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During the 1947 craze, experts in human behavior argued the reports were best explained as a psychological or social phenomenon. The flying disc craze was compared to Scotland's Loch Ness monster, the panic caused by the Orson Welles broadcast of War of the Worlds, and a sea monster panic caused by a US Armed Forces Radio hoax in Japan. [171]
On June 24, 1947, civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold reported a sighting of 'flying discs'. By June 27, disc sightings were being reported nation-wide. [1]On July 1, Twin Falls Times-News declared that "flying saucers have invaded" the Twin Falls region after a forest ranger and his companion reported seeing eight to ten "discs" flying in a V-shaped formation over Galena Summit. [2]
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).
[3]: 65 The 1949 film serial Bruce Gentry – Daredevil of the Skies featured a man-made flying saucer, [83] and the 1950 film The Flying Saucer focused on Cold War espionage. The first novel to explicitly use the term was Bernard Newman's The Flying Saucer, released in 1950. The novel's craft was a hoaxed alien ship intended to end military ...
Table of reports during the 1947 flying disc craze – A sortable table of the hundreds of 1947 flying disc sightings. List of alleged extraterrestrial beings – A list of entities reported in conjunction with UFOs and believed by witnesses to be alien in origin, unrelated to astrobiology or xenobiology. List of UFO religions
The modern UFO era began with the Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting, igniting the 1947 flying disc craze.By 1952, several supposed UFO photographs had been published, including the Rhodes UFO photographs, the McMinnville UFO photographs, and the Mariana UFO film.
Articles relating to the 1947 flying disc craze, a rash of unidentified flying object reports that were publicized in the summer of 1947. The craze began on June 24, when media nationwide reported civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold's story of witnessing disc-shaped objects which headline writers dubbed " Flying Saucers ".
Marcel was the first military officer tasked with investigating the 1947 Roswell incident, where supposed "flying disc" debris was later identified as pieces of a weather balloon. The incident was largely forgotten until 1978, when Marcel, then a retired lieutenant colonel, told ufologist Stanton Friedman that he believed the Roswell debris was ...