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hairless head, a small nose and mouth, gray skin, and was wearing a silver jumpsuit. However, investigators raised questions from the be- ginning when they noticed that the jumpsuit had a conventional-look- ing zipper on the front. It was later discovered that the photograph was taken at a Montreal exhibit in the late 1970s, and the “alien” was actually just a plastic dummy. At least a half-dozen other hoaxed, plastic-dummy alien photo- graphs have come and gone through the years, again making it very difficult for the investigator to separate the truth from the fiction.” Yet another hoax occurred in the summer of 1992, when dozens of people in Sydney, Australia, called the police to report strange orange alls of light hovering in formations. UFO investigators collected the reports and spread the word about the new UFO wave. Soon, how- ever, it was learned that the UFOs were actually garbage bags that had een sent aloft by teenagers using candles to fill the bags with hot air. Unfortunately, the faked UFOs were so convincing that several UFO investigators were fooled, and the accounts made it into the newspa- pers before finally being revealed as a hoax.” Many other hoax cases are on record, including cases of faked UFO abductions and even UFO crashes. No UFO story should be 114 UFOS AND ALIENS