The article discusses the inception of the flying saucer phenomenon, rooted in Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting of nine disk-like objects near Mount Rainier. This predated the space age beginning with the launch of Sputnik in 1957. Arnold's description of the objects as moving 'like a saucer would if you skipped it across water' popularized the term in media. Following Arnold's sighting, a surge of UFO reports emerged, including a notable encounter involving donut-shaped crafts witnessed by Fred Lee Crisman and Howard Dahl, which caught the attention of science fiction magazine editor Raymond Palmer.
"The beginning of the space age is generally dated to the Soviet Union's launch of the first Sputnik probe in 1957... a space age of the imagination that had begun on June 24, 1947."
"This was the moment when 'flying saucers' became an American cultural phenomenon. Dozens of reported sightings followed throughout the summer of 1947."
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