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Vanity Fair October 2006

The first photos of baby Suri Cruise, taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz, following five months of media speculation. Vanity Fair landed the coveted shots of Tom and Katie Holmes’ daughter for free, yielding a sixty-percent bump in newsstand sales (an even bigger sell-through than People’s snaps of baby Shiloh Jolie-Pitt that same year) and an impressive four million website hits in a single day.

Ahead of the issue’s release, it was said editor Graydon Carter enlisted the services of a private security firm to guard the printing room, shipping the magazine a day late and hidden behind a protective seal to prevent leaks; even the magazine’s staffers were left in the dark.

OK then. The quotes come from an interview with the Howard Stern show:

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has opened up about his experiences in the record industry, telling Howard Stern that he has “witnessed a shapeshifting humanoid” in the flesh, before opening up to production staff after the show, informing them that the “record industry-Illuminati” is controlled by non-human reptilians.

Responding to a Howard Stern joke about reptilians, Corgan became serious and said, “Not to add to the conspiracy, but I’ve had paranormal experiences in my life that sort of lend itself into that category.”

Sounding surprised, Howard Stern encouraged Corgan to open up about the experience.

“I’m turning red I’m so embarrassed,” said Corgan, before explaining, “Let’s just say I was with somebody once, and I saw a transformation I can’t explain.”

Howard asked, “The person transformed into something other than human?”

Corgan responded, “Yes, I saw it. I was totally sober. Imagine you’re doing something, and suddenly you turn around, and there’s somebody else standing there. It’s hard to explain without going into detail, I’d rather not do it.”

Corgan said he wasn’t hallucinating or imagining the incident. When he asked the shapeshifting humanoid-reptilian what had happened, the entity acknowledged what had happened.

Howard asked, “What did they say they were, from another planet?”