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Cover Story
Chasing UFOs

If you don’t believe intelligent life exists outside of planet Earth, you’re in the minority.

A 1997 CNN/Time poll found that 54 percent of Americans believe in the existence of extraterrestrials, while 80 percent assume the government is hiding evidence that proves it.

Nashua resident Mark Petty is among that 80 percent. And as a field investigator with the Massachusetts Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), he’s out to see if they’re coming to the third rock from the sun.
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Q & A
Robert E. Farrell, The Believer

Retired engineering professor Dr. Robert E. Farrell, believes they’re on their way. No, not his tax refund or his next Netflix order, but Them— extraterrestrials. He even wrote a sci-fi book about it, Alien Log, which he will sign at Barnes & Noble on Saturday, June 5. Although Alien Log is in a fictional format, Dr. Farrell’s message is anything but fiction.
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New Hampshire: a UFO paradise

According to Nashua resident Mark Petty, a field investigator with the Massachusetts chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), New Hampshire has “a long and lustrous history with UFO phenomenon.”
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New Hampshire site of first reported UFO abduction

It happened, so the story goes, on Sept. 19, 1961. Betty and Barney Hill, a middle-aged bi-racial couple from Portsmouth, were returning from a short vacation in Canada. Around 10 p.m. the Hills were on Route 3 in the White Mountains, near Lancaster, when they noticed a light in the sky that seemed to be following them.
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Grazing Guide - Where To Eat


Alas, the Green Ridge Turkey Farm is gone and the Modern is no more. But Nashua is more of a restaurant town than ever. Don't believe us? Impossible, you say?

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