Inside the mysteries keeping people up at night
Now or Never

Inside the mysteries keeping people up at night

B1IntermediateOctober 8, 202652 min
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Today Now or Never digs into four mysteries that are keeping people up at night, and forcing them into action. When air cadet trainer pilot Brian Renaud was flying with a student, he saw something in the sky he couldn’t explain. Not once…twice. Now he searches the sky above Gimli, Manitoba — 24 hours a day, seven days a week — looking for other unidentified flying objects trying to figure out what it was that he saw. For the past 26 years, someone known only as “JY” has posted thousands of lovestruck personal ads in the Toronto...

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