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The year was 1973. It was a tumultuous year, filled with news of Watergate, the Vietnam War and many other historical events. UFO sightings were on the increase, culminating in abductions and extraordinary sightings through the fall of 1973. Unparalleled UFO encounters and alien visitation's occurred worldwide during the most extraordinary "UFO flap" of all time.

In the mid-1960s, Betty and Barney Hill became famous as the first Americans to claim that aliens had taken them aboard a spacecraft against their will. Their story—involving a lonely highway late at night, lost memories, and medical examinations by small gray creatures with large eyes—has become the template for nearly every encounter with aliens in American popular culture since.

Welcome to Fireside Mysteries, the podcast that pulls you into the world of UFO sightings, uap encounters, high strangeness, conspiracies, alien abduction and cultural myths. Each week, we dive deep into the cases that blur the line between fact and the unexplained — from legendary UFO sightings, uap encounters and alien abduction stories to conspiracies, high strangeness, and the mysteries of cultural myths. If you’ve ever wondered whether the Battle of Los Angeles UFO incident connects to the Pentagon’s UAP videos, or if the Mothman Prophecy was a warning from something beyond human ...