Editing Aztec, New Mexico UFO crash (section)

==FBI memo==
In April 2011, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] launched The Vault, a website containing documents and media from the agency's FOIA ([[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act]]) Library. Some UFO enthusiasts found what has come to be known as the "Hottel memo" on The Vault, and touted it as new proof of an official cover-up by the US government. However, the memo had never been classified, and had been known to the ufology community for years, having been alleged as early as 1998 to be evidence of a landing by extraterrestrials.<ref name="Vault">{{cite news |title=FBI Hottel Memo Reveals UFO Hoax |first=Jesse |last=Emspak |url=http://www.ibtimes.com/fbi-hottel-memo-reveals-ufo-hoax-279533 |newspaper=International Business Times |publisher=Etienne Uzac |location=New York |date=April 11, 2011 |access-date=April 1, 2013}}</ref>

[[File:FBI Hottel Memo.jpg|400px|thumb|right|'Hottel Memo']]

The memo contained the report of a man named Guy Hottel, who was the FBI agent in charge of the Washington field office at the time.<ref name="Vault2"/> It was addressed to [[J. Edgar Hoover]] and indexed in the FBI records, but this was standard practice at the time.<ref name="Vault2">{{cite press release |title=UFOs and the Guy Hottel Memo |date=March 25, 2013 |publisher=[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] |url=https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/march/ufos-and-the-guy-hottel-memo |access-date=April 1, 2013}}</ref> It was later discovered that Hottel's report was a retelling of a story that had been taken from a January 6, 1950, article published in ''[[the Wyandotte Echo]]'', a [[Kansas City, Kansas]], legal newspaper. The ''Wyandotte Echo'' article itself related the account of a local car salesman and radio station advertising manager.<ref name="Vault"/> Ultimately the details within the FBI memo can be traced directly back to the initial hoax story.<ref name="Vault"/> 

After the memo was posted on The Vault, it received over a million views within 2 years.<ref name="Vault2"/> In 2013, the FBI issued a [[press release]] concerning the memo. Addressing the memo's context and possible connection to a hoax, the Bureau concluded, "Finally, the Hottel memo does not prove the existence of UFOs; it is simply a second- or third-hand claim that we never investigated. Some people believe the memo repeats a hoax that was circulating at that time, but the Bureau’s files have no information to verify that theory."<ref name="fbipressrelease">{{cite press release |title=UFOs and the Guy Hottel Memo |date=March 25, 2013 |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation |url=https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/march/ufos-and-the-guy-hottel-memo |access-date=March 30, 2013}}</ref>