news: war of the worlds: Kenneth Arnold Invented the Word "Flying Saucer"... Or Did He?!

news: war of the worlds: Kenneth Arnold Invented the Word "Flying Saucer"... Or Did He?!

On June 24th, 1947, Kenneth Arnold was flying his private plane within the world of Mount Rainier in Washington State. Just another flight for this experienced pilot and businessman. Little did he know, that this wasn't going to be "just another flight".

As he was searching his windows, he suddenly saw nine, as he describes them, half-moon shaped, oval ahead, and sort of convex triangle-shaped within the rear , objects. Flying information within the world of Mount Rainier. Sometimes during a later interview, Arnold described the objects as crescent-shaped, or a flying wing. Over time, he gave slightly different descriptions, but still adhering to his original statements. Being an experienced pilot he estimated their speed at about 1200 mph, by estimating the space between two mountain tops he was familiar with , and thus the time it took the objects to cover it. on the flight characteristics, he said they were looking slightly unstable, bouncing up and down kind of a saucer skipping on water.

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Out of those different yet similar descriptions, it had been actually THE PRESS that coined the phrase "Flying Saucer", and not Kenneth Arnold. He also mentioned that he had seen ufo on several other occasions. So, as we'll see, Kenneth Arnold is not the daddy of the phrase "Flying Saucer", and furthermore, during this instance he didn't see any flying discs or UFOs either. So, what did he see?

He actually saw a squadron of war two, German-made Horton 18 Jet bombers, the first "FLYING WINGS"! Unfortunately we'll post any pictures here, but if you Google for it, you'll easily find pics of sketches supported Arnold's description, also as pics about the German Horton 18 and today's Flying wing bombers. Or, you'll attend my blog, by using the link within the Authors box below.

news: war of the worlds: Kenneth Arnold Invented the Word "Flying Saucer"... Or Did He?!

Keep in mind, that every one this happened very on the brink of the Roswell crash and a few of years after war two ended. As we all know, the Germans had highly advanced technology, which was way before the Western Allies. By the highest of the war, the Americans and Russians basically split the spoils of war, and each side got their share of German scientists and hardware.


You can rest assured that by the time Arnold observed the crafts, American and German scientists and engineers had made some improvements to the primary design. that's the rationale , why, once you compare pictures of the primary German version and thus the sketches supported Arnold's descriptions look slightly different, but still have the characteristic wing shape.

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The reason that the crafts appeared like they were skipping on water, was because of the actual fact that flying wings are very unstable in their flight characteristics. this is often true even to our modern versions of the stealth wing-shaped bombers. The difference is, that today's versions have a flight management computer, which compensates for the instability, quicker than a private could. Back then, there was no flight computer, which is why the aircraft were bouncing up and down.

Regarding the speed of about 1200 mph, as estimated by Arnold, fits right in with the important data from the German designers.

Most likely, it had been an entire squadron of aircraft that were transferred from one air force base to a special , flying through a foreign area, so on avoid being seen by the overall public.

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