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TIL that Ufo abductees Betty and Barney Hill claimed to have been taken to a planet in the Zeta Reticuli galaxy. Coincidentally, Bob Lazar, the area 51 whistleblower, says Ufos he worked on reverse engineering were from a planet in that galaxy as well.

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