UFO sightings: an otherworldly history
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The Urban Legend of Area 51
The story that the American government has got secretly hidden away in a hangar somewhere in the desert or in Area 51 is now preferred isn't a new story. It first surfaced in 1950 as long ago as 73 years ago when a guy called Frank Scully published a book called Behind the Flying Sources. Do you think there's been a lot of talk in the past five six years about the rise of conspiratorial thinking particularly in America with the sort of rise of the far right and Trump’s narratives around the election?
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