The first real saucer sightings, from the first to the events that led to the most important saucer sighting

I rented from the public library "Angles and Aliens: UFO's and the mythic imigination" by Keith Thompson
So far from what I read it was pretty interesting, and it was just the prologue and the introduction to the chapters.  I have a feeling this will bring alot of insite to my little research.  Here we go...
Reading...
Kenneth Arnold was the most famous saucer sighting, Happening in 1947, Pendleton Oregon June 25th.  He said he saw 9 flying saucers and clocked them at 1,200 miles an hour skipping along the surface of earth like rocks on water.  He was "well-regarded citizen- rescue pilot, businessman, and deputy sheriff."  Soon after others came out with stories, feeling that Arnold led the way for them to speak about their happenings.  Most turned out to be completely fake, making Arnold's accounts seem the same as well.

Although one of the most publicized it was not the first sighting reported, it was actually in Sweden and Finland the previous year in 1946 but were said to be a secrete weapon development with the Germans.

Between November 1896 and May 1897 thousands saw dirigible like objects in the western and mid western states, however it was 5 years prior to the Wright brothers first flight...



The whole point being that even though a century earlier there were sightings it wasn't enough to get the public really rallying about UFO stuff.  I'm assuming that because regular brodcast television began the same year in 1946.  There needed to be a way for the public to find out quicker... 
I googled what happened in the year 1946, get a load of this.  Prior events to Arnolds accounts
-Janurary: First United Nations meeting, Project Diana happened (we bounced radar waves off the moon) which started the space age, the UN Security council has its first meeting, the CIA is established.
-May- the First V2 rocket was launched in White Sands
-July- nuclear testing, first underwater testing of the atom bomb
-August- Atomic Energy Commission is established
-October- first UN meeting is held
1947
-Janurary- First publicized US congress proceedings, the SPC was founded "The Secretariat of the Pacific Community, or SPC (sometimes Pacific Community), is a regional intergovernmental organisation whose membership includes both nations and territories. It aims to "develop the technical, professional, scientific, research, planning and management capability of Pacific Island people and directly provide information and advice, to enable them to make informed decisions about their future development and well-being"
-Feburary- Metor crashes in the soviet union, Voice of America begins to transmit radio brodcasts, US army sends the first animals into outter space, the International Civil Aviation Orginization is established
-May-Truman doctrine is signed to help stop the communist,
-June-Seaman Harold Dahl claims to have seen six UFOs near Maury Island in Puget Sound, Washington. On the next morning, Dahl reports the first modern so-called "Men in Black" encounter,



then leads us to Arnolds sightings...



July-July 7 – A supposedly downed extraterrestrial spacecraft is reportedly found in the Roswell UFO incident, near Roswell, New Mexico, which was written about by Stanton T. Friedman.
July 26 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into law, creating the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.




This research took hours lol of reading... I'm done for today...
But how strange the events happened, like they planned in advanced for the events...
I don't know what my conclusions are yet but I only read 3 pages of the book and had to do so much other research, that was alot!