Editing 1947 flying disc craze (section)

===Public awareness===
On August 19, Gallup published a poll reporting that 90% of the public had heard about flying discs.<ref name="auto80">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W0VYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA260|title=Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century|first=Alexander C. T.|last=Geppert|date=April 25, 2018|publisher=Springer|isbn=9781349953394 |via=Google Books}}</ref>  Reports noted this poll "places the saucers on par with Orson Welles' 'Invasion from Mars', the Loch Ness Monster, and [[Miniature golf|Tom Thumb Golf]]."  By comparison, only half the public had heard of the Marshall Plan.<ref name="auto80"/>

The survey showed that 29% of the public believed the discs were illusions or imaginary,<ref name="auto80"/>  33% did not know what the discs were, and 9% offered other interpretations, including linking the discs to atomic weapons or the end of the world.<ref name="auto80"/>