The following is a sidebar article from the June '97 (Vol. 5, #6) issue of 
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REALL News.  It accompanied an article, "Resolving Arnold," by Martin 
Kottmeyer, for people who might not be familiar with the Arnold story. It may 
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For those readers who don't know the Arnold story, here's
how it first appeared from the Associated Press:
     PENDELTON, Ore., June 25 (AP) -- Nine bright
     saucer-like objects flying at "incredible speed"
     at 10,000 feet altitude were reported here today
     by Kenneth Arnold, a Boise, Idaho, pilot who said
     he could not hazard a guess as to what they were.
          Arnold, a United States Forest Service
     employee engaged in searching for a missing plane,
     said he sighted the mysterious objects yesterday
     at 3 P.M. They were flying between Mount Rainier
     and Mount Adams, in Washington state, he said, and
     appeared to weave in and out of formation. Arnold
     said he clocked and estimated their speed at 1,200
     miles an hour.
     As Martin Kottmeyer has related to us in an earlier
article ("The Saucer Error," May, 1993, V. 1, #4), the news
release actually got it wrong; the objects were not saucer-
shaped, but rather Arnold had said the objects "flew
erratic, like a saucer if you skip it across the water." He
said the objects "were not circular," but the reporter
apparently misunderstood and thus arose the term, "flying
saucer."
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