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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 ...
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."
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 ...
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 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 ...
During the late 1940s and through the 1950s, UFOs were often called "flying saucers" or "flying discs" based on reporting of the Kenneth Arnold incident. [3] "Unidentified flying object" (UFO) has been in-use since 1947. [4] The acronym "UFO" was coined by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt for the USAF. He wrote, "Obviously the term 'flying saucer' is ...
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