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Kenneth Arnold Quotes

1915–1984 United States

Kenneth Albert Arnold (March 29, 1915 – January 16, 1984) was an American aviator and businessman. He is best known for making what is generally considered the first widely reported modern unidentified flying object sighting in the United States, after claiming to have seen nine unusual objects flying in tandem near Mount Rainier, Washington on June 24, 1947.

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They flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water.

Once again, we can be sure that these Canadian blue-green-purple globes are not meteors, nor are they fragments of a comet or Venus. What, then, are they? Spacecraft from another world?

[They appeared to fly almost as if fastened together – if one dipped, the others dipped too.]

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kenneth Arnold (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.