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The Man Who Introduced the World to Flying Saucers
- joveian 12y agoSee also: http://www.softcom.net/users/falconkam/manwho.html http://www.softcom.net/users/falconkam/manwho.html
- shutupalready 12y agotl;dr: Pilot in 1947 sees unidentified objects that fly in a saucer-like fashion, i.e., flew "like a saucer if you skip it across the water", and reporters are chastised for inventing the term "flying saucer". But if look at the pilot's actual drawing from the article, here: http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/2014/06/Arnold_AAF_drawing/32229c832.jpg http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/2014/06/Arnold... What common household object would be a good metaphor for what he saw? a donut a pencil a loaf of bread a teapot a balloon a cigar or, a saucer Looking around my own kitchen and garage, I can't find a better one-word description than saucer. (Maybe Frisbee but did that even exist in 1947?) The reporter(s) saw the saucer-shaped drawing, and the pilot did talk about saucer-like flight, hence "flying saucer". It's crazy to call this "one of the most significant reporter misquotes in history".
- Torgo 12y agoIf you read the paragraph below on the paper, he said "they did not appear to whirl or spin." That in combination with the saucer term strongly implied to me that he meant they were disc shaped. Incidentally, if you go through UFO casebooks, you can find reports of UFOs that look like every item on your list :-)