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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.
According to UFO writer Jerome Clark, Ground Saucer Watch argued that they showed "a bona fide unknown flying object, of moderate dimensions, apparently surrounded by a cloud-like vapour/exhaust residue", although the pictures were not clear enough to identify the object. [14]
The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar is a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Canada as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the Cold War. [1] [2] The Avrocar intended to exploit the Coandă effect to provide lift and thrust from a single "turborotor" blowing exhaust out of the rim of the disk-shaped aircraft.
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 ...
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The film was first distributed in the U.S. by Film Classics and later re-released in 1953 by Realart Pictures, on a double-bill with Atomic Monster (the retitled-reissue of Man Made Monster, originally released in 1941 by Universal Pictures). The Flying Saucer was the first feature film to deal with the (then) new and hot topic of flying ...
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