Editing 1947 flying disc craze (section)

===Eschatological===
[[File:John Hamilton Mortimer - Death on a Pale Horse - Google Art Project (cropped).jpg|thumb|275px|right|"Death on a Pale Horse", an apocalyptic image from the [[Book of Revelation]], as depicted by 18th-century artist [[John Hamilton Mortimer]]]]
Some members of the public interpreted the reports as signifying [[Eschatology|the end of the world]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5emvDwAAQBAJ|title=Six Concepts for the End of the World|first=Steve|last=Beard|date=October 8, 2019|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=9781912685332 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zgUTDAAAQBAJ|title=The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism|first=Catherine|last=Wessinger|date=July 19, 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-061194-1 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

On June 27, Kenneth Arnold told press that he had been contacted by a preacher who insisted saucers were harbingers of Doomsday.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/564374587/|title=27 Jun 1947, 5 - Spokane Chronicle at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  On June 30, one Oregon preacher suggested that the discs were "the 'advance guard' of universal disaster, heralding the end of the world".<ref name="auto3"/>  On July 9, deputies in Everett, Idaho took a woman into custody who was marching around a lake, Bible in hand, speaking only of discs and the end of the world.  The woman had never been known to be irrational, a deputy told press.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/79808250/|title=9 Jul 1947, Page 9 - The Post-Register at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  In [[Oshkosh, Wisconsin|Oshkosh]], a housewife directed press to the [[Book of Job]], explaining "when man becomes too vain and smart, some divine being will send things of various sizes and shapes through the air to confound and confuse man".<ref name="auto7"/>  On July 5, press reported on a 67-year-old gardener who claimed to have watched saucers for about 30 minutes before going to bed, saying: "I thought about waking up some of my neighbors but decided if it meant the end of the world they would be just about as happy sleeping when the world ended."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/30943002/|title=6 Jul 1947, Page 12 - The Sunday News and Tribune at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="UnivIowa"/>

In Louisiana, Governor [[Jimmie Davis]] relayed an explanation attributed to an 'elderly negro': "Saucers are part of the prophecy, something man is supposed to see and not understand.  Next the world will know no seasons; Winter will come in the Summer; In Winter men will walk before they crawl; cotton will open before it blooms; the watermelon will come before the vine; in fact, I look for it to be kind of spooky from now on."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/325780504/|title=9 Jul 1947, 3 - The Tampa Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="UnivIowa"/>