Case · UFO Afrinews No 20, July 1999
Kenneth Arnold's nine objects at Mt Rainier (book review mention)
1947 ยท Mt Rainier, Washington, 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
In setting the scene for the men in black, Wintle dates the Maury Island case to a few days before Kenneth Arnold's classic sighting of nine saucer-like objects skipping around Mt Rainier in June 1947, the event that launched the flying saucer era. He notes that even the idea of anything unknown in the skies was scoffed at then, and that occupant reports and abductions took decades longer to gain acceptance. Arnold reappears in the Maury Island story as the investigator Ray Palmer sent to Tacoma.
What Hind made of it
Mentioned by Wintle only as the historical starting point of the subject.
In their words
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classic sighting of 9 saucer-like objects skipping round Mt Rainier in June 1947
Cross references
- Maury Island incident
- Operation Trojan Horse, John Keel, 1970