Tag: kenneth arnold

  • modern ufo era dawns with 1947 maury island, kenneth arnold sightings

    The Maury Island Incident of June 21, 1947 and Kenneth Arnold sighting near Mt Rainier WA, three days later, represent the dawn of modern UFO era. The latter incident is also when “saucers” came into the American lexicon, a description given by Arnold of their flight, “[like] a saucer skipped across water”. The Maury Island…

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  • nazi ufo movies: weekend roundup

    You can make it a Nazi UFO movie weekend with Nazi UFO Conspiracy and The Aldebaran Mystery. The first film, a well done survey of Nazi high tech, introduces viewer to great inventors of the Third Reich. Werhner von Braun may already be a familiar name as an early rocket scientist. Nazi UFOs goes further…

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  • the shaver mystery: primer 101

    Richard Sharpe Shaver, writer and artist, created enough excitement in the heady days of paranormal phenomena and UFOs it’s known as “The Shaver Mystery”. Shaver wrote a letter to Amazing Stories magazine in 1943 with details of an ancient alphabet called Mantong. Ray Palmer, editor, published the letter to mark the beginning of a period…

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