Tropes - Flying Saucers
The Saucers Are Coming The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) On the afternoon of June 24th 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold flew over the Cascade Mountains not far from Mount Rainier in a CallAir A-2 utility aircraft. The sky was clear, and Arnold had detoured to search for a missing transport plane. He failed to find it and, to my knowledge, it's never been found. What Arnold did observe had a profound cultural impact. Mysterious flashes of light alerted Arnold to nine objects flying erratically and at great speed to his left. Arnold is reported to have described the objects he saw that day in various ways, but not usually as circular. He said the objects were crescent shaped, or bat-shaped. The way he assessed their flight , however, was as being like a saucer if you skip it across water. Kenneth Arnold's sighting is viewed as the beginning of the modern UFO phenomenon. Regardless of whether that's so, people have always seen strange things in the sky. Even depictions of dis...