Before Sputnik · claim TRN-C125 · Observation rung · Population statistics and correlations
All 203 high-probability transients recorded the night before Castle Yankee project (at 35,786 km altitude) onto the Pacific hotspot regions west of Mexico and Central America, with none over the southwestern United States or the Gulf of Mexico.
source anchor
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“exclusively over Pacific hotspot regions west of Mexico and Central America”
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