Case · UFO Afrinews No 18, July 1998
Kenneth Arnold's nine 'saucers', as cited in the review
1947 ยท not printed (Mount Rainier, Washington, in standard accounts), United States
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Prier Wintle notes that Dennis Stacey's opening chapter of A World History of UAPs begins its eight formative days with Kenneth Arnold's sighting of nine 'saucers' on 24 June 1947, and that the next two chapters treat the Arnold sighting in some detail before the book abandons any chronology. No particulars of the sighting itself are given in this issue; it is recorded here as the earliest dated event the issue refers to and as the origin of the flying saucer label used elsewhere in the issue.
In their words
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the Arnold sighting of 9 'saucers' on June 24, 1947
Cross references
- A World History of UAPs, ed. Hilary Evans and Dennis Stacey (1997)