Air Force Roswell Report

On this date in 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold reporting seeing nine UFOs over Mount Rainer, which he described as like "saucers skipping over the water." His sighting kicked off the modern UFO era and led the press to coin the phrase 'flying saucers.' 50 years later on June 24, 1997, the U.S. Air Force issued a 231-page report dismissing the long-standing claims of an ET crash near Roswell, New Mexico. They suggested that recovered bodies were not those of aliens but crash test dummies used in parachute experiments.