The UFO Genre 2

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The modern UFO age began in June 24,1947, when bush pilot and businessman, Kenneth Arnold observed nine silvery objects traveling at a high rate of speed, fly past Mt, Rainier, Alaska.

Then the phrase, "flying saucer" came into use after Arnold's observation, and on June 26, 1947, the term flying saucer was added to the lexicon.

But before that, around June 14, 1947 William “Mac” Brazel, lease holder of the Foster ranch in Carrizozo, New Mexico, located about 30 miles west of Roswell, New Mexico, discovered strange debris on his ranch, while he was herding sheep through the area, and interestingly, the sheep refused to cross the land where the debris lay. During this time Mac picked up a piece of debris, which he later shown to his neighbor's and was later described by Floyd and Loretta Proctor as having strange writing; “Like the kind of stuff you would find on firecracker wrappers” and “figures all done up in pastels; not like American writing”. Floyd also bit the object, which looked like a pencil, then tried to scratch it with his pocket knife. Neither his teeth nor the knife left any mark on the object.

Then Loretta Proctor took a look at the object, thinking it looked tan, maybe even dark tan and not silver, compared it with plastic in weight, “light, like balsa wood,” she said. That gave her the idea to set it on fire. She got a box of matches, lit a match and tried to burn it, to light it on fire, to maybe light it like a firecracker and make it explode. The fourth of July was coming up so Loretta said. “Maybe we can get a bang out of this thing”.

“It isn’t wood, it isn’t balsa wood, it isn’t plastic,” she went on. “It does not burn. This piece is like a pencil, a dowel stick, fancy writing, no sharp corners, no grain; it won’t blow up and it won’t even burn; you can’t eat it or even cut it with a knife,” she said. Then asking, “What good is it?”

On July 4, 1947, Mac Brazel took his wife and his children to gather some of the debris. By July 7, 1947, Mac told Sheriff George Wilcox his story about the crash.

These two incidents, happening nearly the same time, set Americans on the road to a ET based culture that has endured for over 70 years. The belief in UFOs has come to redefine the American culture of apple pie, hot dogs and Sunday BBQ, with a out worldly undertone to everything we think, say, and do.