With So Much Happening In The News,

flying saucers, or UFO's as they are known,

have taken a back seat as far as being in the news is concerned, but where did the term 'Flying Saucers' come from? above and below advertisements for the film The Flying Saucer, the first official UFO sighting occurred in June of 1947 when pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted nine objects he couldn't identify as he flew over Mt. Rainier. Once his experience was published in papers across the nation, the floodgates opened and everyone saw flying saucers, but the thing is that Arnold never said the objects were shaped like saucers. He described the movement of the objects with the words “flew like they take a saucer and throw it across the water,” meaning they skipped, but the term flying saucer or flying disc caught on and that's what everyone else was seeing, 

then in July three teenage Anchorage girls — Judy Kerr, Vicky Novack and Nancy Green — claimed to see an unusual white “disc-shaped object” above Elmendorf Air Force Base, where it streaked across the sky and disappeared to the south. According to the girls, the unidentified object “traveled at great speed and was moving faster than ordinary planes.” The girls also said that it was smaller than any fighter plane and not a weather balloon, which they were familiar with since they were all daughters of servicemen and passed the time watching the base flight operations. These three girls had made the first documented UFO sighting in Anchorage history,

an advertisement from Fourth Avenue Fotoshop for a reward for bringing a flying saucer to the store, the Fotoshop on Fourth Avenue got in on the fun and offered a $200 reward in 1947, roughly $2,700 in 2022 dollars, for “one authentic flying disc or flying saucer.” To be clear, they wanted an actual flying saucer, not a photograph of one. As their announcement stated, “We want one so that we can take a picture of it to add to our large collection. So just carry, haul, or fly one up to the door and collect your reward.”

taking all of the above in, the term 'Flying Saucer' stuck, if you want to watch the movie here it is above, for the full article have a look here.