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    The Twin Falls saucer hoax was a hoaxed flying disc discovered in Twin Falls, Idaho, United States, on July 11, 1947. Amid a nationwide wave of alleged...
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  • The Aztec, New Mexico, UFO hoax (sometimes known as the "other Roswell") was a flying saucer crash alleged to have happened in 1948 in Aztec, New Mexico...
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    retracted as balloon debris. In the July 7 Twin Falls saucer hoax, a widely reported crashed disc from Twin Falls, Idaho, was found to have been created by...
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    Passaic UFO photographs (category Hoaxes in the United States)
    photographs, and the Mariana UFO film. The July 1947 Twin Falls saucer hoax featured a domed saucer about 3 feet (0.91 m) in diameter made of two cymbals...
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    Roswell incident (category Hoaxes in the United States)
    explanation, and broader reporting on flying saucers declined rapidly after the Twin Falls saucer hoax. Just days after stories of the Roswell "flying...
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    diminishing over the subsequent week, amid numerous hoaxes, pranks, and mistaken identifications. The flying saucer craze of 1947 was thoroughly and widely covered...
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    on June 21, 1947. The incident is widely regarded as a hoax, even by believers of flying saucers and UFOs. On August 1, two Air Force officers tasked with...
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    Travis Walton incident (category 1975 hoaxes)
    Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests near Heber, Arizona. It is widely regarded as a hoax, even by believers of UFOs and alien abductions. Walton was employed by future...
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    Crop circle (redirect from Crop circle hoax)
    described as all falling "within the range of the sort of thing done in hoaxes" by Taner Edis, professor of physics at Truman State University. Although...
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  • General Nathan F. Twining and containing a reference to Majestic 12, the memo is widely held to be a forgery, likely planted as part of a hoax. Historian Robert...
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    George Adamski (category Hoaxers)
    elaborate hoax. Adamski authored three books describing his meetings with Nordic aliens and his travels with them aboard their spaceships: Flying Saucers Have...
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  • hoax?). List of hoaxes Photograph of Petit-Rechain Denzler (2001), pages 5-6. Reece, Gregory L. (August 21, 2007). UFO Religion: Inside Flying Saucer...
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    Project Sign (redirect from Project Saucer)
    Force General Nathan Farragut Twining, head of the Air Technical Service Command, and was initially named Project SAUCER. The goal of the project was to...
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  • The 1967 British flying saucer hoax was originally thought to be the unidentified landing of six 'spaceships' that occurred across Southern England on...
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    primarily to military personnel, the earliest assertion of German flying saucers in the mass media appears to have been an article which appeared in the...
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    September 1947 by Gen. Nathan Twining, commanding officer of the Air Materiel Command, which likewise concluded the saucers were real and urged a formal...
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    Friedman consistently favored use of the term "flying saucer" in his work, saying "Flying saucers are, by definition, unidentified flying objects, but...
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    exposed UFO hoaxes and engineered hoaxes of his own. He was best known as the publisher of the UFO newsletters Saucer News and its successor Saucer Smear,...
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    Aurora Cemetery and uncovered a grave marker that appeared to show a flying saucer of some sort, as well as readings from its metal detector. MUFON asked for...
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    Baragwanath in a Leopard Moth aircraft, Klarer and her husband reportedly saw a saucer that approached, coasted along, then departed. During World War II, she...
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  • they are caused by natural phenomena, human technology, delusions, and hoaxes. Beliefs surrounding UFOs have inspired parts of new religions even as social...
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    claims about Die Glocke as being pseudoscientific, recycled rumors, and a hoax. Die Glocke and other alleged Nazi "miracle weapons" have been dramatized...
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    in both near Roswell, New Mexico and in Twin Falls, Montana. The following years saw a hoax of a crashed saucer with diminutive bodies in Aztec, New Mexico...
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    The Flying Saucers Are Real, by Donald Keyhoe, was a book that investigated reports of UFOs by United States Air Force fighters, personnel, and other...
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  • Operation Saucer (Portuguese: Operação Prato; literally, Operation Plate) was an investigation carried out between 1977 and 1978 by the Brazilian Air Force...
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    predecessor to modern claims of extraterrestrial-piloted UFO's or flying saucers. Reports of the alleged airship crewmen and pilots usually described them...
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    The 2009 Morristown UFO hoax was a series of aerial events involving mysterious floating red lights in the sky, that first occurred near Morristown, New...
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  • devices, hoaxes, optical illusions, and mass hysteria. According to journalist Edward R. Murrow, the ETH as a serious explanation for "flying saucers" did...
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  • publication of Frank Scully's book Behind the Flying Saucers with its tales of the Aztec, NM UFO hoax. After a Life Magazine article, official interest in...
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  • ordinary circular saw-blade. More elaborate hoax saucers were found in Shreveport, Louisiana; in Black River Falls, Wisconsin; and in Clearwater, Florida....
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