Update note:
I just saw Morris's post above and this may as well be a duplicate. Seriously Sorry about that Morris, I totally missed that link. Star and

Sys
blog.newsweek.com...
The Great UFO Hoax of 2009
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Media coverage was extensive. A lot of it featured Paul Hurley, a pilot, and his family, who appeared of several news broadcasts describing the
strange lights they saw in the sky. (For some reason, reporters find pilots’ UFO sightings especially believable.) Rudy and Russo repeated the
performance four more time, gaining media coverage for each. Conspiracy websites and radio shows covered the sightings, but “the icing on the cake
came when the popular History Channel show UFO Hunters featured the Morristown UFO as their main story one week,” the duo recall. “Bill Birnes,
the lead investigator of the show and the publisher of UFO Magazine, declared definitively that the Morristown UFO could not have been flares or
Chinese lanterns.”
This was the pair’s main quarry, exposing the foolishness of UFO “investigators.” They write, “are UFO investigators simply charlatans looking
to make a quick buck off human gullibility? . . . If a respected UFO investigator can be easily manipulated and dead wrong on one UFO case, is it
possible he’s wrong on most (or all) of them? Do the networks buy into this nonsense, or are they in it for the ratings?” unquote
Wow, hooked and bagged Bill Birnes The great UFO Hunter..Dang..
[edit on 1-4-2009 by Sys_Config]