David Oranchak, the man who cracked the Zodiac Killer's 340 Cipher, decodes a UFO message and weighs in on alien symbols and hidden codes.
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Send us Fan Mail Summer Rerun Series. This episode is from Season 3 Episode 27. The Zodiac Killer's infamous 340 Cipher remained unsolved for more than 51 years. Governments, intelligence agencies, professional cryptologists, and amateur codebreakers all attempted to solve it. In December 2020, a three-person team finally succeeded. One of those team members was cryptologist and software developer David Oranchak. In this episode of UFO Talker, David joins host Michael Ryan to disc...
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