 Please be praying. God bless you. In 1835, a newspaper, the New York Sun, reported that a British astronomer, Sir John Herschel, had published an article confirming the age-old suspicion that there really were aliens on the moon. They were horrible creatures with bat wings and furry bodies. The story was believed. Finally, a group of scientists traveled to New York to study Herschel's papers. What did they find? A hoax.