How soon we forget. In 1988, Omni magazine covered the story of a saucer crash off the Brazilian coast, and how debris washed ashore to be recovered by local fishermen. Somehow, the hunks of an unknown alloy found their way to Cornell University… and not another word was written about the case anywhere.

That was the same year that a cargo plane bound for Anchorage, Alaska, had a UFO as an escort for several hours. Data relating to the episode, in the form of a transcript and air-to-tower recording, was freely available for 10 or 20 bucks.

It was on the back of this story that there appeared the weirdest newspaper ad I’d ever seen.