In 1947 Kenneth Arnold, a pilot flying near Mt Rainier in Washington State saw a group of what he described as flying saucers, which was mis-interpreted by the press/public due to his statement " like saucers skipping on water" He never said they were saucer shaped.
There are a few links here to tie together my hypothesis that what he actually saw were captured and American built or completed Horten flying wings which were being developed in Germany and other experimental craft of ours.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...mage_result&resnum=7&ct=image&ved=0CBsQ9QEwBg
http://images.google.com/imgres?img...ages?q=hitler%27s+flying+wing&hl=en&sa=N&um=1
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01438/stealth_1438973c.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold
It makes sense to me that the Americans after capturing the spoils from the Germans during and after the war, would have tested these craft and in fact did make very similar ones of our own.
These would have been:
1) Extremely unusual, like nothing except a small number of people would have known existed.
from Arnold:
"He then thought they might be a new type of jet and started looking intently for a tail and was surprised that he couldn't find any."
"According to Clark[5] Arnold said that one of the objects was rather crescent shaped, while the other eight objects were more circular"
"The encounter gave him an "eerie feeling", but Arnold suspected he had seen test flights of a new U.S. military aircraft."
"A similar sighting of eight objects also occurred over Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 12, 1947. In this instance, a photo was taken and published in the Tulsa Daily World the following day (photo at right). Interestingly, the photographer, Enlo Gilmore, said that in blowups of the photo, the objects resembled baseball catcher's mitts or flying wings. He was of the opinion that the military had a secret fleet of flying wing airplanes"
2) jet powered, very fast, unlike anything that most pilots would have come across at the time
"Arnold conservatively and arbitrarily rounded this down to 1,200 miles (1,900 km) an hour, still faster than any known aircraft, which had yet to break the sound barrier. It was this supersonic speed in addition to the unusual saucer or disk description that seemed to capture people's attention."
No mention of a sonic boom from anyone. Fast but ET ? Did the ET's find a way to break that law ?
So from this started the whole saucer idea, from there Roswell and all of the others.
My suggestion is not that ET hasn't or isn't visiting.
But that not only was the saucer idea a case of misunderstanding, but that we wouldn't necessarily know an ET craft if we saw one.
What would an ET craft from a species thousands of years more advanced than us look like ?
Thoughts ?
There are a few links here to tie together my hypothesis that what he actually saw were captured and American built or completed Horten flying wings which were being developed in Germany and other experimental craft of ours.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...mage_result&resnum=7&ct=image&ved=0CBsQ9QEwBg
http://images.google.com/imgres?img...ages?q=hitler%27s+flying+wing&hl=en&sa=N&um=1
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01438/stealth_1438973c.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold
It makes sense to me that the Americans after capturing the spoils from the Germans during and after the war, would have tested these craft and in fact did make very similar ones of our own.
These would have been:
1) Extremely unusual, like nothing except a small number of people would have known existed.
from Arnold:
"He then thought they might be a new type of jet and started looking intently for a tail and was surprised that he couldn't find any."
"According to Clark[5] Arnold said that one of the objects was rather crescent shaped, while the other eight objects were more circular"
"The encounter gave him an "eerie feeling", but Arnold suspected he had seen test flights of a new U.S. military aircraft."
"A similar sighting of eight objects also occurred over Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 12, 1947. In this instance, a photo was taken and published in the Tulsa Daily World the following day (photo at right). Interestingly, the photographer, Enlo Gilmore, said that in blowups of the photo, the objects resembled baseball catcher's mitts or flying wings. He was of the opinion that the military had a secret fleet of flying wing airplanes"
2) jet powered, very fast, unlike anything that most pilots would have come across at the time
"Arnold conservatively and arbitrarily rounded this down to 1,200 miles (1,900 km) an hour, still faster than any known aircraft, which had yet to break the sound barrier. It was this supersonic speed in addition to the unusual saucer or disk description that seemed to capture people's attention."
No mention of a sonic boom from anyone. Fast but ET ? Did the ET's find a way to break that law ?
So from this started the whole saucer idea, from there Roswell and all of the others.
My suggestion is not that ET hasn't or isn't visiting.
But that not only was the saucer idea a case of misunderstanding, but that we wouldn't necessarily know an ET craft if we saw one.
What would an ET craft from a species thousands of years more advanced than us look like ?
Thoughts ?