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You ought to be a shame to yourself.

When they drop that file.

Yes, Paulie, what is it?

Say, what happened to the music?

Woman, I made the following announcement, I quote,

At 11.4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, both our distant early warning line and ballistic's early warning line reported radar evidence

of unidentified flying objects flying due southeast. As of this moment, we have been unable to

determine the nature of these objects. With the manifestation of atomic weaponry taking place

during the Second World War, the world as we know it has never been the same. The threat of a disastrous

nuclear war has now loomed over the heads of every man, woman, and child for over half a century.

But nowhere was this threat more visceral than during the 1950s and 60s, a time when intercontinental

ballistic missiles meant that schoolchildren

routinely practiced diving under their desks, preparing for the inevitable.

While this worldwide threat seemingly abated over the following years, however,

a strange phenomenon seems to have come about during this same period of time, the proliferation

of reported UFO sightings.

And nowhere have these sightings been more prevalent or caused more alarm than in close proximity

to locations involved with nuclear weaponry.

New Mexico, ground zero for America's nuclear weapons development

programs, is the site of a remarkable number of baffling, unsolved UFO incidents. In late

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