Let’s remember the world’s first flying saucer spotting, near Mount Rainier, on this day in 1947 (June 24)
Area man Kenneth Arnold is not saying it’s aliens, but it’s aliens. And it all started 72 years ago today.
On June 24, 1947, the modern phenomena of UFOs and “flying saucers” begins in Washington when Kenneth Arnold (1915–1984) spots nine mysterious, high-speed objects “flying like a saucer would” along the crest of the Cascade Range. His report makes international headlines and triggers hundreds of similar accounts of flying saucers locally and across the nation.
While flying in his private airplane near Mount Rainier en route from Chehalis, Washington, to his home in Boise, Idaho, Kenneth Arnold was startled by a bright light shortly before 3 p.m., on June 24, 1947. He looked north and saw nine gleaming objects racing southward along the crest of the Cascades. They were roughly circular in form — except for one crescent-shaped object — measured about 50 feet across, and appeared metallic. He watched them for approximately two minutes until they disappeared over Oregon.
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