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Monday, July 2, 2007

Portland Flying Saucers In Portland

Posted by Matt Davis on Mon, Jul 2 at 12:53 PM

Man, the 1940s were a funny time. Not only was everyone figuring out how best to “duck and cover“even serious, fascist newspapers like the Oregonian were devoting their front page to coverage of flying saucers. From July 4th and 5th, 1947, come these gems:oregonianflyingsaucers.jpgCelebrate the 60th anniversary of Portland’s flying saucers at It’s a Beautiful Pizza on Wednesday, between 11am-2pm. This is weird enough that I might actually go along. I love a good conspiracy theory…

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