Editing Unidentified flying object (section)

====Famous hoaxes====
{{See also|List of UFO-related hoaxes}}
* The [[Maury Island incident]]
* [[George Adamski]], over the space of two decades, made various claims about his meetings with telepathic aliens from nearby planets. He claimed photographs of the [[far side of the Moon]] taken by the Soviet lunar probe [[Luna 3]] in 1959 were fake, and that there were cities, trees and snow-capped mountains on the far side of the Moon. Among copycats was a shadowy British figure named [[Cedric Allingham]].
* Ed Walters, a building contractor, in 1987 allegedly perpetrated a hoax in [[Gulf Breeze, Florida]]. Walters claimed at first having seen a small UFO flying near his home and took some photographs of the craft. Walters reported and documented a series of UFO sightings over a period of three weeks and took several photographs. These sightings became famous, and are collectively referred to as the [[Gulf Breeze UFO incident]]. Three years later, in 1990, after the Walters family had moved, the new residents discovered a model of a UFO poorly hidden in the attic that bore an undeniable resemblance to the craft in Walters' photographs. Most investigators, like the forensic photo expert William G. Hyzer,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Posner |first=Gary P. |date=July 1992 |title=The Gulf Breeze 'UFOs' |journal=Tampa Bay Sounding |publisher=Tampa Bay Mensa |location=Seminole, FL |access-date=July 13, 2013 |url=http://www.gpposner.com/Gulf_Breeze.html |archive-date=July 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703032208/http://www.gpposner.com/Gulf_Breeze.html |url-status=live }}</ref> now consider the sightings to be a hoax.