Why do Hoaxes Never Die?

Greetings. Hoaxes. Whilst a statistically insignificant aspect of the UFO picture, some of the more well-known historical UFO cases on the books are known to be hoaxes. Despite the complete lack of tangible proof or evidence to support their validity, and the mountain of information strongly suggesting that the cases in question are not valid, but rather hoaxes perpetrated for unknown reasons, these cases have become legendary in their stature, and are seemingly eternal in their lifespan. Let's take a look at the current, and historical, situation. 

The list of known historical hoaxes is not really that long, but their notoriety is certainly something to behold; Aztec, Aurora, Trinity, Kingman, Del Rio, Maury Island, San Agustin, among a few others. Their collective cashe of supportive evidence is almost nonexistent, void of valid corroborating documentation, lacking in physical, tangible, and falsifiable evidence, and wanting of any reasonable continuity among the alleged witness testimonials. What we do know is that first-hand accounts are few and far between, with second and third-hand accounts taking up the UFO slack, so to speak. Information that is contrary to the true believers' points of view is ignored, or given a painfully low level of credibility and/or importance. Biases are confirmed, with dispassionate objectivity nowhere to be seen. 

The rampant promotion of historical hoaxes has become an integral part of the entertainment wing of the UFO subculture, with "researchers" like Richard Dolan, whose professional integrity has flown the proverbial coop, and Daniel Alan Jones, pictured at the top of this particular blog posting, whose singular focus on the Aurora, Texas historical hoax from April 17th of 1897 is an embarrassment to the entire UFO research community, keeping the hoaxes alive for future generations to waste time and effort on. Don't say they aren't willing and able to provide quality misinformation to the UFO masses, for they don't have an ounce of professional integrity left, not that they ever had any to begin with.   

The Aztec story from the late 1940's and the Maury Island affair of the same time frame began the ball rolling, downhill, towards the current situation. With subsequent hoaxes like the Del Rio story, the fanciful tale made up by Robert Willingham, pictured above, the UFO subculture was slowly beginning to believe in hoaxed tales, no matter what the conclusions of credible researchers were, and are. Nowadays, with the Internet and social media holding court, nonsensical stories and fictional tales of UFO events have a platform for the suckers in the UFO world to believe. The situation will likely never change, and in fact will continue getting worse and worse, with such tales attaining legendary status. Such is the UFO subculture in 2024.

A couple of older articles I wrote about the problems with historical hoaxes are available at the following links:

https://williamgpullin.blogspot.com/2024/11/maury-island-washington-states-bowl-of.html

https://williamgpullin.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-modern-day-maury-island.html

Jack Brewer has written some outstanding articles on the problems with historical hoaxes, and a few are available at the following links:

https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2018/10/we-didnt-start-liar.html?m=1

https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/2015/05/high-standards-more-than-justified-for.html?m=1

Kevin D. Randle has conducted some dispassionate research into the Aztec, New Mexico hoax, with some of his work available at the following links: 

http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2012/05/aztec-incident-by-scott-and-suzanne.html

http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-roswell-slides-and-aztec-ufo-crash.html

http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2012/06/aztec-karl-pflock-and-scott-ramsey.html

Jack Brewer's blog platform is available at https://ufotrail.blogspot.com/?m=1

Kevin D. Randle's blog platform is available at http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/

Both are comprehensive examinations of the issues at play, both are outstanding resources for accurate information on the UFO issue, and isn't that what we all want? Perhaps not.    

Thank you for your time and consideration.