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Flying Saucer (also called XHTML renderer) is a pure Java library for rendering XML, XHTML, and CSS 2.1 content. It is intended for embedding web-based user interfaces into Java applications, but cannot be used as a general purpose web browser since it does not support HTML .
The actual origin of the terms is somewhat complicated. Jerome Clark cites a 1970 study by Herbert Strentz, who reviewed U.S. newspaper accounts of the Arnold UFO sighting, and concluded that the term was probably due to an editor or headline writer: the body of the early Arnold news stories did not use the term "flying saucer" or "flying disc."
An alleged flying saucer photographed over Passaic, New Jersey, in 1952. A flying saucer, or flying disc, is a purported disc-shaped UFO. The term was coined in 1947 by the U.S. news media for the objects pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed flew alongside his airplane above Washington State. Newspapers reported Arnold's story with speed estimates ...
The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar is a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Canada as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the Cold War. [1] [2] The Avrocar intended to exploit the Coandă effect to provide lift and thrust from a single "turborotor" blowing exhaust out of the rim of the disk-shaped aircraft.
The UFO Welcome Center was a tourist curiosity located in Bowman, South Carolina, United States, built in the back yard of Jody Pendarvis.It consisted of a 46-foot-wide flying saucer (14 m) built out of wood, fiberglass, and plastic. [1]
The Aztec crashed saucer hoax (sometimes known as the "other Roswell") was a flying saucer crash alleged to have happened in 1948 in Aztec, New Mexico. The story was first published in 1949 by author Frank Scully in his Variety magazine columns, and later in his 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers .
A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth; Saler, Benson; Ziegler, Charles A.; Moore, Charles (1997) UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth; Clarke, David (2015) How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth [10] Arnold, Gordon (2021) Flying Saucers Over America: The UFO Craze of 1947 [2] Scholarly. Bullard, Thomas E (1982).
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