Alien Invasion Joke Terrifies Alabama Town

Maybe governments are right to cover up the truth about UFOs.

When it comes to media, the line between truth and fiction is sometimes hazier than the Milky Way. Just ask Star 94.9, the Alabama radio station that aired a mock warning of an extra-terrestrial invasion on Aug. 27 and subsequently sent the town of Tuscumbia into a spiral of panic about an impending bomb attack.

It was all a misunderstanding, or perhaps an initial miscalculation by the local Schols Radio Group's station, according to the Times Daily. The broadcast's joke about aliens taking over the station was only meant to publicize a programming change.

But Star 94.9 got more of a promotional boost than they had bargained for when residents took the aliens' threats seriously. Read more