Page 10 - The 'X' Chronicles Newspaper - February 2023 Edition

10
Alien 'Hoaxes' That Went
Viral From Roswell's
Flying Saucers to Mexican
& Australian X-Files
Dead alien found after UFO
sighting in Russia:
Two Russian men were out for a
walk in 2011 when they came across
what appeared to be a frozen corpse in
the snowy countryside near Irkutsk, in
eastern Siberia. But this wasn’t just any
old corpse – it was an alien, or was it?
Only a month earlier, villagers swore
they’d seen bright orange lights in the
sky. Could the two incidents be related?
Perhaps there had been an extraterrestrial
crash? Nyet. More than 12m people
viewed the YouTube video and police
investigated. It was at this point the men
sheepishly confessed: they’d actually
made the ‘alien’ out of breadcrumbs and
stuffed it into chicken skin as a practical
joke.
New Jersey spacecraft stops
traffic:
A large, threatening spacecraft
crept slowly across New Jersey’s sky in
2020 and it wasn’t long before the Twitter
and TikTok videos went viral. The
extraterrestrial ship with blue flashing
lights slowed traffic on the turnpike –
some people even got out of their cars to
take a better look. Turns out, a Goodyear
blimp was passing over New Jersey at the
time, getting an aerial television shot of
an NFL game at the MetLife Stadium,
just west of New York City. And yes, the
blimp came in peace.
UFO visits India:
A ‘spaceship’ hovering
precariously close to buildings in Uttar
Pradesh, in northern India, created panic
in 2016, with photos of the large object
spreading feverishly. The UFO
photographer quickly disappeared
(beamed up?) and the cell phone number
couldn’t ever be traced. Despite the
mystery, experts decided the UFO was
probably created by an app, noting it bore
a striking resemblance to a UFO in the
movie Independence Day.
UFOs terrify Haiti:
An eerie, realistic home video know if the government had a plan if
captured 'UFOs' soaring over Haiti in aliens invaded. The Army responded by
2007. A woman can be heard gasping. A blowing up one saucer, dropping another
Alien Hoaxes
dog barks. Surely the video must be real? and brushing themselves off when one
A second video from the Dominican imploded. Police decided not to take
Republic seemed to provide independent action against the apprentices, with one
corroboration. The Los Angeles Times officer saying authorities were “taking it
decided to track down the videographer like gentlemen”.
and others who immediately re-posted
the ‘evidence’ and got a swift response (Continued on Page 11)
from barzolff814 – aka Heather, a 17-
year-old Irish girl who’d racked up 2.2m DEBUNKED: The Apollo Moon
YouTube hits (now 20m!): “Umm yeah. Landings Were FAKED
Whatever. You people are stupid. Find
something better to do with your time. Twelve NASA astronauts walked on the
And get a life.” The Times finally found moon between 1969 and 1972, and the
the source, a professional animator Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has since
who’d spent 17 hours creating the UFO released photos of the landing sites. In the
videos on his MacBook and didn’t want decades since Apollo 11 astronauts first set
to reveal his name. It seems the animator foot on the moon, many theories have been
was just testing his work, thinking he put forward claiming that the whole Apollo
might get a few likes... program was staged. Why are there no stars
in the sky in the moonwalkers' photos?
Why are the U.S. flags fluttering on the
Six ‘spaceships’ land in England: surface? Why do you see footprints in the
Wiltshire in southwest England has pictures, but no marks from the lunar
always been a draw for the alien modules that landed there?
conspiracists – it is, after all, the home of
the legendary Stonehenge, multiple crop The answers to those questions are simpler
circles and a UFO hotspot since the 17th than you may think. There are no stars in
the sky for the same reason you don't see
century. But even the locals were stars during the day on Earth, according to
astounded when six UFOs landed in NASA (opens in new tab): The bright glow
Wiltshire, London and four other of daylight on the surface washes them out.
locations across England in 1967,
bleeping, hissing and triggering a major U.S. flags planted into the lunar soil had
police and military response. The hoax metal rods sewn in them to appear as
was conjured up by the engineer though they were moving, according to
apprentices at the Royal Aircraft NASA (opens in new tab). Without these
wires, the flag would have hung straight
Establishment (later part of the Ministry down, making for a pretty lackluster photo
of Defense) who scattered them prop. And the lunar modules, though
overnight. The pranksters wanted to heavier, didn't put prominent marks in the
surface in some places because their mass
was more evenly distributed than the
astronauts' weight was in their boots.