The sighting is one of the most common areas associated with UFO's. This idea gained popularity after pilot Kenneth Arnold reported that on June 24, 1947, while flying a search mission for a downed Marine Corps. transport plane over the Cascade mountain range, he saw a series of objects flying in a V formation. He described these objects as "flat like a pie pan and so shiny they reflected the sun like a mirror," and flying like "a saucer would if you skipped it across the water."
Standing in the audience during the pilot's press conference, Kenneth Arnold's description of the crafts as saucers stuck in report Bill Bequettes mind. Latter, the newsman used the phrase "flying saucer," in the story about the sighting over the Cascades, coining a phrase that easily became mainstream.
Arnold's sighting touched off a surge of similar sightings, many hoaxed, over the next few years. From the smallest towns to the largest cities, reports of triangular, dumbbell, cigar, and saucer shaped crafts, as well as mysterious lights, became fairly commonplace.
Copyright (C) 1997 Stephen
Daniels
Abductions
The first known case of alien abduction on record took place on the morning of September 19, 1961, along a highway in the White Mountain region of New Hampshire. Betty and Barney Hill, a vacationing couple coming home from a holiday trip, had found themselves being followed by a strange light down the road.
After a few minutes of being trailed by what appeared to be a rounded object, Barney Hill decided to pull his car off the side of the road and investigate. At the time, all he remembered was suddenly running back to the car in great fear. However, nothing particularly odd remained in the couple's memories, until they reached their destination two hours later than expected.
Latter, under the guidance of Dr. Benjamin Simon, they were regressed though hypnosis, and, in similar detail, they both recalled being taken aboard the strange craft that had followed them, by the ships occupants. Their story was fully detailed in John Fuller's famous book, "Interrupted Journey."
But the idea of abductions, regardless of the case of the Hill's, wasn't pushed into the mainstream until the release of writer Whitley Strieber's non-fictional account of his encounters with small beings, "Communion," in 1986. The book quickly climbed the bestsellers list, taking abductions to a new audience.
Copyright (C) 1997 Stephen
Daniels
Foo Fighters
Text below is quoted from: THE U.F.O. BBS
A little remembered cartoon character named Smokey Stover used to declare, "Where there's foo, ther's fire." So when
enigmatic aerial phenomena kept pace with airplanes and ships in both the European and Pacific theaters during World War II,
someone called them "foo fighters." The name stuck. Nobody knew for sure what the foo fighters were, but it was usually
assumed that the other side-either the Allies or the Axis powers-had developed a secret weapon. After the war's conclusion, it
soon became clear that this was not the explanation.
With the arrival of "flying saucers" in the summer of 1947, memories of foo fighters were revived. Like UFOs after them, foo
fighters came in assorted shapes and descriptions, from amorphous nocturnal lights-which gave them their name-to silvery
discs.
A typical sighting of foos took place in December 1942 over France. A Royal Air Force pilot in a Hurricane interceptor saw
tow light shooting from near the ground toward his 7,000-foot cruising altitude. At first he took the lights to be tracer fire. But
when they ceased ascenidng and followed him, mimicking every exasive maneuver he made, the pilot realized they were under
someone's intelligent control. The lights, which kept an even distance from each other all the while, pursued him for some miles.
In August of that same year, Marines in the Solomon Islands were startled to see a formation of 150 "roaring" silvery objects.
Thier color, one witness said, was "like highly polished silver." They had neither wings nor tails and moved (as later ufo
witnesses would often remark) with a slight wobble.
Official censorship kept reports of these phenomena out of the newspapers until December 1944. All during the war, however,
similar objects were sightied by both military and civilain observers in the United States.
Foo Fighters
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