40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard

Conspiracy theories are still alive and well in the year of our lord 2024. 54% Americans, for example, believe that Lee Harvey Oswald did not definitely or probably did not act alone in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

But there are some conspiracy theories so silly that it's hard to believe anyone would think they're true. One person recently asked online, "What’s the most absurd conspiracy theory you’ve ever heard?" And people had all sorts of answers, from the moon being a hologram to JFK's head just bursting open on its own. So don't hesitate and scroll away for some conspiracy entertainment!

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That a reality TV game show clown, who committed sexual assault and ran a fraudulent charity and a fraudulent university, and ripped off blue collar contractors, had a presidential election "stolen" from him.

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Winnie the Moo 1 week ago

This should be higher

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40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard There is an underground group of billionaires controlling the world

Buddy, there's already an above ground group of billionaires controlling the world.

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StrangeOne 1 week ago

My theory is that there's a trillionaire somewhere ruling everything.

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The profits will trickle down.

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Annik Perrot 1 week ago

That's the biggest, nuttiest one!

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40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard Last year when the Chinese lunar rover saw that strange square rock out in the distance, I heard some people claim that it was the stage they used to fake the moon landings. On the moon…

Yeah, it turned out to be just a rock.

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Manana Man 1 week ago

So the easiest way to fake the moon landing is to go to the moon? Wait a second...

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40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard Flat earthers. I don't think they actually believe, I think they are all just trolling us.

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The Phantom Stranger 1 week ago

Best argument I've ever heard to refute this nonsense: If the world were flat, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.

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40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard The Covid lockdowns were there to replace the birds with bird-like drones.

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Manana Man 1 week ago

And the purpose of the bird-like drones is to be caught by cats and brought into your house so they can see what you look like from your kitchen floor.

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Pizzagate. Never would have thought that anyone would fall for it. But damn, right wingers are stupid.

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G A 1 week ago

You think?!

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Back in the 1920s Al Smith ran for president. It was notable because he was the first candidate to run who was Catholic. During that time a picture of him during the opening of the Holland Tunnel in New York made the rounds in newspapers around the country.

So what did anti-Catholic nutjobs believe? They believed that he was going to build a tunnel from New York to the Vatican in order to take direct orders from the Pope. Not a metaphorical tunnel where the pope would have his ears, but a *literal* tunnel that one could walk or presumably take a train or something to have direct communication with the pope. An actual tunnel from New York, under the Atlantic, to mainland Europe, all the way to Rome.

Dumbass, absurd conspiracy theories are nothing new.

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Sanne 1 week ago

I do believe they had radios in 1920? Wouldn't that be easier to use for communication than building a tunnel and having to drive through it every time you wanted to talk?

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The 100% female, Chinese army, who have never been nerfed by blue light, that are biding their time in underground bunkers in the mountains of China.

According to my neighbor, the one child policy was introduced as a way for China to secretly build up an army of specially trained soldiers. There was never a mass killing of baby girls. They were all sent to underground facilities where they would spend their entire lives being trained in combat and espionage. They will only reveal themselves when China decides to attack the US mainland.

Also! China adds the harmful blue light to the electronics they ship around the world in order to cripple the military might of other countries by wreaking havoc on their sleep cycles. Prolonged sleep deprivation in a large population can cause widespread mental illness and behavioral problems that will follow any service person into their military career. China doesn't give their lady-soldiers any electronics with blue light, so they stay in perfect sync with their circadian rhythm and avoid the mental illnesses and behavioral problems that currently affect much of today's youth.

When I asked why China only wanted women super soldiers, he said that the final stage in their plan for world domination was forced repopulation (because obviously the war would tank the US population) with Chinese genes. By having each female soldier get pregnant with a surviving US man's child, those children would have dual citizenship, and if enough US citizens had Chinese citizenship then they would control the US no matter what the end result of the war was.

Gotta love crazy neighbors 🤪

Edit: My inbox is full of people telling me this is all fetish stuff, but I truly believe my neighbor is too scared to be horny. Unless he's rocking a fear-ection along with his tin foil hat, this is all just crazy doing as crazy does.

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Manana Man 1 week ago

There's got to be an easier way to get dual citizenship.

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40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard Finland Isn’t Real.

A high school kid made it up as a joke, and a whole lot of people took him seriously.

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Lisa Kathrin 1 week ago

I'm currently in Finland, can confirm we're just floating in a boundless void

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40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard Nearly all celebrities are transgender. "Transvestigators" pore over pictures and videos of famous people, pointing out how "she has a strong jawline" or "he has feminine body language". Apparently, the whole world is controlled by a secret trans cult, and if you want to become famous, you need to transition.

mireille_galois , Dean Shim / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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Bernd Herbert 1 week ago

There's no more pathetic group of people than these idiots

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That a plucky group of oil executives and politicians are the only thing that stands between us and the ravages of evil climate scientists.

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geezeronthehill 1 week ago

We used to be told that the oil executives were suppressing the "one hundred miles per gallon carburetor '. Turns out they knew about the affect of carbon dioxide on the climate and spent a boatload of money fighting the science.

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#13

40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard I'm swinging between two.

CT-A: Western dairy manufacturers put pigs milk in cheese to prevent Muslims from going to heaven after they die. This is absurd because pigs are super hard to milk; their milk isn't a whole lot per pig; it lasts hours, not days; and their milk tastes like hot tar smells.

Edit: Yes, the taste is first hand. I asked once as a kid (Farmer relatives.) and I was fed a teaspoon of fresh pigs milk. Milk of magnesia tastes better. Yuck.

CT-B: Nuclear weapons doesn't exist. Self-explanatory.

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Sanne 1 week ago (edited)

Does it even work like that? Would a Muslim not go to heaven if he was secretly or forcible fed something he isn't allowed to eat/drink? You can't blame him for that, can you? Edit: Not a discussion about whether Heaven even exists. I'm an atheist, I think not, but that was not my question. In this case I assume Islam is the truth, or I wouldn't even need to ask the question.

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#14

40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard Contrails in the sky are a chemicals that makes you gay.

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Duncan McCann 1 week ago

I must have spent months frolicking through contrails (gaily of course).

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#15

JFK and/or JFK Jr are alive and are going to show up in Dealy Plaza to help Trump in his quest to save America.

First off, they're not alive. Even if JFK faked his death he would be like 110 by now. Second off, if they were going to show up it sure as hell wouldn't be in the exact location that Sr's head got blown off. Finally, they were both liberal Democrats, so the last person they would be helping would be Trump.

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Tamra 1 week ago

If Trump supporters are willing to believe he's fit for the presidency, they'll believe anything.

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40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard The moon is a hologram because the real moon was blown up by nukes (possibly by Nazis?) and we would apparently just all go insane if we looked up at the sky and didn’t see a moon so they had to make a fake one.

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Coral 1 week ago

Because tides are not a thing....

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There's one that's prevalent in the Middle East about Prince William. The theory is that, the Church of England was involved in the death of Princess Diana.

How does this work? Well, the theory is that Diana was about to marry Dodi al Fayed and to do so, would have to become a Muslim. This would mean that Prince William would have to become a Muslim (according to the theory, not according to reality) and then the whole of the UK would be forced to convert to Islam.

It's completely ridiculous, but in some parts of the Middle East it's taken as fact.

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G A 1 week ago

Only in poor simply minded controlled states where they believe in absolute power. Everyone in the UK, apart from s**t eating politicians, would be telling them to f**k right off. I don't know a single person who is a church goer.

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#18

40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard That light bulbs don't emits light but are "Dark suckers" instead.

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Frank 1 week ago

Of course this one is true: when a lamp is new, it's transparent. When it's old it gets some black spots and finally it becomes black when it's capacity to absorb dark is exhausted. I never heard this as a conspiracy theory, but as a standard joke in physics and engineering. Of course it does not work with LED lights anymore, but the old filament light bulbs (surely the opaque ones) "proved" this, as well as the fluorescent tubes (where the ends gradually gave less and less light). It's twin brother is that machines and electronics work by smoke and when the smoke comes out, they thus stop working. In fact it's more than a joke, but a hint that more than one explanations seems possible and the obvious one might be wrong. Think about "centrifugal force". Or the earth at the center of the universe.

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40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard There were no gunmen in Dallas. JFK's head just did that. It's called the "no bullet theory".

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Sanne 1 week ago

So... what is there explanation for his head 'just did that'? Heads don't tend to explode on their own...

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Someone mentioned Paul McCartney, but only in passing.

The "Paul is Dead" conspiracy suggests Paul died in 1966 and was replaced with a lookalike/soundalike/write-alike because The Beatles were too famous to shut down, but meanwhile they drop hints into future songs to let 'real fans' know something isn't right.

Aside from it being ridiculous on its face, I will point out all the stuff Paul McCartney has done since 1966 means if he was replaced with a doppleganger, that doppleganger is now much, much more accomplished than Paul ever was, so maybe it's a good thing he was waiting anonymously in the wings to replace one half of the Lennon-McCartney songwriting duo without a hiccough or word of protest from the other Beatles, two of whom would have been only too delighted to get more solo songwriting credit if Paul was no longer able to contribute instead of being the workaholic of the group.

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Manana Man 1 week ago

At the time, and for a brief period of time a lot of people believed it. The Beatles made fun of the whole thing.

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#21

My grandma told me recently that I shouldn’t be giving my daughter M&Ms after posting a cute video of her enjoying them.

See my grandma turned into a q anoner and shes convinced that the democrats are actually demons and that they are going to activate nano bots in ( M&M )to stop everyones hearts using the 5g network.

She even puts her stuff in a special bag to block signals when she is meeting with her nutjub friends.

So ya, thats all I got for now. I love my grandma and trying to help her see reason.

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Multa Nocte 1 week ago

Looks like I need to start buying M&Ms.

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40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard Skittles and M&Ms were secretly created by Big Pharma to condition kids to the idea of associating pill-shaped candies as delicious, so they are subconsciously predisposed to being addicted to pills as an adult.

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Manana Man 1 week ago

Hardly necessary.

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40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard Reptiles. A local newspaper went as far as pointing out features you can use to recognize them and according to said features, I am a lizard too.

EDIT: Reptilians! I meant reptilians. Still am a lizard apparently, though.

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Jill Rhodry 1 week ago

I dunno - I think a lot of people are ruled by their lizards brains instead of their rational one🤷🏻‍♀️

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40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard That Princess Diana was murdered because she was a descendant of Jesus.

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StrangeOne 1 week ago

This is the dumbest yet.

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A coworker was convinced that the Covid vaccine was used to “herd the sheep” and kill the “demoncrats”. Everyone who had the vaccine was going to die according to him, so I let him know that if that happened the country would collapse. There wouldn’t be enough people to run water plants, electric plants, etc. he then told me they have people on stand by to replace that idiots who took the vaccine. I asked him where the 200 million people were at that were replacing the 200 million that were gonna die. And he looked at me like I was the idiot.

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Slapdash1 1 week ago

But everyone who had the vaccine IS going to die. Mortality rate for humans is 100% (well, minus one if you believe in Jesus)

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Anything that starts with "the jews...".

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Jerome Lenovo 1 week ago

the jews have two legs

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That people whose blood group has a minus after it, like mine does, aren't descended from the same ape creatures the rest of the world is. That the minus proves our lineage was "introduced" to the gene-pool, instead of evolved.

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talliloo 1 week ago

no wonder i can't use ancestry to follow my lineage

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The sovereign citizen BS they read and believe.

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G A 1 week ago

We get people on the UK trying it on citing US laws. They get told to f**k off

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40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard Avril Lavigne died in 2003 and was replaced by an exact double called Melissa. People in the YouTube comments of her videos analysing her face and movements to determine if it's really her or Melissa, absolutely wild.

Apparently there's a similar one for Paul McCartney.

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StrangeOne 1 week ago

The only thing that died was Avril's eyeliner application.

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The Joe Rogan hoax that kids were identifying as cats so there were litter boxes set in school hallways.

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Beak Hookage 1 week ago

As someone pointed out elsewhere, an easy way to prove this is BS is to remind everyone that school janitors have a union.

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Jewish space lasers.

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G A 1 week ago

Mangerie Traitor Green's fave

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I don't know where it came from or how wide-spread it was, but when Obama's grandmother died, my batshit aunt and uncle were positive he had her murdered because she was about to spill the beans that he was really born in Kenya.

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Geoffrey Scott 1 week ago

One of the most poignant things I ever saw from the Repub's...John McCain telling the woman who questioned if he(Obama) was American. McCain shut her right down....he was a REAL Republican, even though the "Orange God" didn't like him because he was captured. And vet's still fall for his (Trump's) BS.

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40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard That the Powerball lottery in the US was created to catch time-travellers.

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Manana Man 1 week ago

Is the idea that nobody could possibly win any other way?

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#34

Michelle Obama was born male and the Obama's children were both born through a surrogate.

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Tamra 1 week ago

Hey, we had some of these conspiracy fools right here on BP recently. Never thought I'd see any in the wild.

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That the titanic was switched with its sister ship and wasn’t really sunk.

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Manana Man 1 week ago

There were two sister ships: Olympic and Britannic. Britannic hit a mine and also sank. Olympic was scrapped during the Depression in the 30's.

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#36

Bill Gates implanting Microchips in people with a covid 19 vaccination.

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Multa Nocte 1 week ago

Hi, Bill! Each time I receive a covid vaccination I hope you can see me clearer and clearer.

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40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard Lindsey Lohan actually had a twin sister who played the twin in The Parent Trap, but between filming and release, the twin died in a car accident, so they marketed the film to make you think Lindsey played both roles.

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The Phantom Stranger 1 week ago

That's ridiculous--everybody knows that it was Haley Mills twin who died in a boating accident during the filming of the original 1961 Parent Trap.

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#38

Just the other day in the conspiracy sub

”the vax has killed 17 million people”.

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G A 1 week ago

It's a terrible wet/dry carpet cleaner then

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40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard That Microsoft employees were the ones buying up PS5s and causing the console shortage.

Casca_In_Red , Ben Iwara / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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Lost Panda 1 week ago

I firmly believe that the new systems are manufactured in low numbers to create a shortage and in turn more hype

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40 Of The Wildest Conspiracy Theories That People Have Ever Heard Albert Einstein didn't exist and was just a character played by Marilyn Monroe.

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The Phantom Stranger 1 week ago

I think they're confusing Marilyn Monroe with Walter Matthau. Easy mistake...

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What do you think ?

That we're being encouraged to run around in a panic over imaginary threats and non-existent enemies in order to keep us from wising up to what we should actually be upset about, so the people in power who are causing most of it get to stay that way. But that's just silly!

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Kangaroo 1 week ago

Oh! This is a conspiracy theory I could actually get behind. The conspiracy nuts think they’re the smart ones and we’re all blind sheep, but they’re actually the ones being blinded with useless silly conspiracy theories to distract them from the real issues.

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Justin Tyme 1 week ago (edited)

The Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty were built to be antennas for communicating with space aliens. France gave the Statue of Liberty to America because they needed an antenna on each side of the world.

There was actually an episode of the Ghostbusters cartoon back in the late 80's where Egon discovers that Gustav Eiffel actually designed the Eiffel Tower to act as a giant ghost trap.

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Fabian Bernard 1 week ago

The only truth about Eiffel Tower is that it's not been dismantled as planed thanks to becoming a communication tower for French army before and during WW1, also used for télécommunication experiences

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Jess Smith 1 week ago

except the opposite bit of the world from the eiffel tower is not near New York - it's off the coast of the Chatham Islands in New Zealand.

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The electronic transistor was reverse engineered from the UFO found near Roswell, New Mexico. The alleged UFO debris was found in July 1947. The first transistor was demonstrated just five months later in December 1947. Interesting coincidence of timing, wasn’t it?

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I once accidentally created a mini-conspiracy theory of my own when I wrote a story in which a CIA agent explains that the Roswell Incident of 1947 was actually just a red herring created by the government to cover up the fact that the real alien crash took place in the Acadia National Forest in 1932. A lot of people who read that story thought that this was an actual, pre-existing conspiracy theory and not something that I'd just made up for the sake of the story.

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