 |  "They were traveling about 1,200 miles per hour, there were 9 of them, disc shaped and silvery looking, actually they looked a lot like pie plates skipping over the water." So reported Kenneth Arnold to Noland Skiff, the editor of the East Oregonian newspaper. | ||||||||||||||||||
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It was June 24th,1947 Kenneth Arnold, an Idaho businessman and pilot was flying near Mount Rainier located in the United States, when he spotted the silvery disc shaped objects flying in the vicinity of the Cascade mountain Range. He landed in Pendleton, Oregon. Finding the local FBI office closed he visited the editor of the East Oregonian newspaper Noland Skiff. The next day in the newspaper a reporter came up with the term 'Flying Saucer'. It's been with us ever since.
 The sighting and report by Arnold in 1947 may indeed mark the starting point of the modern UFO frenzy, but as we know people have been reporting seeing things in the sky they can't explain since ancient times. Sailors abroad the Santa Maria on their way to discovering America reported seeing a strange shinny thing in the distance. America, at the end of the 19th century was all a buzz with talk about and reports of strange airships. This airship phenomena seems to have taken place over the entire nation. Are there UFOs? You bet, after all "UFO" is nothing more than the US Air Force abbreviation for the term "Unidentified Flying Object". If you look up into the sky with your naked eyes and see what you believe to be a jet airliner flying at 36,000 feet you really don't know what you are looking at, it's simply too far away for a positive identification, thus in actuality is an unidentified flying object. Are there flying vehicles extraterrestrial in nature entering our atmosphere paying us visits? There are certainly a lot of seemingly intelligent people who would have us think so.
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