It has billions of scanned in and searchable newspaper pages. It’s allowed a Bigfoot researcher, Scott McClean, to find hundreds of unknown old-time Bigfoot reports. (He’s put them on a CD, “Big News Prints.”)

It’s a pay site, costing about $75 a year. But I think they have a free one-week trial membership.

1.
Angels and extraterrestrials in contemporary dramatic and filmic literature
by Donovan, Derek Michael, M.A., Stephen F. Austin State University, 1995, 147 pages; AAT 1375411

2.
Brothers from the sky: Myth and reality in a flying saucer group
by Tumminia, Diana Jean, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1995, 193 pages; AAT 9524407

3.
Flying saucers and the new angelology: Mythic projection of the Cold War and the convergence of opposites
by Flaherty, Robert Pearson, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1990, 726 pages; AAT 9033923

4.
THE BOUNDARIES OF ORTHODOXY: A FOLKLORIC LOOK AT THE “UFO PHENOMENON”
by ROJCEWICZ, PETER MICHAEL, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1984, 738 pages; AAT 8417353

5.
SYNTHESIS AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF LARGE NICKEL – CARBONYL – PHOSPHINIDENE AND ARSINIDENE CLUSTERS AND A NOVEL PLATINUM-24 CARBONYL CLUSTER
by MONTAG, RUTH ANN, Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1982, 466 pages; AAT 8301879

6.
ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS AND SUPPORT-SEEKING BEHAVIOR: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT ORGANIZATIONS IN THE UFO (FLYING SAUCER) FIELD
by SCHUTZ, MICHAEL KELLY, Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1973, 448 pages; AAT 7330717

I can’t locate the dissertation you referred to in your Maury Island UFO, mainly because there is no index.

Perhaps you mean the research paper by Herbert Strentz, from which I quote:

“A study of news clippings of June 25, and June 26, 1947, suggested that the name ‘flying saucers’ was not created by any particular reporter but rather was the product of headline writers. Reporters then, it seemed, incorporated that descriptive title in their stories.”

Bequette wrote about “saucerlike objects” in his original article, which may be where the term was derived, as you said in your original comment.

Thanks for making me get a couple of books off the shelf, but the original source for the term is still shrouded in mystery. My shame is diminished by an actual confirmation that the wikipedia article is accurate, if incomplete.

As I recall someone did a PhD dissertation about the term that I referred into in the MI book, and my newspaper research demonstrated that many people saw saucers just before Arnold had his sighting. One woman actually photographed one on the 18th. I do remember a little frustration trying to find the original newspaper account of Arnold. I couldn’t really tell if any of these people who claimed earlier sightings had made that claim before Arnold’s account appeared.

I don’t know if that’s the definitive account (it’s what I used to think), but the wiki entry on that issue brings up various scenarios about exactly who came up with the term. They do of course mention the Bequette story.