From Mount Rainier to Modern Disclosures: America's Enduring UFO Conversation
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Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 Mount Rainier sighting sparked the flying-saucer craze, and today UFO interest endures because pop culture and government disclosures keep the topic in the public eye, most sightings are explainable by ordinary causes while a meaningful portion remain unexplained, with California and New York leading in reports and Brooklyn among the top New York City area locales.