*sigh*

[cdybedahl]

Swedish tabloid "Aftonbladet" have lately been running a series of articles (or, well, short snippets of lurid prose, at least) on how people believe in UFOs. Today, they're displaying their readers' own UFO pictures.

One of the pictures is the triangular flying ship from the pilot episode of The X-Files. Splendid journalism there, folks!

Comments

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I am always reminded of an article Asimov wrote in which, for a joke, he wrote into a local paper claiming to have seen a UFO. By the end of the week, half-a-dozen people claimed to have seen it as well.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Back in the eighties Dave Langford wrote a book called "An Account of A Meetings With Denizens of Another World, 1871". This was supposedly a Victorian encounter with an alien robotic probe, and was of course SF in the trappings of a historical account "edited" by Langford.

The story, always heavily distorted, has since found its way into at least five UFO books, including one by Whitley Streiber, who (even after it was pointed out) refused to admit that he'd plagiarised the book; it turned out he'd plagiarised someone else's plagiarisation of the book!