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Welcome. Welcome to historical blindness, the odd past podcast. I'll be your pilot as we putter along through virgin skies in this miraculous lighter-than-air vessel.

In this edition, we return to the rich topic of historical UFO sightings.

As I showed way back in episode 16, a brief history of unidentified aerial phenomena,

sightings of unusual lights and what appeared to be craft in the skies

stretch all the way back to the beginning of recorded history.

In that episode, I chose to conclude my enumeration of strange sights in the sky

without covering the 19th century.

But these marvels did not cease in the 19th century only to resume

when Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting set off the modern era of UFO reports. There is, however,

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