The phrase flying saucer had gained widespread attention after the summer of 1947. On June 24, a civilian pilot named Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine objects flying in formation near Mount Rainier. Arnold timed the sighting and estimated the speed of discs to be over . At the time, he claimed he described the objects flying in a saucer-like fashion, leading to newspaper accounts of flying saucers and flying discs. UFOs were commonly referred to colloquially, as a Bogey by military personnel and pilots during the cold war. The term bogey was originally used to report anomalies in radar blips, to indicate possible hostile forces that might be roaming in the area.