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The Story of the UFO Flat in the US
In 1947, a businessman saw nine bright objects as he was flying around Mount Rainier. He said that they flew the way they flew as they skipped across light sources. That just caught the imagination of people in the US. The Cold War paranoia beginning to get going in the late 40s meant there was also a willingness to believe nasty things might be coming down from the heavens.
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