Are The YouTube UFOs You-FOs?

A few videos circulating first on YouTube and a new one now on Daily Motion can make even the staunchest skeptic do a double take. Some have called the videos proof there is intelligent life outside of Earth and that they're coming to get us; others have called it a hoax, and still others suggest it's a viral marketing trick.

One week ago, a convincing 22-second video of a dozen crafts getting a closer look at Haiti popped up on YouTube. In the past week, it has been viewed over two million times.

I saw it when it was posted, and though for a split second I thought we really were being invaded, I took note that it was just 22 seconds of footage and news of it appeared no where else – no footage of people screaming in terror? Less than half a minute of the most significant event in human history? – and then decided that in an age of digital imaging and CGI, you just don't know what's real anymore, and thought I'd wait and see if little green men appeared at a White House press conference – you know, where they tell "the truth."

And nothing. Which could mean, obviously, government-media cover-up.

Meanwhile, a debate was raging on YouTube. Immediately people started calling it a hoax while others defended it as the real thing, possibly confirming what they've been saying all along.

But it does look pretty real: