1977 Artists Work Debunks Rumor Of Ufo In St Petersburg

UFO enthusiasts around the world will be disappointed to learn that despite a current popular online rumor, the St. Petersburg Pier was not once home to an alien landing that has since been covered up by the U.S. government. The online buzz began building last weekend when someone uploaded a firsthand account written and illustrated by a mysterious author of a supposed 1977 St. Petersburg close encounter of the third kind. The contents of the folio case include typed and handwritten accounts of a UFO landing in St. Petersburg with corresponding sketches that depict spacemen, Revelations-styled five-headed beasts, and a drawing of a tornado emanating beams of light over The Pier. However, what the author actually witnessed was a then-groundbreaking art installation. And he was not the only one to mistake it for extraterrestrial activity..IMAGE