Hoaxes

Quite often, during the 1950s onwards UFO craze, there were reports of abduction or UFO sighting that were so difficult to explain or so hole-riddled that they were either branded hoaxes or eventually confessed as hoaxes by the "witness(es)".

Today, it is very difficult to produce a convincing photograph as, with the thousands of hoaxes, people have become used to seeing fakes made by computer whether they are claimed to be real or just to get attention in an advertisement. Also, with the technology of digital photography, fakes are easier to make and harder to spot by the naked eye.