Hank Stuever Quotes

I think the occasional appearance of the UFO is a very oblique pop-cultural reference that anyone who was alive and sentient in the late 1970s will get right away.

Hank Stuever

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• I think the occasional appearance of the UFO is a very oblique pop-cultural reference that anyone who was alive and sentient in the late 1970s will get right away.

  

  Hank Stuever
  • Ufo
  • Pop-cultural reference