
The Secrets of Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Canary and the Coal Mine
The movie is based on the true story of a gas hoax in Wyoming. The government used animals to scare people, but then killed them when they woke up from nerve gas. In coal mines, there can you cant encounter natural gas, which is odorless humans. And so if the bird keels over, that means there'snatural gas here and I need to get out of here.
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Close Encounters launched the UFO craze of the late 70s and Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, Thomas Salerno, and Mike Denz discuss the cultural impact, the idea of alien contact, and the connections to reported real world UFO encounters.
