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The actual origin of the terms is somewhat complicated. Jerome Clark cites a 1970 study by Herbert Strentz, who reviewed U.S. newspaper accounts of the Arnold UFO sighting, and concluded that the term was probably due to an editor or headline writer: the body of the early Arnold news stories did not use the term "flying saucer" or "flying disc."
[6] [7] In the four years prior, the US Air Force had chronicled a total of 615 UFO reports; during the 1952 flap, they received over 717 new reports. [8] Ruppelt recalled: "During a six-month period in 1952... 148 of the nation's leading newspapers carried a total of over 16,000 items about flying saucers." [9] Reports peaked in late July.
An alleged flying saucer photographed over Passaic, New Jersey, in 1952. A flying saucer, or flying disc, is a purported type of disc-shaped unidentified flying object (UFO). The term was coined in 1947 by the United States (US) news media for the objects pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed flew alongside his airplane above Washington State ...
A flying saucer shape was spotted in an Arizona sky — and it left TikTok users wondering if it actually was extraterrestrial.. The 11-second TikTok video posted on July 15 that now has 3.5 ...
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Gabriel Green (November 11, 1924 – September 8, 2001) was an American UFO contactee active from the 1950s to 1970s. During this time he claimed to be in regular contact with extraterrestrials, and founded the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America.
The Riddle of the Flying Saucers, a 1950 book by Gerald Heard, discusses the Rhodes photographs. [ 29 ] 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 ...