Post who reported scores of other witnesses who saw the same thing (along with NORAD!) that I shat bricks.
      
      They were not holograms because they showed up on radar. They moved at speeds that made our fastest jets look like toys. And, I (among many others throughout D.C.) saw where they went when they were done “playing” with the fighter jets… they shot all at once into space at speeds that I can only describe as breathtaking.
      
      Sources!
      
      http://www.rense.com/general27/bblue.htm
      (Quotes the Washington Post article)
      
      The same thing happened exactly 50 years to the DAY previously as well:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Washington_D.C._UFO_incident
      
      “Reality” is the only word in the language, that should always be used in quotes.
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwbpr1-2z2A
GuyInMilwaukee

Well that settles it for me. What more proof could you ask for?
Dwen Dooley

2 comments.

1. She clearly had thrown herself at the ground, was distracted, and therefore missed.
2. I, for one, _welcome_ our young flying female russian overlords.
DoctorG

What makes me suspicious here – well, other than the whole topic of a flying girl – is the cut from when she’s in the air to on the ground.
http://profile.yahoo.com/HM4LTK2GLSDDB5IG5UNFBSY2MI Adam

Wait.. the dog’s name is Tarzan?
http://twitter.com/SaucyGit Mike Vander Heiden

Great, another shitty viral campaign for a teen angst wobbly movie about super kids.
http://twitter.com/MitchellPowers Mitchell Powers

The In di go Chiiiiiildren!
- http://devojane.blogspot.com devophill
  
  I got about 20 seconds in and had to bail. Eeughh.
jandrese

Yeah, it’s pretty obvious the kid is dangling from a wire, and the Blair Witch-o-vision camera work (with extra out-of-focus) isn’t fooling anybody.
- Jason’s Robot
  
  Also, people can’t fly. That’s the first tipoff to it’s fakery.
  - Cowicide
    
    Well, not without flying squirrel suits anyways
dragonfrog

Looks legit.
http://twitter.com/SnarlsAtFleas Pavel Berlin

C’mon people it’s NTV (HTB) the most lying and stupid of all major Russian channels. And the guy sounds soooo false. He couldn’t even play that prank normally. And yes, dog’s name is Tarzan.
Snig

My daughter loves the local zipline park. When she asks to go there, her eyes glow and she says “I want to FLY!!”
- http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios
  
  Wait, they got zipline parks now?
  
  How long have I been asleep?
  - Snig
    
    Three in the DC area, we go to the Adventure Park in Sandy Spring. Hopefully they’ll start having one where ever there’s a Starbucks.
    Very incomplete list:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip-line#List_of_commercial_ziplines
  - http://www.xradiograph.com/ OtherMichael
    
    There’s one here just outside of Durham ,CT.
    
    They have Mother’s Day specials.
    - Edward Markham
      
      Reaaalllyyyy, Mother’s day specials. Mom fly’s free? lol
      - http://www.xradiograph.com/ OtherMichael
        
        Not sure, but on St. Patrick’s day — one zip gets you free beer!
xian

Seems pretty obvious to me… her far arm, which you can’t see, is under her coat and pulling up on her pants.
http://www.facebook.com/creesto Christopher W Lynch

UNBELIEVERS!!!!
BillGlover

While the hiker’s surprise is understandable and the illusion of flight is certainly humorous, the important thing is that this is, I believe, unique and spectacular footage of one of the most mysterious parts of the cycle of life.

This is obviously a young mother come to pick her new toddler from the baby tree. It’s difficult to tell from the husk, but it looks like a fine, healthy child. Congratulations, young mother!
http://twitter.com/Listener43 Listener43

I’m shocked, shocked!, at the total lack of concern for the poor traumatised dog. Where is Tarzan now, and is he being helped to deal with this shocking display. His plaintive bark as he discovered the floating child was heart-wrenching!
BadIdeaSociety

If I spotted a flying girl, the last thing I would do is turn my camera away from her. Of course, the girl was not flying
Matthew McPherson

That’s a pretty old video and has been around a good few years on the net. The news station is a little behind the times.
Drabula

The startling legacy of Chernobyl.
info

Since the fall of the USSR, these Russians have really gone soft.

In my times, he would have immediately performed a nuclear airstrike against the UFO.
Miss Cellania

You know, I used to hang my little brother on a tree branch by his coat, too, but I have refrained from the temptation of doing it to my kids.
Drabula

In Soviet Russia even gravity does not work right!
Roman Hargrave

This video (the one IN the report) has been around forever. They just got to it now, or is this a repost?
http://internetbaseballscorecard.blogspot.com/ Michael Holloway

Don’t you people know anything?
She’s not flying; she’s just trying out her new iphone with the 3D location interface.
Brainspore

No big deal, it’s just an ordinary girl being held up by her invisible dad.
Sigmund_Jung

Nothing is faker than a professional cameraperson trying to look amateurish.
rtresco

Mr. President, we cannot allow a flying child gap!
http://orbitnet.com JIMWICh

“doveryai, no proveryai”
bcsizemo

I’m always amazed how sound never seems to travel in videos. What is he 100ft from where they are? Maybe 200? Unless they are right next to a creek/stream/river I have a hard time believing they couldn’t hear his foot steps through the leaves (not to mention that the dog probably barked a couple of times along the way to where the video starts.) It’d be more creepy to walk out into an opening and have them sitting there just starring at you.

And if this girl was actually floating where is the rest of the video where mom and daughter made a quick get away (or fly away)?
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Are you kidding? The great outdoors sucks up sound. Not only do you not have hard surfaces like walls and ceiling to reflect it back to you, but complex structures like trees and shrubs act like an anechoic chamber.
Bokonon

Nice Viral. But there is no reason for the guy to have just decided to turn on the video recorder. Totally fake I’m afraid.
- Brainspore
  
  Also, girls can’t fly.
  - rtresco
    
    In the UK, birds fly backwards.
    - henrygee001
      
      lol, backwards.
timquinn

Fake? really? Where are the pixels, then? Hm?
http://breaktimeforall.com/author/ the Smoking Captain

Пожалуйста, переведите с русского на английский! See also A Dutch Mechanical Engineer Flying Like A Bird
http://thedreamerskingdom.org/photoblog TK

Watch out, Sally Field!
MattyQ

I remember this video from years ago, circa 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZwbwweF_WQ

Did the Russian news just get around to talking about it?
http://twitter.com/companionlessdr Companionless Doctor

Can we get confirmation on if even the news broadcast is real? The entire thing just reeks of viral marketing.
http://www.facebook.com/jaytraveller Jay Sanchez

0:31, there is a red harness under the coat.
BombBlastLightingWaltz

she is definitely flying. Ripley’s is investigating.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PHMRFMJ7OOYKQMYZD7FVDLZF74 jack

I don’t know what the Russian translation is, but the dog is asking “What’s my motivation?”
http://www.facebook.com/dfernetti Diego Fernetti

I never believed in dogs.
rudeboi

Not only is this story fake, it’s also old. Like two years ago old. This is why people don’t take the paranormal seriously.