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Learn to fly edition of weekly trivia

On June 24th 1997 the United States Air Force released a report on the 1947 Roswell Incident stating that the alleged UFO was in fact a military balloon and the alien bodies were life sized dummies. We may never know for sure what really happened on that day in 1947 but what we can be sure is that the incident still resonates through pop culture to this day.
While the term ‘flying saucer’ came into common parlance after that event there was another term for UFO’s that allied pilots coined during World War II that did not quite capture the collective imagination in the same way. Can you give me the two word phrase for a mysterious airborne phenomenon that I am looking for?
If you can let me know and the ‘prize’ for a correct answer is me not reporting your name to the government.
Last week I wanted to know the momentous event in Berlin on June 12th 1987 that Ronald Reagan made even more momentous with his challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘tear down this wall.’ The ‘official’ answer is Ronald Reagan was commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin. I thought I was being very clever to trick people into thinking that it was the anniversary of John Kennedy’s momentous ‘ich bin ein berliner’ speech, but the joke was on me. It turns out that Kennedy did make that speech on June 12th because he too was speaking on the anniversary date of Berlin. The campus historians who knew at least one of the correct answers last week were
Jan Pinkerton
Peter Erickson
Matthew Koenen
Long story short I need to take a little bit more of my own advice about conducting better research that I dish out to you all.
Thanks as always for playing!

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