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| Oh, goody! I do enjoy a good hoax! Be interesting, anyway... No info on the telly programme, but found these bits: (Not about the telly prog but at a glance it looks like the news hit America news!) - http://www.rense.com/general40/ufohoax.htm Andthenandthenandthen this from the Daily Mirror website: "U Fake O Aug 23 2003 How the world was fooled into an alien alert by this balloon - By Nick Webster THIS is the "UFO" that got the world asking if aliens were about to land in Britain. But those pictured beneath it are hardly the little green men many had feared were on board. They are the hoaxers who ran the stunt in a bizarre TV experiment. The 25ft "flying saucer" stunned villagers on Saturday as it spun across the sky 200ft above their heads. The outlandish sighting made the headlines as far away as Australia. But the down-to-earth truth behind the "space craft" emerged yesterday. TV firm Chrysalis had it built for a Channel 4 documentary with working title How To Build a Spaceship. Danny Cohen, of Channel 4, said: "We were trying to see whether we could build a convincing looking spaceship and in that regard undoubtedly we succeeded. "Dozens of people saw it and couldn't quite understand what they had seen. So I think it did work. "It stayed quite high in the sky and looked harmless, so it frightened nobody. I think people were more bewildered by what they were seeing. "People were left rubbing their heads, wondering what was going on." It took eight months to research, design and build the £50,000 aircraft. Model flight specialists Cutting Edge Effects - veterans of four Bond films - built it using a carbon fibre hoop as the skeleton. This was set in a reflective-plastic balloon filled with helium. After a US military engine was ditched as too heavy, electric fan engines from Germany proved the key to making the "saucer" fly at just the right speed - 20mph. It was tested in the aircraft hangar shown above at a secret location. The out-of-this-world con included using seven pilots to fly the aircraft by remote control for three miles. Suspicion for the hoax first fell on UFO buffs holding their annual Skywatch in the village, Avebury, Wilts. But producer Mark Raphael said they weren't fooled - despite the eerie setting of a stone circle. He said they spent the rest of the night "looking at nothing, and yet when the craft flew over they hardly got out of their seats"." I probably know less about this than most, so look forward to watching it! G x Reply | with quote |  5th October 2003ce 19:42 In reply to: Remember the Avebury UFO>? (pebblesfromheaven) |
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