Socorro UFO hoax revealed!

[rooth]

My alma mater has a very long legacy. My weak link to it is that the man prominent in part 2, John Shipman, taught me a great deal about unix (SunOS).

Part 1:
http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2009/09/socorro-hoax-exposed-famous-1964.html
After 45 years the truth is now revealed- one of the most famous UFO sightings in history was a hoax. The recent

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[mr_silvers]

Sorry to hear the blockquote didn't work. The only thing I can make mine do is copy text over via highlight and drag, but it doesn't quote it, really. I wonder if there is another way.

As for the quoted bit. I did read that, and I thought that was awesome. But that was explaining a different prank. I can see those military radar guy staring at the screens going WTF?! JESUS LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT THING! As far as not finding the source, well ... I am not certain of that. It is difficult to not get a radar image off a weather balloon, unless the radar jamming setup they had (different text in the same article) was working at the same time. By the time they got the jets out there, the weather balloon may have hit an altitude too high to go after, and considering all the incendiaries would have burned off by then ...

But, if someone lets loose with "Yeah. We had some propane torches out, and carefully marked off the ground to make the indentations, and got one of the bigger pyrotchnic rockets to launch the thing, but we didn't expect it to go over his head ..." I would be a true believer that they did it.

I'm just saying, they havn't really got much besides a letter and some vague second-hand wording. I wonder if we could see the letter itself, names blacklined of course.