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Thu, 06/22/2017 - 10:00pm to Fri, 06/23/2017 - 12:00am
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June 24, 1947: The birth of the Flying Saucer phenomenon

This weekend marks the 70th anniversary of Idaho businessman and pilot Kenneth Arnold's historic sighting of mysterious flying ships near Mt. Rainer.

While flying his CallAir Model A on a business trip, and taking a diversion as a volunteer effort to help find a recently crashed military transport, Kenneth Arnold suddenly spotted a flash of light in the sky. Thinking it was a sun reflection from another airplane, Arnold looked around and sighted nine apparently metallic craft winding their way across the mountains.  Intrigued, he was able to time their progress and, by estimating their relative size, he calculated their speed to be greater than any known aircraft at that time. He said their flightpath resembled that of the tail of a Chinese kite, with the craft bobbing up and down while  flying in a line. He described the motion as 'as if a saucer were skipped across water', which a news reporter later erroneously attributed to the crafts' shape, despite Arnold reporting them as shaped like a crescent. Soon everyone was sighting saucer-shaped objects for at least two decades.

Kenneth Arnold became the first UFO expert, giving interviews on the radio and investigating other flying saucer sightings. While he didn't initially think what he saw was of extraterrestrial origin, he soon became a believer in the extraterrestrial hypothesis and also became a 'repeater' (someone who reports having seen multiple UFO sightings. Flying saucers, whatever they were, were from that time forward permanently planted in the imaginations of Cold War Americans (and beyond).

Radio Lost and Found commemorates the 70th anniversary of this portentious sighting, perhaps ruefully, as saucer sitings have been on the decline since the 1970s, thanks either to a remarkable advancement of alien technology or Hollywood production companies finding the classic saucer shape passe.

Episode Playlist

  • Time
    10:00
    Artist
    KBOO Community Radio
    Song
    ID/Promo Spots
    Album
    Promo Spots
    Label
  • Time
    10:02
    Artist
    The Firesign Theatre
    Song
    Side One [excerpt]
    Album
    Everything You Know Is Wrong
    Label
    Columbia
  • Time
    10:06
    Artist
    The Orb
    Song
    The Dream (The Future Academy of Noise, Rhythm and Gardening Mix)
    Album
    The Dream
    Label
    Psy-Harmonics
  • Time
    10:07
    Artist
    Kenneth Arnold
    Song
    Discusses his sighting, 1947
    Album
    YouTube
    Label
  • Time
    10:12
    Artist
    Rod Serling
    Song
    Intro
    Album
    UFOs: It Has Begun (1979)
    Label
    Sandler Institutional Films
  • Time
    10:13
    Artist
    The Orb
    Song
    Vuja De
    Album
    The Dream
    Label
    Psy-Harmonics
  • Time
    10:14
    Artist
    Kenneth Arnold
    Song
    Discusses his sighting, 1947
    Album
    YouTube
    Label
  • Time
    10:16
    Artist
    Rod Serling
    Song
    The Chiles-Whitted Sighting
    Album
    UFOs: It Has Begun (1979)
    Label
    Sandler Institutional Films
  • Time
    10:18
    Artist
    Frank Stranges
    Song
    Flying Saucers Unlimited [excerpt]
    Album
    Flying Saucers Unlimited 7 in.
    Label
    Strange Enterprises
  • Time
    10:25
    Artist
    Pulse Emitter
    Song
    Eagle Nebula
    Album
    Cosmic Images
    Label
    Expansive
  • Time
    10:26
    Artist
    Burgess Meredith
    Song
    The Lonnie Zamora Sighting
    Album
    UFOs: It Has Begun (1979)
    Label
    Sandler Institutional Films
  • Time
    10:28
    Artist
    Rev. O.W. "Bud" Spriggs
    Song
    Side one [excerpt]
    Album
    The Bible And Flying Saucers
    Label
    World Wide Records, Inc.
  • Time
    10:31
    Artist
    Ursula Bogner
    Song
    Pulsation
    Album
    Recordings 1969-1988
    Label
    Faitiche
  • Time
    10:33
    Artist
    The Space Walkers
    Song
    Swamp Gas
    Album
    Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Vol. 1
    Label
    Trailer Park Records
  • Time
    10:36
    Artist
    Sidney Ester
    Song
    U.F.O. On Farm Road 318
    Album
    Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Vol. 6
    Label
    Trailer Park Records
  • Time
    10:38
    Artist
    The Cramps
    Song
    Mystery Plane
    Album
    Songs the Lord Taught Us
    Label
    IRS
  • Time
    10:41
    Artist
    Klaatu
    Song
    Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
    Album
    Klaatu (3:47 E.S.T.)
    Label
    Magentalane Music Limited
  • Time
    10:47
    Artist
    Long John Nebel
    Song
    The Flying Saucer Story, Pt. 1 [excerpt]10
    Album
    48
    Label
    Tin Toy
  • Time
    10:48
    Artist
    Pulse Emitter
    Song
    Triangulum Galaxy
    Album
    Cosmic Images
    Label
    Expansive
  • Time
    10:51
    Artist
    Rev. Bud O.W. Spriggs
    Song
    Side one [excerpt]
    Album
    The Bible And Flying Saucers
    Label
    World Wide Records, Inc.
  • Time
    10:54
    Artist
    The Stunning Rayguns
    Song
    and the west sinks into the sun [excerpt]
    Album
    The Stunning Rayguns
    Label
    bandcamp
  • Time
    10:56
    Artist
    John Newland/Lee Spiegel
    Song
    Intro/Beyond the Unknown
    Album
    UFOs: The Credibility Factor
    Label
    Columbia House
  • Time
    10:59
    Artist
    The Future Sound of London
    Song
    My Kingdom, Pt. 1 [excerpt]
    Album
    My Kingdom - EP
    Label
    Virgin Catalogue
  • Time
    11:01
    Artist
    Jack Jenkins
    Song
    Do They Or Don't They Exist?
    Album
    File #733 U.F.O.
    Label
    Century Records
  • Time
    11:06
    Artist
    John Newland/Lee Spiegel
    Song
    J. Allen Hynek
    Album
    UFOs: The Credibility Factor
    Label
    Columbia House
  • Time
    11:08
    Artist
    The Orb
    Song
    U.F.Orb
    Album
    U.F.Orb
    Label
    UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
  • Time
    11:12
    Artist
    John Newland/Lee Spiegel
    Song
    Astronaut Sightings
    Album
    UFOs: The Credibility Factor
    Label
    Columbia House
  • Time
    11:13
    Artist
    Pink Floyd
    Song
    Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
    Album
    A Saucerful of Secrets
    Label
    Columbia/Legacy
  • Time
    11:18
    Artist
    Voivod
    Song
    Astronomy Domine
    Album
    Nothing Face
    Label
    Geffen
  • Time
    11:22
    Artist
    Steve Hillage
    Song
    Activation/The Glorious Om Riff
    Album
    Green
    Label
    Virgin
  • Time
    11:24
    Artist
    John Newland/Lee Spiegel
    Song
    Herbert Schirmer Abduction
    Album
    UFOs: The Credibility Factor
    Label
    Columbia House
  • Time
    11:30
    Artist
    Jack Jenkins
    Song
    The Case of the Persistent Saucers
    Album
    File #733 U.F.O.
    Label
    Century Records
  • Time
    11:32
    Artist
    Guitar Wolf
    Song
    Teenage UFO
    Album
    Jet Generation
    Label
    Matador Records
  • Time
    11:33
    Artist
    The Rezillos
    Song
    Flying Saucer Attack
    Album
    Can't Stand the Rezillos - The (Almost) Complete Rezillos
    Label
    Rhino/London-Sire
  • Time
    11:36
    Artist
    Wanda "Star" Williams
    Song
    Mr. U.F.O.
    Album
    Mr. U.F.O. 7 in.
    Label
    Reid's World
  • Time
    11:40
    Artist
    Divination
    Song
    Seven Heavens
    Album
    Ambient Dub Volume I
    Label
    Subharmonic
  • Time
    11:43
    Artist
    Jack Jenkins
    Song
    Science and the Saucers
    Album
    File #733 U.F.O.
    Label
    Century Records
  • Time
    11:46
    Artist
    Craig Leon
    Song
    Four Eyes To See The Afterlife [excerpt]
    Album
    Nommos
    Label
    Superior Viaduct
  • Time
    11:49
    Artist
    John Newland/Lee Spiegel
    Song
    Betty and Barney Hill
    Album
    UFOs: The Credibility Factor
    Label
    Columbia House
  • Time
    11:52
    Artist
    Man or Astro-Man?
    Song
    Alien Visitors
    Album
    Is It... Man Or Astro-Man?
    Label
    Estrus Records
  • Time
    11:56
    Artist
    John Newland/Lee Spiegel
    Song
    Outro
    Album
    UFOs: The Credibility Factor
    Label
    Columbia House
  • Time
    11:57
    Artist
    Starlight Children's Chorus
    Song
    Outro: E.T., I Love You
    Album
    E.T., I Love You and Other Extraterrestrial Songs
    Label
    Kid's Stuff

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