There is no documented Albuquerque crash of September 10, 1950 — only a sourceless line from a 1990s list whose lineage runs through the FBI's disowned Hottel memo to the Aztec hoax. The file's real content is its emptiness.
THINK ABOUTIT CRASH REPORT
1950: UFO Crash near Albuquerque
Editor’s Note:
This entry is retained for transparency, not as a documented event. The original item — a single sentence claiming three alien bodies were “recovered from a crash” near Albuquerque on September 10, 1950 — came off one of the undifferentiated “crashed object” lists that circulated in the 1990s. It carries no source, no named witness, no time, no description of any craft, and no investigation of any kind. The specific date appears nowhere in the documented record and is almost certainly spurious. There is no verifiable Albuquerque crash of September 10, 1950.
To the extent the claim descends from anything, its lineage is identifiable. The “three bodies, about three feet tall, in New Mexico, in 1950” signature matches the Guy Hottel memo of March 22, 1950 — a report from the FBI’s Washington field office that the Bureau itself later characterized as an uninvestigated second- or third-hand claim — which in turn merely echoed the Aztec crashed-saucer story popularized by Frank Scully in Behind the Flying Saucers (1950). That story was exposed in 1952 as a deliberate hoax fabricated by con men Silas Newton and Leo Gebauer to sell bogus “alien technology.” This page therefore documents not a crash but the long half-life of a debunked hoax recopied without attribution. It is logged with no Hynek classification and no evidentiary weight, and is preserved only as a flagged example of how sourceless list entries propagate.
Case Status: Insufficient Data — unsourced; probable Hottel-memo / Aztec-hoax derivative.
