Daylight Disk
Denison, Texas, USA
2 January 1878

The term 'flying saucer' was made popular by a journalist covering Kenneth Arnolds's Sighting of nine flying disks in June of 1947. A farmer John Martin used the term 70 years earlier to describe what he saw on a hunting expedition in Texas.

John Marton saw a dark object high in the Northern sky. He first noticed it to be about the size of an orange, that grew in size as it got closer to him. After a while it had increased considerably in size and appeared to be going quite fast. When it was over him it was the size of a large saucer and at a great height.

Because this UFO was dark, and not a mysterious light, reflective, or silvery, many scientists believe he saw a solid object against the sky, with the light behind it.