Ledger Live: Morris UFO hoaxsters tell their story

Ledger Live for Tuesday April 28th, 2009 - Ledger Live with Brian Donohue. Authorities may have called them "stupid' and "juvenile" but the two men behind the recent Morris County UFO hoax say their stunt was, in the end, a glaring success. Chris Russo and Joe Rudy say they launched helium balloons with traffic flares tied to them in a "social experiment" to debunk the pseudoscience of UFOs.

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[Duke1839]

@ObjectiveObserver4 I'm not convinced by the triangle thing. Any three points of light that are not in a line appear to form a triangle. The points appeared to be rigid because they were up in the air away from any turbulence so the air mass they were in moved all three balloons in sync with each other. It was a hoax. The perpetrators have come forward and paid their debt to society, although I don't think what they did merited prosecution.

[ObjectiveObserver4]

@Duke1839 and anyway...did you watch any of the other videos i showed you? did you notice the pattern of perfect triangles? what do you think about that? here's another one that might help you understand what's going on:

"Joe Scarborough: UFO Cover Up in Arizona"

[ObjectiveObserver4]

@Duke1839 "Oh dear. No, the flare burns from one end and one end only. The fishing line is position around halfway on the flare, so it would spin in a horizontal position in the breeze. This means the burning end, and therefore the only visible end would face the other direction from the observer at a point in its rotation, and so to the observer it would appear the lights would blink as they rotated in and out of vision. I hope this makes a little more sense." - thewizardofrhythm

[ObjectiveObserver4]

we'll let the people watch and decide on the blinking for themselves...

"Fox News Covers a UFO Sighting in New Jersey 2009"

and it's interesting. when i asked chris and rudy themselves about the blinking. they didn't say anything about trees. they claimed it was being caused by the flares spinning around. read their explanation for yourself and think about whether it makes sense...

[Duke1839]

@ObjectiveObserver4 Actually they weren't blinking. They appeared to be blinking in some of the footage because there were trees in the way. That's what the woman witness (the pilot's wife) said to Bill Hemmer on Fox News. She said they were lights and they only appeared to be blinking because of the trees in her backyard.

[Duke1839]

@777haterslayerzmafia So what if not every sighting can be explained? Can't be explained means can't be explained. Except by Bill Birnes and other so called experts that imply it must be alien.

[777haterslayerzmafia]

Dumb asses! We  know all sightings are not real, any real investigator is a skeptic first and foremost. Yes there are real UFO cases that can't be explained by so called conventional science or stupid hoaxers.

[ObjectiveObserver4]

joe and rudy are lying. their story doesn't make any sense.

they claimed they did this with balloons attached to flares which were floating independently. but the UFO very clearly held a formation. a perfect triangle. also, flares don't rapidly blink on and off.

what's more, the same UFO triangles have been appearing all over the world:

"UFO Triangle Colorado March 20, 2011"

"Real UFO in Utah Feb 14, 2011"

"UFO Triangle El Paso, Texas Oct 15, 2010"

"UFOs Arizona Nov 20, 2010"

[thespringheeledjack]

I find the MUFON sequence at the beginning of this video amusing. It was, in fact, a MUFON investigator who first debunked the Morris UFO long before the hoaxers outed themselves. The investigator's report, filed 3/15/2009, detailed the hoax and fingered Rudy & Russo as the perpetrators.

[certifiedchillin420]

i'd really like to meet these guys and watch them look me in the eyes because they spend half the time in this video looking at their feet.