First, Let's talk about the puppet

It is clearly a head on a stick. It does have eye blinks, maybe some mouth movements, but the head doesn't pivot on the atlas. Watch it carefully and you will see that the head movements are controlled from below the window frame. Yes the same window frame that hides the kid holding the stick.



But it blinks and talks. Certainly that is much too complicated and expensive for an amateur, therefore it must be true footage, right?



Sorry, Spacefans, I have thousands to customers who have inexpensively made puppets that blink and talk. The eye lids, which are the most convincing feature, do blink, but they blink like the movement was made with a servomotor. It's not natural, it's not fast and it's not real. The fact that the puppet blinks is not proof, it is the way it blinks that is a dead giveaway.



Did you notice the way the puppet exited the shot? It looks like someone simply turned the stick and "walked" the puppet away. Where any of those movements natural? No, on several levels. The biggest giveaway is the fact that the alien got shorter. Maybe he was walking downhill, but I doubt it. The puppeteer couldn't decide if he wanted the head to go down or across, so he did both. Did you notice the puppet didn't pivot his head, just turned his body like a SouthPark Cartoon. OK, maybe he's got a stiff neck from the long ride in space. If you watch carefully you can see the weight shift in the puppeteers hand. The head is top heavy and it would be impossible to hide that without any mass to support it.



Have you ever watched a snake move through the grass. Lot's of body movements but the head remains steady. We all do this, but you can really see it with snakes. Our body works in marvelous and subtle ways to keep our eyes and heads steady -- like the guns on a battle ship. You didn't see it with this creature because it is fake, fake, fake.



Did the skin look natural to you? If you look in the mirror you will notice that your lines and marks are not painted on. Shadow and light do that for us. Amateurs, or people making animations for dark-rides will paint on the features. Sorry again Spacefans, his guy is not only fake, but has a bad paintjob.



Did you notice the dangling arm when the alien peeked around the wall? It ain't got no bones, that's why. Watch carefully and you will notice that it isn't articulated. Now it might be true that the alien does have a paralyzed arm from an accident somewhere.



Did you ever see this little guy walking around? Nope. That's because we need a wall to hide the puppeteer.