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UFO Sightings in Arizona Can Be Traced Back to "Close Encounters" Footage
Arizonans are buzzing today about a series of floaty lights that hovered over Phoenix last night for about 15 minutes. One guy captured them on film (you can see it here), and the news covered it to death, wondering how people could have seen a bunch of lights that the Federal Aviation Administration and local air traffic controllers couldn't explain. Apparently they are similar to lights that were seen over Phoenix in 1997 too. The really weird thing? The lights also look exactly like a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. See below to compare. More »UFOs and Shoe Polish Have a Lot in Common
An ad agency in Buenos Aires, Argentina made this series of print and TV ads for Nugget Shoe Polish. What does shoe polish have to do with UFOs? Well, the obvious point is that UFOs are shiny and shoe polish creates shine. But the truth goes much deeper than that, and involves little boys, exploding woodpeckers, and lots of cars from the 1940s. Click through see to the movie that explains everything. More »
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UFOs? Burlesque Queen Lili St. Cyr Says Yes, 1957
Elegant, leggy Lili St. Cyr ruled the burlesque stage from the 1940s to the 1960s. She was known for her innovative routines (one involving a flying G string), six marriages, and the mail order lingerie store she operated after her retirement from the stage. She also believed in UFOs. In this clip from October 1957, St. Cyr discusses the advanced emotions of Venusian men with interviewer Mike Wallace on The Mike Wallace Interview, a smoky precursor to 60 Minutes that ran from 1957 to 1960. More »
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