NJ UFO hoaxers face disorderly conduct charge

[The Straight Story]

NJ UFO hoaxers face disorderly conduct charge

The Associated Press

MORRISTOWN, N.J. - The Morris County prosecutor says two men who staged a UFO hoax using road flares and helium balloons will be charged with disorderly conduct.

Prosecutor Robert Bianchi says the objects could have interfered with air traffic and posed a potential fire hazard.

Twenty-nine-year-old Chris Russo of Morris Plains and 28-year-old Joe Rudy of Chester Township came forward Thursday and admitted they perpetrated the hoax, launching several balloons on each of five nights in January and February.

They say they did it to debunk so-called UFO experts.

The mysterious red lights prompted dozens of calls to police in several Morris County communities.

The men say they stopped after the prosecutor got involved and warned about the possible danger to aircraft.

http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/new_jersey/20090402_ap_njufohoaxersfacedisorderlyconductcharge.html

Um, technically they were ufo's - they weren't planes, copters, missiles, and people could not identify them.

Their logic - let's create a ufo, then when people call about it and investigate as a ufo we can tell them it was not one and show them how ufo's don't exist...or something twisted like that :)

edit - it was mufon who first said they were man made, :rofl:
http://www.examiner.com/x-2363-UFO-Examiner~y2009m4d6-MUFON-report-describes-New-Jersey-UFO-as-manmade

[damntexdem]

1. Lock them up and throw away the keys! How dare they ...

not use a real UFO?

[The Straight Story]

2. Well the real one from Rosewell was busy in use at area 51, so they made do

:)

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Don't criticize what you don't understand!

(Yeah, that was an ironic subject heading.)

After all, two drinking buddies from England went around the world and created over 3000 "crop circles" with just a plank and some rope!

Occam's been using one of those http://www.madphysics.com/ask/vibrating_gillette_razors.htm">vibrating multi-blade razors these days. I use a cheap Remington Electric and don't worry a bit about UFOs. But I don't make it a habit to annoy the cops (or farmers), either.

--d!

[The Straight Story]

4. Would that include your post?

;)

[Dogmudgeon]

5. Always!

--d!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTA-102">This just in: CTA-102, Drexel-98