- Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting - Wikipedia
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) This was the first post-World War II sighting in the
- 1947: Year of the Flying Saucer - National Air and Space Museum
What Kenneth Arnold saw while flying past Mt Rainier on June 24, 1947, remains a mystery He spent the rest of his life trying to explain it and inadvertently added the words “flying saucer” to the vocabularies of millions of people around the world Learn about the story behind it
- Kenneth Arnold - UFO, 1947 Flying Saucer | HISTORY
Kenneth Arnold’s historic 1947 sighting–combined with a highly publicized UFO incident that took place later that summer near Roswell, New Mexico—did more than anything else to fuel this
- The Kenneth Arnold Incident
This section of the course describes what happened to pilot Kenneth Arnold in 1947 It also provides a broad overview of these two decades, the '40s and '50s, including information about several less publicized UFO incidents such as the Chiles-Whitted incident on July 24, 1948 We also consider that these incidents coincide with the development
- June 24, 1947: It Came From Outer Space? - This Day of History
On June 24, 1947, a new term entered the American vernaculr: “flying saucer ” On that day a seasoned pilot and businessman Kenneth Arnold had an unusual encounter changed the course of his life and had a dramatic influence on the way humanity places itself among the universe Russell Lee, a curator in the Aeronautics Department of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space
- The 1947 Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting
The modern phenomena of UFOs and “flying saucers” began in Washington state on June 24, 1947, when Kenneth Arnold spotted nine mysterious, high-speed objects “flying like a saucer would” along the crest of the Cascade Range near Mount Rainier
- Kenneth Arnold and the Origin of Flying Saucers
The Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting of June 24, 1947, stands as a turning point in the history of aerial phenomena It introduced the world to the concept of “flying saucers” and sparked decades of research, debate, and speculation Whether interpreted as a case of misidentified natural phenomena or evidence of something more extraordinary
- PROJECT 1947 - National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena
Kenneth Arnold's sighting was one of the first of over 850 UFO reports to appear in the US media by the end of July, 1947 Approximately 150 reports made their way into the files of Technical Intelligence, T-2, at Wright Field
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