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Cape Girardeau UFO legend

DATE1 Jan 1941
LOCAL TIME—
LOCATIONCape Girardeau, Missouri, United States
COORDINATES37.29°N, 89.45°W

A local legend gained wider attention in the 1980s when resident Charlotte Mann claimed in interviews that her father, Reverend William Huffman of the Red Star Baptist Church, had administered last rites for the dying crew of a crashed flying saucer.

[ PRIMARY CITATION // COMPILED REFERENCE · CTD-0005 ]

WITNESSES & UNITS

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SENSORS & EVIDENCE

Witness sighting statement

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