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No one will say when a person first saw a UFO. Images strange flying in the sky vehicles can be found on the pages medieval manuscripts, ancient Chinese chronicles and on the walls Egyptian tombs. But the birthday of ufology as a science is considered June 24, 1947, when businessman and pilot Arnold Kenneth first uttered the words “flying saucer”.
Businessman Arnold Kenneth
By 1947, 32-year-old Arnold Kenneth was the owner of the company, engaged in the supply and installation of fire extinguishing systems. Business expanded to cover more and more areas in the American northwest. Kenneth loved to keep his finger on the pulse, personally met with numerous partners, solving large and small questions. I had to overcome great distances, so Arnold bought for his business trips not a car, but a single-engine airplane.
On June 24, he flew from Chechelis to Yakima, the route ran over Cascading mountains. At about 2 p.m. Arnold heard on the radio: “In Rainier mountain region crashed transport aircraft marine corps. Request to all civilian aircraft located in the area, assist in the search. “Kenneth was respectable County citizen and assistant. He laid a bend and began fly around the area.
From the report of A. Kenneth
“At an altitude of 9,200 feet I noticed a distance from me 20-25 miles a group of 9 objects. They flew along the main ridge, stretching for almost 5 miles. I saw them quite distinctly and observed for more than 3 minutes. They were flat as pans and reflected the sun’s rays. Objects moved on a ledge, like the flight link, each subsequent one flew a little behind and a little to the left of going in front of him. The size of the objects is 45-50 feet (15 m), thickness – 1/20 of the length.
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The difference in altitude between the flying highest and lowest about 1,000 feet. Every 3-4 seconds, two or even three objects sharply rose or fell, but returned to duty. Met on the way the peaks of the mountains objects flowed around, leaning on the edge. The objects had a crescent shape with a small “dome” in center. ”
Kenneth initially considered them to be a school of geese, but speed, speed! The pilot rated it at 1200-1500 mph. It exceeded the speed of sound is almost twice that of geese, no planes then they didn’t fly at that speed.
After landing
Landing in Yakima, Arnold spoke about what he saw to the head of the Central Aviation Service, Al Baxter, and right there Sketched a draft memo to the Aviation Administration. Then made a refueling and flew to an air show in Pendleton (Oregon). When he landed in Pendleton, a whole crowd was waiting for him reporters.
It was then that in one of the articles and appeared “they flew and jumped like a saucer put on water. “The image turned out to be very bright and “flying saucers” (in the Russian interpretation of “flying saucers”) began to wander from newspaper to newspaper and for many years entrenched in UFO, although Kenneth never said that he saw objects resembled saucers.
The birth of ufology
An article about the incident in the Cascade Mountains caused a flurry similar messages. Over the next two months, more than 850 people – pilots, tracking station operators, aircraft passengers and just random witnesses said they saw “flying saucers.” Topic picked up more than 150 American newspapers.
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Kenneth was not the first to see a UFO, but his message is like broke the dam – society recognized the existence of UFOs, topic entrenched in the media and now every case of meeting with a “flying plate “immediately appeared on the front pages of newspapers. In the United States began to collect a database of UFO data – where does any the science.
Arnold Kenneth’s unfulfilled dream
Arnold suddenly became a media star and an object of ridicule skeptics who claimed that the pilot took for flying UFOs pelicans, puffs of dust or false suns. Accused Kenneth and in outright lies.
To numerous accusations, Arnold replied: “Let me called a cheater, but I will never doubt what I saw. But now even if I see a 10-story building flying in the sky, I swear I will never tell anyone about this. ”
Kenneth could not keep his oath. Until the end of my life I hunted for UFO. According to him, he saw them more than 10 times and even once filmed on film. But his secret dream is to get in touch with them never came true.
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