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Anyone have a link that reports on this "Angel's Glow" before this article about the 2001 Sci fair project?

I find nothing.

Are we sure they didn't make it up that "Angel's Glow" ever existed?

I can't find any reference, everything seems to loop.

Clever if true, make up a legend to fit some loose facts.

The whole idea is a bit crazy, glowing soldiers living longer. But once you accept that as 'fact' a convoluted idea around hypothermia, worms and glowing seems less crazy.

[edit] Searching old newspapers and academia "fake", nothing before 2000.

Shiloh National Military Park agrees - https://www.facebook.com/ShilohNMP/posts/567566540000003:0

It's a bit of a no brainer, but their hack is what's interesting, make up a legend to "solve", love it.

And it's interest how people blindly believe it, even though it's so so convoluted. Then the loop starts and it becomes fact.

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