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Post subject: "flying saucer" 60th Anniversary
 Posted: Jul 04, 2007 - 03:29 PM
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It's 60 years since the term flying saucer was coined and the most celebrated "extraterrestrial" episode - Roswell. Alien believers are dismissed as cranks, but even the earthly explanations of objects in the sky are fascinating.
Sixty years ago Kenneth Arnold saw something which changed his own life and the lives of millions of others, and impacted on popular culture like a shockwave. Flying his plane near Mount Rainier in the US state of Washington, he observed a line of strange objects either crescent-shaped or disc-like, flying with the motion of a saucer skimming on water.
Arnold's sighting, quickly picked up by the press, was followed a fortnight later by the revelation of perhaps the most notorious episode in the history of UFOs, at Roswell in New Mexico. What followed was perhaps one of the greatest conspiracy theories of all time, involving post-mortem examinations of swollen-bellied grey aliens, the cloning of sophisticated extraterrestrial technology and an epic cover-up. Or not, as the case may be.
In the 60 years since 1947's first major wave of sightings, thousands of ordinary people have claimed to have seen inexplicable objects in the sky
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6268708.stm
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Posted: Jul 05, 2007 - 12:20 AM
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Someone cue Johnathan Franks!  (Roswell joke)
The Truth is Out There!!!  |
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Posted: Jul 05, 2007 - 04:47 PM
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| Yup, that's how this whole misunderstanding started. |
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