Talk:1947 flying disc craze/Archive 1
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Notes/Todo
- Handbook of UFO Religions source on 1947 scholarship
- Flying Saucers in the Sky: 1947: when UFOs Came from Mars, potential resource
- Folklore, not ufology. Always lists events in order of public reports, not supposed date of event.
- Data visualization
- Wikisource to Excel:
- Copy text of table
- Convert table row-breaks to newline with search/replace regex ^\|-[\s]*\n
- Convert doublepipes to tabs with search/replace extended || to \t
- Load in excel
- Edit / Sort
- Format dates to mmm d
- Copy (not save) and paste inton notebook++
- Covert newlines to pipedash with search/replace regex ^\|\s* to |-\n|
- Convert tabs to doublepipes,extended search/replace \t to ||
- Map
- https://geocode.localfocus.nl/
- Recolor
- GIF
- Interactive from Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic?
- Map
Title brainstorm
- 1947 UFO wave
- Good: Common in 21st century literature
- Bad: Unforgivably anachronistic ('UFO' term dates to the 1950s, never used in '47)
- Bad: FRINGE (When historians use the term "Wave", it means "wave of reports" but readers will infer it to mean "wave of discs", implying the discs existed)
- Flying disc craze of 1947 or 1947 flying disc craze
- Good: historicity emphasize on behavior -- unambiguous that there was a craze in 47
- Good: Explicitly anti-FRINGE: ("craze", not "wave")
- Bad: Less common than the fringe-promoting titles
- Other:
- "Craze" and "Flap" were the 1940s terms, but "flap" in that sense is largely deprecated by 2022.
- "Mass hysteria" and "mania" were also used, but those terms are long-deprecated in their technical sense. "Mania" the social phenom ala Beatlemania might be salvageable.