UFO Expert Claims He Put An End To 'Hoax UFO Invasion' That No Doubt Would've Caused Mass Hysteria

A UFO expert has claimed that he thwarted a 'hoax alien invasion' coinciding with April Fools' Day that would've surely have created mass panic.

According to Daily Star, Nigel Watson has written several books about aliens and is an expert on the subject. So when he read about a plan being hatched on a forum for remote-controlled drone hobbyists, he was left shocked.

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"At the time, it was publicly accessible, but now you have to be a member,¡± he said. "I don¡¯t agree with hoaxing. Nonetheless, some people have secretly conducted hoaxes to ¡®scientifically¡¯ test the reactions of UFO investigators and the public."

The organisers asked drone owners around the world to rig LED lights on their devices and fly them in areas where they could be seen by the public at a designated time in April, 2014. At least 30 drone hobby groups were involved, in the USA, the UK, France, South Africa and the Netherlands.

Nigel says the hoax was originally planned for April 1, but the date was later changed to April 5 "so that it will not seem like an obvious prank." He even wrote about the hoax plans but due to an unfortunate misunderstanding was briefly suspected of being behind the plot himself.

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However, after publishing it, he encouraged the drone operators to give up on their plans.

Nigel says that one or two ¡°social experiment¡± UFO hoaxes were conducted in the Warminster area years ago.

He believes that one of these experiments could be behind his own ¡°sighting¡±. Nigel classes himself as an ¡°optimistic sceptic¡± with a strong interest in UFOs but he¡¯s never actually seen one.

He said: "The nearest I got to a UFO encounter was in the late 1970s when I visited the famous Cradle Hill near Warminster, which was a UFO hotspot in the 1960s. A group of us went up Cradle Hill to look for UFOs but we saw nothing spooky except the staring eyes of sheep in a nearby field. It was only when we were driving to Frome that we saw a UFO in the distance."

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"Along with two other cars, we stopped at the side of the road to watch a group of lights slowly flying towards us, it just looked like a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind!

"After a few minutes, much to our disappointment mixed with relief, we heard the sound of engines and saw that the object was an airship with lights attached to it. If it had not got closer we would have been convinced that we had seen a flying saucer."

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