Aztec, New Mexico crashed saucer hoax

The Aztec, New Mexico, UFO hoax (sometimes known as the "other Roswell") was a flying saucer crash alleged to have happened in 1948 in Aztec, New Mexico. The story was first published in 1949 by author Frank Scully in his Variety magazine columns, and later in his 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers. In the mid-1950s, the story was exposed as a hoax fabricated by two con men, Silas M. Newton and Leo A. Gebauer, as part of a fraudulent scheme to sell supposed alien technology. Beginning in the 1970s, some ufologists resurrected the story in books claiming the purported crash was real.[1][2][3] In 2013, an FBI memo claimed by some ufologists to substantiate the crash story was dismissed by the bureau as "a second- or third-hand claim that we never investigated".[4]

  1. ^ Carroll, Robert Todd. "Aztec (New Mexico) UFO Hoax". The Skeptic's Dictionary. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  2. ^ John Michael Greer (2009). The UFO Phenomenon: Fact, Fantasy and Disinformation. Llewellyn Worldwide. pp. 119–. ISBN 978-0-7387-1319-9.
  3. ^ Benjamin Radford (August 15, 2014). Mysterious New Mexico: Miracles, Magic, and Monsters in the Land of Enchantment. University of New Mexico Press. pp. 68–. ISBN 978-0-8263-5452-5.
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