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- Modern UFOlogy begins shortly after WWII when Ken Arnold reported a gaggle of flying saucers
- UFOlogy is the study of UFO reports in the hopes of discovering the cause of the sighting
- From the St. Louis Post Dispatch of June 26, 1947:
PILOT REPORTS SEEING WEIRD OBJECTS IN SKY
Pendleton, Ore., June26,-(AP)-Army and Civil Aeronautics Administration spokesman expressed skepticism today over a report of nine mysterious objects-as big as airplanes-whizzing over western Washington at 1,200 miles an hour.
But Kenneth Arnold, a flying Boise, Idaho, buisinessman who said he timed them by his plane clock, clung to his story of the shiny, flat objects, each as big as a DC-4 passenger plane, racing over the Cascade Mountains with a peculiar weaving motion "like the tail of a kite."
An Army spokesman commented: "As far as we know, nothing flies that fast except a V-2 rocket, which travels too fast to be seen."
- An immediate consequence of this siting was the formation of Fate Magazine, which is devoted to all things strange