Critics first began to scrutinize Milli Vanilli when a CD playing “Girl You Know It’s True” jammed and began to skip during a live performance in 1989. In spite of this snafu, the pop duo went on to win a Best New Artist Grammy Award in 1990. Soon after, Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus’s hoax was unveiled, however, when producer Frank Farian admitted to the press that the voices on the record did not really belong to Morvan and Pilatus. The truth not only led to a revoked Grammy Award for Best New Artist, but also terrible humiliation. Neither man made a successful comeback and, in 1998, Pilatus died from a suspected drug overdose.
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Weather balloon or flying saucer? What really crashed in Roswell, NM, on July 8, 1947? The government’s original accounts of the incident referenced “flying disks” crashing in the desert. They soon retracted that description and said that the wreckage was not from flying disks but from a weather balloon. Was the government initially mistaken? Or did Uncle Sam suddenly decide to keep something a secret? In recent years, everyone from pro-UFO researcher William L. Moore to Peter Jennings has denounced the UFO hypotheses.
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The War of the Worlds
On October 30, 1938, Mercury Theatre on the Air aired an episode of their radio drama in which a series of “news bulletins” suggested that an actual Martian invasion was underway. Despite Orson Welles’s message at the end of the program attesting to the show’s fictional nature, some panic had ensued, and people were outraged.
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