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Originally Posted by a-l-e-x
The weather balloon idea is the accepted reason for what was seen; however about 2 years ago I saw a special (I think it was on the scifi channel with Bryant Gumbel-- not sure of their veracity) where documents were released (with sensitive parts blacked out of course) indicating that it was some military black project. Its curious that so many of these incidents are in the SW--where many of our AFB are located..
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The Gumball stories on Sci-Fi are pretty awful. The blacked out documents you refer to are the NSA documents (at least that is what I recall) that Stanton Friedman throws about like so much candy. Unfortunately, nobody ever reveals that these documents were released by Phil Klass some time ago. You can read about it here:
http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/...sa_000113.html
Actually, the distribution is fairly even. Early in 1947, there were lots of reports from the SW and NW because that was where the UFO flap started with Arnold. Military bases/pilots/observers started looking for the elusive discs that Arnold saw and saw all sorts of things but none turned out to be the discs described by Arnold.