Aztec crashed saucer hoax

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The Aztec crashed saucer hoax (sometimes known as the "other Roswell") was the allegation that a flying saucer crashed in 1948 in Aztec, New Mexico. The story was first published in 1949 by journalist Frank Scully in his Variety magazine columns, and later in his 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers. In 1952, the story was exposed as a hoax fabricated by two con men, Silas M. Newton and Leo A. Gebauer, as part of a fraudulent scheme to sell materials claimed to incorporate extraterrestrial technology; they were convicted of fraud for this enterprise in 1953. Beginning in the 1970s, some ufologists resurrected the story in books claiming the purported crash was real. Aspects of the Aztec hoax, such as the recovery of alien bodies and a saucer-shaped craft incorporating seemingly indestructible metal, have become intertwined with narratives about the better-known Roswell incident. In 2013, the FBI released a large number of documents online, drawing attention to a 1950 memo by FBI agent Guy...

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