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  • 2018-12-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Texas Man Confess to Kidnapping 79 People While Disguised as an Alien? (en)
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  • In December 2018, the World News Daily Report (WNDR) website published a provocative article reporting that a man in Texas had confessed to kidnapping 79 people while he was disguised as an alien and subjecting them to anal probes: The report was a fabrication. We could find no corroboration for in local El Paso news media or law enforcement statements, and the photograph captioned as showing FBI spokesman Darrell Johnson actually pictured Emmerson Buie Jr., special agent in charge of the FBI's El Paso division, speaking at a press conference in November 2017. The identity of the elderly man shown in a mugshot was not immediately clear. However, the same mugshot appeared in a 2011 blog post, meaning it did not relate to a December 2018 arrest. World News Daily Report is a well-known producer of junk news, whose web site features the following disclaimer which describes its articles as fictional and satirical: (en)
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