
“Are we finally ready to admit UFOs are aliens?” asks the Daily Beast in its headline.Īmericans have a bottomless appetite for this stuff. That the latest “bombshell” landed without any evidence or corroboration has not dampened our feverish enthusiasm. In June, a recently retired intelligence community “whistleblower” made this claim, like others before him in years past. government has been hiding for many decades. The latest version of this fable is the widely circulated story of-you guessed it-crashed UFOs that the U.S. government in 1947 recovered an alien craft from the New Mexico desert-was old hat. Even then, the hoax-recycling the Roswell myth, which holds that the U.S. The broadcast generated so much hoopla that Fox aired it two more times that year, tacking on “added footage” of the UFO wreckage. The 17-minute black and white clip purported to show military doctors examining a bloated, humanoid-looking extraterrestrial that had died in a flying saucer crash.

In 1995, Fox Television captivated millions with a medical autopsy of a space alien.
