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In a recent ‘Alien Zoo’ [], I documented a remarkable report from an American Facebook friend, Kimberly Poeppey, who claimed not only to be an eyewitness of the infamous ‘lost’ thunderbird photograph, as numerous other people have too, but also – and uniquely in my experience at that time – to know for certain which publication she’d seen it in! This was a Reader’s Digest hardback compendium volume published in 1982 and entitled . But here is where it became really strange. Kimberly clearly recalled seeing the photo in that volume several times, even looking at it in a bookstore before her boyfriend finally

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