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Jul. 7, 2021 - UFOs and Bigfoot — two local enigmas
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UFOs and Bigfoot — two local enigmas — get another moment in the sun.
Unidentified aerial phenomena and ancient hominids are in the news. Both have a rich history in the Pacific Northwest.
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Jul. 7, 2021 - UFOs and Bigfoot — two local enigmas
7/7/2021 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
Unidentified aerial phenomena and ancient hominids are in the news. Both have a rich history in the Pacific Northwest.
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UFOs are in the news again and they have a rich history in the Pacific Northwest.
Recently, the US government released its latest report on unidentified flying objects, now called UAPs for "unidentified aerial phenomena," citing some 140 examples of unexplained sightings.
The government doesn't believe they are evidence of extraterrestrial life, but can't explain what they are or who is behind them.
It seems appropriate that the report came out on June 24th, 74 years to the day an Idaho pilot named Kenneth Arnold saw a number of shiny objects that he thought were advanced aircraft dodging through the Cascades at high speed near Mount Rainier.
He said they looked like saucers skipping across a lake, and thus the term "flying saucer" was born.
Arnold's sighting kicked off the modern craze about UFOs.
I'm Starla Sampaco.
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