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Most 13 Successful UFO Hoaxes                                                                                      71





           The 13 Most Successful


          UFO Hoaxes of All Time



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        Jerusalem UFO


        In January of 2011, some folks in Jerusalem
        caught on camera an alien hoax that happened to
        look exactly like what everyone imagines an
        alien hoax would look like. But what's
        impressive about this one is that it manages to
        catch the same image from at least three
        different angles, which is significantly harder to
        fake. Unfortunately, there are a few problems.
        The first is that all the videos were posted on
        YouTube anonymously. The second is that these
        videos are the only reports of this particular
        sighting. Finally, there is significant evidence
        that the film went through video editing
        software before it appeared on the Internet.
                                                                Peter MacKay says
        The FBI's 'Hottel Memo'                                                                           Both China and the  WHO have denied any
                                                           Magnitsky Act should be                        cover-up.
        In 2011, several news sites touted a "newly
        revealed" FBI Memo that showed that U.S.            used against China over                       MacKay is not the first to suggest using the act.
        officials saw a UFO explode over New Mexico.                 handling of COVID 19                 Human rights advocate and former Liberal MP
        Unfortunately, the document was neither                                                           Irwin Cotler advanced the idea in April.
        legitimate nor newly revealed - it was part of a
        hoax that had been revealed more than 50 years                 Canadian Press                     MacKay, as well as two other leadership
        ago.                                                                                              candidates, Erin O’Toole and Derek Sloan, also
                                                                                                          joined Cotler and hundreds of other politicians,
        NASA's Arsenic Eating Microbes                   OTTAWA – Conservative leadership hopeful         academics and human rights advocates in
                                                         Peter MacKay is calling for use of the           signing a letter condemning China’s actions.
        Back in 2010, a NASA scientist published a       Magnitsky Act if specific individuals in China
        paper called "A Bacterium That Can Grow By       can be identified as having suppressed           A fourth candidate, Leslyn Lewis, does not
        Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus." This took  information related to COVID-19.                 appear to have signed the letter, though like her
        the community by storm because it totally                                                         competitors she has called for a change in
        changes our understanding of life. So far, every  A full inquiry, perhaps an international one, into  Canada-China relations.
        living thing scientists have encountered uses    how the novel coronavirus turned into a
        phosphorous in the backbone of its DNA, but if   pandemic is required, MacKay told supporters.    Conservatives have long taken a harder line on
        a living thing had a different element there it                                                   China than their Liberal counterparts. Late last
        would mean that life was possible in a bunch of  “We need to invoke existing laws like the        year, O’Toole successfully led a push to create a
        places that we had never even considered         Magnitsky  Act to hold individuals personally    special House of Commons committee devoted
        before.                                          accountable for misdeeds if that evidence        to probing the relationship. His position on
                                                         exists,” he said.                                China is the first thing visitors to his  Twitter
        The London Olympics Alien                                                                         page will see.
                                                         The act allows for sanctions against foreign
                                                         nationals “responsible for gross violations of
        This hoax, surrounding the London 2012                                                            Still, the need to formulate policy and ideas on
                                                         internationally recognized human rights.”        the specific issues posed by the COVID-19
        Olympics, seems to have a few different
        versions. The Daily Mail's UFO expert claimed                                                     pandemic  – the role of China being one – has
                                                         The legislation is named after Sergei Magnitsky,
        that a UFO was likely to appear above the                                                         become an ever-growing part of the
                                                         a Moscow lawyer who was tortured and died in     Conservative leadership campaign.
        opening ceremony because it is a "mass summer
                                                         a Moscow prison after uncovering fraud in
        event" and doesn't really explain beyond that.
                                                         Russia.                                          With billions of dollars in federal spending
        And Of Course,  The  Alien  Autopsy                                                               moving out the door, and provinces beginning to
                                                         “If there was evidence that was suppressed, or   reopen their economies, the candidates are
        Hoax
                                                         falsified, or if there is information brought to the  increasingly fielding questions about how
                                                         front that proves that the outbreak in  Wuhan    they’d handle bringing Canada back to some
        This is it. The mother-hoax. The most famous
                                                         (city) either could have been prevented or we    measure of normal.
        alien hoax of all time: the  Alien  Autopsy.     could have contained it much earlier, than I
        Despite the fact that the little details give this
                                                         think we have to have a much, much greater       When the Conservative leadership race resumed
        away (the "surgeon" holds the scissors like a    degree of accountability,” MacKay said on a call  late last week – it had been put on pause because
        tailor instead of like a pathologist), it's still a  with supporters this week.                   of the pandemic – MacKay refreshed his entire
        majestic piece of film-making. If you can get
                                                                                                          website, adding a document about his “vision”
        over your anger at the fact that someone is trying  There has been a running debate over how much  for rebuilding Canada in the post-COVID-19
        to trick you and just enjoy a good piece of fun,
                                                         Chinese government officials knew and            era.
        you should check it out. []                      potentially didn’t tell global health officials
                                                         about the emergence of COVID-19 in that
             For Information on COVID-19                 country late last year, leading to questions about                      (Continued on Page 75)
             www.canada.ca or www.csc.us                 whether the damage could have been averted.
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