 | ufos
It’s generally agreed that the modern U.F.O. era began on June 24, 1947, when a private aviator named Kenneth Arnold, while flying a CallAir A-2, saw a loose formation of nine undulating objects near Mt. Rainier.
They had the shape of boomerangs or tailless manta rays, and in his estimation they moved at two to three times the speed of sound. He described their motion as that of a “saucer skipped over water.” A newspaper headline conjured “flying saucers.” By the end of the year, at least eight hundred and fifty similar domestic sightings had been reported, according to one independent U.F.O. investigator
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started -taking-ufos-seriously |
Artist/Author: new yorker
Date: Wednesday July 26, 2023 7:37:43 pm |
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