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Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting

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Back in the summer of 1947 - 64 years ago this week - Seattle had flying disc fever. It was sparked that June 26 when the P-I ran an Associated Press story from Pendleton, Ore., telling the story of pilot Kenneth Arnold seeing "nine bright, saucer-like objects flying at 'incredible' speed at 10,000 feet altitude.
Arnold, a U.S. Forest Service employee, reported seeing the discs weaving in and out of formation between Mount Rainier and Mount Adams. If one dipped, Arnold said, the others did, too.
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UFOs - KENNETH ARNOLD, RARE INTERVIEW 1975 11 5 10

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The Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting was an incident on June 24, 1947, where private pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted a string of nine, shiny, mostly disc-like unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Rainier at then unheard of supersonic speeds that Arnold clocked at a minimum of 1,200 miles an hour.
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