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It all began in 1947 when this man – Kenneth Arnold – reported flying saucers over Washington State. It was the first in a growing trend of UFO reports. Horizon: The Case of the UFOs, BBC 1982
June the 24th 1947 Kenneth Arnold was not in any way the sort of person to fabricate stories or seek the spotlight ... Could the objects he saw be travelling as fast as he reported at the altitude he saw them? Unsolved History: Roswell, Channel 5
The sighting that started the UFO phenomenon reported boomerang-shaped objects. On 24th June 1947 a civilian pilot named Kenneth Arnold was flying a single-engine Cessna over the mountains of Washington State when a flash caught his attention. He claims to see several metallic objects flying in a loose V formation and moving at terrific speed. UFO Files s3e3: Alien Engineering I, History 2006
I could see them most plainly when they seemed to tip their wing, or whatever it was. And the sun flashed on them. They looked something like a pie-plate that was cut in half with a convex triangle in the rear. They seemed to flip and flash in the sun. Just like a mirror. In such a way that it almost blinded you when you looked at them through your flexi-glass windshield. Kenneth Arnold
I had this terrific flash ... I looked right off here to the north at what I saw where the flash came from; it was an echelon formation of very peculiar-looking aircraft ... The second craft from the rear had a more or less crescent shape ... It flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water. Kenneth Arnold
June 24th 1947: The pilot of a single-engine plane, a salesman named Kenneth Arnold, was amazed to see nine metallic objects zooming past Mount Rainier in impossible speeds, flying he said like saucers. UFOs: The Secret History, 1.05.20 Youtube, 2010
On June 24th 1947 an Idaho businessman named Kenneth Arnold was flying his private plane near Washington’s Mount Rainier. He saw nine disc-like objects moving rapidly along the horizon. Arnold said they moved erratically like saucers skipping across a pond. Flying saucers thus became part of our language. In Search of s1e21 … UFOs, 1977
On June 24th 1947 Kenneth Arnold, a private pilot, reported his sighting of ‘nine glittering objects flying in formation around Mount Rainier in Washington state.’ He described them as looking like flying saucers. UFOs: The Secret Evidence, 2005
Though unidentified flying objects first gained a place in modern culture with Kenneth Arnold’s sighting in 1947, and the thousands upon thousands of sightings ever since, the phenomenon itself was known long before that. Best Evidence, Top 10 UFO Sightings, 2007