Aztec, New Mexico UFO crash: Difference between revisions

The '''Aztec, New Mexico crashed saucer hoax''' (sometimes known as the "other [[Roswell incident|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)|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 [[confidence trick|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 [[Ufology|ufologists]] resurrected the story in books claiming the purported crash was real.<ref name="Skepdic">{{cite web|last1=Carroll|first1=Robert Todd|title=Aztec (New Mexico) UFO Hoax|url=http://skepdic.com/aztec.html|website=The Skeptic's Dictionary|access-date=April 8, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Greer2009">{{cite book|author=John Michael Greer|title=The UFO Phenomenon: Fact, Fantasy and Disinformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EYU1GrJjUZMC&pg=PA119|year=2009|publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide|isbn=978-0-7387-1319-9|pages=119–}}</ref><ref name="Radford2014">{{cite book|author=Benjamin Radford|title=Mysterious New Mexico: Miracles, Magic, and Monsters in the Land of Enchantment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=40a4AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT68|date=August 15, 2014|publisher=University of New Mexico Press|isbn=978-0-8263-5452-5|pages=68–}}</ref> 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".<ref name="fbipressrelease"/>