Hinwil and Billy Meier's Pleiadians
From 1975 the Swiss farmer Eduard Billy Meier produced hundreds of sharp colour photographs of Pleiadian beamships hanging over the hills of the canton of Zürich. Some of the models turned up at his house: discs made from dustbin lids and toy parts, hung on thread. His portrait of the Pleiadian Semjase was traced to a frame from Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers — the woman is the dancer Michelle Della Fave. The dinosaurs he claimed to have photographed on a trip through time are copies of Zdeněk Burian's paintings from a book on Meier's own shelf.
The Great Moon Hoax
From 25 August 1835 the New York Sun ran a series of six articles reporting that Sir John Herschel, from the Cape of Good Hope, had seen life on the Moon through a new telescope: forests, herds of bison, temples of sapphire and intelligent winged people four feet tall, which he called Vespertilio-homo. The material was presented as a reprint from the Edinburgh Journal of Science, which had by then been out of print for years. The Sun's circulation rose to fifteen thousand, the largest in the world. The author was the reporter Richard Adams Locke, writing satire on the fashionable speculation about inhabitants of the planets; the paper never printed a retraction, and Herschel learned of his discovery by post.
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