The Letters from Ummo
From 1966 Spanish ufologists received typewritten letters from the inhabitants of the planet Ummo, in the system of the star Iumma: hundreds of pages on physics, society and language, each marked with an emblem of three strokes. The correspondence ran for twenty years, produced a literature of its own and several religious groups, and was cited as the most detailed extraterrestrial message on record. In 1993 the Madrid psychologist José Luis Jordán Peña publicly stated that he had written them himself, as a social experiment in what educated people are prepared to believe. The typewriter, the Spanish syntax and the scientific errors of the sixties all matched his authorship.
North Georgia and the Bigfoot in the Freezer
In the summer of 2008 the police officer Matt Whitton and his friend Rick Dyer announced they had found the body of a Bigfoot in the woods of north Georgia — five hundred pounds, over seven feet — and were keeping it in a freezer. A press conference was called in Palo Alto on 15 August and the story ran worldwide. Three days later the investigator Steve Kulls thawed the contents: a rubber costume stuffed with offal bought from a butcher, with moulded rubber feet. Whitton was sacked by the Clayton County police, and Dyer ran the same trick a few years later with a dummy he called Hank.
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