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 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 object ...

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 July 8, 1947—two weeks after the world was introduced to the concept of the "flying saucer"—Roger Ramey, the Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force, issued a statement informing the ...

In 1947, an alien spaceship allegedly crashed in New Mexico, inspiring countless songs about aliens and extraterrestrials.

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.

In June 1947, something crashed to Earth on a ranch outside Roswell. After it was reported to government officials, the military in July said it had recovered a “flying disk” before later clarifying ...

On July 8, 1947, a headline in the local paper in Roswell, New Mexico ignited 70 years of "flying saucer" sightings. NASM. In Roswell, New Mexico, exactly seven decades ago this month, the first ...

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.

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.

Flying Saucers Are So 1947. This Is the New Shape of the Modern UFO Fifty-two percent of American military UFO sightings are described as white or metallic spheres.