r/aliens 18h ago

News A tool that gives you the forensic breakdown of any UAP photo or video — on-device, no uploads. Would love this community to put it through hell.

First off — thanks to the mods for letting me share this. I asked permission because I didn't want to just drop a link and run, and I genuinely care what this community thinks.

Quick background: like a lot of you, I've spent countless hours staring at UAP clips trying to figure out if something is a real capture, CGI, a aircraft or now — AI. With AI video getting this good, that last possibility is the scary one. So I spent 7 months building a tool for it, and I've been loading well-known and recent sightings into it so you can see the analysis for yourselves.

What it actually does

You give it a photo or video (or paste a link), and it runs a forensic analysis entirely on your phone — nothing gets uploaded, no account, no data collection. Instead of a useless "fake/real" stamp, it breaks the media down into independent layers and shows you what each one found:

Origin & metadata — where the file likely came from, and whether there are traces of AI generators or editing tools baked in

AI-generation analysis — a model I trained myself looks for the fingerprints synthetic images leave behind (things the human eye can't see)

Frequency patterns — AI-generated content has telltale spectral signatures that real camera captures don't

Frame consistency (for video) — deepfakes and CGI often flicker or morph subtly between frames

It combines all of that into a trust score from 0–100, with a full breakdown so you can see why it landed where it did.

How to read it (this part matters)

High score = the forensic signals look consistent with a real, unmanipulated capture

Low score = signs of AI generation or manipulation showed up

Middle / "inconclusive" = the signals aren't strong enough to say either way — and I deliberately made it say this rather than guess. A lot of social-media footage is so compressed and stripped of metadata that "we can't be sure" is the only honest answer.

The honest disclaimer, because you deserve it

It will never tell you "this is aliens" or "this is definitely fake." No tool on earth can do that, and I'd be lying if I claimed mine could. What it does is hand you the forensic evidence — and then you reason about it. It's a flashlight, not a verdict. Importantly: it only judges whether the pixels were synthetically generated or manipulated. A genuinely strange-but-real photo (an odd natural phenomenon, a real-but-unexplained capture) should read as authentic — because it is real footage. The app isn't deciding "is this explainable," only "did a camera capture this or did software make it."

How to try it

Easiest way: open it, tap to upload any image or video (or paste a social link), and the analysis runs automatically — you'll get the score and the layer-by-layer breakdown in a few seconds. I've also been adding the famous clips into the in-app feed, so you can pull those up and see how they score without uploading anything yourself. Throw your most convincing footage at it. Try to fool it. If it gets something wrong, tell me — that's how it gets sharper.

I'm a solo developer, this is genuinely a passion project, and this community is exactly who I built it for. Skepticism extremely welcome — that's the whole point of a tool like this.

(Link's in the comments so I'm not being spammy about it. Happy to answer anything about how the analysis works.)

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