As sections of the Australian media seem to be obsessed with the idea of Unidentified Flying Objects and the supposed cover up of their existence going all the way to the White House , probably due to the fact that boofheaded Donald Trump is obviously from Planet Zog, we have decided to add to the hysteria by running the following scary photograph of an apparent scorched alien lifeform on the footpath in Darwin's Mitchell Street nightclub precinct .
Back in the 1950s, when UFOs were becoming all the rage in the world , being sighted in many places , Jim Bowditch , editor of the Centralian Advocate , scoffed at the reports.
However, he decided it was about time that Alice Springs had a UFO sighting . He arranged for a local photographer, Trish Collier , to create a bogus space ship - a man's shirt collar stud - set against the MacDonnell Ranges .
It was run in a front page story in February 1954, which said the photo had been taken by a person who did not want to be known , who had slipped it under the newspaper's door .
That anonymous person, of course, was Bowditch, who did not want to be identified for obvious reasons . The story resulted in Alice Springs residents claiming they had spotted a UFO from time to time , getting a run in the paper .
Bowditch said a dubious team of RAAF investigators even visited the Advocate and quizzed him about the rash of UFO sightings in the Centre.
