On April 1, 1950, the Wiesbadener Tageblatt, a newspaper in the West German city of Wiesbaden, published a sensational photo showing the pilot of a flying saucer that allegedly crashed near the city the day before. The picture has been roaming the pages of publications devoted to "flying saucers" for more than thirty years.  It wasn't until 1981 that Klaus Webner, a Wiesbaden skeptic, found out that the 1950 sensation was just an April Fool's prank, started and executed by newspaper editor Wilhelm Sprunkel and his friend, newspaper photographer Hans Schafler. The five-year-old daughter of Schefler passed for an alien, to whom participation in the joke gave a lot of pleasure.