10. The Huffman Burning

• Where: Huffman, Texas, U.S.A
• When: December 1980

If you’ve ever thought that you’d really like to see a UFO, that it would be cool to be sitting directly under one as it hover overhead, think again. Whilst there is always the risk of suffering the long-term mental anguish of a creepy abduction experience, there are other, more physical dangers too.

Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and her young daughter Colby were driving home along a long stretch of open road when they saw a huge diamond shaped UFO in the sky. They made the common mistake of stopping the car and getting out to have a look. They were then enveloped in a powerful blast of heat that burned their skin. The UFO gave off a bright light that hurt their eyes. This is believed to have been a result of their engines firing as the craft then took off at a great speed. At first the witnesses seemed unscathed, but when they returned home they developed acute headaches and became very ill. Their skin was badly burned. They suffered several days of diarrhoea and vomiting, and all the signs of radiation poisoning. As if this wasn’t bad enough, the three never truly recovered from the ordeal. Their eyesight deteriorated over the years and they continued to develop blisters and dry, flaky skin. Whilst the hair loss they initially suffered was temporary it causes psychological damage and the hair grew back frizzy – a constant reminder of what they had been through.

It is believed that the radiation burns were an inadvertent effect of the UFO’s engines. Other UFO witnesses have experienced similar symptoms but all to a lesser degree. This case remains the worst on record. UFO landing sites also often test positive for radioactive traces.

9. The Thirsty Orbs

• Where: Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan
• When: July 1973

Twenty year old university student Masaaki Kudou was working part time as a security guard at a timber yard on Hokkaido’s southern coast. He patrolled the area by car and stopped overlooking a bay to listen to the radio. Sounds like a pretty cushy job to me. It was there that he witnessed what can only be described as an ‘alien’ event.

The young security guard saw what he, at first, thought to be a shooting star. The strange light moved unlike any other shooting star. It zoomed about the sky for a short while before moving closer to the bay. There is began spiraling down to the ocean. By now Kudou could see that the light was in fact a spherical craft of some kind. The sphere hovered closely above the water. A long, transparent tube was extended from it’s underside and it began to suck up the sea water as if through a straw. As it drew water the sphere glowed and made a gentle ‘min-min-min’ sound.

After taking in water, the craft began to move closer to Kudou’s car with, as he puts it, ‘infinite menace’. The sphere came close enough for Kudou to study it in detail. He later described it as being smooth, white and emitting a self-generating glow. It had several potholes around it’s circumference, through which a shadowy humanoid figure could be seen.

Within minutes of the sphere’s appearance, two more craft appeared in the sky over the bay. One was another sphere, exactly like the first, and the other was a large, cylindrical shaped craft. The two spheres entered one end of the cylinder, which abruptly zoomed away. Kunou’s experience left him with nothing but a headache, probably owing to the fact that his radio has been making peculiar noises the whole time

8. The Perfect Abduction Case

• Where: Melboune, Australia
• When: August 1993

Driving home after a party near Melbourne, Kelly Cahill and her husband were witness to the usual, tacky looking UFO, glowing and hovering in front of them. As they drove on a little further the car seemed to fill with a bright light. This light did not last long and with a flash, disappeared. There was suddenly no UFO, no light, and a time lapse they could not account for. All of this sounds pretty daft, except that the next day Kelly noticed a scar across her abdomen that had previously not been there. She later suffered what doctors insisted was a miscarriage, although she had not been aware of being pregnant. In fact the official opinion of her personal physician was that the discharge from her lady parts were the result of a self termination.

Baffled by this, Kelly went to see a hypnotist and UFO researcher who helped her to recover lost memories from the night of the sighting. She recalled that the UFO had stopped in front of the car, causing them to come to a halt and step out of the car. She also recalled that there was another car present, driven by people she did not know. She claimed to now recall that the aliens (standard bug-eyed, big head types) had shot her with some kind of energy weapon, taken her and her husband on board their craft and performed some kind of intrusive surgery. Kelly said that the aliens were evil and taunted her. She shouted at them and accused them of having no souls, at which point their eyes glowed red and they got angry. Under hypnotic regression, Kelly’s husband revealed the same.

Now, this in it’s self is not unusual (well, ok, it is), but what was remarkable is that investigators managed to find the couple from the second car and corroborate the story. This second couple did not know Kelly and her husband and did not require hypnotic regression to recall much of the experience. Undergoing the hypnosis, however, they were able to reveal more details, including a third car, which did not stop to witness the visitors up close.

More remarkably, the investigators found this third driver, who made a matching statement. He had seen the UFO but had not witnessed Kelly’s arguments with it’s drivers. This high number of testimonials from unrelated persons has caused abduction specialists to call this the ‘perfect case’.

7. The Anchor in the Church

• Where: Cloera, Ireland
• When: 1211

This is one of the oldest and most peculiar accounts of an unidentified flying object to be recorded. Its occurrence in the medieval period makes it entirely unique and difficult to understand. Other strange sightings have been made in medieval Europe but most seem to involve seemingly ‘devine’ lights rather than solid objects or craft, and so are often explained by witnesses to have been the appearance of saints or angels. This, however is the first ever recorded visitation by an alien ‘ship’. The witnesses used the analogy of a ‘ship’ perhaps because they had no other basis for comparison. Remember that this is several hundred years before even the hot air balloon was conceived.

The occurrence took place at a church in the borough of Cloera. It was a Sunday and so the people of the area had all gathered to receive mass. The ceremony was disturbed when an anchor, hanging from the sky, swung into the church and became lodged against the arch of the doorway. Men from the congregation ran outside and saw a large ship, hanging in the air above the church. They then saw a strange person lower himself on a rope from the deck of the ship to the church doorway. It is said that he appeared to swim in the air. This simple description has been taken to imply that he was somehow light in weight or had the ability to float in the same manner as his ship. At first the men of the congregation went to seize the intruder but the priest told them not to touch him because it might kill him (a strange assumption to make but a wise precaution none the less). The strange UFO naught returned to the safety of his ship where he hastily cut the rope holding the anchor and sailed quickly out of sight. The anchor was kept in the church as proof but has since been stolen.

A second version of this story has it set in Gravesend, Kent, England. This is exactly the same story only a different location. The idea that the crew of the ‘cloudship’ could make the same blunder twice is unthinkable, so this is likely a case of the English stealing a piece of Irish folklore and claiming it to be their own. “Why should aliens visit Ireland? Anything they’ve got, we’ve got more of.”

6. The Scare Ship

• Where: Across the U.S.A and Europe
• When: throughout the late 1800s

Before the flying saucer craze of the 1950s and 60s, the idea of unidentified flying objects was already popular. The 19th century had it’s own UFO spotting craze long before the Roswell incident and even before H.G Wells popularised the idea of invaders from another planet. This craze followed sightings and accounts of what the media then called the ‘scare ship’. Much like the more recent ‘flying saucer’ and ‘crop circle crazes’ this was largely fuelled by the overzealous coverage by national and local newspapers.

The scareship was not thought to be an alien craft but rather a new technological marvel, built in top secret. At the time, the idea of the zeppelin or dirigible had been conceived but not yet constructed. Sightings of the scareship (all variants on theme) were reported across north America and Europe for a period of several years.

The two most likely sightings of the scareship were made by farmers in the U.S who claim to have seen the vessel land and that they had spoken to a member of its crew. This crewman was not a little green man but reportedly a finely dressed gentleman. In each case the man approached the farmer and asked him for help. Once he asked for tools and oil, and the second time for water from a nearby well. The farmers each gave an account that the machine made a whirring noise not unlike that made by steam powered pistons. The second man (Mr Nichols of Josserand, Texas) claimed that he had been invited board the strange craft and was given an explanation of its workings. He was told that it was constructed from a newly discovered metal which had the property of ‘self-sustenance in the air’, and that the craft was propelled by condensed electricity. The man with whom he spoke also said that there were five such ships, all constructed at a secret location in Iowa, and that the technology would soon be made public for common usage. Mr Nichols knew nothing of science and engineering and so did not realise that this explanation was pure gobbledygook.

Most spectacular of all was the tale of a crashed scareship, again in Texas, as a sort of strange preclude to the Roswell incident. On April 19, 1897, the Dallas Morning News carried the following story:

‘Aurora, Wise County, April 17 – About 6 o’clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing throughout the country. It was travelling due north, and much nearer the earth than before. Evidently, some of the machinery was out of order, for it was making a speed of only ten or twelve miles an hour, and gradually settling towards the earth. It sailed over the public square and when it reached the north part of town collided with the tower of Judge Proctor’s windmill and went to pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge’s flower garden. The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard, and while his remains are badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world.’

The report goes on to say that of the craft it’s self, little remained, only enough to say that it was constructed from a strange metal. The journals of the pilot were also found, but they were written in what were described as ‘hieroglyphics’ and so indecipherable.

Scareship sightings vary wildly but take place over a period of two decades. Some have the crewmen speaking Russian. Others say that they looked ‘like japs’.

5. The Roswell Incident

• Where: Roswell, New Mexico, U.S.A
• When: 1947

‘The Roswell incident’ has become an iconic event in modern culture. There is no one in the western world that has not heard the rumours of a crashed alien space ship and the possible extraction of alien corpses to the secret military base at ‘area 51’. However, the details of Roswell make it not one of the most spectacular cases, in fact, rather a dull story in comparison to others. It is only the massive media coverage of this alleged event has made it so famous.

When a local farmer discovered some wreckage on his land he immediately notified the authorities, knowing that a great deal of military activity was present in the local area. Although an investigating air force officer did claim that the wreckage had strange, otherworldly properties, the most likely theory is that it was not from an alien space craft but from a top secret surveillance balloon launched from a nearby test site. This ‘project MOGUL’ balloon was designed to travel over soviet airspace at high altitude but was blown off course and crashed during it’s preliminary testing in New Mexico.

It was claimed that a second crash site contained a more intact alien spacecraft and three dead aliens but by the time the press caught wind of this all wreckage had been removed. Former air force personal working at Roswell airbase and Area 51 have since claimed to have seen this space craft or the alien bodies, but these testimonials remain suspicious. A video of a supposed alien autopsy carried out at area 51 has also since been proven to be false.

4. The Washington UFO Flap

• Where: East U.S.A
• When 1952

‘This is it boys! They’re coming!’ At least that’s what military commanders of the strategic posts around Washington should have yelled when several blips were appeared on the radar screen, heading directly for the Whitehouse. Instead they did nothing, saying that ‘authority had been transferred to somebody else’.

The days leading up to the sighting of the blips had been filled with UFO sightings, mostly by airline pilots, so maybe by the time the blips appeared they had gotten sick of hearing the same stories. Still, it seems obvious that some action should have been taken, the cold war was a time of heightened caution. Staff at the civilian air control tower certainly seemed concerned and badgered the military about the matter constantly. The only answer was that the military was unconcerned and that ‘someone else will take care of it.’ Fortunately the ‘blips’ vanished before reaching the Whitehouse. Perhaps the military somehow knew that they would.

The next few days saw the highest concentration of UFO sightings in history. Airline pilots and stargazing civilians alike all saw disks or formations of disks flying around. These sightings were reported to the authorities at a rate of forty a day. Radar contacts continued to be made, and then mysteriously vanished. These were in the form of groups of six or seven UFOs at a time. Eventually, two jets were scrambled to investigate. They reportedly saw nothing, despite flying through a cloud of blips.

3. The Rendlesham Forest Encounter

• Where: Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England
• When: December 27, 1980

The former cold war base at Woodbridge, Suffolk was a centre of joint USAF/RAF operations on the south of England and surrounded by areas of Rendlesham forest. The events that took place in the scruffy area of the forest bordering the air base have become the stuff of legend. This controversial encounter has been described as the British Roswell but in reality was much more dramatic. The Roswell incident was little more than a crashed something-or-other, but Rendlesham was something else. Armed soldiers searching the woods at night? Bright lights? Secret meetings with alien commanders? Surely this is the stuff of sci-fi movies.

It was two patrolling USAF security officers that first saw the strange bright lights in Rendlesham Forest. Upon investigating, the two officers claimed to have discovered a small triangular shaped craft that they could not identify. The men were ordered to return to base and the craft disappeared. Two nights later the lights reappeared and this time a reconnaissance team was sent out led by deputy base commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Halt. Halt reported that his patrol found a small metallic craft measuring only between two and three meters in any direction. His official report said:

‘It illuminated the entire forest with a white light. The object itself had a pulsing red light on top and a bank of blue lights underneath. The object was hovering or on legs. As the patrolmen approached the object, it manoeuvred through the trees and disappeared. At this time the animals on a nearby farm went into frenzy.’

Halt went on to describe a red light seen later that night, and how this light broke up into smaller lights of varying colours. These lights remained in the sky for an hour and put on a small aerial display. The next day a team was dispatched to the landing site. They discovered three indentations in the ground where the craft had stood. The area was contaminated with high levels of radiation. In 1994, in an interview recorded for the TV show ‘Strange But True?’ Lt-Colonel Halt gave more detail about the craft saying that ‘it pulsated as though it were an eye winking at you and around the edges it appeared to have molten metal dripping off it.’ He also gave his suspicions of the ensuing cover-up operation saying that his report had not been acknowledged by his superiors. There had also been a number of photographs taken that night, all of which had been removed and delivered directly to the pentagon.

But that’s not all. There was a second team deployed that night. Airman Larry Warren, who had been nineteen at the time, was part of the second expedition and described seeing a bright light that exploded into ‘a galaxy of colours’ and then reassembled into a solid craft, much larger than the first. The young Airman later released a differing account of his experience near the East gate of the airfield. In this he claimed that he had been ordered to guard the large craft by the East gate whilst an alien figure emerged to hold a pre-arranged meeting with the base commander. He has claimed that he was pressured into keeping this meeting a secret.

2. The Phoenix Lights

• Where: Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A
• When: 1997

This sighting of a large unknown craft over the city of Phoenix, Arizona is one perhaps the most credible and believable, and certainly the most alarming. It was witnessed by more people than any other UFO sighting. It demonstrated the vulnerability of the general public and the willingness of the United States military to tell bold faced lies.

The sighting took place on March 13th, 1997. Early reports have a collection of five lights heading in the general direction of the city of Phoenix. These lights were reported by most to be aligned in a V-shaped pattern and moving either in close formation or marking the underneath of one large craft. Witnesses include a retired policeman (policemen are often considered by ufologists to be reliable sources) and a farmer who described the craft as being ‘as large as a Boeing 747’ and as making a whooshing sound as it passed closely overhead. Another report was made by an experienced pilot who estimated the craft or crafts to be flying lower than 1000 feet and much slower than conventional aircraft. Whilst many believed the lights to represent separate aircraft rather than one large craft, it was always said that there were five lights and that they had remained in perfect formation. One observer recalled four lights with a fifth trailing behind. This might be consistent with seeing the V-shaped craft or formation from the rear or travelling in reverse.

When the unidentified flying sources-of light (which is the original meaning of the term ‘flying saucer’) moved deeper into the state of Arizona they came directly over the city of Phoenix. On the outskirts of the city a family claimed to have seen the lights heading down their street at between 100 and 200 feet but making no noise whatsoever. The object – and most observers from Phoenix agree that it was one large object – then hovered over the city for a disputed amount of time, during which it was witnessed by an estimated 700 residents. Many residents recorded this strangest of phenomenon with handheld video cameras or took photographs showing the five lights in their steady formation. Being the early evening many Phoenix residents were outside enjoying the cool air or having family barbeques with cameras already in hand. It is this enourmous number of witnesses that adds the frightening credibility that has made this case the mammoth UFO sighting it is.

The explanations offered for the Phoenix lights are slim. Although sightings of V-shaped UFOs are not entirely uncommon (in fact the craft seen hovering over Phoenix matches the descriptions of further sightings in Illinois, Texas and the United Kingdom), this shape is more commonly associated with U.S military stealth aircraft. The theory that this was in fact a top secret, experimental aircraft design (presumed by many to be a stealth blimp). Whatever the truth behind the mysterious lights the military was certainly keen to keep it under wraps. The Air force dropped flairs in the distance and has claimed that these were the lights seen by the city’s populous. Despite overwhelming video evidence that the lights moved in formation above the city, the U.S military maintains that they were flairs dropped from an aircraft several miles away.

1. The Brazilian Roswell

• Where: Varginha, Brazil
• When: January 1996

This is the daddy of all alien encounters. In the mass panic that has been called by some ‘the invasion of the goatsuckers’, a town in South-central Brazil was effectively invaded by aliens!

The furore began when several locals reported seeing UFOs in the days leading up to the event. Then, on the evening of Friday, January 19, an American spy satellite detected an unknown object heading towards the town. The local military was put on high alert, with the American military taking an active interest and supposedly advising the Brazilian authorities. Officially, a total media blackout was put into force, but this didn’t stop amateur cameramen recording the scenes of chaos that ensued. White objects were seen flying over, and even through, the city. Some witnesses reported seeing a cigar shaped UFO with smoke billowing from it’s tail end. This may or may not have been an alien craft headed for crash down, as a report soon came in that strange creatures were running loose in the town.

At 7am on the Saturday, deployed army units coordinated with firemen in an effort to find the creatures that had caused the panic. They are said to have found one creature cowering in some tall grass. Witnesses heard three shots and then saw a soldier carrying a sack from the scene – a sack containing something moving. According to Major Calza of the army unit this was nothing more than a mentally handicapped dwarf. A likely story.

A second creature was caught at 10 o’clock that night after having been seen by two young girls. The girls told their mother that they had ‘seen the devil’. The army officers took the newly captured ‘animal’ to a nearby hospital, fearing infection. One of the soldiers died a week later, having a mysterious toxin in his bloodstream. The creature was pronounced dead on arrival and examined by fifteen doctors. They described the creature as having short, skinny arms and legs, a long tongue, no pupils and a distinct smell of ammonia. It was later flown to the U.S on an unmarked plane.

Since this incident, the Brazilian ‘goatsuckers’, named for their supposed taste for animal blood, have been sighted many times. They are believed to be responsible for over a thousand cases of cattle mutilation bearing similarities to those carried out in the U.S. Cows are found drained of blood, with puncture wounds around the neck and jaw, and supposed evidence of having been analy probed. Whilst the goatsuckers are often linked to UFO sightings, more sensible theories explain them to be an unidentified wild creature (possibly genetically engineered). However, their link to the UFO ‘assault’ on Varginha cannot be ignored.

As you might expect, this entire incident has become an official secret. The firemen that captured the first creature have refused to be interviewed on the grounds that it is ‘classified’. One doctor that was given the opportunity to study the creature under tight security also refused to answer questions, saying ‘ask me in ten or fifteen years’.

However a lot of conspiracy theories are so far out of the realm of reality and are so often conceived by such crackpots, that it is common for the legitimacy of any theory to be questioned, laughed at and ignored.

I have constructed a list of 10 bizarre conspiracy theories. Since bizarre can be so subjective, I am listing what I believe to be truly strange for various reasons. Either they are so far removed from reality to be truly strange. Or even the mass amount of co-operation that would be required by hundreds or even thousands of people as to cover up a situation.

Some you may have heard of. Some you may not. Some you may believe in and some you may laugh at. Some I found were even offensive in nature as well as being an insult to my intelligence. But when read with an open mind some were just silly and amusing.

I am not lending credit, nor disputing any of the following theories. I don’t make the news, I just report it. So strap on your tin-foil hat to keep the CIA from reading your thoughts and let us have a peak at 10 Bizarre Conspiracy Theories!

10. The Moon Landing

A common conspiracy theory that you have probably heard of, the theory has been floating around since… well…1969.

Apparently the entire trip to the moon and all the photographs and video’s taken there were filmed in a studio right here on earth. After all the pressure to beat the Russians there was overwhelming once John F. Kennedy announced that we would walk on the moon before the ‘60’s became the 70’s.

This whole theory must be very insulting not only to the astronauts who risked their lives on this journey, but to the thousands of Americans who overcame huge hurdles and worked so hard to get these men to the moon and back safely at a time when our technology wasn’t quite up to the challenges that were faced.

Some key points that the conspiracy suggest are:
· We did not have the technology necessary for this historical moment to happen in the 1960’s
· Why stars are never present in the sky of any of the photographs?
· The astronauts and the equipment would have been destroyed by the natural radiation in space
· The film in the cameras could not survive the radiation present on the moon.
· There are photographs of the moon surface in which the shadows defy logic.
· The video of the American flag being hoisted suggest that there was wind on the surface of the moon.
· The film of the Apollo 16’s Lander lifting off of the surface ‘Pans up’ as the Lander leaves the frame.
And many, many more. For every picture taken on the moon, there seems to be a contradictory theory for how it came to be.
One fact that conspiracy theorists hate talking about, is that you can see the reflectors placed on the moon by astronauts with a powerful telescope, and these reflectors are still used today. A laser is bounced off of these reflectors approximately 200 times per year to calculate the moons exact distance from earth.

9. African Americans and Kentucky Fried Chicken

I beg that you pardon my sarcasm in this particular matter. But this conspiracy theory deserves nothing less. It is offensive and ridiculous. But it is a truly bizarre conspiracy theory and as such gets a small laughable mention on this list.

As the theory goes, KFC is owned by the Ku Klux Klan. And the brilliant scientists and chemists that the Klan are renowned for producing throughout history have managed to come up with a drug that they add to the 11 herbs and spices that make only African American men impotent or sterile.

It is said that the FDA was forced to debunk the presence of this drug in the ‘80’s following a public outcry. Of course the conspiracy got thicker and more ridiculous with the idea that the KKK used its awesome political powers to force the FDA to cover up the truth. WOW!

8. We are Being Ruled by Lizard People

This bizarre conspiracy was pretty much conceived by David Vaughan Icke, a British writer, public speaker and television broadcaster.

The gist of the conspiracy theory is that we are being governed by a ruling class of reptiles that have the ability to shape shift and appear human when they need to. A couple of really bizarre things about this particular claim are its popularity among the conspiracy theory circles and the list of prominent people that are apparently lizards.

Both George W and George HW Bush are lizard people
The British royal family
Hillary Clinton
Kris Kristofferson
The Rockefeller and Rothschild families and many more.
Icke also believes that most major religions are creations of the Illuminati (Lizard people) and he has managed to publish over 20 books and videos on the subject as well as a successful lecture tour.
I wonder if this explains people sunbathing on beaches.

7. United States Military and LSD

Invented in 1938 by chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann in Switzerland LSD is a mind altering drug that many have tried and all have heard about.
While it is not at all strange to hear that the CIA had a program that tested the effects of LSD, there are in fact a lot of bizarre theories as to WHY the CIA was testing it.

The CIA claims that they were testing it as a truth serum.
Conspiracy theorists claim that the CIA was trying to produce an army of “Super Soldiers” by altering brain patterns. Then eventually the CIA planned to use the drug to control the minds of everybody. Which is why they released it onto the streets of America in the ‘60s?
John Lennon was quoted as saying “They invented LSD to control people but instead it gave us freedom”
The CIA wanted an army of controllable super killing machines and ended up with a bunch of peace loving hippies!

6. The Jonestown Massacre

We have all heard about Jim Jones and the Kool-Aid kids. Over 900 people drank cyanide and died just because this nutty cult leader asked them too in a compound called “Jonestown” in Guyana.

What you may not have ever heard is the conspiracy theory about this horrible massacre. It was all planned and executed by the CIA. That’s right, the same secret agency that brought us LSD was apparently also conducting terrible mind control experiments on the inhabitants of Jonestown which was really a CIA concentration camp, then everything went horribly wrong and they all decided to commit suicide.

As a matter of fact some believe that the CIA LSD experiments called “MK ULTRA” were never stopped in the USA, just moved to experiment on cult organizations off of American soil like Jonestown.

5. The Assassination of John Lennon

While nobody argues that Mark David Chapman is the man that killed John Lennon on December 8th 1980. There are many conspiracy theories as to why he was killed.

It is also common knowledge that Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover as well as the FBI and the CIA were monitoring Lennon, Some conspiracy theorists believe that Mark David Chapman was brainwashed by either the CIA or Yoko Ono to assassinate the rock star.

Chapman was overheard by a witness repeating “Do it, do it, do it” over and over again. This has many people convinced that he was somehow hypnotized to performing his deed.

Perhaps the CIA did manage to get LSD to work to create a killing machine out of an otherwise normal human being?

4. The Men In Black

That’s right! It’s not just a big budget summer blockbuster movie; it is a bizarre conspiracy theory that has been around for a long time.
While the movie portrays the MIB as the good guys protecting us from horrible space creatures that are here to munch happily on our spleens, the conspiracy theorists have a much darker story to tell.

For every report of an isolated undereducated backwoods farmer that has been taken aboard a spacecraft and had probes jammed into every orifice in his body. There is also a report of men usually in pairs, dressed in ill-fitting black suits that don’t look quite right and don’t speak English properly showing up to intimidate and threaten the victim to keep quiet about their experiences or sightings.

The main theories suggest that these men in black are either government agents hired to keep the masses in the dark about UFO’s. Or that the men in black are actually aliens themselves employed by the Federal Government to drive around in black cars and silence people trying to expose the alien conspiracy threatening our planet.

3. AIDS was Invented for Biological Warfare

According to conspiracy theorists, the AIDS virus was invented by Dr. Donald MacArthur around 1977 with American Taxpayer money.
Although nobody knows for sure how AIDS started in humans, the once accepted theory that it somehow transmitted to humans from monkeys is simply not good enough for conspiracy theorists.

While it would seem crazy to unleash such a deadly virus on its own population, theorists claim that the pentagon recognized that it would hit what it called specific lower class citizens much harder than anyone else. Homosexuals, African American’s and Drug Users.

Most of this theory seems to hinge on the idea that Dr. MacArthur asked for funding to research a biological weapon that attacked the immune system. Got his taxpayer money in 1977 and in 1978 the first reported cases of AIDS were discovered in Africa.

2. President Reagan Assassination attempt by H.W. Bush

While researching bizarre conspiracy theories, you don’t have to go far before the Bush family comes up. From helping to fund the Nazi’s during WWII, to the planned attacks of the World Trade Center on 9/11. There is generation after generation of Bush’s implicated in conspiracy theories. But one of the lesser known and therefore more bizarre theories is that George H.W Bush was involved in the failed assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

It turns out that the John Hinckley the man credited for shooting the president is from the Hinckley family that has been long time friends and big financial supporters of the Bush family since the early 60’s in Texas. Not only that, but Neil Bush, son of the vice president at the time George H.W. Bush was scheduled to have dinner the very night of the assassination attempt with old friend Scott Hinckley, brother of the assassin.

At the time of the shooting, and NBC correspondent Judy Woodruff said that at least one shot was fired from a hotel ABOVE the president’s limousine. Was this a glimpse of a second gunman? The secret service claims that it was one of their agents trying to take out Hinckley. But some theorists have dubbed that shot from above as “The shot from the Bushy knoll”

1. Attack on WTC was Carried out by the Government

I am sure that you have all heard conspiracy’s around the WTC attacks on September 11th.

The reason I am adding this to a list of bizarre conspiracy theories and not just common conspiracy theories is the overwhelming amount of theories surrounding this horrible tragedy.

There is not just a massive amount of controversial theories about this subject, but some of it is really quite compelling even to the most skeptical of us. Here are some of the key points of the conspiracy theory:
NORAD and the US Air Force have practiced this exact scenario many times with 100% accuracy, but failed miserably the day of the attacks.
The entire AWOL chain of command was busy doing other things the day of the attacks.

How it is possible that the Pentagon was hit 1 hour and 20 minutes after the attacks began? Why was there no response from Andrews Air Force Base, just 10 miles away?

Speculators allegedly used foreknowledge of the Sept. 11th events to profit on many markets internationally, including to short-sell the two airlines, WTC tenants, and WTC re-insurance companies in Chicago and London.
One of the 19 hijackers killed in the towers was identified by his un-scathed mint condition passport found in the ruble of ground zero. He turned up a few days later wanting to know why he was being called a terrorist. He is still listed as one of the 19 dead hijackers.

First responders to ground zero recall finding the ‘Black Boxes’ from both of the airplanes used in the attacks, but they have since gone missing and the 9/11 commission report denies that they ever existed.
Long time friendship between the Bin Laden family and the Bush family. Also that the Bin Laden’s were the only people allowed to fly out of the country later that day.

The list goes on and on.

I managed to find a movie that you can watch for free on the web at www.zeitgeistmovie.com which has many conspiracy theories in it. It is very well produced and enjoyable to watch even if you don’t buy into these bizarre conspiracy theories.