He also said they come in threes:
Fauxssassination #1
Fauxssassination #2
Drones over Jersey
That's three.
Alas, the end is sigh.
Been through this. Everyone. His parents went through it. It was a constant thing, 70s, 80s - actually going back to after the end of World War II.
Was a big thing back in the late '80s with the Gulf Breeze Florida UFO Incident. Dude took pictures. Was on the news. Wrote a book. Wrote a second book. People from all over America flocked to this town. They saw it too. More news.
Then he moved. Then the people that bought his house found a UFO - 2 actually - a prototype and the final model - in his attic. Little toy models. He made them. Used trick photography to make them appear like they were in the sky, even floating right above the street complete with the lights illuminating the asphalt below.
And that was the end of that.
Then somebody got a video of UFO flying in Spain, I believe it was. Then they were more sightings there, videos, then they were everywhere. And people have videos showing it. This is when camcorders were new. Then it got revealed, if you can turn the aperture to focus it on a street lamp till it got blurry but then kept turning it, the blur develops a sharpened outline, looking like a disc with a concave incision at the bottom. That was the UFO. Worldwide phenomenon. A video camera trick.
In the 70s we had In Search Of, documentaries, Sci Fi shows, movies, The National Enquirer and all that. Jimmy Carter promised that if he became president, he would make public whatever the government knows about UFOs. Then he entered office and never said a word about it again.
By the time the X-Files was on TV The fad was fading out, I guess.
Same with Sasquatch and the Loch Ness Monster. Turns out that now that everybody has a camera in their pocket they really can't use the "Oh, I left a 8 mm in the hotel room when we went out on the boat" excuse anymore.
btw, I was really into this stuff, I mean really really. Took out every book on this stuff in the library, over and over and over again. School and public libraries.
Juust fads, mass hysteria,