Flying Saucer and UFO Encounters

Flying Saucer and UFO Encounters By Joy Healey The UFO story originated not long after June 24, 1947, when many newspapers in the USA published the first sighting of the "flying saucer". The story told how nine very bright, disk-shaped objects were seen by... More

Flying Saucer and UFO Encounters By Joy Healey The UFO story originated not long after June 24, 1947, when many newspapers in the USA published the first sighting of the "flying saucer". The story told how nine very bright, disk-shaped objects were seen by Kenneth Arnold, a Boise, Idaho, businessman, while he was flying his private plane near Mount Rainier, in the state of Washington. Now supported by a journalistic license, reporters took Arnold s original description of the individual motion of each object, "like a saucer skipping across water," and rephrased it to: "flying saucer," referring to the objects themselves. Many years have passed since Arnold s memorable sighting, and the phrase has become so common that an entry was made in Webster s Dictionary, and it is recognized today in most languages throughout the world. For a while after the Arnold sighting, the term "flying saucer" was used to describe all diskshaped objects that were seen flashing through the sky at fantast Less