Imagine stepping into your field and spotting a shiny silver ball surrounded by red ribbons and a crumpled parachute. It looks like something from a sci-fi movie—but it’s not from outer space.


Imagine stepping into your field and spotting a shiny silver ball surrounded by red ribbons and a crumpled parachute. It looks like something from a sci-fi movie—but it’s not from outer space.

In the summer of 1970, four teenagers made an unlikely promise on a wooden bench by a lake: they would return to the exact…