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The Kenneth Arnold Incident: The Sighting That Created the Flying Saucer
On June 24, 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine high-speed, unidentified objects near Mount Rainier, Washington. His description led the press to coin the term "flying saucer," igniting the modern era of UFO sightings and shaping decades of public fascination and government investigation.