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On June 24th, 1947, Kenneth Arnold, former World War II fighter pilot, saw a cluster of disc-shaped objects near Mt. Rainier in Washington State, officially sparking the national debate over whether UFO's are real objects. When Arnold shared his account with reporters in Pendleton, he described the UFO's as "saucers." UFO's have popularly been referred to as "flying saucers" since.  

On March 13, 1997, a number of witnesses, scientists, physicians, law enforcement officers, educators, attorneys, airline pilots, and other seemingly reliable witnesses, reported unusual lights moving in the Phoenix sky from Prescott to Tucson. Each report, within minutes of each other, described the object as a cluster of red-orange lights that gave the "impression of being in a "V" formation, somewhat like a wedge or boomerang in shape," according to one witness' report.  

On January 6, 1969, Jimmy Carter reported a UFO sighting, which he made public while he was Governor of Georgia. Carter told the following to reporters: "It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors, and it was about the size of the moon. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing's for sure, I'll never make fun of people who say they've seen unidentified objects in the sky. If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the scientists."  

On October 18, 1973, Captain Lawrence J. Coyne, Staff Sergeant John Healy, Co-Pilot Arrigo Jozzi, and Crew Chief SSGT Robery Yanacsek, Army reservists, were flying from Columbus, Ohio to Cleveland, Ohio in a helicopter. When the aircraft was near the Mansfield airport, Captain Coyne adjusted his flight path to avoid a collision with a "cigarshaped, metallic gray" object that shone a "green spotlight."  

California Central Airliner was minutes outside the Burbank-Hollywood airport on October 5, 1950 when Captain Cecil Hardin noticed a lighted object approaching head-on. Co-pilot Jack Conroy later told reporters that the UFO was only in sight a few moments before passing below their plane. Captain Hardin said, "the thing that was really odd was that it didn't appear to have any fuselage. We also felt no propeller wash as the object passed under our wing."

[From netscape.com]