Currently one of the big local news story is the mystery around a couple videos that *seem* to show an arch and hoodoos – reportedly in Utah – being blown up. So far nobody has confirmed that these have actually occurred; many think that these videos are the result of computer imagery. The idea that CGI would mess with the ability to tell real news from fake has been raised before… now, here it is, front and center.

Maybe these are Utah geological features being destroyed. Maybe these are CGI. And maybe they are *Chinese* features being destroyed, and simply called Utah. Hmmm. If they are actual Utah-based crimes, then presumably this will be confirmed in relatively short order because arches and hoodoos are reasonably well known and documented. If these are Utah-based features being photo-manipulated to *appear* to be destroyed, then that, too, should soon be made clear. However, if these features are from the Gobi desert or even wholly fictional, this may remain a permanent mystery.

Utah agencies investigating after videos purportedly show destruction of arch formation, hoodoos

Note that in the video of the hoodoo being destroyed someone gives a countdown. The accent is distinctly non-American (sounds like Dracula to me…). This may indicate a foreigner in the US. or it may indicate that this occurred out of the US. or it may indicate that a voice was simply overlaid over the video. Or it may indicate a thousand other things.