In concert, the Mothership was last spotted in Detroit in 1981, belching dry ice fumes and flashing kaleidoscopic light. An aluminum flying saucer, it was about 20 feet in diameter and decked out with dazzling lights. Below it stood a band of otherworldly eccentrics celebrating the hard-won freedoms of the civil rights movement in a freaky, fantastical display.

– Chris Richards, Washington Post.

Go read this article, a thorough and well-penned investigation of what happened to Parliament-Funkadelic’s Mothership, last seen in a junkyard behind a gas station in Prince George’s County, Maryland in 1982.

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