“A Jordanian newspaper’s April Fool’s Day report chronicling a late-night visit by 10-foot-tall aliens in flying saucers sparked public panic and almost led to the town’s emergency evacuation, officials said Monday.
The Al Ghad newspaper published a front-page article April 1 about the fake UFO landing near the desert town of Jafr, some 185 miles (300 kilometres) from the capital, Amman. The report said the UFOs lit up the whole town, interrupted communications and sent fearful residents streaming into the streets.
Jafr’s mayor, Mohammed Mleihan, got caught up in the paper’s prank and said he sent security authorities in search of the aliens.
“Students didn’t go to school, their parents were frightened and I almost evacuated the town’s 13,000 residents,” Mleihan told The Associated Press. “People were scared that aliens would attack them.”
A Jordanian security official, speaking on condition of anonymity in order to discuss security issues, said an emergency plan was almost enacted in Jafr.”
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Ahaa :L That is brilliant.
Loved the show last week, amazing stuff!
Orson Welles is grinning in his grave…
hilarious and an indicator of how people would react in a real alien invasion. it would be pandemonium – could you imagine?! i am just glad no one died in the panic!
So the old ones are still the best pranks.
“Welles first found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds which, performed in the style of a news broadcast, caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an extraterrestrial invasion was occurring and being reported by newscasters. ”
When will people ever learn?
BTW I thought it was illegal in most civilized countries these days to mask Public Newscasting a a prank/joke?
Someone should sue them (no win no fee)
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This story makes me embarrassed to be of the same species as these turnips.
ORSON WELLES LIVES!!!
One day, a real alien invasion will happen, and no one will believe it. Then we’ll all be fucked…