[Ads-l] Very Slight Antedating of "Flying Saucer" in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Finally getting to this a year later.... I've revised the entry, and added a 26 June cite from the Philadelphia Inquirer (that Fred Shapiro kindly provided to me offlist).

The Chicago Tribune article with a 25 June dateline quotes Kenneth Arnold describing the objects as "shaped like a pie plate", but does not actually contain the term "flying saucer".

Jesse Sheidlower
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On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 08:16:27AM -0500, dave at wilton.net wrote:
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> At least one of the those published on 26 June has a dateline of 25 June. Kenneth Arnold's sighting was on 24 June 1947.
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> “Sees Mystery Aerial ‘Train’ 5 Miles Long.” Chicago Daily Tribune, 26 June 1947 (Dateline: 25 June), 1. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
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> From: "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
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> The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction has 27 June 1947 as its first citation. A search in Newspapers.com yields many newspaper citations dated 26 June 1947.
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> Fred Shapiro
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