{"id":958,"date":"2025-03-09T16:01:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T16:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/1909-ufo-report-i-found-today-rock-island-argus-12-23-1909-predates-kenneth-arnold-sighting-obviously\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T16:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T16:01:23","slug":"1909-ufo-report-i-found-today-rock-island-argus-12-23-1909-predates-kenneth-arnold-sighting-obviously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/1909-ufo-report-i-found-today-rock-island-argus-12-23-1909-predates-kenneth-arnold-sighting-obviously\/","title":{"rendered":"1909 UFO report I found today. Rock Island Argus 12\/23\/1909. Predates Kenneth Arnold sighting obviously."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an intriguing UFO report from 1909 today in the Rock Island Argus dated December 23, 1909. This predates the famous Kenneth Arnold sighting, of course. While researching an unrelated topic, I decided to incorporate some additional search terms when examining historical records. I plan to share another sighting soon. Although I haven&#8217;t encountered these reports in past historical documents, that doesn&#8217;t mean they don&#8217;t exist; I&#8217;ve just yet to find them. If you know of any resources I should be looking at for these dates, please let me know\u2014I want to make sure I\u2019m not missing anything. I just found this information fascinating!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UFO Report\" src=\"https:\/\/preview.redd.it\/3f5j1r746tie1.png?width=1254&amp;format=png&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=92f57b333bcbdd0e79a58eb20864e37363cc5469\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nI came across an intriguing UFO report from 1909 today in the Rock Island Argus dated December 23, 1909. This predates the famous Kenneth Arnold sighting, of course. While researching an unrelated topic, I decided to incorporate some additional search terms when examining historical records. I plan to share another sighting soon. Although I haven&#8217;t&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/1909-ufo-report-i-found-today-rock-island-argus-12-23-1909-predates-kenneth-arnold-sighting-obviously\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;1909 UFO report I found today. Rock Island Argus 12\/23\/1909. Predates Kenneth Arnold sighting obviously.&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}