SRC-002055Tier 3
1952 First Edition Published by Kenneth Arnold and Raymond A. Palmer (Boise & Amherst)
Publication: 1952-06-01
Language: en
Edition verification: corroborated
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The Coming of the Saucers
Kenneth A. Arnold · author / Raymond A. Palmer · author
The foundational 1952 first-person monograph by Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer detailing Arnold’s June 24, 1947 sighting of nine anomalous aircraft near Mount Rainier and his subsequent investigation into the Maury Island incident.
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// CLAIM PROVENANCE
10 CITATION LINK(S)CLM-004513 · Arnold Observation: Craft Morphology & Formation
“I could see their outline quite plainly against the snow as they approached the mountain. They flew in a diagonal echelon formation, stretched out over a distance that I later calculated to be about five miles.”
SRC-002055 · Chapter 1, pp. 8-11CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
Excerpt: “They flew in a diagonal echelon formation, stretched out over a distance that I later calculated to be about five miles.”
CLM-004513 · Arnold Observation: Craft Morphology & Formation
“I could see their outline quite plainly against the snow as they approached the mountain. They flew in a diagonal echelon formation, stretched out over a distance that I later calculated to be about five miles.”
SRC-002055 · Chapter 1, pp. 8-11CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
Excerpt: “They flew in a diagonal echelon formation, stretched out over a distance that I later calculated to be about five miles.”
CLM-004514 · Arnold Observation: Velocity Estimate
“They swept past Mount Rainier to Mount Adams... I timed them with the sweep-second hand of my cockpit clock at one minute and forty-two seconds, giving a calculated speed of approximately 1,200 miles per hour.”
SRC-002055 · Chapter 1, pp. 13-15CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
Excerpt: “I timed them with the sweep-second hand of my cockpit clock... giving a calculated speed of approximately 1,200 miles per hour.”
CLM-004514 · Arnold Observation: Velocity Estimate
“They swept past Mount Rainier to Mount Adams... I timed them with the sweep-second hand of my cockpit clock at one minute and forty-two seconds, giving a calculated speed of approximately 1,200 miles per hour.”
SRC-002055 · Chapter 1, pp. 13-15CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
Excerpt: “I timed them with the sweep-second hand of my cockpit clock... giving a calculated speed of approximately 1,200 miles per hour.”
CLM-004515 · Arnold Observation: Undulating Flight Dynamics
“They flew erratically, flipping and tilting as they went, like saucers skipping over water or a flat stone tossed across a pond.”
SRC-002055 · Chapter 2, pp. 22-24CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
Excerpt: “They flew erratically, flipping and tilting as they went, like saucers skipping over water.”
CLM-004515 · Arnold Observation: Undulating Flight Dynamics
“They flew erratically, flipping and tilting as they went, like saucers skipping over water or a flat stone tossed across a pond.”
SRC-002055 · Chapter 2, pp. 22-24CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
Excerpt: “They flew erratically, flipping and tilting as they went, like saucers skipping over water.”
CLM-004516 · Maury Island Observation: Donut Morphology
“They were doughnut-shaped, approximately one hundred feet in diameter, with a circular hole in the center about twenty-five feet across.”
SRC-002055 · Chapter 3, pp. 31-33CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
Excerpt: “They were doughnut-shaped, approximately one hundred feet in diameter, with a circular hole in the center.”
CLM-004516 · Maury Island Observation: Donut Morphology
“They were doughnut-shaped, approximately one hundred feet in diameter, with a circular hole in the center about twenty-five feet across.”
SRC-002055 · Chapter 3, pp. 31-33CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
Excerpt: “They were doughnut-shaped, approximately one hundred feet in diameter, with a circular hole in the center.”
CLM-004517 · Maury Island Observation: Slag & Metal Ejection
“The center object seemed to be in trouble and began spewing out tons of hot, dark metallic slag and lighter, paper-thin white metal strips which fell into the bay and onto the beach of Maury Island.”
SRC-002055 · Chapter 3, pp. 34-36CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
Excerpt: “The center object seemed to be in trouble and began spewing out tons of hot, dark metallic slag.”
CLM-004517 · Maury Island Observation: Slag & Metal Ejection
“The center object seemed to be in trouble and began spewing out tons of hot, dark metallic slag and lighter, paper-thin white metal strips which fell into the bay and onto the beach of Maury Island.”
SRC-002055 · Chapter 3, pp. 34-36CLAIM STATUS: REPORTEDPRIMARY SOURCE
Excerpt: “The center object seemed to be in trouble and began spewing out tons of hot, dark metallic slag.”
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