While 1947 proved to be the height of flying saucer mania, reports of what, by 1953, we would start to call UFOs (unidentified flying objects) kept pouring in.

In the summer of 1947, North Dakotans reported seeing "flying saucers" on farms, cities and towns and a few people decided they'd have a little fun playing tricks on their neighbors.

Flying Saucers of 1947 05 Jul 1947, Sat St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) Newspapers.com. The first sighting was made June 25, 1947, by a private pilot, Kenneth Arnold, who said he saw ...

On a clear June day in 1947, 32-year-old pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted what looked like metallic discs cutting through the sky. This would launch the worldwide "flying saucer" obsession.

The first flying saucer sighting, that of Kenneth Arnold in 1947, spawned decades more of them. Arnold did see UFOs, but they were probably just pelicans. Skip to main content.

Syracuse was just one of the many American communities which reported flying saucer sightings in July 1947. Local businesses, newspapers, and radio stations took advantage.

But the first time “flying saucers” were reported was in 1947, not too far from here. While the pilot who reported the sighting was dismissed by the U.S. Air Force investigators, ...

July 7, 1947, in The Star: From one end of the country to the other, new reports of disk-like “flying saucers” skimming through the skies today added to the mystery which has baffled the ...

The sighting also launched the UFO wave of 1947, with flying saucer stories grabbing hundreds of newspaper headlines. The county music duo The Buchanan Brothers in mid-July even released the tune ...

In 1947, it was all about the flying saucer. This past month marked the 75th anniversary of the Roswell incident — when rancher William Brazel found the wreckage of an unidentified flying ...