Every so often, there's a new blurb in the news about the government's supposed interest

in UFOs, and sometimes that even includes a claim that they have alien materials in their

possession, and some new Pentagon office will be analyzing them.

Well is that true?

Today we're going to have a look at one of the original sources of these alleged alien

materials.

The Mori Island incident is coming up right now on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Mori Island, the government's alien artifacts.

Skeptoid listeners may recall episode number 486 on the history of flying saucers, which

opened with the tale of Kenneth Arnold, a private pilot who reported a string of nine saucer-like

objects near Mount Rainier in Washington State in 1947.

Famously it was the first time they were called flying saucers in print.

Arnold had his 15 minutes of fame and was well known to the nation's newspapers as the

pilot who saw the flying saucers.

And those 15 minutes are usually where Arnold's story ends.

If we dig a little bit deeper into UFO mythology, we find that it has a lesser known Chapter

2.

For just a few short weeks later, while his flame of UFO celebrity was still burning

hot, Arnold found himself thrust into the middle of a totally different UFO encounter.

And that event had ties to today's UFO news.

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