Fake Saucers

Phoenix AZ, 1947. A shoe heel.

Grafton WI, 1947. A saw blade.

Shreveport, LA, 1947.

North Hollywood, CA, 1947

York, PA, 1947

Near Horseheads NY, April 1950.

Fig. 1-3: McMinnville OR, May 1950

Fig. 4: 1940s Ford truck mirrors (reproductions)

Fig. 1: Riverside CA, 1951.

Fig. 2: 1937 Ford hubcap.

Fig. 1: Polermo CA (Adamski), 1953.

Fig. 2: A 1939 Coleman lampshade.

Yorkshire, 1954.

Howard Menger, 1957.

Silpho Moor, UK, 1957.

Sheffield, UK, 1962. Saucers painted on a window.

Paul Villa, Albuquerque, NM, c. 1963-66. A variety of hubcaps, including the return of the 1937 Ford (above).

Daniel Fry, 1964. Lampshades and stereo speaker cones.

Heflin 1965. A toy train wheel.

Spain (Ummo cult), 1966-67. Appears to be a ceramic dish - literally a saucer.

Lake St. Claire, MI (Jaroslaw), 1967. This impressed J. Allen Hyneck.

Fig. 1: New Mexico UFO, 1967.

Fig 2: 1949/1950 Chevy hubcap.

Sheppy, UK, 1967.

Switzerland (Billy Meier), 1975.

Switzerland (Meier), 1981. Trash can lid and Xmas tree ornaments.

Fig. 1-2: Gulf Breeze FL, 1987.

Fig 3: model concealed in Walters' attic, discovered by new occupants after he moved out in 1988.

Petit-Rechain, Belgium, 1990. Admitted by the hoaxer.

Canada ("Guardian"), 1991.

The anonymous "Guardian" video surfaced in 1991, having been mailed to Canadian ufologists. The mailings also included a forged government document, a fake alien photo (above) and a collection of semi-coherent rants about angels, "blond" space brothers, and malevolent "greys" being in cahoots with Chinese communists. The object in the video was either constructed by the hoaxer or is a conventional vehicle deliberately misrepresented as a landed saucer.

Stonehenge, 1996. Possibly the first use of computer generated imagery (morphing) in a UFO hoax.

Morristown 2009: Road flares tied to balloons.

Jerusalem, 2011. CGI from multiple angles by multiple "witnesses" who all turn out to be film students.

MH130, 2014. The orbs, the plane & the clouds are all CGI.

Austin TX, 2022: CGI hoax with multiple fake "eyewitnesses."

"Roswell" photo - popular on social media - is from a 1963 Twilight Zone episode.

Northern California, November 2022, taken by the editor of this blog.

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