One of the affected passengers was a journalist. You know, you wouldn't want to toss your whole career to the dust bin with a shitty Alex-Jones/paranormal like comment you would find under UFO related magazines and the like. Even more today where you can find smartphones everywhere.

So, if Isabel Orta -she- lied, I would expect to be ridiculed down to the extreme in the media.

Because, let's get fair, people in Spain would just watch stuff like Cuarto Millenio (paranormal, UFO and conspiracies stuff) on Sundays for the laughs on crazy theories and 'discoveries'.

Yet the journalist told her story in prime time, in serious media, not under these kind of magazines turned into TV shows:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_magazines_of_anomalous...