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The Berwyn Mountain Incident

Published: June 5, 2017, 3:44 a.m.

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This week on Expanded Perspectives the guys start the show off talking about how Elon\\xa0Musk says that Universal Basic Income \\u2014 or an economic idea where everyone gets a paycheck from the government to spend how they wish \\u2014 is one of the only solutions to the rise of robotic automation. Then,\\xa0Stratolaunch -- which is designed to release rockets that will carry satellites into space -- has a 385-foot wingspan, features six engines used by the Boeing 747, stands 50 feet tall and can carry more than 500,000 pounds of payload. Then, a\\xa0man from Oregon claims his grandmother\\u2019s house was damaged by a \\u201cBigfoot\\u201d. Then, a man describes what could only be the flying humanoid from the movie "Jeepers Creepers" in the Bronx back in 2011.\\xa0

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After the break Kyle brings up Britain\'s Roswell simply known as "The Berwyn Mountain Incident".\\xa0On January 23, 1974, people reported hearing a huge bang, felt earth tremors and saw a brilliant light in the sky above the Berwyn Mountains. Families in the villages of Llandderfel and Llandrillo were settling down to watch TV when an explosion was heard and the ground shook. It measured 3.5 on the Richter scale. As people ran from their homes fearing another tremor, they saw a blaze of light on the mountainside.\\xa0A nurse who believed an aircraft had crashed drove to the site and saw a pulsating orange and red glow on the hillside and other lights.\\xa0Police converged on the area and emergency services were put on standby. Although searches were undertaken, officially nothing was found \\u2013 leading to claims of a cover-up.\\xa0In the four decades since there has been a huge debate as to what exactly happened that night, with TV documentaries made and books written on the subject.\\xa0Some researchers have claimed a UFO crashed, with further claims \\u201cbodies\\u201d were retrieved and taken away by soldiers. Other theories suggest it was a meteor shower combined with an earthquake \\u2013 the epicentre of which was at Bala Lake \\u2013 and the misperception of poachers on the hillside carrying lamps.

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All of this and more on this weeks addition of Expanded Perspectives!

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