Bowditch was moved to a posting in Darwin, at the Northern Territory News, after a doctored image purportedly showing a UFO sighting was published in the Centralian as an April Fools’ Day joke. The image was created using a photo of a household cup saucer, hanging by a piece of cotton from a tree, with a view of Mount Gillen. Bowditch claimed the image had been slipped under his front door. This resulted in international headlines and official investigation by the Royal Australian Air Force. This would become a long-running tradition for the paper.
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Bowditch was moved to a posting in Darwin, at the Northern Territory News, after a doctored image purportedly showing a UFO sighting was published in the Centralian as an April Fools’ Day joke. The image was created using a photo of a household cup saucer, hanging by a piece of cotton from a tree, with a view of Mount Gillen. Bowditch claimed the image had been slipped under his front door. This resulted in international headlines and official investigation by the Royal Australian Air Force. This would become a long-running tradition for the paper.