Anyone old enough to recall this?

Even if you aren't, it's still interesting...interesting enough to warrant a report from TV newsman Walter Cronkite.

Truck driver Frank Mannor claimed to have seen a pyramid-like UFO land in a swamp in the small Michigan town of Dexter. The town organized a search party and even the local cops got involved......and some reported to actually see some flashing bright lights.

So what happened? Congressman Weston Vivian coaxed the U.S. Air Force to send out an expert: in this case, Dr. J. Allen Hynek. He came to Dexter to investigate this latest alien phantasm.  In what would become a huge joke in later years, Hynek claimed what the fine folks of Dexter were seeing was none other than swamp gas.

Oh, really? Watch the above video.

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