Twin Falls, Idaho: Picnickers in Twin Falls Park watch three flights of discs
On the afternoon of July 4, 1947, picnickers in Twin Falls Park east of Twin Falls, Idaho, watched three successive flights of discs; by the third flight about 60 people saw 18 or more discs circling.
Background
At 2:50 p.m. on July 4, 1947, seven people picnicking at Twin Falls Park, seven miles east of Twin Falls, Idaho, among them Winfield and Charity Montooth and Edith May Bush, watched a group of discs in a rough V-formation flying at great speed. Ten minutes later a second flight of 9–10 objects circled overhead in a loose formation, gained altitude rapidly and moved to the west. When a third flight passed overhead by 3:10 p.m., about 60 people in the park saw 18 or more discs circling before ascending rapidly. In its coverage of the sighting, an unnamed Twin Falls newspaper reporter used the phrase 'unidentified flying objects,' apparently for the first time. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.