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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]
The Rhodes UFO photographs, sometimes called the shoe-heel UFO photographs, [2] purport to show a disc-like object flying above Phoenix, Arizona, United States. [1] The two photographs were reportedly taken on July 7, 1947, by amateur astronomer and inventor William Albert Rhodes .
[1] [2] The press coined the terms flying saucers and flying discs for the objects, based on Arnold's description. Arnold's was the first notable UFO sighting after the end of World War II, and was followed by a massive wave of similar reports over the next few weeks, ushering in the modern era of ufology .
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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]
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[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 ...
Animation of reports during the flying disc craze. Over 800 reports were made publicly during the 1947 flying disc craze. [1] [2] [3] Such reports quickly spread throughout the United States, and some sources estimate the reports may have numbered in the thousands.