Of Note: Eleanor Roosevelt, Alien Investigator

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Of Note: Eleanor Roosevelt, Alien Investigator

05/02/2024 10:00 AM EDT

In summer 1947, a pilot named Kenneth Arnold spotted nine bright objects in the sky over Washington State flying, he said, "like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water." Reporters shorthanded the description of these objects to "flying saucers." Sightings proliferated, and Americans fell into breathless speculation. Three years later, an unlikely investigator was on the case: Eleanor Roosevelt.

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