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*;;1B;=?5 ( "E ;.C 1947 Woodworth UFO Capt. G.W. McCoy of the Civil Air Patrol in the decision. The Raelians then appealed the hoax caused national Fargo. He was given orders to make sure the Strasbourg-based court's decision, ultimately object was “watched and closely guarded.” He concern was also told to make sure the item got “as little winning an appeal for the Grand Chamber to publicity as possible.” hear the case. The part about little publicity just wasn’t The 17-member chamber ruled Friday, The Jamestown Sun going to happen. nine to eight, that the Raelians' freedom of According to an article in the Minot expression was not violated. The summer of 1947 may be considered the Daily News, people were flying in to "Authorities had not overstepped the summer of the flying saucer. That summer 65 Woodworth to see the flying saucer. The story broad margin of appreciation given to them in years ago is noted for some famous and some was picked up by United Press and distributed view of the non-political dimension of the not-so-famous encounters with flying saucers. to papers and radio stations around the country. poster campaign," the court said. The Roswell UFO incident made news The Associated Press also distributed At a November hearing, a lawyer for the in late June and early July in 1947. The the story, which ran with the headline “Hoax Raelians argued that cloning is not illegal. He Jamestown Sun carried only brief stories on the saucer excites N.D.” in the Bismarck Tribune. said the religious movement had repeatedly incident. Some publications reported the Somewhere in the middle of the military condemned all acts of paedophilia and said it capture of a flying saucer and the recovery of visit and the “hundreds and hundreds” of was contradictory to ban a poster when neither alien bodies. The official explanation was a visitors, the five conspirators couldn’t keep a the sect nor the website were barred. crashed weather balloon. straight face. The court also noted the ban only The truth of what happened in the New “Cellmer, Clark, Wingire, Hanson and applied to putting posters on public property, Mexico desert is still debated today. Thompson, all residents of Woodworth, ‘broke "allowing the association to use other means of Few issues of The Jamestown Sun that down’ amid gales of laughter and admitted the expression." summer did not carry some reference to a flying prank after whispers of a hoax began circulating The Geneva-based sect, which claims saucer being seen somewhere in the United in this community,” wrote The Jamestown Sun tens of thousands of members worldwide, was States. Still, no reports of UFOs in Jamestown correspondent. founded in 1976 by Claude Vorilhon, known as or Stutsman County occurred. Struxness said until the conspirators "Rael". The July 7, 1947, edition lamented the admitted the hoax, many in the community were According to its constitution, the group lack of Unidentified Flying Objects in the area frightened. aims to make the first contacts and establish with the headline, “None reported here – “People were scared,” she said. “From good relations with extraterrestrials. Saucers spurn city.” what I’ve been told it shook everybody up.” The poster in question was about one- That appears to be when some young The Jamestown Sun article described metre (three feet) tall and across the top in big men in Woodworth decided to cook up their the level of concern the hoax raised this way; letters were the words: "The Message from own flying saucer. “Long distance telephone wires began to hum Extraterrestrials", according to the court. “This kind of joke was all in character with activity as newspapers, radio stations and Underneath was the Raelians' web for them,” said Chris Wingire, nephew of John just plain curious folks contacted Woodworth.” address, a French phone number and the phrase: Wingire, one of the saucer conspirators. “From All five of the men who built the "Science at last replaces religion." what I heard they seemed to be up for most Woodworth flying saucer have since died. The The middle of the poster showed alien anything.” last to pass away was William Clark, who died faces and a pyramid, together with a flying Not all of the pranks were completely in spring 2012. [] saucer and the Earth.[] harmless. “Dad and John did things that were a Top rights court upholds Let REL-MAR Publish Your little odd or funny,” Chris Wingire said. “They Swiss ban on UFO group's got a hold of some dynamite one time. They Book For You! didn’t want to make too much noise so they set posters it off in a garage and blew it up.” If you are an Author or planning to write a Older residents of the community agree. book, this message will be of GREAT interest “When they got together you didn’t #E!2B> to you.REL-MAR McConnell Media know what to expect,” said Virginia Struxness, Company will make your book available in community historian. STRASBOURG — More than a decade after print and digital formats. Your book will be The headline of The Jamestown Sun for Swiss police barred a UFO religious group from available for sale on line and on Amazon in July 11, 1947, said “Woodworth ‘Saucer’ putting up posters depicting aliens, Europe's top Kindle format. You will receive a book Revealed as Hoax.” The subheading was “Five rights court ruled Friday the sect's free speech trailer, your eBook will be online on its own Confess Prank; Nation Gets Excited.” had not been violated. landing page and domain name and we will The article detailed how Oscar Cellmer, Police in the Swiss canton of Neuchatel issue a press release for you. We currently William Clark, Wingire, Palmer Hanson and in 2001 banned the Raelian group, which claims have books that are selling as Print on Leslie Thompson had made the “flying saucer” aliens created life on earth, from putting up the Demand, printed, formatted for digital sales out of a part of a washtub, a lamp shade, some posters. & distribution including Kindle, iPod, iPad radio parts and a car fan. A coat of silver paint The local ban came after other and Android handheld devices. ISBN was added to make the unit look like something authorities in Switzerland had allowed the Numbers are included for all print/digital from out of this world. posters. publications. Contact us for all your “John (Wingire) was a welder,” said Neuchatel officials said the posters publishing needs. Other services include Chris Wingire. “They worked all the night presented a public order threat because Raelians Radio/TV programming and productions, before to build it and then put it in somebody’s promote human cloning and "geniocracy," a Voice Over services, Complete Internet yard. When she found it they came over and system where leaders are picked according to Services. We have over 20 years of media said, ‘hey, it must be a flying saucer.’” their intelligence. experience. All this for under $900.00 CDN. The conspirators sweetened the story by Additionally, a Swiss court found the For more information call us today! adding they had heard there was a $1,000 Raelians had "theoretically" advocated reward for the capture of a flying saucer. paedophilia and incest, the European Court of Call 1-800-610-7035, Ext 852 The saucer had been placed in the yard Human Rights said in a statement Friday. publisher@rel-mar.com of Mrs. Bert Miller. It would appear, from the The group had also been the subject of newspaper article, that Miller alerted a lot of criminal complaints about sexual practices Visit people. involving children, the court said. REL-MAR McConnell Media Company By noon July 11 more than 100 people Swiss high courts affirmed the ban and www.rel-mar.com had flocked to the Miller home. This included Europe's top rights court in January 2011 upheld