Today's mystery happened somewhere on Earth in December 1981. Three rounds, three perspectives — drop a pin, find each location.
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Round 1 of 3 — The witnesses
Where were the people standing when they saw it?
01Winter, early 1980s. A handful of residents in a narrow rural valley — farming country, long dark nights, sparse population — started comparing notes. What they were seeing in the sky didn't match anything they had words for. Within a year, the sightings were coming in at fifteen to twenty per week.
Round 01 of 03
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