What Is A Flying Saucer?

Always the one who insists on clear communication, I’m naturally going to tackle the term “flying saucer” because the press is the. source of that term when they reported on the 1947 report by private pilot Kenneth Arnold. The Press reported he called the nine UFOs he spotted as “flying saucers.” He actually told them the nine objects moved like saucers skipping across water.

So Here’s an image of an actual saucer both right side up and inverted for reference.

But we are forced to acknowledge that the Wham-o toy company started selling the toy they dubbed the frizbee in 1958, 11 years after the Press garbled Kenneth Arnold’s report. Anyone can simply do a search for “frizbee” to get the whole story. Whamo was probably the greatest toy maker of all time because they also sold hula hoops and Wham-o slingshots.

“Since UFOs were a hot topic at the time, Morrison modeled his first plastic disc after a flying saucer”

That is how language affects meaning and perception. The word association is clear but many people don’t know the above details. We tend to dismiss anything we call a toy and that’s how UFOs and flying saucers have come to be trivialized when the actual flying saucers may be the greatest phenomenon in human history.