Authorities may have called them "stupid' and "juvenile" but the two men behind the recent Morris County UFO hoax say their stunt was, in the end, a glaring success. Chris Russo and Joe Rudy say they launched helium balloons with traffic flares tied to them in a "social experiment" to debunk the pseudoscience of UFOs.
Strange, red, blinking lights could be seen across Morris County on Monday night, and officials thought they had figured out what caused them. Now, they're not so sure. Between 8:30 and 9 p.m., the Hurley family in Whippany captured images of a bizarre object in the sky and contacted WCBSTV.com.