Palomar and Adamski's Venusian Scout Ships
George Adamski ran a hamburger stand at the foot of Palomar Mountain and from 1952 published photographs of a Venusian scout ship — a bell with three spheres underneath and a dome on top. The shape gave it away at once: the spheres match General Electric light bulbs exactly, and the hull matches the cover of a surgical lamp, or the hood of a chicken brooder lamp sold in the same hardware stores. Joe Nickell and others rebuilt the model from period parts and got the same photograph. Adamski maintained until his death in 1965 that he had flown to Saturn.
De Loys's Ape
In 1920 the Swiss geologist François de Loys, prospecting for oil on the Venezuela–Colombia border, shot what he described as a large tailless ape that came at his party by the Tarra river. The single photograph — the animal propped on a crate with a stick — was published in 1929 by George Montandon as Ameranthropoides loysi, the missing link of American man; Montandon used it in a racist theory of the separate origin of races. The picture shows an ordinary white-fronted spider monkey, common in those forests: the crate gives a true height of about a metre, and the tail is hidden behind the body. De Loys's companion later said the whole thing had been a joke at Montandon's expense.
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