Bongo
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"On this day, June 24, in 1947, an amateur pilot was on his way to an air show in Oregon when he saw a bright blue flash of light in the sky near Mount Rainier. At first he thought it was the sun glinting off another aircraft, but the only other plane around was about 15 mi. away, and not glinting. Then he saw nine more flashes of light, in quick succession — coming from what he later described as unidentified flying objects.
It was when the pilot, Kenneth Arnold, tried to describe the motion of the objects to a reporter for the United Press that the mix-up occurred. He said they flew “like a saucer if you skip it across the water.” The reporter took this to mean that the objects themselves were saucer-like, and news reports across the country repeated that Arnold had seen “flying saucers.”
Suddenly everyone was seeing what Arnold had seen, except that he hadn’t."
Recently, there have been well documented "encounters" by the military - that has been described variously as "tic-tac" shaped
But nobody wants to draw "tic tacs" or give up the mountains of mythology devoted to flying saucers.
The "grey alien" did not exist until 1987 where it first appeared on Whitney Strieber's "Communion". Once that iconography was established "grey aliens" were seen everywhere.
I find it interesting that the "greys" chose Strieber of all people to abduct - Strieber being the one in 1979 to have written "The Wolfen".
It was when the pilot, Kenneth Arnold, tried to describe the motion of the objects to a reporter for the United Press that the mix-up occurred. He said they flew “like a saucer if you skip it across the water.” The reporter took this to mean that the objects themselves were saucer-like, and news reports across the country repeated that Arnold had seen “flying saucers.”
Suddenly everyone was seeing what Arnold had seen, except that he hadn’t."
Recently, there have been well documented "encounters" by the military - that has been described variously as "tic-tac" shaped
But nobody wants to draw "tic tacs" or give up the mountains of mythology devoted to flying saucers.
The "grey alien" did not exist until 1987 where it first appeared on Whitney Strieber's "Communion". Once that iconography was established "grey aliens" were seen everywhere.
I find it interesting that the "greys" chose Strieber of all people to abduct - Strieber being the one in 1979 to have written "The Wolfen".
