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====Additional reports==== {{Flying disc craze of 1947 map of reports - Jun 26}} Arnold's report was the first of many.<ref>Peebles - chapter 2</ref> On June 26, press reported that Byron Savage of Oklahoma City had seen a flying disc about six weeks prior.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/624257337/|title=26 Jun 1947, 1 - The Sacramento Bee at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="Bloecher">{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kBJDAAAAIAAJ|title=Report on the UFO Wave of 1947|first=Ted|last=Bloecher|date=April 7, 1967|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CmFVEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA27|title=Flying Saucers Over America: The UFO Craze of 1947|first=Gordon|last=Arnold|date=December 3, 2021|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476687667 |via=Google Books}}</ref> That same day, press reported that a Kansas City carpenter named W. I. Davenport recalled having seen nine discs while working on a roof the prior Wednesday.<ref name="auto35">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/564372494/|title=26 Jun 1947, 1 - Spokane Chronicle at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="auto53">G. Arnold, Ch. 4</ref> Also on June 26, photographer E.H. Sprinkle of Eugene, Oregon reported having attempted to take a photograph of a formation of nine bright objects in the prior weeks.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11961250/flying-discs/|title=flying discs|newspaper=The Courier-Journal |date=June 27, 1947|pages=1|via=newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="auto37">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11713669/case-13-e-h-sprinkle/|title=Case # 13 E. H. Sprinkle|newspaper=The Eugene Guard |date=June 26, 1947|pages=1|via=newspapers.com}}</ref> <ref name="auto12">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/624259269/|title=28 Jun 1947, 4 - The Sacramento Bee at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="auto59">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IINjCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA106|title=Washington Myths and Legends: The True Stories behind History's Mysteries|first=Lynn|last=Bragg|date=September 1, 2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781493016044 |via=Google Books}}</ref> {{clear right}}
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