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On June 26, 1947, the Chicago Sun coverage of the story may have been the first use ever of the term "flying saucer".. On June 24, 1947, private pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed that he saw a string of nine, shiny unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Rainier at speeds that he estimated to be at least 1,200 miles per hour (1,900 km/h).
The Riddle of the Flying Saucers, a 1950 book by Gerald Heard, discusses the Rhodes photographs. [ 27 ] In a 1952 article, an Arizona Republic reporter stated that he had sighted a flying disc in 1947 near White Sands , New Mexico , and later "was startled to see the tremendous likeness between what I had seen and the object photographed by ...
Close-up of one the Passaic UFO photographs. The Passaic UFO photographs are a set of photographs purportedly taken in Passaic, New Jersey by George Stock on July 31, 1952. . Allegedly depicting a domed flying saucer, the images were widely published in contemporary media
An alleged flying saucer photographed over Passaic, New Jersey, in 1952. A flying saucer, or flying disc, is a purported disc-shaped UFO. The term was coined in 1947 by the U.S. news media for the objects pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed flew alongside his airplane above Washington State. Newspapers reported Arnold's story with speed estimates ...
A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth; Saler, Benson; Ziegler, Charles A.; Moore, Charles (1997) UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth; Clarke, David (2015) How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth [10] Arnold, Gordon (2021) Flying Saucers Over America: The UFO Craze of 1947 [2] Scholarly. Bullard, Thomas E (1982).
We can't say for sure if they were saucer-like, oval or anything else about their size." One was larger than the others, and they were flying in a "loose formation". The objects disappeared, only to be replaced by four more. [3] [4] [7] The DC-3 followed the objects for 10 to 15 minutes, or about 45 miles (72 km).
Update, January 14, 2021: Sadly, on January 13, 2021, Siegfried Fischbacher passed away at the age of 81. At his lavish 59th birthday party in the Mirage Hotel theater that bears the duo’s name ...
The Coming of the Saucers is a 1952 book by original 'flying saucer' witness Kenneth Arnold and magazine publisher Raymond Palmer. [1] [2] [3] The book reprints and expands early articles the two had published in Palmer's magazine Fate. [4] The work blends first-person accounts attributed to Arnold with third-person summations of UFO reports. [5]