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Friday, February 5, 1999 The recent panic surrounding the alien cat crisis has triggered a rash of exhorbitant claims involving alien sightings. | |
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"One individual" explains Harrisburg, PA, police office Tom Sherbert, "brought me a taped episode of 'Alf' and told me it was his home movie of his neighbors. He said they were harboring an alien! Well, if he'd bothered to watch the show, he'd know that ALF eats cats." In New Mexico, two teenagers dressed up as E.T. and videotaped him using a toy laser gun. "It's really getting out of hand," says Santa Fe sheriff Ulysses Voorhees. "Everyday I get a new bogus sighting. The shame is it takes credibility away from the real problems."
Sheriff Voorhees The most notorious scam yet has been in Hollywood, where a couple of down-on-their luck special effects gurus staged an attack on Los Angeles. The two pranksters rigged several remote controlled saucers to dive down and attack random people walking the streets.
-- contributed by senior correspondent Stan Patchley |
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