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> I think the capitalistic "greed" caused all those old reports, it was so popular at that time so people produced the content that was in demand. Rather than

by kibwen 3y ago

> I think the capitalistic "greed" caused all those old reports, it was so popular at that time so people produced the content that was in demand. Rather than greed, I think it was just a meme. People got it in their minds that aliens in flying saucers were scooting around abducting cows, so they were psychologically primed to perpetuate the idea.

wkat4242 3y ago
Well how else are they supposed to make their hamburgers? They don't have cows up there. Ps more seriously, I wonder where the whole flying saucer concept comes from. Was it the SR71 with its rounded shapes? Or does it predate that?
- krapp 3y ago
  >I wonder where the whole flying saucer concept comes from. Kenneth Arnold, an Air Force pilot in 1947 who reported seeing craft shaped like "saucers" or "pie plates" flying past Mount Ranier[0]. He never called them "flying saucers" specifically but after the press picked up the story, the term and the concept became popular. After that, flying saucers became a trope in sci-fi movies. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold_UFO_sighting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold_UFO_sighting
  - NikkiA 3y ago
    > an Air Force pilot in 1947 Nope, he was a private pilot.
    - krapp 3y ago
      My mistake. He was a pilot.
- monocasa 3y ago
  It predates that. One of the first sightings to use the word saucer was in 1878. https://web.archive.org/web/20120819213938/http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/17732 https://web.archive.org/web/20120819213938/http://www.americ...