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🗓️ 15 May 2018
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0:00.0 | Hey, history lovers. I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod, a show about the past, rediscovered. |
0:08.3 | In 1947, Mac Brazel, a farmer in Roswell, New Mexico, discovered something strange. |
0:16.2 | He found metallic rods, pieces of plastic, and silvery paper scraps that he couldn't identify. |
0:23.1 | He called the sheriff, who called the military, who carted the debris off in armored vehicles. |
0:30.0 | If you're a conspiracy theorist or you've watched a lot of sci-fi, you know who a lot of people |
0:35.8 | think left all that debris. |
0:38.9 | Aliens. |
0:42.4 | And they think the alien gear was hauled off to be studied by the government. |
0:43.5 | Where? |
0:47.4 | The secretive location known as Area 51. |
0:51.9 | Of the many mysteries surrounding Area 51, |
0:55.5 | Mack's discovery is one of the earliest. For decades, the government denied the place even existed, adding fuel to the very elaborate |
1:01.2 | theories about secret government experiments on aliens and alien technology. |
1:07.5 | And while you'll never convince a believer that Area 51 has nothing to do with aliens, |
1:12.1 | the real story of the mysterious site may be just as weird and just as dangerous. |
1:19.2 | In 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved adding a strip of wasteland |
1:25.0 | to the Atomic Energy Commission's vast, desolate |
1:28.5 | testing grounds in Nevada. |
1:30.5 | That spot was designated on the map as Area 51. |
1:35.7 | It was used at first to test the new high-altitude U-2 reconnaissance plane, and later other |
1:42.1 | top-secret aircrafts, including a spy plane that flew faster than the speed of sound and a stealth, ground-attack jet. |
1:51.2 | The top-secret nature of the location fueled the conspiracies around its purpose. |
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