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SHIFTHEADS: 162 Declassified UFO Files: What's Real, What's a Hoax, and What Nobody Can Explain
Declassified UFO files released by the Pentagon on May 8th look explosive on the surface. Nathan Radke spent the better part of his weekend reading through them and came back with something more complicated.
The 162 files from the FBI, Air Force, and CIA include official memos and genuinely strange material, but also newspaper clippings, letters from cranks, and a flying saucer frisbee advertisement. The release is not curated. Radke's read: burying real information inside an ocean of noise is one of the oldest tricks in the file-dump playbook.
The files range from a 1953 man who shaved a…
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