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TIL George Adamski claimed that he met with extraterrestrials and that every planet in our solar system was populated with human-like inhabitants, as was the dark side of the earth’s moon. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands invited him to her palace in 1959 to discuss extraterrestrial doings

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