Did you know that an actual visitor from the planet Venus, named Valiant Thor, lived for

a time at the Pentagon and consulted regularly with government officials about our place

in the interstellar community?

Well it's true.

At least according to an urban legend that has a diehard community of believers.

But more fascinating than the tale itself is the true story of how it originated and what's

behind it.

Valiant Thor is coming right up on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Valiant Thor, your friendly Pentagon alien.

Today we're going to open the book of great legends from the realm of UFOlogy and turn

to the story on Valiant Thor, a benevolent Venusian who lived among us for three years

in the late 1950s.

The story is passionately believed by a few proponents and has been promoted as fact

on TV shows such as Ancient Aliens and dramatized in the 2013 film short Stranger at the Pentagon.

Today we're going to look at the fact of the story and the context in which it was told

and see if we can conclude whether Valiant Thor truly did visit the earth.

The story of Valiant Thor did not exist until 1967 when it was revealed to the world in

the book Stranger at the Pentagon by the reverend Frank E. Strangis and several other books

in the decades since.

This was a traveling Christian evangelist who also wrote books about UFOs and gave lectures

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