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Splicing the Mainbrace, Part Two

“You can’t tell the people,” UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher famously said about UFOs to researcher Georgina Bruni. But you cannot avoid people becoming aware something has happened when events are as visible as those of the summer of 1952.

Startling UFOs infested the skies over the US capital and played games with Air Force jets. Intelligence agencies wondered if the UFOs were a secret weapon deployed to distract the US and its allies from a sneak attack. Project Blue Book – the USAF’s UFO investigation project headed by Captain Ed Ruppelt and astronomer Dr J Allen Hynek – found themselves sidelined as the CIA drew up plans to mislead

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