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The Museum of Hoaxes is dedicated to promoting knowledge about hoaxes. (Click here for opening hours, etc.) On our blog we post about dubious- sounding claims, and whatever else strikes our fancy. The site is also home to the Hoax Photo Database, the Hoax Forum, and the Hoaxipedia.
RUDE ROVERThe Christmas dog with no class! He sings and toots Jingle Bells.
INFLATABLE TREEWho needs the hassle of a real Christmas tree?
FARTING SANTAGo ahead and pull his finger!
Crashed Brazilian UFO
Status: highly unlikely
Normally UFOs are shown flying around in the sky, such as in this (very fake looking) footage of a recent UFO seen in China (thanks, Kathy). But Christopher emailed a link to these photos of a UFO recently seen in Brazil that was hitching a ride on the back of a truck. The text explains:Possible crash involving a disk-shaped object is reported in Brazil. Brazilian UFO Magazine’s consultant witnesses the transportation of a strange disk-shaped object in the Brazilian state of Bahia On Saturday, November 25th... Despite the strangeness of that scene, the object was uncovered and totally exposed. “Even with so many cars coming on the opposite way (going to Salvador) and the other ones behind the truck, very few people seemed to care about that scene”, Baqueiro says.
So presumably, whatever government agents were transporting this crashed UFO couldn't even be bothered to throw a tarp over it. I love it.
Posted By: Alex | Date: Thu Dec 07, 2006 | Permalink |
Total Comments: 29
Category: Extraterrestrial Life
Category: Extraterrestrial Life
Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
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That's not a UFO, God lost a hubcap.
Posted by Bob on Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 09:54 AMMan, that design is straight out of the 50's. Don't tell me we've got beatnik aliens now.
Posted by Charybdis in Hell on Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 10:11 AMI wondered where that thing went to... confound hijacking Brazilian trucker!!!
Posted by oppiejoe in Haslett, Michigan - USA on Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 11:38 AMThe "similar" photo that couldn't be authenticated at the bottom...is a totally different craft. I wish we could see that car's license plate!
Posted by Maegan in Tampa, FL - USA on Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 12:56 PMThis could be anything, from a theme park object to a movie set component to a lid for an industrial tank or something to a roof component.
Posted by LaMa in Europe on Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 01:42 PMIt it was from a crashed spaceship, I doubt it would be in such nice condition.
Posted by Razela in Tucson, AZ on Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 02:09 PMI don't think something being driven down the highway qualifies as an Unidentified Flying Object.
They should call it a UOBHOAFT (Unidentified Object Being Hauled on a Flatbed Truck.
Posted by Big Gary in Jefferson, Texas on Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 04:25 PMThey should call it a UOBHOAFT (Unidentified Object Being Hauled on a Flatbed Truck.
That video was kinda cool. I watched it like 13 times. I can see that in a Alien B-movie or some cheap propaganda
Posted by Toby Schnouter in Stromvola Beta, Clang Region of Far Space on Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 04:32 PMIf you ask me (and you didn't), the UFO in the China video looks more real and believable than the ones on the trucks (those look like stacked hubcaps -VW- with a vinyl pool donut stacked between. The shadows in the picture don't even match the sun glare on the donut.
Posted by Christopher in Joplin, Missouri on Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 06:05 PMMaybe it was a movie prop?
Posted by MangaBottle on Fri Dec 08, 2006 at 02:38 AMAnd if you Photoshoped out the trailer, it would look like a real flying one!
Posted by Dave in Milton Keynes UK on Fri Dec 08, 2006 at 04:01 AMIt seems to me that the object on the truck is sagging over the side of the trailer, which would indicate lack of a bottom and/or interior bracing. My vote is the top of some industrial tank or possibly a water tower top.
Posted by Jim on Fri Dec 08, 2006 at 04:25 AM"This could be anything, from a theme park object to a movie set component to a lid for an industrial tank or something to a roof component."
I was wondering this too...if we knew where it was being hauled...we could probably do a search that would let us find filming locations or new attractions under construction.
Posted by Maegan in Tampa, FL - USA on Fri Dec 08, 2006 at 06:26 AMI was wondering this too...if we knew where it was being hauled...we could probably do a search that would let us find filming locations or new attractions under construction.
Now this is the meaning of Hitch-hikers guide.I propose UFOTHILIPOFAHTBPOATATTWIIG unidentified flying object that has inexplicably lost it's powerof flight and has to be placed on a truck and taken to where it is going.Or if Bob is correct it would be UFHCOAT which is Unidentified Fallen HubCap On A Truck
Posted by J on Fri Dec 08, 2006 at 11:32 AMLooks like the head of a large pressure vessel (or industrial tank, as someone else said). I used to have pictures of a truck delivering the head of a nuclear reactor to Arkansas Nuclear One. Looked very similar, only the ANO vessel head was considerably thicker.
Posted by MAx in Atlanta on Fri Dec 08, 2006 at 11:59 AMHas anybody besides me noticed that this object appears to be in no way fastened to the trailer to keep it from falling off? There's too many faults with this photo to have even tried to assume ANYBODY would accept it as a real photo of ANYTHING!!!
Posted by Christopher in Joplin, Missouri on Sat Dec 09, 2006 at 05:31 AMThe truck isn't even moving. It's parked on the side of the road, with two men leaning against it.
Posted by Rochelle on Sat Dec 09, 2006 at 01:29 PMChristopher, it looks as though there may be clamps holding it on. And there's no telling what sort of fasteners may be holding it from the inside.
Posted by Accipiter in the Northern Hemisphere, unless They have lied. on Sat Dec 09, 2006 at 03:07 PMHey, I have it!! It's a hat for the 50 foot tall woman. She got tired of attacking and decided to go to a ball.
Posted by Christopher Cole in Tucson, AZ on Sat Dec 09, 2006 at 06:00 PMThose aren't men leaning against the truck, they are the aliens from the craft, and they trying to figure out how to get their craft back from the repo-man...
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