World atlas of UFO's - Globale-Evolution TV

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DATABASE 1940s
Kenneth Arnold was concerned
that professional people should
investigate the case and suggested
calling the 4th Air Force Base at
Hamilton Field and requested the
involvement ot two intelligence
officers; Captain William Davidson
and Lieutenant Frank Brown.
When Brown and Davidson
arrived they were shown an
assortment of the debris from the
UFO, it was laying on the floor of
the room in which they met.
Davidson and Brown seemed to
have played down their concern and
even refused to accept samples of
the material when offered,
apparently giving the impression
that they thought the witnesses
were the victims of a hoax.
However, at the last minute
Crisman gave them a carton
containing the material and they
stowed it in their car, subsequently
apparently placing it on their B-25
aircraft which stood by to fly back to
Hamilton F'idd, in California.
It has been speculated that the
material was in fact radioactive slag
being dumped illegally by the Atomic
Energy Commission (AEC) and that
the 'man in black' was in reality an
agent of the AEC determined to
suppress the story before it got out
of hand. Whatever the truth, the
mystery deepened considerably
when the B-25 containing the
intelligence officers and the material
apparently caught fire and crashed.
Its two crew members survived but
the two officers died with the plane.
A newspaper report shortly after
the incident suggested that the
crash involved sabotage because the
'plane may hold flying disk secret".
The report also suggested that
there was some evidence the plane
was carrying 'classified material'.
Unfortunately, with two prime
players lost in the aircraft accident
the case, for the moment, defies any
more substantial conclusion.
NAME KENNETH ARNOLD SIGHTING
DATE 24 JUNE 1947
PLACE MOUNT RAINIER, WASHINGTON STATE
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EVENT DISTANT DAYLIGHT SIGHTING - BUT
THE BIRTH OF FLYING SAUCERS'
In the clear skies of Washington
State, lone pilot Kenneth Arnold
was peacefully admiring the
breathtaking scenery of the Cascade
Mountains. He was flying a Callair
plane especially modified for
mountain search and rescue and
although not formally engaged on
such a mission, Arnold was
searching for a crashed C-46 marine
transport plane. He was spurred on
by both a humanitarian desire to
relieve the anguish of relatives of
the lost crew and also the financial
incentive of a $5,000 reward for
discovery of the wreck.
Having completed his day's work
installing fire fighting equipment for
the Central Air Service at Chehalis,
a small town in Washington State,
Arnold took off at around 2 o'clock
heading for Yakima. With Mount
Rainier ahead and a I)C-4 above and
behind to his left,
Arnold was
suddenly startled by a flash of light.
To the left and north of Mount
Rainier he saw what appeared to be
a formation of nine objects in flight.
Kenneth Arnold initiated the media
coverage phenomenon with his coming of
the phrase 'flying saucers' in 1947.
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