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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".. The Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting occurred on June 24, 1947, when private pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed that he saw a string of nine, shiny unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Rainier at speeds that Arnold estimated at a minimum of 1,200 miles an hour (1,932 km/h).
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. They were printed in The Arizona Republic newspaper on July 9 ...
A flying saucer, or flying disc, is a purported disc-shaped UFO. In science fiction, reported UFO sightings, and UFO conspiracy theories, they are typically piloted by nonhuman beings. [1] The terms flying saucer and flying disc can be used generically for a mysterious flying object. The term was coined in 1947 [2] but has gradually been ...
A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth; Saler, Benson; Ziegler, Charles A.; Moore, Charles (1997) UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth; Clarke, David (2015) How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth [10] Arnold, Gordon (2021) Flying Saucers Over America: The UFO Craze of 1947 [2] Scholarly. Bullard, Thomas E (1982).
Flight 105 UFO sighting. Original saucer witness Kenneth Arnold (left) "comparing notes" with Flight 105's Captain Emil J. Smith (center) and co-pilot Ralph Stephens, in a photograph published on July 8, 1947, by newspapers across the United States. The Flight 105 UFO sighting occurred on July 4, 1947, when three crew members aboard a United ...
The Chicago O'Hare UFO sighting occurred on November 7, 2006, around 4:15 p.m. when 12 United Airlines employees and a few witnesses outside O'Hare International Airport reported a sudden UFO sighting. The Federal Aviation Administration refused to investigate the matter because this unidentified flying object (UFO) was not seen on radar ...
The Flying Saucer is a 1950 independently made American black-and-white science fiction spy film drama. It was written by Howard Irving Young, from an original story by Mikel Conrad, who also produced, directed, and stars with Pat Garrison and Hantz von Teuffen. The film was first distributed in the U.S. by Film Classics and later re-released ...
Mystery airship illustrated in the San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896. The mystery airship or phantom airship was a phenomenon that thousands of people across the United States claimed to have observed from late 1896 through mid 1897. Typical airship reports involved nocturnal sightings of unidentified flying lights, but more detailed ...