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On March 9, 1950 the Los Angeles Mirror publishes a hoax about a flying saucer crash in Mexico City. The following day the witness retracts his statement, and states it was just a story he was told. Ted Bloecher looked at this and concluded he was a liar.
Ted Bloecher's transcript of the above article with notes:
His transcript of the retraction w/notes from the next day's Los Angeles Examiner. I could not find a copy of that paper to clip the original.
Follow-up the next day, in a short blurb buried in another article, explaining he didn't actually witness the saucer crash:
Los Angeles Mirror
Los Angeles, California
10 Mar 1950, Fri • Page 6
More silly nonsense in the next day's issue. Mentions the retraction and the lecture hoaxer and con man Silas Newton gave at Univ of Denver :
Los Angeles Mirror
Los Angeles, California
10 Mar 1950, Fri • Page 3
Follow up I found in The Atlanta Constitution while trying to find a different case.
The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia · Saturday, March 11, 1950, Pg. 15
Coverage in The Time and Democrat, Orangeburg, SC (whose employees had their own UFO sighting the day before), March 10, 1950:
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