Editing 1947 flying disc craze (section)

===Interplanetary===
{{see also|Extraterrestrial hypothesis}}
[[File:Amazing Stories 1927 08.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Interplanetary invaders, as depicted on the August 1927 cover of ''[[Amazing Stories]]'']]

On June 27, unnamed experts argued that supersonic saucer-shaped aircraft would be "out of this planet".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/143491805/|title=27 Jun 1947, Page 1 - The Tennessean at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  On June 28, headlines joked "No, They're Not Men from Mars".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/401278240/|title=29 Jun 1947, 2 - Dayton Daily News at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  By June 29, one source reported that "These discs, some people suggest, may presage an invasion from Mars."<ref name="feof6"/>

On July 7, 1947, two stories came out where Arnold raised the topic of possible extraterrestrial origins, both as his opinion and those who had written to him.<ref>Associated Press story, July 7, 1947, e.g., Salt Lake City ''Deseret News'', p. 3, "Author of 'Discs' Story To Seek Proof" [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Aul-kAQHnToC&dat=19470707&printsec=frontpage]</ref>  Per the Chicago Times:

:"...Kenneth Luis Arnold...is not so certain that the strange contraptions are made on this planet.  Arnold...said he hoped the devices were really the work of the U.S. Army.  But he told the TIMES in a phone conversation: 'If our government knows anything about these devices, the people should be told at once.  A lot of people out here are very much disturbed.  Some think these things may be from another planet.  But they aren't harming anyone and I think it would be the wrong thing to shoot one of them down—even if can be done.  Their high speed would completely wreck them...'

:"Arnold, in pointing to the possibility of these discs being from another world, said, regardless of their origin, they apparently were traveling to some reachable destination.  Whoever controlled them, he said, obviously wasn't trying to hurt anyone...He said discs were making turns so abruptly in rounding peaks that it would have been impossible for human pilots inside to have survived the pressure.  So, he too thinks they are controlled from elsewhere, regardless of whether it's from Mars, Venus, or our own planet."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.roswellproof.com/Chicago_D_Times_1947-07-07-3s_Arnold_interplanetary_statement-Cpt_Smith.jpg|title=Chicago 'Times'|date=July 7, 1947|page=3|website=Roswellproof.com|access-date=24 June 2022}}</ref>

On July 9, US Senator from Idaho [[Glen H. Taylor]] said he 'almost hoped' that the discs would turn out to be space ships from another planet.  Taylor explained that "'the mere possibility' that the spinning circles might be hostile would unify the peoples of earth as nothing else could."<ref name="auto7">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/334400011/|title=9 Jul 1947, 7 - The Journal Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
In an Associated Press story from July 19, Arnold reiterated his belief that if they weren't Army, then they were extraterrestrial.<ref>Walla Walla (Wash) ''Union-Bulletin'', July 20, 1947, "Man Who Reported 'Flying Saucers' Feels That He Has Been Vindicated"[http://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/positivelytruestoryofkennetharnold5.html]</ref>