We've covered enough UFO stories here on Skeptoy to fill their own book, and yet we've

only talked about the very most popular such stories.

Think of all the countless sightings we've never mentioned.

Well, they all have one thing in common, and that's a place along the timeline of the

Flying Saucer Mythology, one of the great legendary genres of our day.

The Flying Saucer Minus is coming up next on Skeptoy.

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The Flying Saucer Minus.

The term Flying Saucer conjures up images of campy science fiction films from the 50s and

60s, with people in shiny metallic suits backed by experimental electronic music.

They were something of a national obsession for a while with saucers reported in the sky

manned by everyone from Russians to little green men.

Air Force pilots chased them to their doom, and occasionally they would crash and spawn legends like Roswell.

It turns out that the true genesis of Flying Saucer folklore is at least as fascinating as any of the fables themselves,

and a worthy place to turn our Skeptical Eye.

Most historians of the strange trace Flying Saucers back to a private pilot named Kenneth Arnold,

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