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A few of the words
- ARNOLD
- Kenneth Arnold was a seasoned businessman-pilot; his June 24, 1947 report is widely credited as the sighting that launched the modern UFO era.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SAUCER
- Arnold never used the word himself — a reporter coined 'flying saucer' to capture his description of the objects' skipping, disc-like motion, and it stuck instantly.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- RAINIER
- Mount Rainier, the snow-capped Cascade volcano Arnold was flying near, rises to 14,411 feet — its bright glaciers made the glinting objects all the more striking against the sky.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CRESCENT
- Arnold described the craft as crescent- or heel-shaped, not round — a detail often lost once 'flying saucer' took over the popular imagination.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The UFO Craze Takes Flight: a free large-print word search
Free large-print word search: on June 24, 1947, a pilot's astonishing report sent the whole country scanning the skies.
About The UFO Craze Takes Flight
On June 24, 1947, private pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying near Mount Rainier in Washington when nine luminous, crescent-shaped objects swept across the mountain's snow-bright flanks at speeds he estimated at over 1,200 miles per hour. He described their motion as like saucers skipping across water — and within days, "flying saucer" had leapt from the wire services into every kitchen-table conversation in America. That single sighting cracked open a sky full of questions that generations of stargazers, skeptics, and dreamers have never quite stopped asking.
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- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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