They've Landed! Traditional Cache
Hidden : 6/1/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Free Smiley Face Courtesy of www.FreeSmileys.org

This cache can be reached from Woodland Drive. Do not park on the highway and there is no need to cross the highway on foot.
To reach the cache, one has to "sweep" past about 20 feet of Scotch Broom (ha-ha; sweep, broom). I asked Mom if that would be too difficult and Mom said you could manage it. So go on, just push on in.
It quickly opens to a clearing, and the cache is in a regular sort of spot. As Adam would say, Captain Obvious has struck. Free Smiley Face Courtesy of www.FreeSmileys.org





The story:

It was 1947 when ex-army test pilot Kenneth Arnold sighted nine metallic disks flying in tight formation around Mt. Rainier. He coined the phrase flying saucers to describe them, and over the next thirty-five years the term and the phenomenon became an integral, if suspect, part of the American culture. A deluge of sightings and encounters were reported worldwide, peaking during the mid- to late 1950s, when political paranoia and technology collided in the ozone.

Port Townsend was not immune to the effect. On May 1, 1954, Jefferson county sheriff Peter J. Naughton observed six bright, yellow objects flying in echelon over Port Townsend. A call to the air force at Paine Field brought a surprising response: "Ground all planes at Port Townsend; interceptors are coming in with live ammunition." Fortunately for all concerned, no commercial aircraft were in the vicinity to attempt landing on the thirty-two-hundred-foot runway at the county airport, and by the time fighters arrived the saucers had vanished.

The incident received little publicity at the time, but later found its way into the files of the air force's Project Bluebook and from there into the script of a closed-circuit air force broadcast produced at Lackland Air Force Base. While the controversial Lackland program was ultimately scrapped, it is intriguing to note that at several points in the script it was stated that "All incidents in this program have been authenticated by the United States Air Force."

~Peter Simpson

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Enjoy!
FTF pin awaits!

Free Smiley Face Courtesy of www.FreeSmileys.org

Congratulations to the Pirates of the Yukon FTF!

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