Two months before Kenneth Arnold's sighting kicked off the "flying saucer" era in June 1947, two Weather Bureau emplo...

Two months before Kenneth Arnold's sighting kicked off the "flying saucer" era in June 1947, two Weather Bureau employees in Richmond, Virginia tracked metallic discs through a theodolite while monitoring weather balloons. One disc appeared below their balloon at 15,000 feet, larger than the balloon itself, rounded on top, flat on the bottom, moving fast. This case sat in a classified 1948 Air Force study for decades. Full case: https://t.co/Ov7A8KdwJ6