Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 08:15:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: N Lynch <sfbookfan at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Important day in history
To: WSFA members <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

It wasn't noted here, but July 2nd the 57th
anniversary of an SF related day according to The
Writer’s Almanac.  From the newsletter:

Today is the anniversary of an important day in the
history of American paranoia: On this day in 1947 an
object supposedly fell from the sky over Roswell, New
Mexico. In the late 1940s, there were a lot of
newspaper and radio reports about sightings of
disk-like objects in the sky. There were at least
sixteen alleged sightings between May 17 and July 12,
1947. In one story, a businessman saw nine objects
flying over a mountain while he was piloting his
private plane. In an interview, he described the
objects as flying like a saucer skipping across water,
and the term "flying-saucer" was born.

Nicki

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