Today in 1947, amateur pilot Kenneth Arnold saw something unusual while flying in the skies over Washington State and, thanks to editors and headline writers misunderstanding his subsequent description of the strange phenomena he said he witnessed, the concept of the “flying saucer” was born:
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Stephen Schwartz
By the way, the only reason we say “flying saucers” is due to an epic misquote of the first man who claimed to have seen one—amateur pilot Kenneth Arnold. On June 24, 1947, while flying over Mineral, Washington, Arnold observed multiple bright objects flying in tandem at very high speed.
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