From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.

You can turn back now, or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.

Welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.

My name is Noel.

They call me Ben. We're joined with our super producer Paul Deckett.

Most importantly, you are you. You are here.

And that makes this stuff they don't want you to know.

It's a little bit difficult for the three of us opening this show to not speak

in a transatlantic accent, which all of us love.

And I would say the three of us are pretty good at it, although Paul might be the best.

So far, so far, Paul's the winner.

Yeah, you're really shining today, Paul.

Today's subject requires us to travel back in time, back to 1957, the dawn of what is called the space age.

1957, year of space and Sputnik dogs.

Like a first space traveler was ready for the takeoff.

And here it is.

At 600 miles, the half-tum satellite joined the meteors in outer space to orbit around the earth at 18,000 miles an hour with its passenger.

A shocked America attempted to launch a grapefruit-sized satellite on the Vanguard rocket with disastrous results.

In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower and Sputnik, President Eisenhower, French Prime Minister Gaia, and other NATO leaders gathered in Paris to consider the peril.

Their decision, that three European nations would be armed with intermediate-range missiles.

The magic of President Eisenhower was a rallying force to an undecided conference.

And to give added impetus to its purpose, work was received of the successful launching of the Atlas Intercontinental Missile,

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