In one of the most famous UFO "sightings" in U.S. history, Roswell residents in 1947 saw lights in the night sky, followed by a loud explosion.

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"Nobody in the history of mankind has ever experienced the Earth as a pale, insignificant blue dot in the sky, " he said.

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