Recently, The University of Brattleboro made two failed attempts at foisting hoaxes on the public.
The first was a spectacular failure. We attempted the largest UFAUX launch in the history of the University. Sadly, the result, while large in scale, fell far short of our hopes. The result was news stories such as the following. . .
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/25/fireballs-sky-east-us_n_5882472.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
If you look at the map, you can really see the size of our error. Ooops. Our bad.
Our second relatively recent failure is one we are only now admitting to. This story broke earlier this year, and many of you may not even have noticed. Here is our favorite quote from that article.
“A mystery rock on Mars that suddenly appeared in front of NASA’s Opportunity rover may look like a tasty donut, but it is like nothing ever seen on the Martian surface before. “It looks like a jelly donut,” said Steve Squyres, the rover’s lead scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., during a recent NASA event marking Opportunity’s 10th year on Mars. “And it appeared, it just plain appeared, at that spot and we haven’t driven over that spot.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/22/mystery-mars-rock-opportunity-rover-closer-look_n_4643524.html
All we will say is that we were actually working on a chocolate donut, with sprinkles, and somehow it came out terribly wrong. The story, above with photos of the “jelly donut”, was humorous, and represented a success in some respects, but we thought it was time to fess up, and not try to pretend we were trying for a jelly donut.
We apologize for these lapses, and hope to succeed in a very real and much grander way, with irrefutable evidence of alien visitation, in the coming months, and years ahead. www.universityofbrattleboro.com
With that in mind, we offer here a rememberance of past, more succesful attempt, from an old story on iBrattleboro…
https://www.ibrattleboro.com/article.php/20051219084106951
Ooops
If you check the web, the photos that we have been posting here, have been scooped up and redistributed on the “real” ufo websites. It wasn’t our intention to really spread falsehood, honest. We wanted to spread good cheer.
See what I mean ?
See what I mean ?
http://www.educatinghumanity.com/2014/06/amazing-ufo-photo-vermont.html
The Truth is Out There
Well, if a university checks it out, and it is on a website after all… there is good reason to believe it to be true.
After all, that photo was posted here, and you did supply it. What other possible explanation could there be?
I fear that there is another explanation, besides gullibility
I think it was Ivan who pointed out to me that the creators of the “real” UFO sites make their money from the banner ads ie from the total number of hits per month. Nothing wrong with that of course.
But it does mean that it is not necessary for the owners of the sites to believe in the authenticity of the stories that they re-post. If we at the University create free content for them, why wouldn’t they use it? It’s low hanging fruit, even if it isn’t, so to speak USDA Organic, or grade A.