Kenneth Arnold

Kenneth Arnold was an American pilot whose sighting of nine unidentified flying objects near Mount Rainier, Washington, on June 24, 1947, is widely regarded as the event that sparked the modern UFO phenomenon. His detailed account, describing the objects as shiny and disc-shaped, led to the coining of the term 'flying saucer' and triggered a nationwide fascination with extraterrestrial life and unidentified aerial phenomena.