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Close-up of one the Passaic UFO photographs. The Passaic UFO photographs are a set of photographs purportedly taken in Passaic, New Jersey by George Stock on July 31, 1952. . Allegedly depicting a domed flying saucer, the images were widely published in contemporary media
The Riddle of the Flying Saucers, a 1950 book by Gerald Heard, discusses the Rhodes photographs. [ 27 ] 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 ...
[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 .
An alleged flying saucer seen over Passaic, New Jersey in 1952. A flying saucer, or flying disc, is a purported disc-shaped UFO. The term was coined in 1947 by the news media for the objects pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed flew alongside his airplane above Washington State. Newspapers reported Arnold's story with speed estimates implausible for ...
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From 1947 to 1952, media and popular culture relayed stories of "flying discs", "flying saucers" and other unidentified flying objects. The reports began during the first summer of the Cold War, after the United States announced plans to re-industrialize Europe over the objections of the Soviet Union.
In 1956, a film titled Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers dramatized the events of the early 1950s from the point of view of Air Force press officer Albert M. Chop. Chop had served as the Press Chief for Air Materiel Command in Dayton, Ohio until 1951 when he transferred to the Pentagon to serve as the press spokesman ...
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