Both believers and skeptics alike are invited to the Chehalis Flying Saucer Party next month, scheduled for Sept. 13-14 at multiple locations in downtown Chehalis.
First held in 2019, the Flying Saucer Party celebrates Chehalis pilot Kenneth Arnold’s historic June 24, 1947, UFO sighting near Mount Rainier while flying from Chehalis to Yakima on his way to Oregon.
While being interviewed by the East Oregonian for a story on his sighting, Arnold described what he saw as “saucer-like aircraft flying in formation” and helped coin the term “flying saucer,” setting off the modern UFO craze…