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The hotspots and installations: Area 51, Skinwalker Ranch, and more.
The classified Nevada test site where the U-2 and stealth aircraft were born, and where Bob Lazar's 1989 claims placed captured saucers. The government admitted the base exists in 2013.
LOCATIONThe Argentine mountain that anchors South America's biggest UFO pilgrimage culture, complete with a legendary underground city of light and a town whose economy runs on the sky.
LOCATIONA small town on the Jicarilla Apache Nation beneath a mesa where, the lore says, a secret underground alien facility hosted a human-alien firefight. The story's author was a disinformation operation.
LOCATIONThe seven-story Mojave boulder where George Van Tassel channeled Ashtar, hosted saucer conventions for 25 years, and built the Integratron dome that still hums with sound baths.
LOCATIONThe Norwegian valley where unexplained lights appear often enough that scientists built a permanent automated observatory to catch them. It works. The explanation is still pending.
LOCATIONThe Hudson Valley hamlet that became New York's UFO capital during the 1980s wave, complete with roadside skywatchers, a themed diner, and an annual parade.
LOCATIONA 512-acre Utah property with three decades of claimed anomalies, two billionaire owners, a secret Pentagon study, and a hit TV show. Verified evidence remains elusive.
LOCATIONRussia's storied anomaly zone in the Ural foothills near Molyobka, a perestroika-era sensation of glows and "zones" that became a paranormal tourism trail.
LOCATIONThe dancing lights of the west Texas desert, viewed from an official roadside platform since the 1880s-era tales began. Physics students traced most of them to Highway 67.
LOCATIONThe high Colorado valley where the cattle mutilation era began with a horse named Snippy, and where locals built the world's first UFO watchtower.
LOCATIONThe patch of Mexican desert where radios allegedly die, meteorites keep landing, and a wayward U.S. missile built a legend. The physics is disputed. The mystique is not.
LOCATIONThe Ohio base that housed every official UFO investigation from Sign to Blue Book, and, in the lore, the bodies from Roswell in a place called Hangar 18.
LOCATIONThe Northern Territory roadhouse that declared itself Australia's UFO capital, where outback skies, a holiday-park mural of aliens, and decades of guest-book sightings meet.