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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).
An alleged flying saucer photographed over Passaic, New Jersey, in 1952. A flying saucer, or flying disc, is a purported disc-shaped unidentified flying object (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.
The photos were reprinted in Life magazine and in newspapers across the nation, and are often considered to be among the most famous ever taken of a UFO. [1] UFO skeptics have concluded that the photos are a hoax, but many ufologists continue to argue that the photos are genuine, and show an unidentified object in the sky. [2]
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Panasonic TR-005 Orbitel (also known as the "Flying Saucer" [1] or "The Eyeball" [2] due to its shape) was a television set that was manufactured from the late 1960s to early 1970s by Panasonic. [3] It had a five-inch screen, earphone jack, and could rotate 180 degrees on its chrome tripod.
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 ...
The Twin Falls saucer hoax was a hoaxed flying disc discovered in Twin Falls, Idaho, United States, on July 11, 1947. Amid a nationwide wave of alleged "flying disc" sightings, residents of Twin Falls reported recovering a 30 in (76 cm) "disc". FBI and Army officials took possession of the disc and quickly proclaimed the object to be a hoax ...
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 ...