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Alien Hoaxes 11

Alien 'Hoaxes' That Went

Viral From Roswell's

Flying Saucers to Mexican

& Australian X-Files

Continued from Page 10

Australia’s X-Files:
Melbourne’s Kelly and Andrew
Cahill said they were driving in August

1993 when they spotted a weird object in
the sky with circular orange lights, but
that isn’t the shocking part of the story.
The couple said they were abducted by
tall, skinny aliens with red eyes who
burned a triangle into the skin around
Kelly’s navel. The couple ‘awoke’ in
their car having lost an hour’s time. “I commemorative silver coin that retails near the UNESCO World Heritage Nazca
felt this blow to my stomach and went for $129.95. The one-ounce coin comes Lines (there’s speculation aliens created
flying in the air and I heard my husband with a black light that can be shone on the lines too). At least one of Peru’s
say ‘Let go of me’, and this male voice the currency to reveal a yellowish blast mummified bodies apparently had an

that said, 'I mean you no harm'," she told resembling the one that (supposedly) elongated skull and hands with only three
journalists. The Cahills’ story was such a burned Michalak. fingers, so Maussan teamed up with a TV
sensation it was mentioned by agent Fox crew to gather evidence of alien life.
Mulder (David Duchovny) on The X- South Korea is a UFO magnet: Unfortunately, the alien theory was
Files. Ms Cahill published a bestselling For a small country, South Korea debunked. Snopes, the fact-checking
book, did the rounds of the talk shows, has a lot of extraterrestrial activity. There website, pointed out that the website that
then went quiet. The UFO experts at have been sightings of ‘Tic Tac’ UFOs streamed Maussan’s documentary
Phenomena Research Australia (PRA) (bullet-shaped spacecraft with no wings) charges just under $100 a year for videos
investigated the claims and compiled a and videos showing discs with domed about alien abductions, crop circles and

300-page report. In 2020, 27 years after tops hovering over cities and mountain contact with angels.
the ‘abduction’, PRA said they were ranges. South Korea’s military took UFO
considering releasing their findings - just reports rather more seriously in 2019, Roswell, New Mexico’s flying
not any time soon. however, when radar detected ‘traces of saucer:
flight by an unidentified object’ heading The Roswell Daily Record
Canada’s closest encounter: across the frontier from North Korea. Jet newspaper headline was clear: ‘RAAF
Canada has big skies and plenty of fighters were scrambled. Helicopters Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in
land so it should be fertile ground for an buzzed over the demilitarized zone Roswell Region’. It was July 8, 1947, and

alien landing. In May, 1967, amateur separating north and south. Former US the Roswell UFO was the best evidence
geologist Stefan Michalak was president Donald Trump was in the so far that aliens existed. At first, the
prospecting in Manitoba when he spotted region to meet North Korean leader Kim Roswell Army Air Field announced that a
two glowing objects. One of the silver Jong Un, so the world’s media covered flying disk had landed on a ranch in a
crafts landed and Michalak said he had a the updates in real time. The frenzy thunderstorm but then changed the story,
look inside at the blinking lights. The ended minutes later with an calling it a ‘weather balloon’. In fact, a
craft took off quickly, knocking him on announcement from the US Joint Chiefs rancher may have gathered debris related
his back, and an opening appeared in the of Staff: the UFO was a flock of about 20 to a classified US military project to
upper portion of the 35-foot disc that birds. detect atomic bomb tests in the Soviet

hissed and smelled of sulfur. (Luckily, Union, but that information wasn’t
the craft hovered long enough for Mexico’s Mulder: immediately released. UFO believers

Michalak to sketch the spaceship above). There have been so many UFO suspected a cover-up. More than 40 years
The UFO spotter became ill afterwards, sightings at Volcán Popocatépetl, after the crash, an ex-mortician named
displaying signs of a radiation burn. Mexico's largest volcano, it has a UFO- Glenn Dennis remained adamant that a
Years later, a twisted piece of metal was spotting camera trained on it 24-7. Roswell Army nurse had walked in on
recovered from the site, which was 'Spaceships' have been seen floating doctors who were bent over three
radioactive. Was it a hoax, military test behind it, hovering above, flirting with creatures with small frames and huge,
or an alien landing? Neither Canadian the flames and even flying directly into bald heads. (Dennis ran Roswell’s
nor the US military have been able to its mouth. So it should come as no International UFO Museum at the time.)
explain the event. Tour guides swear it surprise that UFO-mad Mexico also has Roswell now hosts a UFO festival and
was a UFO sighting, however, and its own celebrity UFO-ologist, Jaime science fiction ‘Galacticon’ celebration
include it on their trips. The Royal Maussan. Maussan visited Peru in 2017, each July, inviting visitors from around

Canadian Mint has even issued a hoping to analyze mummies discovered the world to decide for themselves.[]