- Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting - Wikipedia
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)
- 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
In the summer of 1947, two events occurred in close succession that have come to define the modern era of UFOs: the Kenneth Arnold sighting and the Roswell UFO Incident This section of the course describes what happened to pilot Kenneth Arnold in 1947
- The 1947 Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting - UFO EVIDENCE
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
On June 24, 1947, American pilot Kenneth Arnold reported a mysterious aerial encounter near Mount Rainier in Washington State This sighting would become one of the most significant events in UFO history Arnold’s report sparked widespread media attention, introduced the term “flying saucer” into public consciousness, and launched the modern era of UFO sightings
- Kenneth Arnold Sighting
Fran Ridge: June 24, 1947; Mt Ranier, Washington At 3:00 P M , pilot Kenneth Arnold, was flying his airplane near Mt Rainier and noticed some flashes of light He then saw the source of the flashes; a string of nine very bright metallic objects
- Kenneth Arnold - Wikipedia
Kenneth Albert Arnold (March 29, 1915 – January 16, 1984) was an American aviator, businessman, and politician Arnold is known best for reporting what is generally considered the first widely publicized modern sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) in the United States, after claiming to have seen nine silver-colored discs flying in
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