On June 24, 1947, the famous American businessman Kenneth Arnold, who made a fortune in the production of fire-fighting systems, flew on a private jet from the city of Cheheilis to the city of Yakima (Washington state).
As many years later, Kenneth himself will write in his book "The Coming of the Saucers", flying near Mount Rainier, he remembered that he had heard on the radio a message that a plane had crashed in the area of this mountain, its wreckage was not found and whoever discovers a reward has been promised.
"You never know? - I thought, and it was not money that was important to me, but passion, - writes Arnold. "Besides, it was a sunny day, excellent visibility, and I decided to circle over Mount Rainier …"
Making the third circle over the cascade mountains, Arnold did not notice anything strange on the ground. And in the sky …
“At 9,200 feet, I saw something about 20 miles away from me,” Kenneth recalled. - At first I thought: birds, but, looking closely, I got scared. Nine objects soared in the sky, sometimes lining up in a straight line up to 5 miles long, then standing in a diamond or taking the form of triangles. It is difficult to determine their size from afar, but, in my opinion, each was larger than my plane every 10 times. At the same time, I saw them clearly, everything was especially clear when they were against the background of a mountain peak covered with snow - every detail was visible like a clear image on a piece of paper"
The objects were visible for three minutes, after which a DC-4 transport aircraft appeared in the area of the UFO appearance. As soon as he approached the objects, they disappeared without a trace, as if disappearing into thin air. After circling a little more in the mountains, but without waiting for the new appearance of flying saucers, Kenneth flew to Yakima. Soon after what happened, the CIA agents arrived at the businessman, which once again proves that not only he saw the UFO - the special services interrogated witnesses of alien visits only then, when they had some more evidence of the appearance From the interrogation of K. Arnold, the transcript of which is stored in the CIA archives:
“… The objects were semicircular, their thickness was about 1/2 of the length. They are like inverted plates with a small dome on top …"
The rest of Arnold's interrogation, which takes up 17 typewritten pages, is still classified as classified.
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It is only known that air traffic controller Al Baxter, to whom Arnold first told about the UFO sighting, told this story to reporters, it flew around all the media, and soon real pilgrimages of ufologists and ordinary Americans who wanted to see aliens began to the mountain. And Arnold's wording
