Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Ahihud incident
After doing more research than I ever thought I'd be doing on UFOs, Here is what I found. I don't think the page is a hoax, although the event clearly was. According to http://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.1263227 this article (Hebrew, sorry), the authorities announced a few days after the incident that the "creature" was actually cow excrement. This fact's omission from the wiki article makes this the poster-child for . (It also makes me more than a little suspicious of the author's intentions). There's also http://www.eura.org.il/modules/Presentations%20and%20Downloads/Achihud%20Alien.pdf this report, which I assume is the PDF report nom was talking about. The PDF is from the Israeli Extraterrestrial & UFO research Association. Based on the little news coverage I can find of them (all in Hebrew, sorry), they're a standard UFO promoting organization. Their mission is to prove that aliens are real, and they do the usual pseudo-scientific job of providing extraneous detail to promote credibility, quoting people with PHDs in unrelated fields, and cherry picking sources. (For example, why on earth is a pathologist doing the examination on a suspected alien?) The content of the report is basically what's reported on the wiki page. In fact, the report appears to be the ''only'' source the wiki page has used to the point where the wiki page is practically just a translation of the report. After spending way too much time on google, those two plus the news report nom already linked to are the only sources I can find on this incident. The Haaretz article st least confirms that the pdf report from eura is not a forgery (apparently prof. Hiss still believes it to be of extra-planetary origin). So the question is does one short mention on channel 2 news and 1 Haaretz article which mentions (but debunks) the incident convey notability? I'm leaning towards no, although my inclusiveist tendencies are leaning towards "maybe" if only because the Haaretz article calls it the most important story relating to UFO "events" in Israel
— User:Bachrach44, 08:50, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:UNDUE (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view)