The 1947 Snake River Canyon UFO Incident
- By
Marcus Lowth
- April 15, 2019
- October 24, 2021
- 8 min read
- Expert Opinion
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- UFOs, Sightings
Anyone with an interest in UFO history will know that 1947, at least officially, marks the beginnings of the “modern era” of the UFO timeline, primarily due to the Roswell Crash and the apparent cover-up that took place in the months and years after. However, the spring and summer of 1947 were seemingly awash with such sightings of strange discs, near misses, and high-speed aerial chases. Whether there is a connection between them all or not remains open to debate.
A superimposed UFO over Snake Canyon
The incident we will examine here took place around six weeks after the Roswell incident in the state of Idaho. Remember, given that there was no Internet or even televisions (at least in most homes) at this stage, news ...
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Marcus Lowth
Marcus Lowth is a writer with a love for UFOs, aliens, and the Ancient Astronaut Theory, to the paranormal, general conspiracies, and unsolved mysteries. He has been writing and researching with over 20 years of experience.
Marcus has been Editor-in-Chief for several years due to his excellent knowledge in these fields. Marcus also regularly appears as an expert on radio talk shows including Troubled Minds and Unexplained Radio discussing these topics.
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Some text of this paragraph must have digitally vanished:
“On this summer’s day, at around 1 pm, Urie’s two sons were crossing the water in a small boat from the north side of the river. Wondering what was keeping them, [???] both of whom were experienced enough to control the vessel,
Thanks for an excellent and necessary compilation of sightings of a most seminal year.
It needs to be pointed out that there is a similarity to two sightings which were unique except in relation to each other. Here’s the case that brought to mind the experience of Kenneth Arnold. He saw nine craft flying in a V-formation (one at the front and four on each side)
“On the 1st July in Twin Falls, around ten “flying discs” would move across the sky. And in a tight V-formation to boot. ”
There has never been another such sighting. It’s not a great mystery though because as Arnold described their motion (a saucer skipping over water) the only such motion ever known was that of craft using engines that the 3rd Reich invented; namely; Pulse Detonation.
So…we can assume that both sightings were of the same craft, -secret craft that the US acquired from the fallen Nazi government.
Only man-made craft would have ever used Pulse Detonation as a propulsion system. And we know that it was not adequate in certain ways since it’s never been seen since, …until they incorporated it into the most high-speed experimental secret craft which produce the donut shaped exhaust clouds.