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How we staged the Morristown UFO hoax.

Publication: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
Publication Date: 22-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
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HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE FACE OF the Virgin Mary on your grilled cheese sandwich? How about the image of Satan in a cloud of smoke? Or Sasquatch running through the woods? What about an alien spacecraft in the sky?

It is not difficult to find people who respond with an astounding "eyes!" to one of these--or all four. Humans are, by nature, experts at finding patterns whether they are real or not, and UFOs are among the most common patterns people find in the skies. Now, you may be thinking that UFOs are only seen by a mullet spotting, tobacco chewing, dolts whose highest aspiration is to make an appearance on the Jerry Springer Show, but in fact doctors, lawyers and even pilots report seeing flying saucers, flying triangles, and aerial shapes of all manner of an unidentified nature. Even over the skies of an affluent suburban community in New Jersey. Enter Joe Rudy and Chris Russo and the great UFO hoax of 2009.

In November of 2008, we found ourselves sitting around one evening discussing pseudoscience and the number of people who still believe in its various guises....

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