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The Roswell Crash (1947)

Published: July 8, 2021, 11:30 a.m.

It\u2019s July 8th. This day (July 7th actually) in 1947, two ranchers stumbled across a downed flying object in the middle of the Nevada desert.

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Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss the discovery of the \u201cmysterious\u201d object (it was a weather balloon) and why it tapped into a rising tide of conspiracies about UFOs and alien visits.

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Find a transcript of this episode at:\xa0https://tinyurl.com/esoterichistory

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