Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting (The First UFOs)
Update: 2025-10-03
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MYS385: Was Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 sighting evidence of extraterrestrial craft? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli revisit the case, weigh rival explanations, and assess why his measurements still unsettle skeptics.
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Links for this episode:
* Bruce Maccabee’s book Three Minutes in June: The UFO Sighting That Changed the World
* Kenneth Arnold’s book The Coming of the Saucers
* Jerome Clark’s UFO Encyclopedia
* Picture of Arnold holding illustration of lead object
* Arnold’s diagram of other objects
* Wikipedia on Kenneth Arnold
* Wikipedia on the Sighting
* 1950 Arnold interview with Edward R. Murrow
* Article on mountain climbing hallucinations
* Wikipedia on Fata Morgana mirages
* Wikipedia on the Horten Ho 229
* Dallas Weekly Herald article
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