Cascade Moutains
Washington State, USA, June 24, 1947
In 1947 an event occurred that seems almost common place 50 years later. The event would have gone almost unnoticed by historians if it wasn't for the famous term that was coined because of it -- Flying Saucer...
Towards the end of June 1947 a C-46 Marine Transport plane tragically crashed into the Cascade Mountains in Washington State, USA. Help was requested for any local pilots in the vicinity to take to the area to try to locate the downed aircraft. That plee was readily answered by Kenneth Arnold, a fire-appliance sales man from Idaho and experienced pilot.
Taking to the air in his trusted plane, Arnold headed out toward the mountains remaining vigilant for any signs of wreckage that might lead to the whereabouts of the Marine Transport.
As he circled over Mount Rainier a bright flash of light caught his peripheral vision. Thinking that he might have discovered some sun-reflecting aircraft metal he quickly turned towards the glint.
He was completely unprepared for what he saw instead of the stricken craft, as he later commented, "I observed, far to my left and to the north, a formation of nine very bright objects coming from the vicinity of Mount Baker, flying very close to the mountain tops and travelling with tremendous speed! I could see no tails [meaning vapour trail] on them, and they flew like no aircraft I had ever seen before... in fact they reminded me of a saucer skipping across water.' He later estimated the speed of the formation to be in excess of 1,300mph!
The next morning the local newspaper which carried the inexplicable revelation caught on to the idea of saucer shaped craft coining the expression 'flying saucer', and Kenneth Arnold was secured his role in history.
This event over the Cascade Mountains was by no means an isolated unexplained incident in that year. Further south on July 3 at Roswell, New Mexico one of UFO's most famous mysteries would take place which 50 years later would still be the hottest topic for debate about the phenomenon.
Yet amazingly in September of the same year, Lieutenant General N.F. Twining of Air Martial Command would send a memo to Brigadier-General George Schulgen, Commanding General of the Army Air Forces, remarkably stating the following:
"it is the opinion (of this command) that the so-called flying saucers phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious... The reported operating characterists, such as extreme rates of climb, manoeuverability and evasive action when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely.'
With the latest revelations of highest level secrecy and subsequent admissions around the Rendelsham Forest incident in 1980 this early memo, penned at a time when official policy was yet to be decided, gives a rare glimpse of the undoubted reality behind this most closely guarded secret and leaves us with hope that before 2047 - 50 years from now, we will no longer have to guess at the truth.
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