Editing 1947 flying disc craze (section)

====Group sightings====
The Flight 105 sighting was widely publicized on July 5. Also on July 5, papers reported a group of 60 picnickers in Twin Falls Park had witnessed 35 discs over a twenty-minute period the prior day.<ref name="auto48">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/723487814/|title=5 Jul 1947, 1 - The Idaho Statesman at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  Police in Portland received reports of discs, some reports coming from members of local law enforcement in Portland and Vancouver; the International News Service reported that "hundreds of persons" viewed the strange objects, up to 20 in number.<ref name="auto26"/>  At [[Hayden Lake, Idaho]], a group of 200 people were said to witness a disc for thirty minutes.<ref name="auto18">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/569193624/|title=5 Jul 1947, 1 - The Rock Island Argus at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  Six people in Boise reported seeing discs the previous day.<ref name="auto26">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/723487819/|title=5 Jul 1947, 2 - The Idaho Statesman at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

On July 5, it was reported that a balloon and a six-pointed, star-shaped tinfoil object was recovered in [[Pickaway County, Ohio]] by farmer Sherman Campbell; the press speculated the object may have been responsible for recent local 'flying saucer' reports.

Also on July 5, press reported on the disappearance of an Army C-54 transport plane.  The plane went missing after departing Bermuda bound for West Palm Beach with six men aboard.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/80175383/|title=5 Jul 1947, Page 2 - Statesman Journal at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  Years later, the disappearance and flying discs would be incorporated into the [[Bermuda Triangle]] folklore.

Wire service reports quoted astronomer Oliver J. Lee of the [[Dearborn Observatory]] as suggesting the discs were "probably man-made and radio controlled".<ref name="auto18"/>  Human behavioral expert John. G. Lynn blamed the "wave of saucer hysteria" on "recent predictions that an atomic war would break out, laying waste the United States".<ref name="auto18"/>  A Louisiana paper quoted physicist Norris Sill, a member of the Navy staff at the [[Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll|Bikini tests]], as discounting the suggestion that nuclear fission was causing the sightings, saying there was "no plausible connection between the two".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/213019734/|title=5 Jul 1947, Page 1 - The Town Talk at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>