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Bill Van Nort

Bill Van Nort has wanted the answer to the biggest question in the world since he was a Michigan kid with a library card, raised on Sagan, Star Trek, and the lights people kept reporting over the Great Lakes. He spent the next thirty years working inside large institutions — long enough to learn the one thing they can't help doing: writing everything down. Unknown Origin is what happens when a lifelong hope meets a professional habit of checking. Bill reads the statutes, the memos, the declassified files, and the government's own published secrecy manuals — sources everything on air, labels every speculation, and opens each episode with his corrections. He wants it to be true. That's exactly why he checks. He lives on the water in southeast Michigan, where on clear nights he still looks west across the state toward the shoreline where, in 1994, three hundred people saw something nobody has ever explained.