NJUFO- Wacky hoaxers come forward!

When the NJUFO flap emerged in January I made this fearless prediction: "But don't worry, I'm sure if this story gets out of hand, some pranksters will step forward and tell us all how it was done." Lo and behold:

Last November, write Joe Rudy, who describes himself as “an avid reader of Skeptic magazine” who teaches science and gives private music lessons, and Chris Russo, who works in sales and says he “intends to continue his quest to spread reason and truth, one pseudoscience at a time,” the two 20-somethings were sitting around discussing pseudoscience and the many people who believe one or another form of it. “We had always had a strong interest in why people were so easily fooled by such irrational superstitions as psychic ability, spiritual mediums, alien abductions, and the like,” they write. So they “set out on a mission to help people think rationally and question the credibility of so-called UFO ‘professionals.’”

Hmm. Laying it on a little thick there, boys. There's a message in this, as I said back in January:

Let me just go on record as saying I don't care much about lights in the sky, in and of themselves. I'm interested in the semiotics and how it's all filtered through the Mediawash. I'm not gullible about these things. Lights are lights until proven otherwise. When we start seeing some actual craft over the skies of NJ, then that will be a different story. Then I'll probably be hiding under the bed.

As much as these two characters are correct in exposing the media reaction, most UFO researchers don't put too much stock in night lights. Too easy to fake. That being said, I'd like to see the media investigate these characters- who they are associated with, who they are in contact with, what military background they might have. Of course, that will never, ever happen.

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