>>53335193>They had more than enough information to make several scientific breakthroughs that they didn't need to fake a pokemon sighting so why would they? It doesn't make a lick of sense.Heath had a monetary incentive due to getting funding from the director of Mesagoza's school. He didn't consider anything he found to live up to the hundred years of hype in Area Zero as shown by this page where he says the "treasure" is still out there in the crater, so he made up his fakemon for sensationalism and it worked until people called him out.
