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of lightweight sticks. Moore and the other authors profess to believe that a
balloon train launched June 4, 1947, carrying three radar reflectors, probably
landed on the Foster Ranch.
Ten days after the Roswell incident, Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine
unusual objects flying at high speeds in Washington State. The authors theorize
these were either an American secret project, or a novel Soviet aircraft bent on
surveillance, “or some more sinister purpose.”
This set off the wave of UFO sightings reported