It seems that the Maury Island hoax has reared its ugly head once again in an article in which the author proclaims that it is a… HOAX. And this is news?

Captain Ed Ruppelt called Maury Island the dirtiest hoax in UFO history in his 1956 book. Jerry Clark, in the first version of his massive UFO encyclopedia refers to the Maury Island hoax. I call is a hoax in my latest book, Crash: When UFO’s Fall from the Sky (yet another shameless plug).

Here is what I said about Maury Island, in the book, which was officially published on May 20, which is prior to the posting of the lastest Maury Island is a hoax story.

Kenneth Arnold’s “flying saucer”sighting of June 24, 1947, when he learned of it, excited the editor of a science fiction magazine, Ray Palmer. Palmer had taken a science fiction magazine on the verge of folding and turned it into one with wide circulation in a matter of months. One of the stories, or more accurately, a series of stories, were the tales of Richard Shaver that Palmer hinted were true and that he credited with the amazing turn around of the magazine. Shaver, in his rambling style, told of an underworld accessed through deep caves, of a war between the Deros and Teros, two “robot” societies, one good and one bad and of their impact on the human race. Almost all that impact was bad in our world could be traced to the evil robots. By coincidence, the June 1947 issue of Amazing Stories was filled with more of Shaver’s tales.

Palmer had suggested as he published the stories, that these underground entities, good and bad, did leave their caves occasionally, and when the flying saucers first appeared in over Washington state in June 1947, Palmer was convinced that this was the proof of the reality of Shaver’s tales. In fact, in an editorial published in October 1947, Palmer excitedly wrote, “A part of the now world-famous Shaver Mystery has now been proved!”

Read the whole article here: A Different Perspective

Other museums might have more or flashier items to display. But only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars.

In Atlanta 1953, young barbers Edward Watters and Tom Wilson, along with butcher Arnold Payne, took a dead rhesus monkey and removed its tail, applied large doses of hair remover and used green food coloring to make the corpse of the monkey appear abnormal. They then used a blow torch to create a burning circle in the pavement.

Officer Sherley Brown came across the scene by accident and was told by the hoaxers that they had seen many creatures just like it.

The barbers, Edward Watters and Tom Wilson, and the butcher, Arnold “Buddy” Payne, told the policeman they came upon a red, saucer-shaped object in the road that night. They said several 2-foot(60-centimeter)-tall creatures were scurrying about and the trio hit one with their pickup before the others jumped back in the saucer and blasted skyward – leaving the highway scorched.

Brown took down the strange account and filed a report at police headquarters before going home.

Before long the place was in an uproar and the ‘discovery spread like wildfire.

“They had the Air Force and everybody else trying to find out about it,” said Brown, since retired in 1985.
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An Unidentified Flying Object was supposedly seen by a number of people at the Gateway of India in Mumbai on Thursday. Video was also supposedly taken of the mysterious object and posted on Youtube.

The video shows a strange object coming out of nowhere, remaining in view for some seconds before vanishing again.

Personally I feel that the video looks totally fake. Here it is for you to decide:

The problem is that many people have come forward to say they have seen the UFO. Inevitably this raises a number of questions: Did people actually see something, or is it just a case of people just trying to get their 2 minutes of fame? Is this a fake video put up to discredit a real sighting?

One Mumbai resident told media: “There is another world beyond the earth and the sighting of UFOs confirms this.”

Another resident was not as enthusiastic: “UFO sighting in Mumbai? Guess someone had too much free time. How can someone possibly spot a UFO in the city filled with smoke, smoke and more smoke?.”

Merinews: UFO sighted in Mumbai

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It is official that it was all a big hoax. Bigfoot remains as elusive as ever.

Apparently two researchers paid an undisclosed sum to the two men who claimed to have found it, in order to study the carcass more closely. They were given a block of ice in which it was claimed was the body of bigfoot. However when the ice thawed, it all became clear.

First of all the hair sample was burned and “melted into a ball uncharacteristic of hair,”said Steve Kulls, executive director of squatchdetective.com and host of Squatchdetective Radio.

As they sped up the thawing process, they noticed that the head sounded “unusually hollow” and once the feet were exposed, the jig was up. The feet were made of rubber.

Calls to the hoaxers, Whitton and Dyer went unreturned.

Whitton’s boss, Clayton County Police Chief Jeff Turner, has said that due to the fraud and the question marks over his credibility and integrity, Whitton had violated his duty as a police officer. Chief Turner said that they are in the process of firing him.

One has to wonder how this hoax managed to get as far along as it did. One also has to wonder why Whitton and Dyer continued the fraud for as long as they did. It must have been obvious to them that they would get found out sooner rather than later!