
The Secrets of Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Sleep Gas
Sleep gas is extremely dangerous because you cannot control the dosage that some one receives. If they take in a big lungful, cause they've been running and they're panting heavy, they're going to get more of that into their system. The russians decided to use sleep gas to end the hostage crisis. And they ended up killing all these people, because there is no way to control dosing with sleep gas. Stephen spilberg: It was it the closeness to the vianam war that made this chemical weapon thing will scare everybody was that was that part of the reasoning,. i think they ser well, chemical weapons are certainly scary.
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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.
