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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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    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 four...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    George Adamski (category Hoaxers)
    and saucer researcher", although most investigators regarded him as a charlatan and a con artist and concluded that his claims were an elaborate hoax. Adamski...
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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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    Maury Island incident (category 1947 hoaxes)
    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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    be a "time machine", or part of an "SS antigravity program" for a flying saucer. According to Cook, Die Glocke was bell-shaped, about 4 metres (12 ft) high...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    photographs ever taken of a UFO. Most UFO skeptics consider these photographs a hoax, although many ufologists continue to argue that the photos actually depict...
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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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  • said it appeared to be about the size of a saucer from his perspective, one of the first uses of the word "saucer" in association with a UFO. At the time...
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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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    about little beings being recovered from flying saucer crashes. Though largely considered to be hoaxes, some of the stories from the sources about little...
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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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  • Felix Moncla (category 2006 hoaxes)
    series. According to UFO writer Donald Keyhoe in his 1955 book, The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, he received a telephone call telling him of "a rumor out at...
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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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    predecessor to modern claims of extraterrestrial-piloted UFO's or flying saucers. Reports of the alleged crewmen and pilots usually described them as humanoid...
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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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    engineering of one of nine flying saucers, which he alleged were extraterrestrial in origin. He claims one of the flying saucers, the one he coined the "Sport...
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