Aztec Crash Hoax
Frank Scully's 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers popularized an alleged 1948 saucer crash near Aztec, New Mexico, a story later traced to Silas Newton and Leo Gebauer.
Frank Scully's 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers popularized an alleged 1948 saucer crash near Aztec, New Mexico, a story later traced to Silas Newton and Leo Gebauer.
Brief
Frank Scully's 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers popularized an alleged 1948 saucer crash near Aztec, New Mexico, a story later traced to Silas Newton and Leo Gebauer. The Aztec crash is famous because it is an early crash-retrieval legend with a documented hoax lineage. Skeptic's Dictionary and a 2011 Phys.org summary of the Guy Hottel memo both tie the story to Newton's fraud scheme rather than verified wreckage.
Metadata
- Date
- 1948-03-25
- Year
- 1948
- Location
- Aztec, New Mexico
- Region
- United States
- Status
- unconfirmed
- Tag
- journalism
- Primary
- Aztec (New Mexico) UFO Hoax
- Source type
- html
- Sources
- 2
Key Points
- Frank Scully's 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers popularized an alleged 1948 saucer crash near Aztec, New Mexico, a story later traced to Silas Newton and Leo Gebauer.
- The Aztec crash is famous because it is an early crash-retrieval legend with a documented hoax lineage.
- Skeptic's Dictionary and a 2011 Phys.org summary of the Guy Hottel memo both tie the story to Newton's fraud scheme rather than verified wreckage.
Most Interesting
- Skeptic's Dictionary and a 2011 Phys.org summary of the Guy Hottel memo both tie the story to Newton's fraud scheme rather than verified wreckage.
- Frank Scully's 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers popularized an alleged 1948 saucer crash near Aztec, New Mexico, a story later traced to Silas Newton and Leo Gebauer.
- The Aztec crash is famous because it is an early crash-retrieval legend with a documented hoax lineage.
Timeline
- 1948-03-25 · Encounter
Frank Scully's 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers popularized an alleged 1948 saucer crash near Aztec, New Mexico, a story later traced to Silas Newton and Leo Gebauer.
- 2015 · Source record
Aztec (New Mexico) UFO Hoax is the preferred source material attached to this encounter.
Sources
- Aztec (New Mexico) UFO HoaxThe Skeptic's Dictionary, 2015
- FBI memo does not prove aliens crash landed in RoswellPhys.org / Universe Today, 2011
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