bell laboratories was located in new jersey. an explosion of critical technological innovations came out of there after wwii, like the transistor, lasers, fiber optics, unix and the c programming language, information theory, etc. some people hypothesis that many of these technologies were based upon reversed engineered alien tech.  also, back in the 40s or 50s there was a wave of ufo sightings in new jersey.  not to mention it is supposed to be were aleister crowley is buried. he, of course, has been connected to the modern ufo phenomenon.
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