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Well the movie starts with a lie.

posted 12 years ago by mousalope
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Relating the story of the initial Washington State incident of 1947, the narrator "quotes" the pilot saying he had seen saucers. Not true at all. And if they start with such a basic and easily disproved distortion, how seriously can you take any of the rest?

""In a memoir of the incident for the First International UFO Congress in 1977 Arnold revealed the flying saucer label arose because of a "great deal of misunderstanding" on the part of the reporter who wrote the story up for the United Press.

Bill Bequette asked him how the objects flew and Arnold answered that, "Well, they flew erratic, like a saucer if you skip it across the water." The intent of the metaphor was to describe the motion of the objects not their shape. Arnold stated the objects "were not circular.""

This is what Arnold described:

http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/c60ac02e4e80.jpg

Comparing this to other experimental aircraft known to exist in this general time frame:

The wartime German Horten HO 229

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kujDS7zCRBY/TT4ako3GS4I/AAAAAAAABEE/hDZ-yUhi 55A/s1600/Horton229V1prototypeg.jpg

The American Northrop N9

http://www.kbvp.com/sites/default/files/images/Northrop%20N9MB%20Flyin g%20Wing%20flys%20at%20Chino%202010.preview.JPG

[–] Newsgroupie 11 years ago

There are quite a few facts related in this movie, but you are correct about Arnold. Although it wasn't a quote, but a paraphrase attributed to Arnold. Arnold said they were chevron like in shape. A shape that has been reported on many times, most notably during the early evening of March 13, 1997 before the infamous Phoenix Lights incident.

I have looked into many of the claims made in this film, and the key incidents presented such as, the Captain Mantel crash, the Washington flap of July 1952, as well as the 2 UFO films reported on, have all proven to be true and accurately presented. This film is well worth a watch in my opinion.

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