This Week In '66 - UFOs Over Michigan

 

With Lynn Peril

This Week in ‘66 the news skewed weird! A brain was repatriated, and flying saucers – or swamp gas – lit up the sky over southern Michigan. 

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Flying Saucer Attack

The Rezillos

“Blizzard Continues to Sweep Midwest; Death Toll Hits 20,” The Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1966, 1. 

Burke, Vincent, “Chinese Reds Will Boycott Party Congress in Moscow,” The Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1966, 1. 

Carruthers, Osgood, “Chinese Snub Verifies Critical Soviet Memo,” The Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1966, 25. 

Friedman, Saul, “Rep. Ford Asks Congress to Probe UFO Reports, Detroit Free Press, March 26, 1966, 2. 

Hansen, Jerome, “Those Saucers? Just Swamp Gas,” Detroit Free Press, March 26, 1966, 1. 

Mead, William B., “The Biggest U.F.O. Incident of 1966,” Des Moines Tribune, March 24, 1967, 13. 

“Missing Parts of Mussolini’s Brain Located,” The Lincoln Star (Lincoln, Nebraska), February 12, 1966, 8. 

Murray, Riley, “Flying Saucer Formation Spotted Over Washtenaw,” Detroit Free Press, March 21, 1966, 1. 

“Saucer Sightings Soaring in State,” Detroit Free Press, March 24, 1966, 3. 

Treloar, Jim, “It Scares Me a Little; Washtenaw Sheriff Trails Flying Saucers,” Detroit Free Press, March 22, 1966, 3. 

“What Happened to Missing Part of Duce’s Brain is Washington Mystery,” The Sacramento Bee, February 10, 1966, 17.