From: dk195@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Nelson S. Pacheco)
Date: 18 Jul 94 13:20:18 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Message-ID: <30dvii$ik3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Newsgroups: alt.paranet.skeptic

It's time to present the award for the Top Ten UFO Hoaxes
of All Time.  This is a difficult award to give, because the
competition is so fierce.  Anyway, here are the winners:

10. George Adamski
    Holy Blavatski!  That UFO looks like an inverted street light!

9.  Snippy the Horse
    Not a great case, but recognized as the father of the cattle
    mutilation/UFO connection.  Accepting the award posthumously 
    on behalf of Snippy and the Ananias Club will be Linda Howe...

8.  Travis Walton
    How about the best 2 out of 3 lie detector results?

7.  Dulce, NM
    Spanish for "sweet, like a sucker" as in "there's a sucker
    born every minute..."

6.  Hudson Valley
    The "Blue Angels" of the ultralight world...

5.  Guardian
    Holy smoke!!!

4.  Roswell
    Say it ain't so, Marcel!

3.  Gulf Breeze
    Also winner of the "Ed Walters Special Effects Award"

2.  MJ-16
    (MJ12 + Shandera, Moore, Lazar, and Lear)

and the winner of the "check your brains at the door" award
 for the top UFO hoax of all time is:

1.  The Linda Napolitano case, also known as "Manhattan
Transfer," or "The hoax of the century."

Condolences to all the losers... but there's always the yearly
awards...