E363 - The Cash–Landrum UFO Encounter

In this episode I am talking about the Cash–Landrum UFO encounter.

Some encounters fade into obscurity; others refuse to be neatly filed away. Cash–Landrum is very much in the latter category. It sits at the intersection of several larger themes the podcast regularly explores: the limits of official transparency, the frailty of the human body in the face of the unknown, and the way extraordinary experiences can fracture the boundary between private memory and public controversy.

This happens in the broader historical and cultural context of late-Cold War America, a period when military acti...