June 24, 200817 yr Fascinating Fact or Frenzied Fiction; no matter what your opinion this was a day in aviation historybthttp://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/n.../dayintech_06241947: Pilot Kenneth Arnold sights a series of unidentified flying objects near Washington's Mt. Rainier. It's the first widely reported UFO sighting in the United States, and, thanks to Arnold's description of what he saw, leads the press to coin the term flying saucer.
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