Is this a duck?

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According to experts the following photo of a strange animal in Lake Ogopogo is a duck
https://globalnews.ca/video/9211789/pos ... nagan-lake



Nobody is disputing the photo the family took, the family were puzzled and wanted answers. But a duck

I thought it was a tiny little castle.

It's probably PhotoShop but it sure looks like a wolf to me.

^^^ there's a whole documentary on the Ogopogo Lake monster. the photo was taken Sept 12 2018 by David Halbauer, his brother Keith and their families were enjoying a picnic at one of Lake Okanagan’s many beaches. “When you’re sitting by the beach on a sunny day you don’t expect to see a dinosaur come out of the water,” David Halbauer told Global News.

“I saw this black form come out of the water — cylindrical — and then roll.”

The brothers likened the animal to a “giant snake” moving across the water and said it was about 15m long.
Heres a still taken by Halbaur indicating it's length


No photoshop as it's from a cell phone video and forensic analysis of the video confirms the Ogopogo is not a photoshopped image but rather an interpretation of natural phenomena, misinterpreted animal or object, such as a large bird, a beaver, or floating debris (a log).

So here's the problem with Pareidolia (the psychological phenomenon of perceiving meaningful patterns in a natural object) the cellphone snapshot shows something that looks awfully like a real creature > driftwood.

Same wolf seen from below:

I would have guessed 2 ducks, 1 fish

For some very unknown reason, every single photo depicting anomalous creature / object has to be either low-quality or illegible in any other way...

It's a dragon

In the case of UAPs that come in close quarters people report their cellphones go haywire. Same claim in Skinwalker ranch. Some type of electromagnetic interference causes electrical equipment to fail. Hundreds of cases of car batteries and Jet plane engines failing when UAPs flying over.

In other cases people either freeze or become nervous. typically the camera shakes (observe the Patterson-Gimlin video of bigfoot where Roger Patterson not only couldn't keep the camera still but tripped over, making the video even more authentic since a staged video would have been more stage managed).

Getting back to the Okopogo lake monster, the image looks diabolically like past sightings of the critter
by indigenous people in ancient times


And modern sightings

Interference doesn't make hardware magically record in comically low resolution. Either noise would be too high, output file would be corrupt, phone/camera would abruptly stop recording or stop working altogether


It's not that hard to fake it. I also can record with Nokia 6500 a Zetor tractor passing by kilometer apart from me and pretend it was alien reconnaissance vechicle. Low framerate / resolution makes it even more easier since details are more obscured.
Also, remember we live in era of advanced deepfaking and glorified data harvesters able to create mostly legit imagery of anything.

If any of these being were real and spottable by random people, we'd know about them for decades already.

and a bantam.

According to Bob Lazar salvaged alien ships use antigravity using electromagnetic coils producing an extremely powerful electromagnetic pulse (EMP) (not just a strong magnetic force) and this can disrupt or destroy a modern cellphone depending on the intensity and distance the cellphone is from the UAP.

Yeah I agree, we have gone well beyond photoshop with AI literally anything is possible to fake. the okopogo photo (and the Patterson-Gimlin big foot film) were taken long before AI.

If it weighs as much as a duck, then it's a witch:

Seems like every place that has a lake has its own version of the mythical Loch Ness Monster, and people are still trying to prove its existence with vague or blurry photos when there are crystal clear photos of real wild animals.

Also it's amusing that people still believe a real live sea serpent is living in these lakes, but they refuse to believe that the world is round, the moon is real, vaccines save lives, and Rump is a horrible president.

Concurrently a lot of normal people experience extraordinary things. I don't think people who observe lake monsters or big foot necessarily believe anymore than thousands who experience UAPs and/or alien abduction.

In the case of Ogopogo or Loch Ness it will go down (for the record) as pareidolia. People mistaking eels, large fish, birds or logs for cryptids.

But as Arthur C. Clarke once famously said, truth is stranger than fiction.