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  • Dakota Datebook: The Night of the Flying Saucers

    Steve Stark|Jul 2, 2018

    July 6, 2018 — If we were to read this headline today in North Dakota, it still might pique interest. Imagine it as the banner headline of the in 1947. Typeset in all boldface capital letters it read, “Report: ‘Flying Saucer’ Seen in N.D.” July 6 was a Sunday in 1947, an especially important day for newspapers. Fourth of July celebrations had come to an end, and the Independence Day weekend had been a particularly peculiar one for some across the nation as the lead paragraph stated: “Those mysterious ‘flying saucers’ which observers have...