Kenneth Arnold

Kenneth Arnold: Hear Kenneth Arnold in his own words in this contemporaneous radio interview in which pilot Kenneth Arnold describes his UFO encounter as discussed in A Time of Confusion at Violations. This radio interview was made with Kenneth Arnold shortly after his alleged UFO sighting and broadcast live. In the interview Kenneth Arnold clearly describes the object that he saw that gave birth to the UFO phenomenon, although at the time tended to believe it was a new type of military craft rather than something of extraterrestrial origin.

The Chicago Daily Tribune quoted Arnold in a page one story "The first thing I noticed was a series of flashes in my eyes as if a mirror was reflecting sunlight at me... I saw the flashes were coming from a series of objects that were traveling incredibly fast. They were silvery and shiny and seemed to be shaped like a pie plate . . . What startled me most at this point was . . . that I could not find any tails on them.

I counted nine of them as they disappeared behind the peak of Mount Rainier. Their speed was apparently so great I decided to clock them. I took out my watch and checked off one minutes and 42 seconds from the time they passed Mount Rainier until they reached the peak of Mount Adams . . . All told the objects remained in view slightly less than two minutes from the time I first noticed them."