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Newspaper article claiming 300-foot telescope was attacked by aliens

On the night of November 15, 1988, the 300-foot telescope in Green Bank. West Virginia collapsed. Before official investigations discovered the cause as a worn metal gusset plate, theories abounded. One example of those theories is shown on the cover of this newspaper, saying that the telescope was attacked by “hostile space aliens.”

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