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CASE RT-AIRSHIP
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Seven years before the Wright brothers, thousands of Californians watched a lighted ship cross the night sky. The crew were overheard discussing altitude, church steeples, and the fact that they were running late.
CASE RT-FLATWOODS
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In 1952, seven people and a dog walked up a West Virginia hill to see what had fallen from the sky. They came back down running. The Air Force said it was a bird.
CASE RT-MARFA-LIGHTS
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Texas spent about $700,000 on a viewing platform so tourists could gather at night and watch a famous desert mystery. A team of physics students traced most of it to car headlights.
CASE #016
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On the night of August 21, 1955, eleven people spent four hours firing shotguns at small silver creatures that would not stay down. The Air Force called it a hoax. The best skeptical explanation is owls.
CASE RT-014
OPEN
On July 8, 1947, the United States Army announced it had recovered a flying saucer. It retracted the statement within a day, and has spent the better part of eighty years explaining what it meant instead.
CASE RT-004
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On March 13, 1997, an entire city looked up and saw something silent and mile-wide pass overhead. The Air Force later explained half of the evening. The governor took ten years to admit he saw the other half.