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Bridgeport, CT/ Desert Center, CA

Released Saturday, 22nd February 2020
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Bridgeport, CT/ Desert Center, CA

Bridgeport, CT/ Desert Center, CA

Bridgeport, CT/ Desert Center, CA

Bridgeport, CT/ Desert Center, CA

Saturday, 22nd February 2020
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The town of Bridgeport Connecticut is an eastern seaport town that boasts a population of 144,900. P. T. Barnum founder of the Barnum and Bailey Circus took up residence there and was even mayor for a year. The Frisbee Pie Company was in Bridgeport making the town the default origin of the Frisbee. Also, the first Subway opened its doors in 1965. Five dollar footlongs and gravity-defying toys were not the only firsts to come from Bridgeport Connecticut. The small town is also the birthplace of the dreaded Men In Black.

WikiPedia article about Bridgeport, Connecticut


bportlibrary.org/hc/authors/bridgeports-ufo-legacy-men-in-black-and-the-albert-k-bender-story/


WikiPedia article about Albert K. Bender


liminalroom.com/2017/07/25/you-can-call-me-al/


thepromiserevealed.com/domnick-lucchesi-meets-the-space-girl-part-1-by-raymond-keller/

They Knew too Much About Flying Saucers, Grey Barker. New Saucerian Books 2014 (reprinted from 1954 edition). https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/149910507X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1



The tiny town of Desert Center California it a place that is literally in the middle of nowhere in the Colorado Desert. It would be here on November 20th of 1952 that the beginning of the UFO “Contactee” movement would begin. 



WikiPedia article about Desert Center, California


WikiPedia article about George Adamski


www.history.com/news/george-adamski-ufo-alien-photos


www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicadamski.html


occult-world.com/ufologist/adamski-george/


mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/05/adamski-and-the-occult/


Local Headlines


www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/speculation-that-mystery-skeleton-is-nessie-191361/?fbclid=IwAR1…5cQ8


www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/one-in-a-million-ghost-ship-from-african-coast-washes-up-on-rocks-in-cork-982069.html


www.beaconjournal.com/news/20200211/2-ohio-men-say-they-encountered-bigfoot-like-creature-at-salt-fork-state-park


Your Small Town Secrets


www.cleweekend.com/werewolf-defiance-ohio-local-legend-still-haunts-town/


Chasing American Monster, Jason Offutt. Llewellyn Press 2019. www.amazon.com/Chasing-American-Monsters-Creatures-Cryptids/dp/0738759953/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28MMM1MR28QFK&keywords=chasing+american+monsters&qid=1578723351&sprefix=chasing+amer,aps,150&sr=8-1


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