Labels:text | screenshot | display OCR: UFO Encounters - Chris Morgan Page 00/0A UFO ENCOUNTERS The most important date in the history of UFOs is June 24th 1947. It marks the beginning of the modern period of UFO observations. It is also the water shed between the old-fashioned treatment of UFOs as unconnected events and their Much more scientific treatment as probably connected cases of the same phenomenon . Only since that date have books been written on the subject of UFOs, have organizations and magazines appeared which are devoted to them, and have the terms 'UFO' and 'flying saucer' become known to the public. What happened on June 24th 1947 was that an American named Kenneth Arnold saw a formation This was of nine strange objects flying through the air at a very high speed, not the first US UFO sighting of the post-1945 period, nor the first involving sighting, saucer-shaped craft, nor was it a particularly close or detailed and its only witness was Arnold, who had no camera with him. Yet despite all these factors it received a huge amount of publicity and has become celebrated as the beginning of an era. Kenneth Arnold was a successful businessman, aged 32 in 1947, who owned a company which supplied fire control equipment, based in Boise, Idaho. He held a pilot's license and was an experienced flier. On the afternoon of June 24th he was flying his own small, single-engined Callair aircraft across the Cascade Mountains from Chehalis to Yakima in Washington State, in the north-western corner of the USA. His nominal flight distance was under 120 miles, but all pilot's overflying the area had been asked to look out for signs of a large QUIT SOUND 1ST LAST INDEX PAGE PAGE
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