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What was Sun Ra's the Trip to Saturn about?
In 1936 or 1937 Sun Ra had a vision where he went to Saturn and aliens told him to drop out of college and make music.
What happened related toSun Ra's trip to Saturn in 1947?
On June 24, 1947, Kenneth Arnold made what is generally considered the first widely reported modern unidentified flying object sighting in the United States.

Question: What were the flying saucers?
Self-contained rewrite: What were Sun Ra's flying saucers?