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Hoax
Explanations & misidentifications
A deliberate mystification: faked photographs, forged documents, fabricated crop circles, fake debris. The Aztec (1948) affair, Adamski’s photos, the Roswell autopsy and the “MJ-12 documents” illustrate the role of fraud. Identifying hoaxes is essential investigative work.
In the major cases
- The Aztec Crashed Saucer Hoax (1948)
- The Trindade Island Photographs (1958)
- Utsuro-bune, the "Hollow Ship" (1803)
See also
- Crop circles
- Roswell “alien autopsy”
- Majestic 12 (MJ-12)
- “Mummies” presentation at the Mexican Congress (2023)
- The Maury Island incident (1947)
- Operation Highjump (1946-1947)
- Project Aquarius
- Skinny Bob
- Frank Scully (1892-1964)
- Jaime Maussan
- Naga fireballs (Mekong)
- Paul and Evelyn Trent
- Ed Walters
- Gray Barker
- Aurora, Texas (1897)
- The Ummo affair
- Doug and Dave
- Bell-shaped object
- FBI Hottel memo (1950)
- Project Serpo
- Philadelphia Experiment
- Urban legend
- Billy Meier
- George Adamski (1891-1965)
- Photographic analysis