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Speaker 1: truth itself. The great physicist Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle tells

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Unexplained and I'm Richard McClain smith. Throughout

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Speaker 1: history we have concocted stories of strange apparitions in the sky,

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Speaker 1: In modern times, these stories are most commonly associated with

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Speaker 1: the UFOs. Although the term had come into use early

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Speaker 1: In July of that year, an American recreational pilot named

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Speaker 1: is it merely in our heads? This episode of Unexplained

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