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Big Sky Astronomy Club member Mark Paulson examines the night sky through a telescope. (Brenda Ahearn/This Week in the Flathead)

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Fact versus fiction on the last frontier
October 26, 2017 1:45 p.m.

Fact versus fiction on the last frontier

It was after 10 p.m. when local astronomer Mark Paulson saw it — five illuminated disks, streaking across the sky past the maple tree in his yard.