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A video of an object exploding onto the calm surface of a sea has been retweeted hundreds of times with many claiming that it is a meteor strike. However, its a CGI.
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India Today Fact Check
The video does not show an actual meteor strike. It was created by a French YouTuber using visual effects.
An object shooting down from the heavens explodes onto the calm surface of a sea, causing the water to splash up high and a shockwave that soon hits even the person filming this spectacular sight. This video, that’s been shared widely online, supposedly shows what happened when a meteor hit a sea in Germany.
A Twitter user who shared the video wrote, “Meteor hits the Sea in Germany last year!” The tweet had been retweeted more than hundreds of times at the time of writing this. An archived version of this can be seen here.
AFWA’s investigation found that the video does not show an actual meteor strike. It’s CGI.
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We first looked for news reports and videos of a meteor striking Germany. We found that many people had shared this video on social media in November 2022. One such tweet read “Meteor hits the Baltic Sea? Whatever this is, It happened in August 2022 in Germany.”
A reverse search of the keyframes from the viral clip led us to a YouTube video uploaded by Elias Willnat on August 22, 2022. The video was titled, “Meteor Strike Caught on Camera in Germany”.
In the video's description, Willnat mentioned that the video was made using visual effects software like Adobe After Effects and DaVinci Resolve. He had also linked to another video on Twitter, this one breaking down how he created the viral video. The tweet read, “VFX Breakdown of the Meteor Strike Video.”
We also found that Willnat had shared this video on Instagram in August 2022. This post was captioned with hashtags like “vfx”, “cgi”, and “cgiart”, making it clear that this video was created using computer-generated imagery. In the post, he also responded to several comments, assuring that the video was not real.
We then searched online to check if there was any incident in Germany in 2022. We found no credible news reports about meteor strikes in the country. So, it is clear that the viral video does not show a meteor hitting a sea near Germany. It was digitally created using visual effects.
(Written by Ashish Kumar)
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