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[i]Sebastian Salazar will openly admit he's no Orson Welles, but for one night, he tried his best Welles impression. Salazar was the source of the social media hoax that started Friday night of a NASA satellite crashing into a farmers field near Okotoks, all using his Twitter account @imnotgonnalie2u and profile picture of a winky face. "I didn't say it was a spoof but I made it pretty obvious," he said. It was strikingly similar to Welles' 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast that created hysteria in the United States. In fact, the aspiring filmmaker used direct quotes straight from the radio broadcast. "If it worked for Orson Welles in 1938, I wanted to see if it worked on Twitter in 2011," he said. "I'm certainly no Orson Welles, I just took his stuff and remixed it for 2011." It started off with "Reporter Carl Phillips" on the scene of "Wilmuth farm" with the debris, both lifted from Welles. Salazar painted a picture of the satellite crashing into earth; ending up "half buried in a vast pit. Must have struck with terrific force" he wrote. He even posted a picture of the so called debris, made of spare parts he found in his house. "There is no reason that people shouldn't have picked up on it as a hoax," he said.[/i]
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