1947

The Untold Story of the Birth of the UFO Age

De: Gary Covella

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

THE SUMMER THE SKY BROKE OPEN

June 1947. A quiet patrol across Puget Sound becomes a nightmare as molten, metallic slag pours from the heavens—killing a dog, injuring a teenager, and igniting the most explosive mystery in American history. Within seventy-two hours, pilot Kenneth Arnold watches nine impossible craft skim past Mount Rainier at speeds no aircraft on Earth could match. Newspapers scramble for language, and a new term enters the bloodstream of the world: flying saucer.

One week later, a rancher walks across a lonely New Mexico field and discovers debris so strange the Army initially calls it what it is: a “captured flying disc.” Hours later, the announcement is revoked. Explanations shift. Witnesses are silenced. Something monumental has happened—and someone is already burying it.

And this was only the beginning.

BEFORE ROSWELL. BEFORE AREA 51. BEFORE “UFO” WAS EVEN A WORD.

There was 1947. A single, electric month when the sky erupted, the military scrambled, and the world unknowingly crossed into a new era. In those thirty days, more than eight hundred sightings were reported across America. Two military intelligence officers died transporting classified material. Evidence vanished into locked rooms. And the government’s story fractured so violently it has never fully recovered.

1947: The Untold Story of the Birth of the UFO Age tears open suppressed files, forgotten telegrams, and eyewitness accounts long dismissed or intentionally obscured. Dr. Gary Covella reconstructs this terrifying timeline with forensic precision and cinematic intensity, revealing a truth far more disturbing than folklore—and far more documented than skeptics want to admit.

INSIDE THIS BOOK YOU’LL UNCOVER:

• Maury Island: molten debris, a dead dog, injured crew—and the bomber that mysteriously crashed while carrying the evidence.
• Kenneth Arnold: the accidental father of the “flying saucer” who triggered a global phenomenon.
• Roswell & Corona: the real crash sequence—and why the government rewrote the story within hours.
• Airline logbooks: July 4 cockpit records confirming discs pacing commercial flights.
• Project Sign: the quiet birth of military secrecy around UAPs—and the classified conclusions no one was supposed to see.
• Men in Black: veiled threats, coerced recantations, and the strange visitors who warned witnesses to forget what they saw.
• International alarm: Soviet radar reports, British investigations, Argentine aerial encounters—proof the phenomenon went global instantly.
• Pop culture ignition: how newspapers, pulp magazines, radio dramas, and Cold War fear shaped everything we now believe.

“UNIDENTIFIED” WAS ONLY THE FIRST LIE

This is not science fiction. This is investigative nonfiction built from newly declassified documents, FBI memoranda, Air Force intelligence summaries, and raw newspaper footage the Pentagon would prefer you never read. Covella exposes how narratives were manipulated, how evidence was seized, and how witnesses were pushed into silence.

Why did military investigators die with classified debris onboard? Why were early crash reports changed overnight? And why did dozens of trained observers—pilots, engineers, radar operators—describe the same impossible craft before anyone had language to explain them?

READS LIKE A THRILLER—BECAUSE HISTORY WAS NEVER THIS DANGEROUS

1947 is more than a historical retelling. It is a warning: the moment humanity realized it was not alone was also the moment someone decided we shouldn’t know.

Once you open this book, one truth becomes impossible to escape:

You will never look at the sky the same way again.