The Most Outrageous U.S. Conspiracy Theories

Wytheville, Virginia UFO Sightings

In October of 1987, Wythe County Sheriff Wayne Pike made a report claiming that he and his deputies witnessed "strange lights" in the sky. Naturally, people were put into a panic over what the lights could be. By 1988, there were over 3,000 reports of UFOs in the area.

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