From the Fresno Night Crawlers to even more obscure oddities like the Riverside Brain Tickler and the Crazy Critter of Bald Mountain, the cryptid rich west coast of the United States is known for its cavalcade of kooky creatures, This week we add two more names to this illustrious and ever growing list; a pair of odd entities known as the Medford Shmoos and the Black Star Penguins 

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What began as a staring contest between a nurse and a pair of E.T.s just before dawn on New Year’s Day, 1970, quickly blossomed into one of the most harrowing UFO flaps in North American History; one that not only involved a wide variety of alien craft, but which may hold one of the keys to the aliens’ otherwise enigmatic agenda.

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In the wee hours of New Year’s Day, 1970,  a group of night shift nurses would bear witness to a peculiar—and evidently incapacitated—flying saucer piloted by a pair of bizarre humanoid beings in what would become one of the strangest events in the history of Canadian UFO research… one that would forever alter the lives of those involved.

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During the Cold War, both Soviet and American military units were forced to contend not only with the strange circumstances surrounding the discovery of mysteriously downed aircraft, but also the terrifying implications involved in both of these seemingly inexplicable incidents. In this installment  we travel to the nearly impenetrable jungles of Laos to expose one of the darkest and most sinister secrets in American military history.

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