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Jul 2021
32m 15s

Balloon Train

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The Roswell crash is perhaps the most famous UFO incident in history. But for more than 30 years after the debris was found in 1947, the case was relatively unknown. It resurfaced in 1980, amid an era of civilian UFO investigation and government disinformation, two efforts that would meet in the case of an electrical engineer in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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