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The Flatwoods Monster
In 1952, seven people and a dog walked up a West Virginia hill to see what had fallen from the sky. They came back down running. The Air Force said it was a bird.
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The Marfa Lights
Texas spent about $700,000 on a viewing platform so tourists could gather at night and watch a famous desert mystery. A team of physics students traced most of it to car headlights.
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The Hopkinsville Goblins
On the night of August 21, 1955, eleven people spent four hours firing shotguns at small silver creatures that would not stay down. The Air Force called it a hoax. The best skeptical explanation is owls.
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The Roswell Incident
On July 8, 1947, the United States Army announced it had recovered a flying saucer. It retracted the statement within a day, and has spent the better part of eighty years explaining what it meant instead.
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The Phoenix Lights
On March 13, 1997, an entire city looked up and saw something silent and mile-wide pass overhead. The Air Force later explained half of the evening. The governor took ten years to admit he saw the other half.