
The Secrets of Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Aliens Are Not Good, Is It?
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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.
