Season 6 · Episode 46
New! Unidentified--U2. No, not that one. The spy plane.
The Paranoid Strain · Fearful Jesuit
December 23, 202530m 17s
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Show Notes
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.
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