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Aztec crashed saucer hoax

The Aztec crashed saucer hoax was the allegation that a flying saucer crashed in 1948 in Aztec, New Mexico. The story was first published in 1949 by journalist Frank Scully in his Variety magazine columns, and later in his 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers.

Reference source indexed “Aztec UFO incident” in connection with the public record around Aztec UFO incident, a 1948 UFO/UAP dossier centered on Aztec, New Mexico, United States. The source is useful because it fixes a checkable part of the record: who published the material, what topic it addressed, and how it connects to the timeline, witness layer, official response or later research around the case.

The accessible source text states: The Aztec crashed saucer hoax was the allegation that a flying saucer crashed in 1948 in Aztec, New Mexico. The story was first published in 1949 by journalist Frank Scully in his Variety magazine columns, and later in his 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers. In the archive context, that material is treated as a primary or secondary record to be compared with the case chronology rather than as a standalone proof of an extraordinary origin.

For Aztec UFO incident, the relevant evidence categories include crash retrieval claims, books, later testimony. The source should therefore be read alongside the dossier's witness accounts, timeline, evidence analysis and skeptical notes, especially where the material concerns official statements, video records, archival summaries or media reports.

The evidence boundary remains important. A source page can document that a report, document, video or database entry exists, but it does not by itself establish that the object or event was anomalous. This local record preserves the source's role in the case while keeping unresolved claims separate from confirmed facts. Original source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec,_New_Mexico_UFO_hoax

Sourcehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec,_New_Mexico_UFO_hoax