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1947. Jedan američki pilot izjavio je da je na nebu video neobičan predmet koji je opisao kao "tanjir koji leti kroz vodu". Posle ovog događaja počeo je da se koristi termin "leteći tanjir"




UFO Dateline



Here you will find an overview of the biggest UFO events in the past 50 years, from 1947 to 1997. The page is not complete yet, but I hope it will be finished real soon.



   * Washington invasion Date:24.06.1947
   * Roswell Date:02.07.1947
   


Washington invasion Date:24.06.1947
Kenneth Arnold, a businessman from Idaho, never expected that a misquoted comment of his would turn into one of the 20th century's most evocative and enduring mysteries, and become so entrenched in the language that it would become a standard dictionary entry. On June 24th 1947, the date now considered the start of modern ufology, Arnold was lending a hand (and eye) to a search for a crashed aircraft in the Cascade Mountains, Washington State, while on his way to Yakima.
Flying past Mount Rainier, Arnold's attention was caught by a flash of light, sunlight glinting against metal somewhere nearby. Thinking the flash might have come from a USAAF Mustang fighter also engaged in the search, Arnold tried to spot the aircraft. Instead, he saw another glint of light and was astounded to see something that would not only change his life, but bring a new term into the English lexicon.
What Arnold saw was a formation of nine aircraft, flying across his flightpath at an incredible speed - Arnold estimated them to be moving at around 1700mph, a speed far in excess of what any aircraft of the time could achieve. Arnold thought the mystery aircraft were roughly boomerang shaped, resembling flying wings, but this part of his story was quickly buried by misinterpretation of his description of the objects' movements.
Arnold claimed that the objects moved in a very unusual manner, certainly inconsistent with normal aircraft, appearing to skip and glide through the air as if bouncing off a surface at high speed. Once he had landed and reported his sighting, first to other pilots and later to the press he described this movement as flying "like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water". Reporter Bill Becquette of the East Oregonian paper condensed this into 'flying saucers', and a phenomenon was born.
Within the next month, thousands of UFO reports were made all across the United States, most of them no doubt resulting entirely from a War Of The Worlds-type hysteria - without the reporting of Arnold's sighting and its handy soundbite, the chances are that practically all of the reports would never have been made. Since most of the new reports confirmed to the 'saucer' of the news stories rather than anything like what Arnold saw, a lot of them can be written off as classic cases of 'me-too' syndrome.
However, there were still enough reports from witnesses generally regarded as 'credible' even USAAF scientists, to lead the government into investigating the matter further. Then, just a week later, events took another turn.


Ja se izvinjavam ako je neko vec postavio topic. S obzirom da je ovaj "jubilej" vezan za nasa interesovanja, lepo je da se setimo...

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[Demo(n)lisher]

Hm ako bi se nacisticki tipovi bespilotnih letelica koji koriste antigravitacionu silu(Vril) mogli nazvati UFO, onda je ovo zaista za nepoverovati.

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[crippled_avenger]

>> Roswell was real! <<
       Man of the week: Walter Haut.

   Lieutenant Walter Haut was the PR officer at
   Roswell airbase in 1947, and was the man who
   supervised the publicity campaign to show
   people there was no extra-terrestrial encounter
   but that a weather balloon had crashed. Haut
   has just died and left an affidavit to be opened
   on his death. It said that this had just been
   a cover story, that there had been a UFO and
   that he had seen small humanoid alien bodies.
   What a brilliant joke to go out on...?

[S.]

Oj... mislim, koja je svrha zapecacenih priznanja x godina posle smrti? Zasto se uopste pridaje vaznost tome, in general?

Trazila sam malo po Mrezi to navedeno, i tekst tog amaneta se nalazi na stranici Roswell fanatika i kao meni najbizarniju stvar izdvajam: "...  It was approx. 12 to 15 feet in length, not quite as wide, about 6 feet high, and more of an egg shape.  ... Also from a distance, I was able to see a couple of bodies under a canvas tarpaulin.  ...  about 4 feet above the floor to indicate the height. ..."

Znaci, omanja soba, nesto kao "tri sa tri" sa putnicima cija je visina oko metar i zilet... tja...