Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Boise Boise's link to the UFO World
Posted by Andrew Crisp on Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:49 PM
It was June 24, 1947. Boise businessman and pilot Kenneth Arnold was circling the skies above Washington. He was looking for the downed wreckage of a military plane and perhaps the government's $5,000 reward for finding the site.
"A bright light lit up the surface before his airplane," his daughter Kim Arnold told Boise Weekly. "It was so bright, it was like a welder's arc."
In an interview with a Pendleton, Ore., reporter, Kenneth Arnold described nine bright-blue flying objects. He would describe them as like saucers skipping across water. When the story went to press the next day, the term "flying saucer" was born—creating skeptics and supporters alike.
"They do exist and they are out there, and so many people have validated their existence," she said. "They’ve been here since mankind has been here. [My father] just happened to be the man to give 'em a name."
Whether you buy the story or not, Arnold launched the "modern UFO movement," according to his daughter, the 57-year-old president of SAUCERS Inc. On Monday, Jan. 16, she will talk about her father's legacy on Coast to Coast with George Noory and at the annual Women's UFO Symposium in Glen Rose, Texas, in May.
There's a short YouTube documentary on Arnold below, complete with Twilight Zone style music.
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"Twilight Zone style music"? I guess you mean the X-files theme. Interesting tidbit though. I almost want it a full story though.
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I saw one in Idaho in 1978 south of Kuna. It flew right by the house we were living in with lights so bright you couldnt see its shape. It made no sound as would a plane or chopper. We were sober and completely awake while it flew under the powerlines and passed close enough to our yard to completely envelop it with light. Being at night I grabbed a flashlight and went around the back of the house to see where it went. It was only seconds but I found nothing there no light no craft nothing. That is when the hair on my neck raised up and the chills took over. There was only a plowed fiels back there and nothing could just land back there. I lived most of my life in the air traffic pattern of the Boise airport watching commercial and military jets night and day. I dont know what it was for sure that night but I do know it wasnt a plane or a chopper.
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