How Project Blue Book Worked, Pt I

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In June of 1947, a flying saucer was sighted by a pilot in Washington. That first report opened the floodgates and a UFO hysteria set in. Were they aliens? Time travelers? Russians? The Air Force began an investigation that lasted for decades.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.8	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Tuck Bryan over there and there's Jerry over there.
0:47.9	He's still dressed up in a silver jumpsuit as usual.
0:52.3	A jumpsuit?
0:53.3	I say I pull it out.
0:55.8	Should we edit that out and retake it?
0:57.4	No, I think we should leave it.
0:59.4	Jerry, behind the scene stuff everyone, Jerry sometimes has to get what's called room
1:03.5	tone, which means she has to roll tape digitally and we have to be completely silent for
1:10.4	a few moments.
1:11.4	We get the tone of the room for, I don't know, purposes of magic.
1:16.6	And every time she's done that we always have the urge to giggle or fart or be six year
1:23.3	old.
1:24.3	So she looks at us sternly the whole time during that five or six seconds of room.
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