1 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:04,880 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:08,280 In this episode, we're talking about the 1947 Flying saucer 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,560 wave. That's correct, the 1947 Flying 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,160 Saucer Wave. Now, a lot was going on back in 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:16,800 1947. Remember, in June of that year, 6 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:18,440 Kenneth Arnold had his sightings. 7 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:23,320 So those nine flying saucer discs, he called them over Mount 8 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:27,000 Rainier WA. In July, the first week, the 9 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,440 first week of July, there we had the Roswell incident where a 10 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:32,320 crashed UFO and bodies were reported. 11 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,400 Then, of course, we know that the Department of Defense came 12 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,040 in and just completely snuffed that story out. 13 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:43,400 And we had flying saucer stories happening in Kentucky and Idaho 14 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:47,520 just all over the place. In particular we had a couple, 15 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:49,400 well, more than a couple sightings actually. 16 00:00:49,810 --> 00:00:52,450 And Saint Louis. And so many in fact that it was 17 00:00:52,450 --> 00:00:56,370 reported as the flying saucer scare down there in Saint Louis. 18 00:00:56,850 --> 00:01:00,650 Now this article comes to us from Saint Louis Dispatch dated 19 00:01:00,650 --> 00:01:03,330 July 7th, 2023. Talking about that. 20 00:01:03,330 --> 00:01:07,130 It says flying saucer scares kept Saint Louis on edge in 21 00:01:07,130 --> 00:01:11,330 1947. Nova Hart and his fatherinlaw, 22 00:01:11,330 --> 00:01:15,450 JH Jackson saw the mysterious things soaring noiselessly over 23 00:01:15,450 --> 00:01:19,890 their July 4th picnic near Creve Coeur Lake and what is now 24 00:01:19,890 --> 00:01:24,370 Maryland Heights, Hart said. It was silver, Gray and round 25 00:01:24,690 --> 00:01:26,810 quote. Our wives saw it too, and so did 26 00:01:26,810 --> 00:01:30,730 some people in an automobile who stopped when they saw us looking 27 00:01:30,730 --> 00:01:34,770 up, said A Hart, then of 3969 A St. 28 00:01:34,770 --> 00:01:37,880 Ferdinand Ave. in Saint Louis. I can say. 29 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,000 I can say it certainly was strange. 30 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,200 And none of us drinks a drop. So there you have it. 31 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:45,640 They've given you names, dates and places. 32 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,200 Pretty good reporting. Hart and Jackson were the 1st 33 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,720 St. Louisians to report one of the 34 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:54,720 flying saucers that suddenly were all over the American sky 35 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:58,640 in the summer of 1947. Some newspapers called them 36 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:01,440 Flying Disc. Eventually the accepted term 37 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,780 became. Unidentified Flying object or 38 00:02:04,780 --> 00:02:08,620 UFO's So see this July 4th sighting would have actually 39 00:02:08,620 --> 00:02:11,380 been before the reports of Roswell came out. 40 00:02:11,380 --> 00:02:13,940 I think that's important to keep that in mind. 41 00:02:14,900 --> 00:02:17,100 The article goes on. It says the first sighting was 42 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:22,460 made June 25th, 1947 by private pilot Kenneth Arnold who said he 43 00:02:22,460 --> 00:02:27,040 saw nine saucers. Zipping at 1200 mile per hour 44 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,800 east of Seattle, it says another aviator spotted them over 45 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,480 Bakersville, California, and sightings poured in from Texas, 46 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,000 Louisiana, Arkansas, Idaho and Kentucky. 47 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,240 Among the witnesses were the Idaho Lieutenant governor and a 48 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:45,360 weather Bureau meteorologist. Thus began in enduring national 49 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,240 craze. So you've got some pretty 50 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,080 reliable witnesses there if you have the Idaho Lieutenant 51 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,240 governor and a federal meteorologist. 52 00:02:53,810 --> 00:02:57,450 Now the article continues. It says military brass scoffed, 53 00:02:57,450 --> 00:03:00,370 then dispatched fighter planes to search for saucers. 54 00:03:00,730 --> 00:03:03,690 If some form power is sending flying disk over the United 55 00:03:03,690 --> 00:03:06,690 States, it is our responsibility to know about it, an Army Air 56 00:03:06,690 --> 00:03:09,930 Force spokesman said. Just like today that first they 57 00:03:09,930 --> 00:03:12,690 ignore it, then they try to debunk it, and when that doesn't 58 00:03:12,690 --> 00:03:15,210 work, then they try to pretend like they're concerned and which 59 00:03:15,210 --> 00:03:18,930 is what's going on here. The wave hit Saint Louis on July 60 00:03:18,930 --> 00:03:23,280 25th when Hart told his story. One evening later, Doctor Walter 61 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:28,760 Hoffer, 23 Black Creek Lane in Ladue, saw six saucers flying SE 62 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,720 in formation. People in Shrewsbury, Webster 63 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,600 Groves and South Saint Louis also saw them. 64 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:40,120 George Malcolm 5632 follows on Ave. described the six as silver 65 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,800 streaks floating in the air. They were around and made no 66 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,840 noise. So you have a mass sighting of 67 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,160 these UFO's. They described them as flying 68 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:50,800 saucers. This is. 69 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:56,080 This is just after the Kenneth Arnold sighting, just before the 70 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:01,720 Roswell sighting. So you have these saucers moving 71 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,680 across the sky and they described them as having 72 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:08,960 streaks, is like it almost like there were comets, one person 73 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,120 said. But they were standing still so 74 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,960 they couldn't have been comets. So you see these UF O's. 75 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,040 First we have the one hovering above the park, broad daylight, 76 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:19,959 now we have these, They're being seen at various times. 77 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,760 This is what in in the evening and are saying that they have 78 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,800 streaks trailing behind the craft. 79 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:31,360 Reports came from 38 states. In Canada, newspapers dutifully 80 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,800 contacted scientists who suggested weather balloons, 81 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,920 reflections from searchlights, vivid imaginations, generalized 82 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,240 fear of world peril 1 California physicist cited the 83 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:45,130 transmutation of Atomic Energy. What you have here is the the 84 00:04:45,130 --> 00:04:48,370 typical journalist contacting the authority figure, the 85 00:04:48,370 --> 00:04:53,170 authority figure in synchronicity with the 86 00:04:53,170 --> 00:04:57,970 government, is building this parallel narrative, and what 87 00:04:57,970 --> 00:05:01,770 that involves is just making up all kinds of silly excuses, not 88 00:05:01,770 --> 00:05:04,130 using one bit of critical thinking. 89 00:05:04,450 --> 00:05:06,850 Or, you know, fall in the scientific method or anything 90 00:05:06,850 --> 00:05:09,450 like that. There already was enough serious 91 00:05:09,450 --> 00:05:12,610 news in 1947 to keep Americans on edge and the Iron Curtain run 92 00:05:12,610 --> 00:05:15,010 across Eastern Europe. The Soviets coveted the atomic 93 00:05:15,010 --> 00:05:17,410 bomb Communists were gaining in China. 94 00:05:17,970 --> 00:05:21,250 Could a visit from outer space be so unlikely or unwelcome? 95 00:05:21,730 --> 00:05:25,290 Well, I don't know. These things do seem to be 96 00:05:25,290 --> 00:05:30,650 attracted to places where there's a lot of suffering or a 97 00:05:30,650 --> 00:05:33,330 lot of drama happening. And maybe they were here in 98 00:05:33,330 --> 00:05:35,930 response to us letting off all those nuclear bombs. 99 00:05:35,930 --> 00:05:38,370 Who knows? So the article finishes up here. 100 00:05:38,370 --> 00:05:40,890 It says. Inevitably, reports trailed off, 101 00:05:41,010 --> 00:05:42,850 undone by mockery and pranksters. 102 00:05:42,850 --> 00:05:46,290 On July 9th, nearly 100 people called the Post Dispatch to 103 00:05:46,290 --> 00:05:48,610 report disk plunging from the sky. 104 00:05:49,100 --> 00:05:51,500 It turned out three pilots had dropped them in a publicity 105 00:05:51,500 --> 00:05:53,540 stunt for their flying school near Fenton. 106 00:05:53,980 --> 00:05:55,660 That sounds like a really bad idea to me. 107 00:05:55,900 --> 00:06:00,060 This is something we see a lot. I mean, anytime you have a UFO 108 00:06:00,740 --> 00:06:03,300 wave of sightings like this, you're always going to have some 109 00:06:03,300 --> 00:06:05,860 knucklehead out there trying to exploit the opportunity. 110 00:06:06,620 --> 00:06:09,300 It doesn't change the fact that you've had all these reliable 111 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:12,180 witnesses report basically the same thing. 112 00:06:12,180 --> 00:06:13,960 And. And these sightings that 113 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,000 happened over a period of several days, but not just in 114 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,200 Saint Louis, this was going on all across the country. 115 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,960 Now I want to take a look at another article I found. 116 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,160 This was really had to get off in the weeds to find this. 117 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:32,600 The website's called unexplainable.net and it's still 118 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:36,720 dealing with this wave of UFO sightings, in particular the 119 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:39,040 ones that happened around Saint Louis. 120 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:43,090 Now I'm not sure. It looks to me like the person 121 00:06:43,090 --> 00:06:49,250 that posted this posted basically the copy of the report 122 00:06:49,250 --> 00:06:54,250 that was that was there from the newspaper article and you can go 123 00:06:54,250 --> 00:06:55,730 to the website and read it yourself there. 124 00:06:55,730 --> 00:06:58,130 I've had a couple typos in it, but we'll get through it now. 125 00:06:58,130 --> 00:07:01,090 They posted this on November 24th, 2005, so this has just 126 00:07:01,090 --> 00:07:05,210 been hanging around out there on the Internet for what, 18 years? 127 00:07:05,450 --> 00:07:08,850 But. I love looking at these old 128 00:07:08,850 --> 00:07:14,210 newspaper articles from back in the day, and this one here says 129 00:07:14,210 --> 00:07:18,610 it came from the Saint Louis Post Dispatch dated July 3rd 130 00:07:18,610 --> 00:07:24,530 1947 and he's got it here On his website it says Army gets around 131 00:07:24,530 --> 00:07:28,010 to checking flying Disk and is mystified. 132 00:07:28,370 --> 00:07:32,720 Dateline, Washington, July 3rd. Now remember the dateline on 133 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:38,440 this article is July 3rd, 1947 and that first sighting reported 134 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,520 in Saint Louis was July 4th and hit the papers on July 5th. 135 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:46,440 Now of course before that we had the sightings in Kentucky and of 136 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:50,440 course in June we had the Kenneth Arnold sighting out in 137 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:51,720 Washington. That was a famous one. 138 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,560 But this is July 3rd, so just before the reports in Saint 139 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,030 Louis. It says Army research experts 140 00:07:57,030 --> 00:07:59,910 can't explain the flying saucers reportedly seen in several 141 00:07:59,910 --> 00:08:02,110 Western states, but they are investigating. 142 00:08:02,430 --> 00:08:05,710 They said the Army Air Force has checked all their research 143 00:08:05,710 --> 00:08:08,870 authorities and contractors, but none of them knew or could 144 00:08:08,870 --> 00:08:13,070 suggest anything concrete about the saucers at 1st. 145 00:08:13,070 --> 00:08:15,270 Army officers laughed off the reports. 146 00:08:15,710 --> 00:08:18,430 Now they're beginning to take them at least a little 147 00:08:18,430 --> 00:08:20,840 seriously. At any rate, the Air Force 148 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,480 Research Center at Right Field, Ohio, is looking into the 149 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,160 reports, and all service intelligence agencies are at 150 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,160 work on them. Remember July 3rd? 151 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,320 This is even before Roswell, Army experts suggested, as a 152 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,760 bare possibility that some civilian inventor has been 153 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:38,799 making experiments of some kind. Sounds like they're grasping at 154 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:41,159 straws. The possibility that the disk 155 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:44,640 might be of foreign origin was indirectly put forward by an 156 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:46,960 Army Air Force spokesman, who said. 157 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,640 If some foreign power is sending flying disk over the United 158 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:54,720 States, it is our responsibility to know about it and take proper 159 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:55,960 action. See how they're diverting 160 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,120 attention. Just like now you spot the UFOs 161 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,120 and the first thing they say is, well, it could be the Russians 162 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,640 or the Chinese. Same thing happening back then. 163 00:09:05,050 --> 00:09:07,570 Meanwhile, 8 more names were added to the list of persons who 164 00:09:07,570 --> 00:09:10,250 say they have seen strange objects in the sky. 165 00:09:10,530 --> 00:09:13,290 EE Unger, meteorologist in charge of the United States 166 00:09:13,290 --> 00:09:16,930 Weather Bureau in Louisville, KY said today he saw one of the 167 00:09:16,930 --> 00:09:20,370 mysterious diss objects last night when leaving a Louisville 168 00:09:20,370 --> 00:09:21,970 theater. So that would have been July 169 00:09:21,970 --> 00:09:23,450 2nd. That one was spotted in 170 00:09:23,450 --> 00:09:27,370 Louisville, KY and you got this other one spotted on July 4th in 171 00:09:27,370 --> 00:09:29,970 Saint Louis and Boise. Lieutenant Governor Donald S 172 00:09:29,970 --> 00:09:33,410 Whitehead revealed that at that last June 24th. 173 00:09:33,950 --> 00:09:38,590 The day Kenneth Arnold of Boise, ID said he saw speeding objects 174 00:09:38,590 --> 00:09:41,670 wavering through the air along the slopes of Mount Rainier, he 175 00:09:41,670 --> 00:09:45,870 and Head Justice of the Peace JM Lampert observed a strange comet 176 00:09:45,870 --> 00:09:47,710 like object hanging in the western sky. 177 00:09:48,110 --> 00:09:50,350 There you go. Same day Kenneth Arnold has his 178 00:09:50,350 --> 00:09:52,950 famous sightings. These guys say, hey, we saw a 179 00:09:52,990 --> 00:09:56,030 saucer too, but this one looked like a comet because it had a 180 00:09:56,030 --> 00:09:58,990 trail behind it. JM Lampert observed a strange 181 00:09:58,990 --> 00:10:00,790 comment like object hanging in the western sky. 182 00:10:00,790 --> 00:10:04,950 Dick Rankin, a former Portland, OR flyer with more than 7000 183 00:10:04,950 --> 00:10:08,110 hours of airtime, declared he saw the mysterious disc over 184 00:10:08,110 --> 00:10:12,670 Bakersville, California going 3 to 400 miles an hour on June 185 00:10:12,670 --> 00:10:15,110 23rd. So there you have sightings on 186 00:10:15,110 --> 00:10:20,080 June 23rd, June 24th, July 2nd. On July 4th, they're just keep 187 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:21,320 happening over and over and over. 188 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:25,080 And that's not even considering the crashed UFO Roswell that 189 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:27,840 happened a little before July 8th. 190 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:33,400 Now the the person that posted this website does have some, I 191 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:35,600 think, insightful comments. We'll take a look at those. 192 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,080 Now there's this comment that I really liked it says I find it 193 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:40,720 interesting to know it at this time. 194 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,520 The quoted witnesses are not yet, as Mr. Bill Moore phrased 2 195 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,320 farmers along the Mississippi River. 196 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,390 I hope you don't. Miami Quoting you, Mr. Moore, 197 00:10:49,390 --> 00:10:53,750 but our EE Unger, United States Weather Bureau Meteorologist 198 00:10:53,790 --> 00:10:58,670 Donald S Whitehead, Lieutenant Governor Boise ID, JM Lampert, 199 00:10:58,710 --> 00:11:02,470 Head Justice of the Peace and Dick Rankin, a former flyer with 200 00:11:02,470 --> 00:11:06,270 7000 hours flight time. So you're talking about people 201 00:11:06,270 --> 00:11:09,030 that we would consider to be reliable witnesses. 202 00:11:09,430 --> 00:11:12,230 It would seem to me that the meteorologist would have been 203 00:11:12,230 --> 00:11:15,790 able to identify a weather balloon if you'd seen one. 204 00:11:15,870 --> 00:11:19,010 Guys, got a point. And it would also seem difficult 205 00:11:19,010 --> 00:11:24,530 for a weather balloon to travel 300 to 400 miles an hour if it 206 00:11:24,530 --> 00:11:28,570 had been a weather balloon, as stated by the pilot, who again 207 00:11:28,570 --> 00:11:31,890 would seem to me to be a reliable source as to the 208 00:11:31,890 --> 00:11:35,370 velocity of the object he saw. Obviously this guy's flying an 209 00:11:35,370 --> 00:11:38,010 airplane for 7000 hours. He probably knows how fast 210 00:11:38,010 --> 00:11:40,450 something's going. And of course you have a 211 00:11:40,490 --> 00:11:43,370 Lieutenant governor and a head justice of the peace. 212 00:11:43,690 --> 00:11:47,810 Hardly incompetent sources. And later articles when the Army 213 00:11:47,810 --> 00:11:51,650 and Navy began A concentrated campaign to stop the rumors. 214 00:11:51,930 --> 00:11:53,250 And we'll go to that article next. 215 00:11:53,490 --> 00:11:56,410 The citizens are told that hundreds of these weather 216 00:11:56,410 --> 00:12:00,610 balloons are sent aloft by many organizations through the US 217 00:12:00,610 --> 00:12:03,930 each and every day. We saw the same argument with 218 00:12:03,970 --> 00:12:06,290 the UFO that was shot down over Lake Huron. 219 00:12:06,730 --> 00:12:10,970 If it's not a party balloon, then it's just a quote, UN quote 220 00:12:11,010 --> 00:12:13,170 research balloon put up by a balloon club. 221 00:12:14,410 --> 00:12:16,860 Kind of. Stretching that, I think the 222 00:12:16,860 --> 00:12:19,580 articles are there, it says. And look for yourself now. 223 00:12:19,580 --> 00:12:21,580 We will do that. We'll take a look right now at 224 00:12:21,580 --> 00:12:26,860 the Saint Louis Post Dispatch article from July 8th so you can 225 00:12:26,860 --> 00:12:29,380 see things were kicking in the high gear by July 8th. 226 00:12:29,860 --> 00:12:36,780 So you had the story break about the UFO crash in Roswell, NM and 227 00:12:36,780 --> 00:12:40,900 that was out there for about a minute and then everything had 228 00:12:40,900 --> 00:12:44,620 to kick in the high gear because all heck broke loose and so. 229 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:49,360 What I think we forget sometimes was that the Roswell crash 230 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:53,280 report came on the heels of all these other UF O's. 231 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:57,240 I mean, Roswell wasn't just this isolated event. 232 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:01,120 Roswell happened after you had the wave in Saint Louis and 233 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:05,520 Kentucky and Idaho and Washington. 234 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:10,200 So you have all these sightings building up to an actual crashed 235 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,760 UFO. Something obviously was going on 236 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:14,670 there. But instead of giving us 237 00:13:14,670 --> 00:13:19,470 transparency and clarity, the US government decided to give us a 238 00:13:19,870 --> 00:13:22,350 parallel narrative. Now let's begin with this 239 00:13:22,350 --> 00:13:24,870 article. This report here also comes from 240 00:13:24,870 --> 00:13:29,390 the Saint Louis Dispatch, and it looks like it's July 8th. 241 00:13:29,790 --> 00:13:33,390 Now remember, that's the day that the Roswell report came 242 00:13:33,390 --> 00:13:33,910 out. So. 243 00:13:33,910 --> 00:13:37,310 But they when they first reported that, hey, we found 244 00:13:37,310 --> 00:13:40,750 these crash spaceship and there's dead bodies. 245 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,200 And, you know, just swept the nation. 246 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,120 Of course now it looks like they're doing some backtracking 247 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,800 here. It says Army tells what disk are 248 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,440 not Washington, July 8th. Official Washington was sure 249 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:55,880 today that it knew what the flying saucers wore. 250 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,160 Not. But it hadn't the faintest idea 251 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,400 what they wore. The Army Air Forces said they 252 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,560 had the matter under investigation. 253 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:09,850 Preliminary study has disclosed that the flying disk are not. #1 254 00:14:09,850 --> 00:14:13,730 Secret back-to-back to logical weapons designed by some foreign 255 00:14:13,730 --> 00:14:19,370 power, #2 new type army rockets or #3 spaceships. 256 00:14:19,650 --> 00:14:23,730 Privately some Air Force officers say the saucers are not 257 00:14:23,770 --> 00:14:27,650 and let it go at that. But officially the A, A, F 258 00:14:27,650 --> 00:14:30,730 that's the Army Air Force said it is keeping an open mind 259 00:14:30,730 --> 00:14:34,450 because the disk have been reported by so many normally 260 00:14:34,450 --> 00:14:36,410 responsible persons. So. 261 00:14:37,660 --> 00:14:42,820 Apparently this article came out the same day as the report from 262 00:14:42,820 --> 00:14:47,540 Roswell, but I don't see Roswell mentioned here, so this must 263 00:14:47,540 --> 00:14:50,100 have just broke at the same time the story broke out there. 264 00:14:50,540 --> 00:14:54,100 That just shows you how crazy this UFO wave was. 265 00:14:54,580 --> 00:14:57,620 No such phenomena can be explained by any experiments 266 00:14:57,620 --> 00:15:00,260 being conducted by the A, A, F, the official report said. 267 00:15:00,780 --> 00:15:04,340 The statements of witnesses are being correlated in an effort to 268 00:15:04,340 --> 00:15:07,060 identify the reported objects. Rear Admiral. 269 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:11,600 Paul F Lee, director of the Naval Research Laboratory, said 270 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:13,840 tersely. We concur in the Army 271 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,320 announcement. A guided missile expert attached 272 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,760 to the Naval Research Laboratory said he had seen one of the 273 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:24,520 saucers. Dr. CJ Zahn said he and two 274 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:28,720 fellow scientists reported it June 29th at White Sands, New 275 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:31,680 Mexico. When he reported when he 276 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,760 reported fighting to the Army, he said, he got nothing but 277 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,920 knowing smiles. That's one of their own guys, a 278 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,960 rocket scientist, he says. Hey, we saw one of these things 279 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,920 at White Sands. June 29th would have been five 280 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:47,040 days after Kenneth Arnold sightings, and about a week 281 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:50,960 before Roswell. We noticed a glare of the sky, 282 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:53,080 he said. We looked up and saw a silvery 283 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:55,960 disk rolling along. We watched the thing for nearly 284 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:57,840 60 seconds, and then it simply disappeared. 285 00:15:58,200 --> 00:15:59,960 It didn't go behind a mountain range. 286 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:03,280 At one point it was clearly visible, and then it just wasn't 287 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:05,040 there. Wow. 288 00:16:05,550 --> 00:16:07,790 So you're talking about something that almost seems 289 00:16:07,950 --> 00:16:09,990 either it's just going to be so fast you can't see it or it's 290 00:16:09,990 --> 00:16:14,110 interdimensional. But this just shows you how fast 291 00:16:14,110 --> 00:16:16,070 were. Things were happening 1947 in 292 00:16:16,070 --> 00:16:19,670 July, you had these multiple sightings in June and July, and 293 00:16:19,670 --> 00:16:26,070 then the same day that that that this Roswell crash is reports 294 00:16:26,070 --> 00:16:30,350 released at the same time you've got this basically a debunking 295 00:16:30,350 --> 00:16:32,790 effort going on by the Army Air Force. 296 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,800 Against the sightings that have happened so far in the last 297 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,320 month. So right as the Air Force or the 298 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,400 Army Air Force is trying to debunk the current sightings 299 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:47,880 boom one crashes in Roswell, NM and those guys must have been so 300 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:49,720 busy. Now I want to take a look at one 301 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,920 last article. Now I want to finish up here by 302 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:54,840 taking a look at this Kenneth Arnold sighting. 303 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,000 It's kind of thought to be the sighting that really kicked 304 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,800 things off as far as UFO awareness in the United States 305 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:04,849 in the modern era. Back in June of 1947. 306 00:17:05,170 --> 00:17:09,250 We do know that other people had witnessed craft before Arnold 307 00:17:09,250 --> 00:17:12,569 came forward, but by him having the courage to come forward and 308 00:17:12,569 --> 00:17:16,450 report these things, it just opened up a whole new Ave. of 309 00:17:16,450 --> 00:17:19,250 disclosure. This article here is from the 310 00:17:19,250 --> 00:17:23,490 Spokane Review. It's my Chris Apple title says 311 00:17:23,530 --> 00:17:29,200 UFO's over Washington on June 24th, 1947. 73 years ago 312 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,920 Wednesday, Automatic Firefighting System company 313 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:35,080 owner and licensed pilot Kenneth Arnold of Boise, flying from 314 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:40,280 Chalet to Yakima spotted nine large metallic looking objects 315 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,000 flying rapidly over near Mount Rainier. 316 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,880 It would be the first to many reports of flying saucers or 317 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:49,320 unidentified flying objects from around the world. 318 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:53,080 While flying to Yakima on a sales call, Arnold read about a 319 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:57,680 downed marine C46 transport that had crashed near a mountain near 320 00:17:57,680 --> 00:17:59,880 in January. With skies clear and a little 321 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:03,320 time on his hands, Arnold lingered over the area in hopes 322 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:07,120 of spotting the wreckage and earning a $10,000 reward. 323 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,120 That would have been a tremendous amount of money, and 324 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:12,280 if you look at the map here, you can see the sighting happened 325 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,550 just kind of in the. South Central, part of the 326 00:18:15,550 --> 00:18:17,790 state, right there over Mount Rainier. 327 00:18:17,790 --> 00:18:19,670 What a scenic place to spot these things at. 328 00:18:20,790 --> 00:18:24,590 Arnold gave up his his search shortly before 3:00 PM and was 329 00:18:24,590 --> 00:18:28,030 proceeding to Yakima when a series of bright flashes caught 330 00:18:28,030 --> 00:18:30,390 his eye. At first he thought the objects 331 00:18:30,390 --> 00:18:33,030 might be geese, but they seemed to reflect an awful lot of 332 00:18:33,030 --> 00:18:35,870 sunlight. As if someone had started an 333 00:18:36,350 --> 00:18:38,990 Arclight in front of my eyes, Arnold would say. 334 00:18:39,150 --> 00:18:40,470 So that's like looking at a welding light. 335 00:18:40,470 --> 00:18:43,290 It's pretty bright. And they appeared to be moving 336 00:18:43,290 --> 00:18:47,450 incredibly fast, Arnold figured The objects were 25 or 30 miles 337 00:18:47,450 --> 00:18:50,810 away and flying at an altitude of 10,000 feet. 338 00:18:50,970 --> 00:18:53,450 Of course, you know about two miles, judging from their 339 00:18:53,450 --> 00:18:55,810 distance, speed, and size against the mountaintop the 340 00:18:55,810 --> 00:18:58,330 objects passed in front of and behind Arnold. 341 00:18:58,970 --> 00:19:02,450 He estimated the size of each to be larger than a DC-10 airliner. 342 00:19:02,450 --> 00:19:07,770 It's pretty good sized and moving about 1200 mph, which 343 00:19:07,770 --> 00:19:10,570 would have suggested the craft were traveling at nearly twice 344 00:19:10,570 --> 00:19:13,400 the speed of sound. The first Air Force pilot to 345 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:17,200 break the sound barrier wouldn't do that until October, four 346 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:18,560 months later. Of course, that was Chuck 347 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:20,240 Yeager. We certainly wouldn't wouldn't 348 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:22,400 have had nine of those airplanes to do that with. 349 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,040 Once he was back on the ground, Arnold filed a report of his 350 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:27,840 sighting. He said the objects didn't 351 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:31,000 didn't alarm him. He had just assumed they were 352 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,680 some kind of experimental aircraft. 353 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:36,080 But the military was baffled by the report. 354 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:39,320 So they claim. Both the Army and the FBI would 355 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,800 interview Arnold and come away impressed by his character and 356 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,760 apparent integrity. But they had no clue what Arnold 357 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,680 seen or what might travel that fast. 358 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:53,040 As far as we know, nothing flies that fast except a V2 rocket, 359 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:57,480 which travels about 3500 miles an hour, an Army spokesman in 360 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,120 Washington, DC, told reporters. And that's too fast to be seen. 361 00:20:01,820 --> 00:20:04,500 Everyone says I'm nuts, Arnold told The Associated Press. 362 00:20:04,500 --> 00:20:07,620 And I guess I'd say it too, if someone else reported those 363 00:20:07,660 --> 00:20:10,140 things. But I saw them and watched them 364 00:20:10,140 --> 00:20:12,900 closely. It seems impossible, but there 365 00:20:12,900 --> 00:20:15,260 it is. Arnold described the objects as 366 00:20:15,260 --> 00:20:17,860 being flat, like a pie pan and saucer shaped. 367 00:20:18,220 --> 00:20:20,380 So that's what reporters wrote in the news stories. 368 00:20:20,660 --> 00:20:23,380 Headlines flashed around the country of flying saucers. 369 00:20:23,540 --> 00:20:26,140 Arnold didn't enjoy the the publicity in the least. 370 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,720 A preacher in Texas told his flock the sighting was a 371 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,600 harbinger of doomsday. Later that week, Arnold was in 372 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,920 Pendleton, OR for an hour for an air show, and when a woman in a 373 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,360 cafe recognized him from the newspaper reports and ran out of 374 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:42,400 the joint sobbing. There's the man who saw the men 375 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:46,240 from Mars. However, Arnold spent $150.00 on 376 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:50,760 a new camera with a telescopic lens, just to be ready if he saw 377 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:54,050 the flying pipe hands. You know, he sounds like a 378 00:20:54,050 --> 00:20:57,690 pretty reliable guy. What's to say here he owned his 379 00:20:57,690 --> 00:21:00,250 own company, Automatic Firefighting System. 380 00:21:00,250 --> 00:21:03,570 Company owner. He was just wasn't a salesman or 381 00:21:03,610 --> 00:21:04,730 employee. He mean he owned his own 382 00:21:04,730 --> 00:21:07,370 company. He looks like a real well 383 00:21:07,370 --> 00:21:10,570 dressed guy in the picture. He didn't have anything to gain 384 00:21:10,570 --> 00:21:13,050 by this. He he really didn't. 385 00:21:13,050 --> 00:21:15,370 There would be no reason for him to come forward with the siding. 386 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,480 And it really was what seems to have kicked off the awareness, 387 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,320 at least in UF O's on a mass scale. 388 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:25,360 Now, there were other sightings we see here July 5th, 1947, 389 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:27,280 Boise ID. That's the one we talked about. 390 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,640 Shortly after takeoff on a light on a flight from Boise to 391 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,880 Portland OR United Airlines, captain EJ Smith and his 392 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:37,560 copilot, Ralph Stevens see five flying disc. 393 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:41,360 Smith later tells reporters that before his own sighting, he had 394 00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:44,400 been skeptical of Arnold's widely reported account. 395 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,630 So you got. June 24th, Arnold, you got 396 00:21:47,670 --> 00:21:51,030 sightings on what the 25th. You got sightings on July 5th, 397 00:21:51,030 --> 00:21:55,350 sightings on July 4th, July 2nd, and then Roswell, July 8th. 398 00:21:55,950 --> 00:21:59,510 Well says here 7th and then it says here January 7th, 1948. 399 00:21:59,550 --> 00:22:02,430 Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell, that was a sighting 400 00:22:02,430 --> 00:22:04,350 there. They claim he blacked out 401 00:22:04,350 --> 00:22:06,110 because he went too high and ran out of oxygen. 402 00:22:06,110 --> 00:22:08,510 They don't know that. I mean that's just the official 403 00:22:08,510 --> 00:22:14,110 story you had 19. July 24th, 48 Montgomery, AL. 404 00:22:14,110 --> 00:22:18,150 The crew of a DC passenger liner flying from Houston to Alabama 405 00:22:18,150 --> 00:22:21,070 passes a glowing, fast moving, windless torpedo shaped craft 406 00:22:21,070 --> 00:22:23,550 that appears to have two rows of lit windows. 407 00:22:24,110 --> 00:22:28,070 Air Force investigators say they probably saw a meteor because 408 00:22:28,070 --> 00:22:29,830 meteors always have windows in them, right? 409 00:22:30,350 --> 00:22:34,190 And you know you got one here in north in North Dakota where the 410 00:22:34,190 --> 00:22:35,870 plane came back with too much weight activity. 411 00:22:35,870 --> 00:22:41,110 That's October 10th, 1948, Minnville, Georgia. 1950 Great 412 00:22:41,110 --> 00:22:47,350 Falls, Mt 1950 Lubbock TX 51 Washington DC 52 N Norfolk, VA 413 00:22:47,350 --> 00:22:54,350 52 The list just goes on and on. Anyway, really cool stuff. 1947 414 00:22:54,710 --> 00:22:57,430 the UFO wave. I think that really changed how 415 00:22:57,430 --> 00:23:02,270 we view UFO's in the United States and the spectacular 416 00:23:02,670 --> 00:23:06,470 courage of of Mr. Arnold to come forward to share his experience 417 00:23:06,470 --> 00:23:08,870 along with these folks in Saint Louis who just said this is what 418 00:23:08,870 --> 00:23:12,080 we saw. This is and and we don't care if 419 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,040 anybody believes us. We just we know what we saw. 420 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,760 Until next time, this is UFO warning over now.