Talk:1947 flying disc craze/Archive 1

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
 * Table
 * https://wikitable2csv.ggor.de/
 * 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?

Title brainstorm
Feoffer (talk) 19:43, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * 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.