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Suit (clothing)
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In clothing, a suit is a set of garments made from the same cloth, usually consisting of at least a jacket and trousers. Lounge suits, which originated in Britain as country wear, are the most common style of Western suit and this article discusses the lounge suit, elements of informal dress code. The variations in design, cut, and cloth, such as two- and three- piece, or single- and double- breasted, determine the social, often, suits are worn, as is traditional, with a collared shirt and necktie. Until around the 1960s, as with all mens clothes, a hat would have also worn when the wearer was outdoors. Suits also come with different numbers of pieces, a suit has a jacket and the trousers. Originally, as with most clothes, a tailor made the suit from his clients selected cloth, the suit was custom made to the measurements, taste, and style of the man. Since the Industrial Revolution, most suits are mass-produced, and and it was in the search for more comfort that the loosening of rules gave rise in the late 19th century to the modern lounge suit. As a suit covers all or most of the wearers body, brooks Brothers is generally credited with first offering the ready-to-wear suit, a suit which was sold already manufactured and sized, ready to be tailored. It was Haggar Clothing that first introduced the concept of suit separates in the US, the concept of separately sold jackets and trousers, there are many possible variations in the choice of the style, the garments and the details of a suit. The silhouette of a suit is its outline, tailored balance created from a canvas fitting allows a balanced silhouette so a jacket need not be buttoned and a garment is not too tight or too loose. A proper garment is shaped from the neck to the chest, shape is the essential part of tailoring that often takes hand work from the start. Good tailoring anywhere in the world is characterised by strongly tapered sides and minimal shoulder, more casual suits are characterised by less construction and tailoring, much like the sack suit is a loose American style. The acid test of authentic tailoring standards is the wrinkle that comes from poor tailoring, for interim fittings, Rock Of Eye, drawing and cutting inaccuracies are overcome by the fitting. Suits are made in a variety of fabrics, but most commonly from wool, the two main yarns produce worsteds and woollens. These can be woven in a number of ways producing flannel, tweed, gabardine, other materials are used sometimes, either alone or blended with wool, such as cashmere. Silk alone or blended with wool is sometimes used, synthetic materials, while cheaper, e. g. polyester, are very rarely recommended by experts. For hot weather, linen is also used, and in North America cotton seersucker is worn, the main four colours for suits worn in business are black, light grey, dark grey, and navy, either with or without patterns. In particular, grey flannel suiting has been very widely since the 1930s
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Unidentified flying object
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An unidentified flying object, or UFO, in its most general definition, is any apparent anomaly in the sky that is not identifiable as a known object or phenomenon. Culturally, UFOs are associated with claims of visitation by extraterrestrial life or government-related conspiracy theories, UFOs are often identified after their sighting. Sometimes, however, UFOs cannot be identified because of the low quality of evidence related to their sightings, during the late 1940s and through the 1950s, UFOs were often referred to popularly as flying saucers or flying discs. The term UFO became more widespread during the 1950s, at first in technical literature, UFOs garnered considerable interest during the Cold War, an era associated with a heightened concern for national security. Various studies have concluded that the phenomenon does not represent a threat to national security nor does it contain anything worthy of scientific pursuit, the Oxford English Dictionary defines a UFO as An unidentified flying object, a flying saucer. The first published book to use the word was authored by Donald E. Keyhoe, the acronym UFO was coined by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, who headed Project Blue Book, then the USAFs official investigation of UFOs. He wrote, Obviously the term flying saucer is misleading when applied to objects of every conceivable shape, for this reason the military prefers the more general, if less colorful, name, unidentified flying objects. Other phrases that were used officially and that predate the UFO acronym include flying flapjack, flying disc, unexplained flying discs, unidentifiable object, the phrase flying saucer had gained widespread attention after the summer of 1947. On June 24, a pilot named Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine objects flying in formation near Mount Rainier. Arnold timed the sighting and estimated the speed of discs to be over 1,200 mph, at the time, he claimed he described the objects flying in a saucer-like fashion, leading to newspaper accounts of flying saucers and flying discs. In popular usage, the term UFO came to be used to refer to claims of alien spacecraft, between 5% and 20% of reported sightings are not explained, and therefore can be classified as unidentified in the strictest sense. The term Ufology is used to describe the efforts of those who study reports. UFOs have become a prevalent theme in culture, and the social phenomena have been the subject of academic research in sociology and psychology. Unexplained aerial observations have been reported throughout history, an example is Halleys Comet, which was recorded first by Chinese astronomers in 240 BC and possibly as early as 467 BC. Such sightings throughout history often were treated as supernatural portents, angels, or other religious omens. On January 25,1878, the Denison Daily News printed an article in which John Martin, Martin, according to the newspaper account, said it appeared to be about the size of a saucer, the first known use of the word saucer in association with a UFO. In April 1897, thousands of people reported seeing airships in various parts of the United States, scores of people even reported talking to the pilots. Thomas Edison was asked his opinion, and said, You can take it from me that it is a pure fake, the largest had an apparent size of about six Suns, he said
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Extraterrestrials in fiction
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Extraterrestrials, a common theme in modern science-fiction, also appeared in much earlier works such as the second-century parody True History by Lucian of Samosata. An extraterrestrial or alien is any extraterrestrial lifeform, a lifeform that did not originate on Earth, the word extraterrestrial means outside Earth. The first published use of extraterrestrial as a noun occurred in 1956, gary Westfahl writes, Science fiction aliens are both metaphors and real possibilities. One can probe the nature of humanity with aliens that by contrast illustrate, thus, aliens will likely remain a central theme in science fiction until we actually encounter them. Cosmic pluralism, the assumption there are many inhabited worlds beyond the human sphere predates modernity. Other worlds are depicted in early works as the 10th-century Japanese narrative, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. In Johannes Keplers Somnium, published in 1634, the character Duracotus is transported to the moon by demons, even if much of the story is fantasy, the scientific facts about the moon and how the lunar environment has shaped its non-human inhabitants are science fiction. The didactic poet Henry More took up the theme of Cosmic pluralism of the Greek Democritus in Democritus Platonissans. In The Excursion David Mallet exclaimed, Ten thousand worlds blaze forth, stories written before the genre of science fiction had found its form. Closer to the age is J. -H. Rosny, who wrote the short story Les Xipéhuz, about an encounter with extraterrestrials who turns out to be a mineral life form impossible to communicate with. Authors such as H. G. Wells, Olaf Stapledon, the notion surfaces in Ursula K. Le Guins Hainish novels and was introduced to justify the humanoid aliens of Star Trek in the Star Trek, another common idea is aliens who closely resemble animals. Weinbaums A Martian Odyssey encouraged writers to create genuinely unusual aliens, Olaf Stapledon also populated the universe with disparate aliens, including sentient stars, in Star Maker. Later, Hal Clement, a science fiction writer famed for strange but plausible worlds
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Ufology
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Ufology is the study of reports, visual records, physical evidence, and other phenomena related to unidentified flying objects. UFOs have been subject to investigations over the years by governments, independent groups. However, ufology, as a field, is rejected by modern academia and is considered a pseudoscience, the term derives from UFO, which is pronounced as an acronym, and the suffix -logy, which comes from the Ancient Greek λογία. This article was printed eight years after Edward J. Ruppelt of the United States Air Force coined the word UFO in 1951, rainier, Washington on June 24,1947. Media hype in the late 1940s and early 1950s following the Arnold sighting brought the concept of flying saucers to the public audience, as the publics preoccupation in UFOs grew, along with the number of reported sightings, the United States military began to take notice of the phenomenon. The UFO explosion of the early post-war era coincides with the escalation of the Cold War, the U. S. military feared that secret aircraft of the Soviet Union, possibly developed from captured German technology, were behind the reported sightings. If correct, the causing the sightings were thus of importance to national security. It also recommended the termination of the USAF special unit Project Blue Book, as the U. S. government ceased officially studying UFO sightings, the same became true for most governments of the world. A notable exception is France, which maintains the GEIPAN, formerly known as GEPAN and SEPRA. During the Cold War, British, Canadian, Danish, Italian, britains Ministry of Defence ceased accepting any new reports as of 2010. Ufology has generally not been embraced by academia as a field of study, even though UFOs were, during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Even among scientifically inclined UFO research efforts, data collecting is often done by amateur investigators, ufology is characterized as a partial or total pseudoscience, which many ufologists reject. Stanton Friedman considers the attitude of mainstream academics as arrogant and dismissive. Denzler states that the fear of ridicule and a loss of status has prevented scientists of pursuing a public interest in UFOs, J. Allen Hyneks also commented, Ridicule is not part of the scientific method and people should not be taught that it is. Hynek said of the frequent dismissal of UFO reports by astronomers that the critics knew little about the sightings, Peter A. Sturrock suggests that a lack of funding is a major factor in the institutional lack of interest in UFOs. Scientific UFO research suffers from the fact that the phenomena under observation do not usually make appearances at a time. Ufologist Diana Palmer Hoyt argues, The UFO problem seems to bear a resemblance to problems in meteorology than in physics. The phenomena are observed, occur episodically, are not reproducible and they are not experiments that can be replicated at will at the laboratory bench under controlled conditions
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Demon
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A demon is a supernatural, mythological and often malevolent being prevalent in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology and folklore. The original Greek word daimon does not carry the negative connotation initially understood by implementation of the Koine δαιμόνιον, the Ancient Greek word δαίμων daimōn denotes a spirit or divine power, much like the Latin genius or numen. Daimōn most likely came from the Greek verb daiesthai, the Greek conception of a daimōn notably appears in the works of Plato, where it describes the divine inspiration of Socrates. To distinguish the classical Greek concept from its later Christian interpretation, the Greek terms do not have any connotations of evil or malevolence. In fact, εὐδαιμονία eudaimonia, means happiness, far into the Byzantine period Christians eyed their cities old pagan statuary as a seat of the demons presence. It was no longer beautiful, it was infested, the term had first acquired its negative connotations in the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, which drew on the mythology of ancient Semitic religions. This was then inherited by the Koine text of the New Testament, the Western medieval and neo-medieval conception of a demon derives seamlessly from the ambient popular culture of Late Antiquity. The Hellenistic daemon eventually came to include many Semitic and Near Eastern gods as evaluated by Christianity, the supposed existence of demons remains an important concept in many modern religions and occultist traditions. Demons are still feared largely due to their power to possess living creatures. In the contemporary Western occultist tradition, a demon is a metaphor for certain inner psychological processes. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, In Chaldean mythology the seven evil deities were known as shedu, storm-demons and they were represented as winged bulls, derived from the colossal bulls used as protective jinn of royal palaces. From Chaldea, the term shedu traveled to the Israelites, the writers of the Tanach applied the word as a dialogism to Canaanite deities. There are indications that demons in popular Hebrew mythology were believed to come from the nether world, various diseases and ailments were ascribed to them, particularly those affecting the brain and those of internal nature. Examples include catalepsy, headache, epilepsy and nightmares, there also existed a demon of blindness, Shabriri who rested on uncovered water at night and blinded those who drank from it. Demons supposedly entered the body and caused the disease while overwhelming or seizing the victim, to cure such diseases, it was necessary to draw out the evil demons by certain incantations and talismanic performances, at which the Essenes excelled. In mythology, there were few defences against Babylonian demons, the mythical mace Sharur had the power to slay demons such as Asag, a legendary gallu or edimmu of hideous strength. As referring to the existence or non-existence of shedim there are converse opinions in Judaism, there are practically nil roles assigned to demons in the Jewish Bible. In conclusion, Jews are not obligated to believe in the existence of shedim, the word shedim appears only in two places in the Tanakh
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Skeptical Inquirer
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Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry with the subtitle, The Magazine for Science and Reason. In 2016 it celebrated its fortieth anniversary, for most of its existence, the Skeptical Inquirer was published by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, widely known by its acronym CSICOP. In 2006 the CSICOP Executive Council shortened CSICOP’s name to the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, the formal mission statement, approved in 2006 and still current, states that. The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry promotes science and scientific inquiry, critical thinking, science education, a shorter version of the mission statement appears in every issue, “. Promotes scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial, a history of the first two decades is available in The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal published in 1998 by S. I. editor Kendrick Frazier. The magazine was originally titled The Zetetic and was edited by Marcello Truzzi. The first issue was dated Fall/Winter 1976, soon after its inception a schism developed between the editor Truzzi and the rest of CSICOP. One side was more opposed to nonsense, more willing to go on the offensive and to attack supernatural claims. Truzzi left to start The Zetetic Scholar and CSICOP changed the name to Skeptical Inquirer. In 1977 Kendrick Frazier was appointed editor and he had previously been editor of Science News for six years. Kurtz noted that there had been “tremendous public fascination with the paranormal” and it was promoted and sensationalized by an irresponsible media. ”He stressed that “Our interest was not simply in the paranormal curiosity shop but to increase an understanding of how science works. ”Historian Daniel Loxton speculates on the answer to the question that if CSICOP was not the first skeptical publication. Loxton writes that it was because CSICOP organized this scholarship collectively comprised a field of study. The organization was the first to establish best practices, periodicals and professional writers and researchers. In the 1978 Spring and Summer edition, it was announced that the next issue publication would move from semi-annual to quarterly. From 1976 to 1995 the magazine had a digest-sized format, the U. K. magazine The Skeptic was first published in close association with SI. In 2014 the British version was handed back to the U. K. Skeptics, according to Kurtz, in the first twenty years, the magazine attempted to focus on the paranormal. Solving mysteries that were outside the range of normal, frogs dropping from the sky, UFO abductions, cattle mutilations, readers expected the magazine to have explanations. Kurtz states that these were exciting years, especially working with magicians who would often replicate the paranormal claim, the magazine often received criticism from the paranormal community, that they were being made fun of
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Merkabah mysticism
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For the modern Israeli main battle tank see Merkava. Merkabah/Merkavah mysticism is a school of early Jewish mysticism, c, a major text in this tradition is the Maaseh Merkabah. The noun merkabah thing to ride in, cart is derived from the consonantal root r-k-b with the meaning to ride. However, when left untranslated, in English the Hebrew term merkabah relates to the throne-chariot of God in prophetic visions. It is most closely associated with the vision in Ezekiel chapter 1 of the vehicle driven by four hayyot, each of which has four wings and the four faces of a man, lion, ox. According to the verses in Ezekiel and its attendant commentaries, his vision consists of a made of many heavenly beings driven by the Likeness of a Man. The base structure of the chariot is composed of four beings and these beings are called the living creatures. The bodies of the creatures are like that of a human being, the faces are that of a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle. Since there are four angels and each has four faces, there are a total of sixteen faces, each Hayyot angel also has four wings. Two of these wings spread across the length of the chariot and this creates a sort of box of wings that forms the perimeter of the chariot. With the remaining two wings, each angel covers its own body, below, but not attached to, the feet of the Hayyot angels are other angels that are shaped like wheels. These wheel angels, which are described as a wheel inside of a wheel, are called Ophanim אופנים and these wheels are not directly under the chariot but are nearby and along its perimeter. The angel with the face of the man is always on the east side, the Likeness of a Man sits on a throne made of sapphire. The Bible later makes mention of a type of angel found in the Merkabah called Seraphim angels. These angels appear like flashes of fire continuously ascending and descending and these Seraphim angels power the movement of the chariot. In the hierarchy of angels, Seraphim are the highest, that is, closest to God, followed by the Hayyot. The chariot is in a constant state of motion, and the energy behind this movement runs according to this hierarchy, the movement of the Ophanim is controlled by the Living creatures, or Hayyot, while the movement of the Hayyot is controlled by the Seraphim. The movement of all the angels of the chariot is controlled by the Likeness of a Man on the Throne
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Roswell UFO incident
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In mid-1947, a United States Air Force balloon crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Following wide initial interest in the flying disc, the US military stated that it was merely a conventional weather balloon. In the 1990s, the US military published two reports disclosing the nature of the crashed object, a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul. Nevertheless, the Roswell incident continues to be of interest in popular media, Roswell has been described as the worlds most famous, most exhaustively investigated, and most thoroughly debunked UFO claim. The sequence of events was triggered by the crash of a Project Mogul balloon near Roswell, the military decided to conceal the true purpose of the crashed device – nuclear test monitoring – and instead inform the public that the crash was of a weather balloon. Later that day, the press reported that Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force Roger Ramey had stated that a balloon was recovered by the RAAF personnel. A press conference was held, featuring debris said to be from the crashed object, historian Robert Goldberg wrote that the intended effect was achieved, the story died the next day. Subsequently, the incident faded from the attention of UFO enthusiasts for more than 30 years, on June 14,1947, William Brazel, a foreman working on the Foster homestead, noticed clusters of debris approximately 30 miles north of Roswell, New Mexico. Brazel told the Roswell Daily Record that he and his son saw an area of bright wreckage made up of rubber strips, tinfoil. He paid little attention to it but returned on July 4 with his son, wife, some accounts have described Brazel as having gathered some of the material earlier, rolling it together and stashing it under some brush. The next day, Brazel heard reports about flying discs and wondered if that was what he had picked up, on July 7, Brazel saw Sheriff Wilcox and whispered kinda confidential like that he may have found a flying disc. Another account quotes Wilcox as saying Brazel reported the object on July 6, Wilcox called RAAF Major Jesse Marcel and a man in plainclothes accompanied Brazel back to the ranch where more pieces were picked up. Spent a couple of hours Monday afternoon looking for any parts of the weather device. We found a few patches of tinfoil and rubber. The rubber was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area about 200 yards in diameter, in all, he estimated, the entire lot would have weighed maybe five pounds. There were no words to be anywhere on the instrument. Considerable Scotch tape and some tape with flowers printed upon it had used in the construction. No strings or wires were to be found but there were some eyelets in the paper to indicate some sort of attachment may have been used
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Aurora, Texas, UFO incident
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The Aurora, Texas, UFO incident reportedly occurred on April 17,1897 when, according to locals, a UFO crashed on a farm near Aurora, Texas. The incident is claimed to have resulted in a fatality from the crash, during the 1896–1897 timeframe, numerous sightings of a cigar-shaped mystery airship were reported across the United States. One of these appeared in the April 19,1897. Haydon, the alleged UFO is said to have hit a windmill on the property of a Judge J. S, Proctor two days earlier at around 6am local time, resulting in its crash. The pilot did not survive the crash, and was buried with Christian rites at the nearby Aurora Cemetery, reportedly, wreckage from the crash site was dumped into a nearby well located under the damaged windmill, while some ended up with the alien in the grave. Adding to the mystery was the story of Mr. Brawley Oates, as a result, Oates sealed up the well with a concrete slab and placed an outbuilding atop the slab. The hoax theory is based on historical research performed by Barbara Brammer. Her research revealed that, in the prior to the alleged crash, Aurora had been beset by a series of tragic incidents, First. Second, a fire on the towns west side claimed several buildings, shortly after the fire, a spotted fever epidemic hit the town, nearly wiping out the remaining citizens and placing the town under quarantine. Finally, a planned railroad got within 27 miles of Aurora, further, in 1979, Time magazine interviewed Etta Pegues who claimed that Haydon had fabricated the entire story, stating that Haydon wrote it as a joke and to bring interest to Aurora. The railroad bypassed us, and the town was dying, the famous Jim Marrs interviewed an eye witness who allegedly saw the UFO crash, also, the Judge’s windmill technically was not a windmill but a three-story wooden water pump tower. The incident has been investigated on numerous occasions, one was broadcast by local television station KDFW FOX4 and two were aired on cable television. In 1998, Dallas-based TV station KDFW aired a report about the Aurora incident. Reporter Richard Ray interviewed former Fort Worth Star Telegram reporter Jim Marrs and other locals, however, Rays report was unable to find conclusive evidence of extraterrestrial life or technology. Ray reported that the State of Texas erected a plaque in town that outlines the tale. On December 2,2005, UFO Files first aired an episode related to this incident, the episode featured a 1973 investigation led by Bill Case, an aviation writer for the Dallas Times Herald and the Texas state director of Mutual UFO Network. MUFON uncovered two new eyewitnesses to the crash, mary Evans, who was 15 at the time, told of how her parents went to the crash site and the discovery of the alien body. Charlie Stephens, who was age 10, told how he saw the airship trailing smoke as it headed north toward Aurora
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Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting
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Arnolds description of the objects also led to the press quickly coining the terms flying saucer and flying disc as popular descriptive terms for UFOs. On June 24,1947, Arnold was flying from Chehalis, Washington to Yakima and he made a brief detour after learning of a $5,000 reward for the discovery of a U. S. Marine Corps C-46 transport airplane that had crashed near Mt. Rainier. The skies were clear and there was a mild wind. A few minutes before 3,00 p. m. at about 9,200 feet in altitude and near Mineral, Washington, he gave up his search and he saw a bright flashing light, similar to sunlight reflecting from a mirror. Afraid he might be close to another aircraft, Arnold scanned the skies around him. About 30 seconds after seeing the first flash of light, Arnold saw a series of flashes in the distance off to his left, or north of Mt. Rainier. He thought they might be reflections on his airplanes windows, but a few quick tests ruled this out, the reflections came from flying objects. He then thought they might be a new type of jet, sometimes he said he could see them on edge, when they seemed so thin and flat they were practically invisible. According to Jerome Clark, Arnold described them as a series of objects with convex shapes, at one point Arnold said they flew behind a subpeak of Rainier and briefly disappeared. Knowing his position and the position of the subpeak, Arnold placed their distance as they flew past Rainier at about 23 miles, Army Air Force analysts would later estimate 140 to 280 feet, based on analysis of human visual acuity and other sighting details. Arnold said the objects were grouped together, as Ted Bloecher writes, in a diagonally stepped-down, echelon formation, stretched out over a distance that he later calculated to be five miles. Though moving on a more or less level horizontal plane, Arnold said the objects weaved from side to side, darting through the valleys and they would occasionally flip or bank on their edges in unison as they turned or maneuvered causing almost blindingly bright or mirror-like flashes of light. The encounter gave him a feeling, but Arnold suspected he had seen test flights of a new U. S. military aircraft. As the objects passed Mt Rainer, Arnold turned his plane southward on a more or less parallel course and it was at this point that he opened his side window and began observing the objects unobstructed by any glass that might have produced reflections. The objects did not disappear and continued to move rapidly southward. When he later had time to do the calculation, the speed was over 1,700 miles per hour and this was about three times faster than any manned aircraft in 1947. It was this speed in addition to the unusual saucer or disk description that seemed to capture peoples attention. Arnold landed in Yakima at about 4.00 p. m. and quickly told friend and airport general manager Al Baxter the amazing story, and before long and he discussed the story with the staff, and later wrote that Baxter didnt believe him
