Did a Federal Aviation Administration weather camera capture images of a mysterious planet in the southern sky over Larsen Bay, Alaska? No, that's not true: Images taken at the same time at other FAA weather camera stations on Kodiak Isla
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PolitiFact→ Juneau County Wisconsin Republicans . – Juneau County Republicans falsely claim ‘planes full’ of refugees arriving in Wisconsin
“Planes full of unvetted ‘refugees’ are being accepted at the Milw. & Madison airports!”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Trump’s Plane Doing High-Speed Pass Over Airport In June 2024 — It’s Flight Simulator Software
Does a video genuinely show former President Donald Trump's plane, Trump Force One, doing a high-speed pass over an airport after the first debate in the 2024 campaign in June 2024, as a post on TikTok claimed? No, that's not true: The vi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NASA Did NOT Drop Space Capsule From Plane To Fake Return From Outer Space — Test Done Before Manned Flight
Did NASA secretly drop a manned space capsule out of a plane in order to stage a hoax return of astronauts from outer space? No, that's not true: The footage that shows a space capsule sliding out of the back of a C-130 cargo plane was no
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Earth Is Flat — Coriolis Effect DOES Affect Planes, Weather
Does the Coriolis effect fail to affect aircraft trajectory, which proves that the Earth is flat, as is implied in a video shared on social media? No, that's not true: A professor emeritus of physics and astronomy told Lead Stories that "
Full Fact→ French planes did not accidentally create the Russian flag during a display
The arrangement of the colours appears wrong because of the angle from which the footage was shot.
PolitiFact→ X posts – Crash photos on X are from 2020 plane mishap, not 2024 helicopter crash that killed Iran
Photos show bodies of people who died in the helicopter crash with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Is this the ‘clearest image’ of planet Venus? No, that photo was altered multiple times
Photo shows “clearest image ever taken of Venus.”
Full Fact→ Longer lines behind planes don’t indicate ‘chemtrails’
A post claims to show the difference between ‘contrails’—water vapours left by planes—and ‘chemtrails’. But both images show contrails.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of Joe Rogan Talking About Extraterrestrial Life On Planet K2-18 B Is NOT Authentic
Did Joe Rogan claim scientists have found extraterrestrial life on a planet known as "K2-18 b," as a video on Facebook suggested? No, that's not true: As narration that sounds like Rogan describes the supposed discovery, images cover his
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Differing Length, Persistence Of Plane’s Vapor Trail Does NOT Indicate If It Is Contrail Or Something Else
Does a video of two jet aircraft passing in opposite directions show that one is producing a contrail and the other is producing something else -- perhaps a mythical "chemtrail"? No, that's not true: Both planes are producing contrails. T
Full Fact→ Magazine cover featuring President Macron throwing frogs out of a plane is fake
The image is not a real front cover of the German satirical magazine Titanic.
PolitiFact→ Matt Maddock – This airplane at the Detroit airport flew March Madness basketball players, not ‘illegal invaders’
“Three busses just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro" airport.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Special Forces Did NOT Destroy ‘DEW’ Plane
Did U.S. Special Forces destroy a DEW, which stands for directed energy weapon, plane? No, that's not true: A Pentagon duty officer told Lead Stories the story is "false." The website that made the claim regularly publishes completely fab
The Dispatch→ Industrial Policy’s Corruption Problem Is Hiding in Plane Sight
Boeing’s troubles reveal another risk of government support for ‘national champions’
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Amateur Photography Of Mars Does NOT Disprove Current Scientific Understanding of The Red Planet
Does a video of Mars filmed with a Nikon p1000 camera prove that Hubble Space Telescope images of Mars are fake, and that Mars is not really a planet but a shining star that looks like "light shimmering in water"? No, that's not true: Ima
Full Fact→ Long trails in the sky left by planes aren’t ‘chemtrails’
A long line in the sky behind an aeroplane is a normal type of contrail—the water vapour that sometimes trails aircraft.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, this airplane stuck in a Munich snowstorm wasn’t bound for the UN Climate Conference in Dubai
Video shows “heavy snow and ice has frozen jets in Munich bound for Dubai's global warming conference.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Video doesn’t show President Joe Biden falling down plane stairs in Poland
Video shows President Joe Biden falling “on the plane stairs shortly after landing in Poland.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Biden did not fall down airplane stairs in Poland: Fact check
President Joe Biden did not fall down the stairs of Air Force One while disembarking from a flight in Poland.
Truth or Fiction?→ Unraveling the Invention of the Airplane: Scientific Insight
Without any shadow of doubt, the advent of aviation stands as one of the paramount marvels of the 20th century. Pioneered by the Wright Brothers, the monumental feat of achieving powered, controlled, and sustained flight marked a new epoch in the ann
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Pickup Truck Saving Plane And Its Passengers — It’s An Old Nissan Commercial
Does a video on social media show a truck saving an airplane and passengers by catching the aircraft's crippled landing gear in its bed? No, that's not true: The clip is from a 2011 Nissan commercial for its Frontier pickup. The dramatic
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, NASA didn’t admit space and planets are fake
“NASA admits space and planets are fake.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, Gov. Gavin Newsom can’t be seen slipping down airplane stairs in viral video
Video shows California Gov. Gavin Newsom falling down airplane stairs.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence United Arab Emirates Sent 8 Planes Carrying Military Aid, Equipment To Israel ‘Over The Past Few Days’
Did the United Arab Emirates (UAE) send eight planes to Israel, carrying military aid and equipment in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel? No, that's not true: There's no proof to support that assertion. Addition
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of Trump’s Plane Guarded By Jets Is NOT Real — It’s From A Video Game
Is a video of jets surrounding Donald Trump's jet real? No, that's not true: The video that appeared in a viral X post is from a video game. A YouTube video with the same footage has "#flightsim" and the acronym to a flight simulation vid
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: John Kerry Did NOT Say ‘We Must Sacrifice Billions Of Humans To Save Planet Earth’
Did U.S. Special Climate Envoy John Kerry say, "We must sacrifice billions of humans to save planet Earth"? No, that's not true: A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department told Lead Stories that this claim is false. The article making t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: London Mayor Did NOT ‘Sign Up All Nine Million Londoners For The Planetary Health Diet’ And ‘Vegetarian Plan’ In October 2023 — Claim Distorts His Statements
Did London Mayor Sadiq Khan impose restrictions on meat consumption on all city residents as of October 20, 2023? No, that's not true: While the mayor publicly promotes increased vegetable consumption, he neither introduced rationing of m
Logically→ Old video from Syria shared as Israel warplane bombing buildings in Gaza
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Plane In Video Is NOT Inflatable Prop — It’s A Real US C-17 Globemaster
Does a well-known video of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, now on social media, show an inflatable prop rather than a real military plane? No, that's not true: There's no credible evidence to suggest that the scores of peopl
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Cargo plane that evacuated people from Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2021 is real, not a decoy
Video shows an “inflatable decoy plane” at the Kabul airport in 2021.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Air Force One In Egypt By October 12, 2023 — It’s KC-10 Extender Tanker Plane During Exercise Bright Star 23
Does this video filmed near the base of a pyramid show a flyover of Air Force One -- the U.S. president's aircraft -- over Egypt following Israel's declaration of war against Hamas in October 2023? No, that's not true: This is not Air For
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show US Plane Carrying Equipment To Israel During 2023 Hamas Conflict — Footage Was Taken Much Earlier
Does a video show planes that belong to the U.S. military carrying heavy equipment to Israel amid the 2023 Hamas-Israel conflict? No, that's not true: The video on X used in the claim uses a clip that predates the conflict. The U.S. sent
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No evidence to support claim about cocaine in Justin Trudeau’s plane
Justin Trudeau’s plane was filled with cocaine when he landed in India for the G20 summit.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Measurements’ Do NOT Prove That Plane Didn’t Crash Into Pentagon On 9/11
Do "measurements" of winds, the Pentagon, and a plane prove that an airplane did not crash into the Pentagon on 9/11? No, that's not true: According to multiple credible and corroborating sources, including videos and photographs of the a
Logically→ G20-ledere har ikke annonceret planer om at indføre digitale valutaer og ID’er i hele verden
Full Fact→ Video of staged argument about trans plane passenger circulating as if it’s real
The video has been shared across multiple social media platforms.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Clinton And Pope Francis Did NOT Call For ‘Urgent Depopulation’ To Save The Planet
Did Bill Clinton and Pope Francis call for "urgent depopulation" to save the planet? No, that's not true: The pope and former President Clinton had a public conversation in September 2023 during the Clinton Global Initiative 2023 meeting
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Of Barrels On A Plane Shows Ballast Tanks Used For Load Testing — Center Of Gravity Tests Are Not Mysterious
Does a photo of barrels inside the fuselage of a plane show anything strange or is it legitimately unclear what they are for? Nope, these are just water ballast tanks that allow a test plane to be loaded with weight which can be distribut
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Of Exploding Twin Towers Without Planes Is NOT Real — Plane Crashes Are Edited Out
Does a video of the South Tower at the World Trade Center in New York City exploding without a plane crashing into it during the 9/11 attacks mean that bombs were the reason the buildings exploded? No, that's not true: The video has been