Flying Saucers - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 8/19/25
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🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
George Noory and author Shanelle Arnold discuss the first modern UFO sighting by her grandfather Kenneth Arnold in Washington state in 1947 before the Roswell crash, how he created the term "flying saucers" to describe what he saw, and his belief that the craft may be coming from other dimensions and not other planets.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on IHeart Radio. |
| 0:09.4 | And welcome back to coast to coast. |
| 0:11.1 | George Norrie with you, Chanel Arnold with us, |
| 0:13.4 | an author, astrologer, and granddaughter of uphologist and American aviator Kenneth Arnaud. |
| 0:18.5 | It was the first person in the 20th century to report flying saucers and coined the term. |
| 0:24.6 | Chanel republished his historic book that he wrote in 1952 called The Coming of the Saucers to Honor |
| 0:30.7 | her grandfather. Chanel, great job. Welcome to the program. Oh, it's great to hear your voice again, George. |
| 0:37.5 | This is exciting. |
| 0:40.0 | Yes. |
| 0:40.9 | I would have loved to have met your grandfather. |
| 0:43.8 | I know. |
| 0:44.9 | There's not very many people left that actually got the chance to meet him. |
| 0:49.4 | He died at 68, which is relatively young. |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah, yeah, 1984, and he, you know, died telling me it wasn't the |
| 0:58.4 | right time for UFOs. Was he your mother or father's father? He is my mother's father, and I went |
| 1:08.5 | through a divorce and took on his last name just because I'm public speaker on his |
| 1:12.4 | behalf. Well, that's great. And he wrote the book, The Coming of the Saucers with Ray Palmer, |
| 1:18.7 | who owned at that time a science fiction magazine called Amazing Stories. And those two got along |
| 1:25.4 | well, didn't they? They did. |
| 1:27.8 | They would communicate via records. |
| 1:31.3 | They'd record records and send each other records back and forth because that was before, |
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