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Has anybody investigated the alleged UFO hoax in Al-Jafr Jordan?
In 2010, a Jordanian newspaper apologised for having claimed on 1st April (which is not a well-known date for pranks in Jordan, as it is in some countries) that three saucer-shaped craft had flown overhead, lit up, landed nearby, and terrified many residents of a small town called Al-Jafr. Ten foot tall, squawking beings were seen outside of these craft, the paper had said, and people were running and screaming. Electronics failed, and round scorch marks were left when they departed.
This town has 13,000 residents, is extremely isolated, and is surrounded by military bases, desert, huge farms, and mountains.
Statistically speaking, this town SHOULD be rife with extraterrestrial Earth-lurkers. It's got all of their favourite things to be creepy around.
The newspaper apologised after the mayor expressed anger and threatened to sue them, because, allegedly all because of this article, parents had kept their children home from school in fear, and the mayor had called in authorities and made plans to evacuate the town.
My question is, isn't it worth an investigator going in there - perhaps as a tourist, which might be safer than a citizen doing it - while any witnesses will still be alive and memories not terribly old, to verify whether this really was an April Fools joke. in Jordan?.
I can't find any evidence of investigation being done on this case, it's as if everyone just accepted that it must be a hoax because the newspaper and the mayor said so and because of the date, even though that date usually means nothing in that country.
There's a military base RIGHT NEXT TO the town, easy walking distance, so how easy would it be, theoretically, for the military to successfully order the newspaper, mayor and everyone else who knew the truth to play along with a hoax cover story?.
Electronic devices failed as this event was happening, so anybody in this place who had Internet access wouldn't necessarily have had it in time to tell the world before the usual military threats came.
It seems to me that the people of this town deserve somebody making the effort to find out, just as people bothered to find out with the Varginha case.
Post from user optifog at at reddit.
Comments:
In typical UFO fashion, Could be something, might be nothing.
Comment from user Bennydoubleseven at at reddit.
In 2010, a Jordanian newspaper apologised for having claimed on 1st April (which is not a well-known date for pranks in Jordan, as it is in some countries) that three saucer-shaped craft had flown overhead, lit up, landed nearby, and terrified many residents of a small town called Al-Jafr. Ten foot tall, squawking beings were seen outside of these craft, the paper had said, and people were running and screaming. Electronics failed, and round scorch marks were left when they departed.
This town has 13,000 residents, is extremely isolated, and is surrounded by military bases, desert, huge farms, and mountains.
Statistically speaking, this town SHOULD be rife with extraterrestrial Earth-lurkers. It's got all of their favourite things to be creepy around.
The newspaper apologised after the mayor expressed anger and threatened to sue them, because, allegedly all because of this article, parents had kept their children home from school in fear, and the mayor had called in authorities and made plans to evacuate the town.
My question is, isn't it worth an investigator going in there - perhaps as a tourist, which might be safer than a citizen doing it - while any witnesses will still be alive and memories not terribly old, to verify whether this really was an April Fools joke. in Jordan?.
I can't find any evidence of investigation being done on this case, it's as if everyone just accepted that it must be a hoax because the newspaper and the mayor said so and because of the date, even though that date usually means nothing in that country.
There's a military base RIGHT NEXT TO the town, easy walking distance, so how easy would it be, theoretically, for the military to successfully order the newspaper, mayor and everyone else who knew the truth to play along with a hoax cover story?.
Electronic devices failed as this event was happening, so anybody in this place who had Internet access wouldn't necessarily have had it in time to tell the world before the usual military threats came.
It seems to me that the people of this town deserve somebody making the effort to find out, just as people bothered to find out with the Varginha case.
Post from user optifog at at reddit.
Comments:
In typical UFO fashion, Could be something, might be nothing.
Comment from user Bennydoubleseven at at reddit.