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Podcast: The Paranoid Strain
Episode: New! Unidentified--U2. No, not that one. The spy plane.
Description: Merry Christmas, or Happy Hannukah, or like whatever you're into, folks. This time, we talk about Area 51's original raison d'etre, the notorious U2 spy plane. We learn how and why this odd-looking thing was built, how it played into one of the earliest crises of the Cold War, and how its weird shape and unbelievable maximum altitude essentially made sightings of it as a truly unidentified flying object nearly inevitable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.