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NND 90986
HEADQUA R TE RS
AIR DEFENSE COMMAND
IN IUi.PlY
REFER TO,
MITCHEL FIELD, NEW YORK
12 Septel.'liber 19iT
'OBJCCT a Unident1f'ie Flying Objoot
(Int rvin - Alphew, o. Powell)
SUl.nlART O? mamaTIO I
The following information ft8 recei'Y&d 12 At1£U1t 1947 fro:i Ur.
lpheua O. P01'ell, 28 Redwood Road, New Hyde Park, Loni; hlWld, rel tifl
to the sighting of a poaoible flying d1so ~ Augu•t 194T.
On 4 Auguet 19•7,
r Powell, an Airlinea Captain with P n American
Ainni.ye , Jne., waa the firet pilot or a Con1tollat1on type airoraft on•
flight trcm Gander,
ewtoundland, to La Guardia Field..
1ew York.
Mr. Powell
took oTer the airoratt at Gander,
ewfoundla.a.d and departed at approd111atel7
l2SO P. lf., Eo.ateni Dqlight Saving 'Hm ror La Guardia Field, Bow York.
At
1600 P • • , at
poe1tioa approximately lld.dway between the Enrett (
a) F&n
Arker IUld the Bedford Badio Eoooon (ETerott ie 3 mile• ffl7 or Boeton.. Ka••••
and Bodford 1• 15 ms.1..
or the same oity) both llr Powoll and Mr iv.
1:e,
naT16ator on this trip, •i(;bted wrl.dent1.i'ioble flying objeota.
fo the be•t
ot llr . Povell'• knowledge, the tollonng weatbar oond1t1ons existed at that
time ,
Visib1li't7 wae 6oodJ cloud oo.erage ••• trom. 8- 9/l.Oths# with topn at
10. 000 feeta md the wind at the e.ooo toot level was eati:.atod o.s bcin&
270/25 mlca per hour.
The iroratt was at a.ooo teet1 airspeed 266 mphi
&!ld the course•• 214 degre••• magnetic.
Ur mute, who wae sitting in the co-pilots seat (the right aide ot
the oookpit) fir1t ce.lled 11:r. Powell ' ■ attention to a bright orango objeot,.
-.rhich was on the right ald• ot' the plane, and slightly below the lovol of' the
a1rerart.
Jlr Powell fflll unable to 1ee the object. a1 he ba.d no visibility to
the right nd down. from bla position.
Po,rell inmediatoly cl11noed out bi1
eide wiudow and noticed, at a 45° angle to the lort. and unidentified tl:y1ng
object.
It wu bout one mile nay at an altitude or approx1matel 7 1, 800
feet.
Irr- Powell banked to obtain a better view or the objeot.
The object
'fte under obaervat1on ~or approxtmatoly 50 ••oond1, and during thie time waa
vie,red by
Ponlle 1lr Powell dHor1be4 the objeot aa being bout the length
ot & P-40 t uaelage , blunt at both end■ , 07llnclrioal in abspe. and hatlng a
bright oran,o hue.
Kr Powell. stated that the object had• definite sbapo,
d
that there 1me no aucgeatioa or gaaeoua d1ec1pe.t1on •• there would be lf the
orange color wore the •xbauat tro~ • rocket, or a jet airoratt.
Mr ~owell
eatimato4 the oouree or th• objoot to be 200° magnetic, end that th• object
wae tra-relling at approxinatel:, 160 aph.
Kr Po,rc,11 loat sight or th• object,
when. • oleud oaae between. the aircraft and the object.
:rhe pursuit of 'th•
object ..._. not oontinud. lnaaJIWOh H it would ha-re neoeaaitated a departur•
from the eetabliahed aiJ"'lla1'••
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CONFID~NTIAL

C b N -F I D E ~~ T I A L
HEADQ U ARTERS
AIR DEFENSE COMMAND
IN REPlY
MITCHEL FIELD, NEW 'I/OR~
IIEFEII TO:
StmJI?C'f z.
Unldcntified Flying Object,
(Interview -
alter I. \i'hlto)
S0?.!!1\RY OP Ir.FOlll!AHO t
15 Septeaber 194,'7
The follo-.ung informtion rcl~tivo to th8 d htiug or f. possible
tlying di~o 6 Auzuat 1947. was received 10 Septo bor 1941 from Mr. Walter
I . 'Whito, 19-67 19th Street. Ja.clcaon He1ghta, h• York.
On 4 Ausu,t 1947., Hr.
1te, Pen American Airwa,-
Ino. • wao tho
navigator or• Comtellation typ• &iroraft 011 & flight :fro O nder., Baw­
roundlo.nd to La Guardia f iel4, New York.
At 1600; at & po•ition appro~i­
matel y 10 miles
, or Bosto11, l!ua• ., Mr- v::bitc aighted a .tlyin(S object '1hioh
h• waa unable to identif'7. At thi• time IL'" lffllit• was oi'ttift6 1n the co­
pilote sent, and loolc'lns out the right aide tor other uroratt that mlcht
be in the, vie111S:t:,.
J6r Wb1te •te.ted that when he t1rst i~ted t!te object.
it nppou-od to o about S miloa awuy, aud at l•Qat 1. 000 ~eet beloir the leffl
or the Conetellation.
Mr i:hite beli•~•• tut he etudled th object tor almo■t
SO aecond• befcre he called th• pilot'• att:Gntioa to it.
White doncr1bed
the object•• 'being a deep gold in color. md that its• surface rerlected
lieht. It appeered to bo bout 113 feet iJl:. length,. and. f'rOltl 2-:; feet in depthJ
elli ptloal in 1h9pe and blanted at th cn4e.
Hr
te eati ted the speed of
the obj1ot as being 176 mi.lea per hour. e.nd that it
tra..-ellin& in 11D ee.at­
rl y cilreotion~ one eourso ot approxitlately llOQ
r,uetia.
Mr Wlute then
told tho nirore.ft oomm:i.ndor that there wns wi un1dentU'ied object to the r16}\t.
and ag~in glanced ..out to observe the objoot, oatoh1ng a me atary gl1111.pce ot
it before th9 pilot b11nked the pl ne to the left.
ffllen tbt e.1rorntt banltod
Ur White lost light of the 0bjsat.
At thil potnt. Mr Powell, 'the aircraft
C&ptain, exolaime<l that he wa.s &ble to eo a air:d.lar obj9ot on hia o1do.
Jir \'ihit. was unsble to ts o tne objeot on '
Pcrwoll' e •ide.
ne •tated the.t
he does not bel1en that it wuc tho• • obj~ot that he had Tielffld ift.8.elllUCh
aa the on he li&W 1r it ha<t romaiuod on the aa
oow- e woud ha.TO beou
hidden trom 'View b;y that titie b7 'tho Wii:iGB t1nd tail oectioff! or the Conctella­
tion.
~ ffld to st tod 1.hat the pilot thoo righted the plo.:a.o.
t'he ontb•• iu­
oident transpired in leoe 'then a min~te ond one-halt.
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'Mr tvhito deacriMa 'tlie
ath~, ooniition et the tilne of' si&btinE•
•
0
folloirs a a'bout 6/lOt aoattered oumul ua, arith top• at 10.000 r et: vidblH.ty
10 miloe, w1rid at t·Ught lowl. 'l'est at a:bout 16 lllph.
1'he !'light level of th•
airoraft &t this ti
,nq,, a .'000 feet, TAB 270_ and tho
cnotlo course was SW.
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AGEB1'S HOfflS ,
J4r ,c.lter I .
1:te ha obeon employed by P&n
rioan Airway,
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for -the pa.at t'i "\"O years •• a
Tiie.tor. and during the
r Y10r1cod with Pil
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co~~FIDE~~TIAL

co~~FIDE~~TIAL..
in conjunotion Wit h coctraot flying for th• .AlF.
Mr TJblt. eta.tea tbat he
ho.1 tloWA 'With Mr Ponll on a nmber of' oocaaiona, and h• ooruiclera h1a
to be a Tery atabl• pertonJ completely reliable, an4 not t;iven to
•t11ght1 or tu.or".
Reb.te4 Reports So• Swmaa17 or lnfont&t1on, 12 September 194'7• Bq !DC.
aubjeot~ •t1u1dentiti•d FlyiAg Objeota• (intemew • AlpbGua O. ?owell).
Prerloua Distribution,
- lone
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'ftluaticm
Diltr1but1on
- AAF (S oop1ea)
or aowce
or 1llt'ormat1oll
- ADC (2 oop1e1)
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AOE!JTS JIO'l'ES t
Mr. A. O. Powell 11 a graduate or the ATiation Cadet Flying
Training Program. ha-.1.ng gradua.ted from Marnll l.l'ield, Alabama. With the
Class ot ,n.c.
Since graduation.. Irr. Powell ha.a flo,m .for Ptll!. AJHrioe.n
Airway• and. at thi• date, h&a onr ~, 000 oomm.and pilot houra to hla credit.
Mr . Powell appear, to boa cala, intelligent ind1Tidual, ~ot giwu t o
flights or tan.oy, or eaeilT •waT•~ by what he hae previoualy r~4 in the
ne..,.papere •• reg•rda report• or thi• tn,e.
Jtr. Po,rell haa a rear ot publi­
oity and eeemed h•e1tant to enn tell hia atory leat he beoo'IM tM objoot ot
ridicule.
llz- Powell was queationed as to the poasibility that what he
aighte4 mi6ht have been a tow target, a pilot b&lloon, or a radioaonio device
uaed for meteorological purpose••
Kr Powell at&ted that he has aeen aumerou,
pilot balloona, radioaonic device• and tc,r targets, while on f l ight•J the
object obaer,..d on thi• flight defhi tel7••• •ot on• ot th••
Prerloua Distributions
- Rona
of eo
Evaluati on
uroe
or Wormatio11
C
8
Distribution
- AAF (S copies)
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ADC (2 copiea)
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1. ~orwar4ocl for latoraaUoa ot 70ur Bea4'11&Z'tera.
2. !ldo Bead.q-a.anere baa 11&4.o ao la•oo'1pUoa ot •nnac Dl ■ o•
~r\e be-.uo lilli• 1• aa ho1a,oc1 oaH.
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Report on Loofl. "'fflPS Diac"
1>333.5 ID (8 Jul 47
2nd In1
HQ., ADl DEP'DSB COIOIARD, Kitchel Field, Bew York, 2S JuJ.r 1947.
'1'01
CollaandiA& General, A.NT Air Forces, lfa•hington ~5, D. c.
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Forwarded tor your intoraation.
FCR TH! COIIU.NDING GENERAL:
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,ror ■lrml"9hllffl •fk1 Y~~
• fJartfy cloudy end we,m toctayf t.
night end tomorro,w wlttt • few
scattered shower• this aftMnoon.
Hlth today N, low tonltht 70, hlth
tomorrow IO.
PftlCI:
CINTS
cers Reported
rom
y • t~,teS, But· Seem
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City Is Baffled By
·-Dazzling Display
Of· Spooky Discs
• TIM stra111e. th1ap tut haT•
been Lil nfaht lkJes naee ..June 25,
WeN o-,er Blrmhapam last nlallt.
On one thtn1 everyone who bu
...._ Ille mystertoua objects acre•
-tbeJ are round, saucer-lib. After
that. every ,tory differs. Each ol
the hundreds of callers who re--
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parted wttnetliq the bafflinl UT )
delllon1tratlou here last nl1ht hacl
a different Yenion of what the7
....
lome 1ald the objects -ro
larp, ,ome small. TIiey were mov•
,
.._ at ll"eat ,peed. Tbe, were 1u.
padecl hl the air. Tbere wu aound
,i.. Witll ~Ir movement.. Tbe7
m"8d nolNleulythrQa,h the blaek
~- TIiey were at ,reat diatance
from the earth.~ bad fallen to
the ,niaDd. They were la perfect
formalloa. Tbq weN collldlDC
with Neb other.
But wbatever the thm,a are that
have aet the nation acot liDce f1nt
reported 12 da)'I aco by a man la
W'~n State, the7 cleflnltelY
were over the Malle City Jut nilbt.
It seem., ID fact, that more Bu,.
minlbam realdenta aaw the objects
tball hl ~
other place.
• llEPORTS BEGAN comiq hlto
the Aae-B"erald city room atvand
I o'doclt Jut Dlabt. For more tball
a11 lroour thereafter, the place was
bedlam. Tbe switchboard operators
were swamped with calla. Repo~
en, office boy1, copy rwaders ­
evel)'one In the place wu cajled
lllto actJon.
y
Reports came In from Ecqewoocf.
Mountain Brook, Avondale, Soutb­
1lde, Palrfleld, Pratt Cll7, Wut
End, Central PU$. Beuemer.
Tbere wu fear, exclteme!)t. b.or­
ror, S;!re~•J~.-..,.. ~~
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~Flying
Saucers RlpOi1ed
,In ·Birniinaha■ Skies
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Altlloqll tbe reporta to1l'lle A,._
Benld lat Dilld ........ off at
aboal t p.m., tMN ...... llul call
ftaa 'a mu at JI, ..,_ .. hd
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die ob,lec!ta Oftr. tie IOUth­
Nltern lfftlon. 'fll1I IDOl"lliq, t.bere
,... more reperta, DION quert•
eominl Into Tile News.
)IIJ. WllltelllaedaJDelllllto
Blrmiqbam Nlidnta: "Wa'U do
neryWq U.. Ana, Air Forefl I
empowered to do,to run down t.be
lll1lterJ ol Ult dllca. Thia tblJII
..... to ..... _... be,olld tbe
)obit of. IIPft1llatla. Blm!t111~m
cu rest u..-ad tbe air bue wW
keep -
tbe alert uW tbe .,..
t.ry ls aettfed." •
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1a- lDto Ilia tnlll ~
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fonnatl~ ta.lY mlpt 11U1ff OD~ ~
11.pte ol a DO.a' and lT II#
matter, .. aid;
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• Jdill bup,9' lie rnorted.
OUAftft DClTUl&NT of
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Uae ~ eeae wbea a mun-
_..... 1amee Bala. 1111 Soutll atll
DeN4 IOIM of tba dllCI bad fallft Street, uw tbt'N diael tra....unt
la a raYiM MIi' Avoawood: Ar. lrolll •Mt to welt. Two more were
IIOrier ud ~apb•r wot b lpotted later, ~
b, a ltp&l•
iba
ICll9MI UMl folUld IIOtbiq. dlle, u aeta~•1:ua.rec1.
Reeld•ata ol die dlltrW ul4 Ula
J . L. Xardua, noo autoa 9tNet.
dlles bad PIINd low and appeared Beaemer reportacl ...uaa "atruae
to ba~ falll9 lD tlaa Ina.
lllhW-- movlq tllrouah Uie 1k1 be-
Boben c.aaanc;_Ap,Renld ~ .._.mer aa4'1ted Mouataln.
eGP1 ~
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Ilia camera -r11e7 ,.... -••• -- ...... ., lie
wbea tlaa o\aiaeta :,aaed o.er Ilia aald.
•- ·-, --.
re■lddae oa alll Strea and Blah•
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laad A..-n-. Bia deftloped flla
"'W1alrllu UIIOUI- were nDC)l'ted
nvealed two rouacl. wldta •Potl oa aeea -
Ifaa. Smhi, 1', lal 10th
the black, elole tioaltller, one l•rt- Place, loath. and lllamn Pllaro, 15,
er thaa tM otller. lie aald be laff GI 10tb A v • a a a, 8outb. "We
Ula plctaN a 15-NeoDd expoaure. weren't loold.al for tum," .tbe bon
nva otber penom_,.... with him reported. "We were ataad11 111 tile
wbu tlaa plelure wu made.
yard wben we uw rouD
allver
But wltn-■-- aren't needed anr Dathe• clrclllll around. THJ came
lCJlllU' to l)e.ar out raporta of UM one at a Ume at flnt, tho die num­
atralll• demonatratloa. Too~n., 1lier lDcnlfed. n-, Named to 10
penoU-Cood, aoUd dtbe
ave over the moaatalJl.
aeen the tblnp. In fact, they're
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tblnlrl•I r,t eallblC Ula ahow out at
At police beadquuten, Offlcer
Jlunpr Bowl tonllbt, "Tba Dlao- E. E. MeNaal aald reporta ol the
lllbt Opara."
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dllea MIU at 1:10 p.m. aad CNNd
about ao mlDat91 later,
Scores Of People Report
"Strem of•u;bt t1y1q • • r,.
r --;- My-ious Discl,
alow" ware reported .. bJ 11n.
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u. 11. Sockwell. ueo llu4ow
Bnldenta of Eut Lake,
uth- Greaa Aent. SIM la1d 1be ~
atde, West &ad, Woodla'WJI and ~
lDto Mr y.,-4 u -,c,a u lbe Marci
•mar reported ■eelnl the flylnl the a-.port on the radio. &be ucl
cUaca or aaucara tut DiJbt. One dlae ber baabaad and tiff Mil'bbonaaw
wu reported IND yesterday after- atx of the ~
ftJinl •~
low...
aooe Offr die Warrior River. Th• Bbe utd th-, were tu ala of a
aumber _.D at one time varied.
"'810 Al TA■LI.I"
N1M ol the dlael we.re -n by
-i eallad to flDd out if rm
CoDnla Murdocb, 512 South 10th
cru.,,.. aald·Mn. Gordon MJN,
Court-
"'1'lley -re 101>1 of lllht
at UM Baaemer Super-Hlab­
= .-.MUld the aky," ahe re-
way, wbo telapbened TM
•..
"-- tlua ~r:r=
H. S. ...,_, Ull '8th Street.
aald lie and Mlclabon uw "40 or --=~abeand.­
IO" Upt n,ota Ill the ay, apparp~
laaabud aD4 tMlr -- ....
tbe ''balll of tin" u tbe7 pre­
~ 17 over die Central Park A1r(Rlrt
pared to 1et lDto ttaelr ear
after a vlait with Mr. and Mn.
U"8L
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GordOD Buab at Brtptcm, t.
tween t :IO and 10 tut lllCbt.
She aa1d the flub u,hta.
,wbleb appeared
a■ bellcoll
l.lpta ~ over a blll, CUM
°'1! realdent ol Bllll Lab. be• '
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Tbe Uptll would ea111e at
lllhtninl ,peed and tbea .top
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I, Staff Sergeant Irn L. Livi~•ton, RA 1h li:;J 07?, Air ~oros, h..ve
a,,,,roxim,.tel;v- 250 """''-="11 fly~ time f\S "Oilot --nd Armorer Ou.nner have
the folloving t~tement to mA'lce {"Onct'!rning the 11.T>nearence of "1'lyin,v; D1 acs"
in the Ticinity of ~irminghrun, Aln.bama.
At 204" hours, 6 July 1Cl47 • :hilo !
·r-,s e"'tiDP' si.,~er ot my residence
l\t 1354 Meedow Lane, Gre-?n Acres, Birmingham, U/'\bama, rrr::, next door nei.ghbor,
1-lr. 'Herman H. Sookvel 1 • c~llP.d for Me to come to th.e front ~oor the.t there w PrP
cooe "J'l.yi~ 'T)iace" outside.
Im.~ediPt~ly I went out in thP front y .. r~ to
observe the objects.
The objects ~'One"red to th.e '<l'e11t of 'Birming'·e.m trAveUng
in~ South .,~stern r•r~~t•on .
They """'ll)eared to be n~~rorlmntely ?()()() fe~t
abovi, the horizon t"t .. lu; d."!gree angle from 'flhere ! w .. s st9ni.,1v "'t n n un­
eatimated ~istAnce PY~Y~
The objects r'l")ne!'ll"ed to be ~,,nroxtm~tely t vo (?)
feet in diameter, roun~ in ehA~e, "!)roduollag A ~im P,low of 11,-,bt rnd trpvnli~
at ~n est1mate1.aneed of five (5) to six (6) h.undr~d miles ner hour.
The object• or obj~ct An"Oe· red to be trAveling in P definite ore rather thAn
straight ~nd AB soon c~ one WPS out of ~ip,ht /'\nother woul d An~ear be~i d
it, but not nlw,va in the s me -oath.
! q p w one th~t SPemed to come atr~i£ht
u~.
The view of where it cl'tllle f r o~ w~s obstructed by~ nearby house; ~nd
when 1t r"l'IChed the ltltitude of A'!>""'l"oximately 2000feet, it •tarted off in
the •~e direction ~a tne oth~ra.
I did not Pt any time see ADY more than
one at the time and even though there could haTe been on _y o .e, 11\V -•~•n"~!
belief 1• that there wore eeven (7) to ten (1~). 'l'he Discs were silent ,ind
aTI'?eared to be col!J"Ooaed of e einr,le lir.bt.
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Ir~ L. LiTingaton
St...ff Sergeant, 1lA 14 153 972
Subscribed Pnc'I sworn to b,fore me this 7th ~,r:r of July 1q47.
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IA, ATLAN'r.IC DIVISitfi, ATC, FORT TOTrEH, L.I., HE\l YORK
6 Aug 47
TO:
Commanding General, A.1r Tre.nsport Canmand, \1aab1ngton 25, D.c.
AT'l!h Cbie! ot Start
Forw.rded in accordance with inst
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..... 9lgbting
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w1th •nying Diece•.
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s. Alti tude
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Approxillatel,7 10,000 ffft high.
6. "8ather
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High scattered corniU.onJ 'rlsib1.11ty betti,r
than titteen (lS) miles.
7.
Heading
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From South, heading ?n,1E (approxiantely 30° )
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Speed
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High velocity; stated to be taater th~n a
conventional airplane.
9.
Description :
The observers saw a light which at tirot appeared
to be a ,hooting star or airplane. It appeared
again, and a m1111ber ot intermittant fiashe• were
seen tor a period of appro,:imately three (3) mi.nut.a.
The nashea were reddish in color.
Observers aa14 it
was not a tailing star because it did not appear aa
such; nor was it an airplane, l>ecause ~s~wee
too abrupt and the?"e was no noise ot a motor.
10. Reported by: Miss Patricia .Abbott, (Nffl'foundla'¥! 'National) Ooverment
&aployee and Lt. Halllllakar, t:S.vigator and Public Relat­
ions Of'ticer.
ll. General
The intormants (noted in Par.10) were waltd.ni when they
noticed a peculiar reddish light. Both Miss Ahl;\ctt and
Lt. Hamaker stated that at first., they thought it was
a 1'alli,ng atar, ·but it left no streak. It appeared
again; they thought 1i micbt be a plane flying at. n
very high altitude.
Alter obeerri..'lC i ta am:>9Uffl"a,
they concluded, because or the silence (no hum ot mot.er)
and abrupt darts ot the U g.lit., it, was definately not
Ill\ Airplane.
Neither Iii•• .Abbot.t nor l,t. Hammaker bwl
seen anythlre; like it be!Ol"e.·
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WILLIAM Ji• 00TH
Captain, Air Corps,
Intelligence Of'ficer.
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Sighting
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Time
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Altitude
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FINAL REPOOT OF SI GHTING
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s 1388th A.AF' !U, llBC, ATLD', ATC. Harmon Field, Newfoundland.
: F1.yi.ng :lisc or other ajrborne object.
Approx six (6) miles SSW of Harmon Field.
20CI0/7., 10 July 1947
: 8- 10,000 ft.
: Clear, Scattered CUmulus 8 - 10, 000 ft.
: N?lE on horizontal course.
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Very high velocity.
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Shape & Size: Circular like a 1'8eel, estimated to be same s i ze as a C-54
10.
Color
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Fhotograpl.s:
12. Reported By:
13.
General
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as seen f'ron 10, 000 ft.
Translucent or Silvery, l eft ~ 1Jl uish Black trail approx
15 miles l ong.
?.r. Robert w. Leidy reported that he took two .!2) Kodachrome
snap shots of the trail.
~T. John N. !'erhman, TWA. mechanic; '.r. John W • .toodruft,
PAA rtechanic; and l.'r. Robert E. Letdy, PAA mechanic report,'9<1
the above facts to the Intelligence Officer on 15 July 1947.
A Flash eport was T.tX ed t o :
Action copy
Conmandine
General, Hq. ATC, Attn. Asst. Chief of Staff , Intelligence.
Info copies:
Comr-anding Generals Hq. ATLD and Hq. NBC
~ister's t'erh.,nan, Vfoodruff, and Leidy ~e enroute !'ran
Stephenville Crossing to Harmon Field at the time of the
sighting.
1:•r. Vloodruff was the first to sea th!t Disc, it
a ppeared t o rent or split the clouds thru which it passed
and le.ft a Eluish Black trail approx. fitteen (15 ) miles .
l ong behind it. The trail was similar to the afterglmr or
a powerful landing light or search light beam after it is
suddenly switched off.
lhe object maintained a straight and
horizontal course 11ccording to Mr. Mertunan and~. Woodrutt,
Mr. ·Leidy stated it appeared to be on a great curved course
on a horizontal plane. The object disappeared into the
Morth Northeast.
~ . Leidy sqs he took two (2) Kodachr0ffl9
Photographs or the trail. The film has been transmitted
to the Asst. Chi ef of Staff, Intelligence, Newhundland
BMe Command for processing.
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11. Reported by~
12. General
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1388th AAF RAse Unit
AP0 864, ~/o Postmaster, New York, N.Y.
Flying Dj sc or other airborne object.
Codroy, N~wroundland, 59co3 • W Long.; 1,7o50, N Lat.
OOJOZ hours, 11 July 1947.
Appro"ld.mately 6.000 feet.
Clear; at dusk.
From northwest heading eastward.
Very hieh velocity.
Disc shat>eli; was reported as being the she of a
barrel-head, ~inner-plate arvt. ~ize of a plane
that is flyL~g high.
The trail i ave t he whole
object the appearance of a cone.
Flame color ed with a trail of a lighter name ~nlor.
Mr. John Legge, Mr. lb. Ev&ns and Albert Samm.9 of
Codroy, N~wfoundland.
Mr. Legge and Mr. Evans were standing 011tside Mr. Legge 's
store when they both sighted the o bjec+..
Both "len stated
t hat the di sc was very bright with an after-r,1.ow which
made the object look like a cone. It was a very clear
night. In s!)ite of the high velocity of the fiyin g
object, they said they ~ould not possibly have mistaken
it for a plane or a r~lling star. Besides the two Men,
the object ffllS sighted by Albert Sam:ns; he rP-portert what
he had seen t.o his mother.
Mrs. Samms stated t hat Albert
was in no way a larmed about it, he w~s alor.e and on hi s
way hC1mo when he sighted it, arxl watched it llhile it wae
in si ~t.
'-ll)ert was quite convinced fran the color and
behaviour of the object that it was not a plane, but
de!'inately sa:ie !'lytng objPJct.
The inforinant, Vr. Legce, is believed to be reliable.
H'i is ·a man of approxim11.tely .forty; has had considerable
experience as f oreman ot B•1chan3 l!ir,e, Newfoundland, where
he was in charcc of three hundt-ed m~n.
During the war,
Mr. Legee was si mamber of a civilian volunteer Air
D-,uction Corps.
With that >, ckg:round, Vr. Legge stAted
that he felt sure thlit the object he had seen was eorne-/
thing new which he had never seen before.
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Final Report of Si(1lt ing
General cont'd ,
~lbert Sann• 1s a t w~l•~ year old boy .
He was alone
when he saw the fiying objer.t, he wa::: very denr,1te
il1t1.t ·,e no.ti never seen anything 1i\r.e it bef r-re. Hie
mot.her, Mre. Semnu,, ia the Pret Mistress ot thi- t ~wn,
and after hee.rinr; Al bert' :: d•er:ri~tion, felt that it
antnrered to the deec..iption of a •Flying Disc".
Ur.
Legge reported h i s -.ight in~ shortly afterw&rds to Mrs.
S&IT"Tls b .. , . .,, se hP was sure it shoiild be IT'&de known to
her in order th11t tt i!- i ncident nrl ght be r ep,,rteri ~·
t.clegram t!fflle<\:1 at,-,~ .
There wa~ one other sight,~c report.~ from A 11 vqr
War den at South Br ancl- .
The !!\an ~0•1ld not be con­
t ,1,ct,,,ct at time or inter view,. with other partiea.
~owev~r, a secor,d-hand rlescrlption or his ,nghting
WA!' obt'll n811, and it agreed with the siv}ltings at
Codrey.
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lnU,IAl,I H. Sl!ITH
Captain, Air Cor ps ,
Intelligenr.• 0 ficer.

eaNFIDENTfAL
FitlAL REPcm' OF SIGHTING
1. Organization:
1J88th AAF Bass Unit
APO 864, c/o Post."118ster, N~ York, N.I.
2.
Sighting
Plying Disc or other Airborne Obj ect.
J. Pl&ee
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On bo&rd Steamship ltBUROec>" enroute from Sydney,
Mova Scotia to Port &CY Basque~, Pfewtomdland,
ahout one hour out h-o:n Sydr-~.
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Alttt,ude
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JOO otr t.tte h,.,rbori e.t an est!.,.ated quart, • mile range.
6. Weather
s Cl.ear am dark.
7. Heading
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lfNB (J(1-) East, ,:,f True Horth) on hor1Mntal plane.
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Speed
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H!gn nlocit7, stated to be teeter than a tr!lc~r bull -,t .
9. Descrip+,ion s
OlserYers did. not see u,e o-.,je~t, thf!tY saw 1te n.ashes
am all ~our t'hservers agref:li there W1tre rour (h) or
fiT"' (S) nashP~ approxi-nately one (1) secon:' apart
arrl ~uidistant.
'nle tlAshes were said to be a1lnry
to reddish i n eolo~, an~ were described. by two ob~erv­
9rs to he like t.hoee or a F!rs Fly ,:,nl_y larger and at.
,:,q-.tal intervals, an~ did not look like a sh~ot!n~ star
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10.
Reported by:
lfessrs Maitlluxi, L11.rldn, Do~s and H•ilton ot
Hamilton, Metcalfe and Kansas City Brfdg9 Companies
wfiich concern i• doing the c-mstructiOD at Haraon '1.eld.
11. General
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Tt\e tour gentlemen (noted in Par.lo) and Capta.1.n Gullage,
Mae♦,er ot thP "Burgeo•, were standing on the starboard
deck, and •• the Captain was trying t 'J Jescribe a pt"erloua
Bighting, he ■aw the tla ■hes; the other tour gentlemen
al.so eaw th• "~ deacrib4td her91n, and believed that it
,ras not a aeteorite or airplane N9C&UH ot its ■peed,
color, and ev.,~ spaced discharge, or nashes.
Captain Gullage to1d the tour e"lntl....n that he h'ld Hat
t h~ same thing at approximately the SUl't time and location
(ehlp'• position) on the eTening ot 15 Jlil.y 1947, except
at that tt,.,.,, the object or tlallhee were tra•elin~ tast er
and frequently lhangin~ enurae (he ■aid it chang-1 cour■e
ahruptl7 sevf.rnl times) and was headed generally to the
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Fi.Tl<.). ReP<?r~ of Si ghting:
, s&"W.
The Captain also told the four gentlP"Uen
Genoral cont'd
th=. t he 110 ~ willing tr, make a complet~ report
if the infor mation !s desired for official
purposes.
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Captain, Air Corps
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STATEM."".!iT OF MR. J OHB P. LE'zGE, CORDEOY, NE/,'FOUN.JL.:'JiD.
TA}~ BY
l4~CEDES BU3.KE OF '"'HE INT~ IGE:lCE "'FiICE, HARMO;I FI~LD, pw]'OUND­
LAND.
17 July 1947.
At approximately 10 o'elook in the e•ening of 10 July 1947
I was etanding by my store door; I happeo~d to l ook up and saw
wnat appeared t~ be a "FLYING SAUC~?.". It definately was not a
ah•oting star: I'd e~en se•eral stars shoat before, but ne•er like
thial aor was it an a i roplane, it was too "lit up" and tra~eling
at t•• great a speed.
It wasn't an air0plane on fire because it
would have fallen in the ~ater.
It ~as a niee elear night, no
e l ouds, it ~as jus t getting dark.
I would say it was tra•eling at
the rate of a shooting star but mueh •loser. I'd es:y r ~ugbly at
6, 000 feet. It was visible fo r about fifteeD (15 ) seoonds.
It
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The oirole looked to
be about the s ize of a barrel head, and th~ trail behind looked
to be about f ifteen (16) feet long.
~he trail behind the dis•
made the ~bol e object look l ike a eone.
Another thing that makes
me feel sure i t wa~n• t a- shooting atar is: a shooti ng s tar usually
lea~es a temporary streak , this objeot I saw left no streak only
the one that appeared to travel behind the circle wbieh looked like
an after-glow .
The oirele was a bright red , nearest I could des­
eribe it ~ould be t he eolor o~ a flame, the after-glow(eone-shaped)
waa a £sinter shade.
What I s aw las t Thursday night resemble d a
shooting star in no way ~hatsoe•er.
There was only one.
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STATEMENT OJ MR. WM. EVANS, CORDROY'' ?fEWP'OUNDLABD. TAKEN BT
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MERCEDES BURKE OF THE INTELLIGEBOE OFFIOEi HARMOB FIELD, •n­
FOUBDLAND.
17 Jul! 1947•
At approxi■ately 10 •'•look in the eTentnc of 10 July 1947,
I was standing eut si de Kr. Legga's store tal king with him.
W•
both aaw this thine dash aeroae the elq.
I oouldn't be aoeurate
about the direotiona. If it was a shooting star , I'd neYer seen
one as large befor•• and it waa 1112eh brighter than an,thing I'Ye
ever aeen i n the sq. It looked t o be a r ound object , I eou.ldn't
say it was anything else but round; it •had a tail on it wbieh
ahowed yellowish, but not as bright a s the oirele which appeared
and nearest I could desoribe it would be sort of red and yellow.
The streak behind, I would aa7, was little oTer a yard long; the
eirele looked t• be about the si&e •fa larce dinner plate. It
went so fast, it was hardly 1o sight before it disappeared.
I
eoul d nGt giYe any idea of t he height; all I • s.n say is it ~as
muoh eloser than a shooting star. and travelling at a great speed .
Wbate~er it was it wa s flying through the air; it wasn 't jus t
, a streak aoros e the sq. To me it wasn't in any way like a
shooting star, and I am sure it wasn't an airoplane.
I •alled it
a "FLYING SAUCER" beeauee it seeme d exaotly like what we had been
hearing ,eo mueh about on the radio .
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TAR~ .BY
ME.RC.El.lES BURKE OF TRr! INTELLI GElW2 OFFICE, Hnd1Oll F'I .b:LD
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17 July 1~947.
Last Thursday night I was out by our house, I happened to
look up and saw •hat I thought was an airoplane. It was f l y i ng
at the height of a plane t hat is flying high.
Then
I t hought
it leoke d s trange f or an airoplsne, be~ause it was all lit up
ao bright, pla.nea do have a light or t wo. but this thing was Ter7
bright - sort of a bright reddish yellow.
I saw it only f or a
miAute because it was travell ing at a teriff i• peed .
It shot
out of sight so quiokly I thought i t s trange i f it fia e 8Jl airop ­
lane.
TllU, I remember e d "r.hat I'd been hearing about
" .r1l,JI ND
SAUCERS" I ran in and told my mother.
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Albert ruot.ed in and t)l• ce a inu t thie th i :,
h,-'d juHt ~,.en .
at fi r t
t:.f" thouri:nt 1 t we
on a 1 r fl- t ne
hut tr:: en ne ret:',P.~,ber~d
bavin~ hea r ~d about " r'LYI NG , AUC~hS" and he thon~nt that's wh,-t
i t must haT,-
o~~n.
I 1ue,tion~d him: he eoid it couldn't bnT~
been a pl ane
betBuee a PlEnft ~ou) on' t shoot down }jve tn~t did ,
beside s it ~as t oo "lit up"
Mr. Le~~e rep ~rted tbft ee~e thing to me in order tbe.t I ~• iht
repnrt same to St. J~h•'a in th~ morh :ng.
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NEWFOUNDLAND CONSTABULARY
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DATE Jw.y l3t.h. 1.947 • ,
SUBJECT Rea- St.ran.• obJecta aeen tl.,yina over Gram
Falla on n16iht. ot July 9t.b. at. approx.
u,l§ •94 AetP,
Sira
I reapect.1'\ll.l.r N vort tor 1our ~oraat.lon that, on
·ednea4a¥ ni&ht.1 the 9t.b. inat.e I UT1Ye4 boae troa
du\y at. approx. ll..30.
tJS)oD UTiYal at. boa• I Joined my wit•, m¥ mot.her-in-law
and Mr. John Jae.Iman a reaident ot s t.. John'• and tr1e;".l
ot tJie t•il.r, who were oitt.!nB on the tront. atepa ot
U. bouae. I wu aaked b' ,q wit• U I bad aun t.he
•t1¥1Da aauaera" I t.boU& t ah• waa Jokina and replied
that. I ba4 •••n nothiDt, tlyln£. Jacban and rq aot.ber­
in-law then told •• that th•1 bad r eally •••n tour obJ eota­
tl¥1D& 1D an eaaterl,y direction Juat. before l ani•e4•
I aaked t.hea to deacriN what. t.h•1 bad •••n• JacblaD aaicl
t.bat tour rou.n4 abaped ti&u.r•• bud paaaecl oyerhead at a
terrific apeed and nre tl,y~ aide bt •tde.
On l.ook~ a)Q'warda qain rq wile, Jackllall1 and myaelt1• __
••• a obJect. which I would deaorille aa bein& a hug• J•'-'-r
tlah tlaab acroaa t.he the •Ir¥• It. wollld M '1U.ic.u\. \0
determine it.a helgbt .ind apeed owina \o t.be brief period
it waa Yiaible• .1l. 1a colour alao would be bard \o aa_,1
but. there a...ed t.o be
pboapborua ~lo• ,ltou\ it.9 lt
waa round 1D abape and about. th• a1s• of a barrel bea41
1t appeare4 to M fl.¥~ 1n a rock~ aot.ion.
Thia air1 ia about. all I can• 1 about. t.he matt.er , ..
cont.inued to oaan th• •kt tor about.• halt bcNr but. no
•~ of t.hea were •••n ~•in.
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Pr011 detailed atud7 ot report.a aeleowcl tor their iapreaaion ot
veracity and reliability, aenral oonoluaiona bave been tormed,
. (a) ThJ.s •tlying saucer" a1tuation 1a not all imaginArl or seeing
too 11Uch in soae nat~ phellOllenon. Somtbing is really tlyina around.
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(b) lAok ot topside inquiries, when compared to the prompt and
deaanding inquiries that have originat.d topside upon toraei- events,
give acre than ordinary weight to tbe p6eaibilit7 that this ia a d011teatic
project, about which the President, ~to. lmow.
(a) Whateftl" the objeota are, this much can be said of their physical
appearance,
1. Tbe s'lll"taoe of these object.a 1a •tallio, indicating a metal.lie
akin, at least.
2. When a trail 1a obeened, it 1a lightl7 colored, a Blue-Brown
base, that 1a aillilar to a rocket engine•a exhaust. Contrary to a rocket
ot the solid type, one obeervation i!ldioates that the tuel ~
be throttled.
which would i!ldicate a liquid rocket engine.
J. As to shape, all obeervationa state thut the object 1a cireular
or at leaat elliptical, flat on the bott011 and slightl.7 domed on the top.
Tbe a11e estimates place it somewhere near the size ot a C-54 or a Coastellation.
4. Soae reporta describe two tabs, located at the rear and
syaet.rical about the Xli:m axis ot flight motion.
5. Plights han been reported, trom three to nine of them, tlying
goocl·formation on each other, with speeds alfllya above JOO knot,e.
6. The discs oscillate laterill7 while flying along, which could
be snaking.
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CONFIDENTIAL
HEADQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE
Ottioe or the Assi stant Chi ef or Start, A- 2
Intdl1genoe
"HAnilt on Fiel d, California
4AFDA
25 August 1947
353.6/1208- I
SUBJECT:
Inveat i iation of Fl ying Disc.
TO:
Headquarters, Army Air forces,
ashin(ton 25, D. C.
ATTE11TIO.r:
AC of AS- 2
1. The attached true copy of the letter or
• F. " • Johnson of
Portland, Ore gon, we.1 r eceived by this off icer 22 Auf'Ust 1947.
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Your attention i s invited to t he si milRrity of st at ement by
!:r. Johnson and ·.:r . Arnold.
3 .
Thia l otter is boinr r eferred thi a date t o t he Spec i a l Agent
In Char r;o, F~I , San 1-'rancisco, tor any 1nvest1get1on thev may care t o
make .
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Lt . Colonel, r.sc
Cy or ltr f r F. 1. Johnson
AC of S, A-2
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CONFIDENTIAL

CONFIDENTIAL
PORTLAND, OREGON, August 20th 1947
Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer , Assistant Staff
Sir .
Saw in the portland paper a short time ago in r egar ds to
an article in regards to the so called flying disc having any basis
of tact.
I can say am a prospector and was in the t.!t Adams district
on June 24th the day Kennet Arnold or Boise Idaho claims he saw a
formation of flying disc. Andi saw the same flyinh objects at about
the same time. Having a telescope with me at the time 1 can asure you
they are real and noting like them I ever saw before they did not oaas
verry high over where I was standing at the the time, pl obl y 1000 ft .
they were Round about 30 foot in dimater tapering sharply to a point in
the head end in an oval shape. with a bright top surface.
I did not
hear any noise as you would from a plane.
ilut there was an object in
the tail end looked like a big hand of a clock shifting fro~ side to
side li~e a big magenet.
'f,iere speed as far as i know seemed to be
gr eater than onything I ever saw.
1's~ veiw I got of the objects t hey
were standing on edge Banki ng in a Cloud.
Yours Respectfully
/s/
F. H. Johnson
106 ?:o. \'fest lat Ave
Portland, Oregon
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CONFIDENTIAL
PORl'LAiID, O'lSOvN
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30,JuJ.¥ l.947 .
un 30 July 19u7 l!.r .tdehnrn ttan.1dn, 83u il. li. Siq)son Str.t,
Por.tland, Oregon m s inten ewed by this agent and stated in substance as
follows :
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l(y' name is R:1.charo. Rankin. I arn47 yearo ol.d and have !town since
I i':'3S nineteen years old. I t.1.nst soloed in m a1:r cr:t.tt in 1919. I hlve 1'1.own
over all the western parts of the United st& es many t.ilm!s 8.lld have capped
all or \.ho ,, stern~ of the Unite l States during the years before the
la.to war for the US Forest Service. I m:i .tam.liar with almost every part o!
the -r.cstarn United States. During a great part ot re:, life I have dcne stunt
flying for air shows a.nd various other types of aeronautical. e.:ichibit1ons. MY'
brothor was
11Tex11Rankin who was quite well known in both c1V1llan and 1'1.l.1taJ;r
f~ng circles ror maey yea.rs before his death and during the late 11ar ran
t housands of nyln.; cadets through primary training school.a ormod and oper­
aMd by h1r.l. To Jate I lnve acco:upl.i.shed 7000 hours in tho air as pilot of
both civilian and !.:il.i.t.aey aircra.rt. I a:i 1'911. acquainted Tri.th most articles
that one -woul d seo in the air o.nd I feel that I an well qualified to say
when I see :irticles flylng through the air, although I \TOuld not attempt to
say that I ac infallable and state thD.t I could definitely identify every ,
object that might be nying through th:S air. The following 1s. an account of
what I sa-., on 1h June 1947 frcc the :,or~ or my home at 1 -0. SOllth •u• st,
Bakersfield, ca.litornia.
~t appro:d.motely 1200 no.:in on the lu of June I was ly1.ne in ~he
.front yard 0£ rx:J hoce. Ibero '"'3S a lad ncminc t he la-m at tro tl:::le.
I l ooi::c
up into t he sky and saw ten art:.cles fiylnc fran tte South to th Hort\ at what
I -ould ju~ c to be 6500 rt. ':'l-c objects were fiyins ~ approx:1.rl3toly T1h.._'lt I
r.oul::1 jud('.;e to be 350 ;o.l.e,; per hoar. A.S I lu '\l? stated b fore , I h.:lve t~one
er.ti.te a lot of r:l7ip work for t he OS Forest service . :
4 :;tinctly remember t..'l\ot
-it the t~ I sa,..
ho arti cles I mcn~1oncrt !.t to t.ho la l who ~
-::iom.ne the
]ay;n at tho time . I toll t1•: l.."l< that the object3 were in alt probab:llty
some sort of A;J:-rJy or !:avy test plnncs i'ro., the ne~°b'J test cantors on tho
"'eserts o~ Southern Cal..if'omia. ::aving quito a kncr.vlcdce o! aircraft in
:eneral I o.tte:-,pte 1 to c~ lain to the l..a l r:10 11:.n.:; th'? J....;m th.:t. thl obj
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.-:ere irob ab~ on s cne sort of tra.:.n.:.nr: ':'\l ,3.'..o:'l fer either t.he Ar11y or ?!avy.
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lid not cive the s
r;htcst•thoucht to aeyt•lint; but t h:it t he
objecta m?re so,e .,or or te::;t :hip f or the ~rrncnt ..ervices. ~e ol)';,..ct...
reser.m eii the pictures that I haw seen of ,.ho .::F5U-11 t.he o =.;. llerl 11Fly-.i.nc
?lap). ck Clfjax that Uv- ··.avy : - tcs• .:.J'\S• .\fter :..he object-s di sap e.:irad I
proce"'d.. i,to the houst. "'.1\1 ·~, ny noon '"lC'l •••t nr.roxlr-..ntely lLlS ! . nt
back into the • ard to .,it .md lie in '..h -.? sh~1e . At t his timo tho obj~ t.s ro­
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o£. "'.re articles. '\'fh~n I first ~'\-
the ott.ct nal •,on objects :.he:, , re rJ.yi.J\:
in a •vn f'ornation W' t}l one o :)ct s e.c,.. inc1y star-..,li"!: in the rear or thr
for: t.:.on. W'-.!?~ t~ ot:e::~.. a?r-Cr:ied :e secon:i
-1.oe ti,ey were t.:.11 ·n thn
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fa-11n l UCl -ilt''OU::h there r.as onl:, seven c:! the
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tll8t ~b.'.l',~ ~~.rce of tho objc cts ha1
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~ I r..U.Md tba.t the aniGJ/N that I saw ~
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I •s still r.lllotant. to •ntS. tld.• to ~
Wil#nc that
would pib_­
ab~ eq t.-t. I was Ol'U7• After eoaltae I llellticmid tm 1act
to the
edltor d t.bl fl()Ngonian•, a Port~ Ol"egon hWapllpi!I•-• At W.a t.1ae I ­
in Portland tor tie 1"'a&i.nder of tale .._r. The nnlts t1 U. oormn,•U. .
with the editor ot ·tiae paper i1 p11t. tort.al in t.be ~ --~
&rt.iol.e.
.
I fully' re~• that 11111 1s a broad atateme~~1n view ~ Eot;
th& there !as been a, aach publioity t
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e ,at. forth ln ftrlOll.9
papen or the count.rr. I aa d a,~ ll1nt in eT.-y respect am I a■ t!
corm.need tb&t ta U"t4oles I saw aw actually .... sort, ot ~
wbinas
al.though I cannot ..,- from wblre tbq came or to 1bere thq wn loinc• I say
what. I lan aid with no idea ot publiait)r or J)ff9onal gata.
SIG!lED~
Portland.1 Oregon
30 .,~ 1947

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Diclc Rankin Tells
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More reports ol "flyln& flap,
jacka" turned 11p Wedllesday,
one -from no le.a than Dick
Rankin, brother of the late Tex
Rankin, and blmlelf an expe­
rienced pilot of more than. 7000
boun' tlyln& time.
Rankin, who i.w recovering
from an old back injury r~
celved in an automobile acci­
dfflt, came to PorUand over
the week end to apend the 11um ­
mer. He saw the "allver ca u­
cers" over Bakerlfield, Cal.,
J une 23, while lying on the
lawn run batblns, he told Th~
Oregonian.
"I hesitated to 1, y much
about them," R.lnkl.n ·aald, "un•
t1l I noticed all the hulJabaloo
in th e papers. I punled over
their 1tran1e ahape tor a while
arid JinaUy concluded~bat they
were the navy's new- Xl'SU-1
flying flapjackl!, wblch Ille thin
and round, with twin propellers
and ,tubby tail."
Oaly Oaa XFIU-1 Built
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turer have announced official•
1 Jy that only one such machine
wu built and that It never left
Connecticut.
"ThHe planes were flying
hl&h, maybe 9000 feet, and fair•
Jy fut, about 300 or 400 mile•
an hour. I first counted ten of
them In formation , iolng north.
About 2:15 P . M. UM!y returned
on the rever,ie course, headed
110uth. But there were only sev•
en In the formation.
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bobbln,c tn formaUon I couTdn't
make out the number or loca•
tlon of their propellera and
couJtln't dbtlngulth any w in.«•
or tall. They appeafed almowt
round. They looked like pie-
lures of the na~•• ftylna flap.
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jack," Rankin 1ald.
R.ankJn, who plans to ,rpenrt
the aummer her, at 8i44 N. E.
Simpson street, h1 now able to
re.um" a little flying for fun,
but not commercially. he 11ald.
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autG rourta. ,rpendln,c h l1 win•
lffl at P•lm Springs.
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S:LYIN6 DIVISION, AIR TRAININ& COMMAND
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tarn •q hoa th• obJeet.e. Re fvth• a\&W t.bat. one ot tba anlde•
Utlable GbJene toU~ecl the Mhtr •eoondl apan.
Re tvtMr 1taW
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D'i.rect.or of Mi11'tary Intallegeno•,
llar ~partma.nt, Waahington. 25, D..C.
IJ;ear Sir:..
On SUnday a!tarnoon, July the Sixth, I observed something very
strange ; 1 t 1a related. -- at least ill my own min~ w1 th t he
phenomena of t he •Fabulow, J':3.ying ~uceraf and I cannot report on
thia second phuaomena, without speaking or the first.
As I do ~ot wish to be considered the victim ot mass p ■ychology,
a crGok,-pot or-visionary, it is rather har d !or me to m....ke this
report. I am doing it beoause I oonsider it my duty.
A neirapaper article spoke ot the Bureau of standards as •Having a
finger in the pie• in many experiments so not knowing whore to
write or who to write t o l wrote to the Bureau,
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and Ur. Hugh L. Dryd
eh has suggested t hat you were the one to r eport to .
I had been amused at accounts ot the• !lying saucers•. ~eryone
was talking, laughing and joking about themand I di d not -believe
in them~
l)le Hollywood T,arzana BU■ was par ked a t the Terzana end of the line
and the driver was busy making out his .reports preparatory to malting
th• return trip./ I was the only one in t he bus and I sat i n the
middle or the side next to v~ntura.~o the bus was parked nort h ~nd
south~
As I looked to my rig ht , a •Saucer appeared out ot nowhere~appar­
ently out ot nowhere and it was followed by several others; they
were of uniform size and spaoed a t :tegular intervals and it seemed
as 1! they turned a c9rner from the ~e st and they rolled
along
at great speedto the Northward and parXa.llel toVentura Boulev~rd.
Tl
As soon as I becameconvinced that what f saw was not an i llusion
but what every one was talki ng about I ~egan to study them and it
was right t hen that my eyas seemed to be drawn to this other phenoma
in t he air between me and the •~ ucers".
~hat I saw waa milky whit• rays in the sunlight t.hat seemed to aria
crosa like the search lights do at bight ; it was nothing like the
aun shining on some bright obj ect tor the rays were not spaced and
they were not so c.lose together and t hey eris crossed. However, they
did seem to converge t oward a center but they d.id not ~eet t here.
I rr ~hi ■ center -- a radioua or about eigh~een i nches it seemed
trom~r eat, t here were spinning objects l! some red substance
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a bout t he c ol or or t he semi-
~reci ous stone
Oomelian. t hese
fra.gn.enta ,·:e:-e sharp and irregul a r a nd shi ng.
!'hey were flying
about as if f l yi r.g to a magnet . T~is w~s momentar y a nd I l ooked
to see i f t r.e •sauc er s• were sti ll t here. ·I saw one or two but
t he sace thi ng 'happened aga i n 3nd 1 saw t he second phenomena tor
a s ec ond. By t his time t he "saucer s were out or s ight .
• ; 11 t r:.e w~y hoipe I was tryirig t o f i nd sooe logical e.xplane. t ion for
the "Sa ucera• but my c ind kept reverting to t he second phenomena
and as I dwelt on it I coul d not help surmising it perhaps t hese
r ays I saw did not come out or the red f ragmenta that \,ere spinning
i n t he vorte.s.
I ooul dnt hel p wondering i t t his subst ance had beeh
c: ot from the •saucor s a s t heyt urned t he cor ner trou t ~e west on ~heir
way to the ~or th/.
As our a r r:.:, ·.ould not be sho ti::- 1J- dly r ays over t oward :i very
croweded hi g~way ancl. as t hi s \Thole t hi l'\; s eems fant astic to say
t he l east , I t hought I ho.d better t rust some o,1es Jud.i;eaent who
r eal ly knows wha t is going onand so you have
my r eport on what
1 reall y saw, and wha t I a 11 very cur ious about.
T,ha.nks t o Lm. Dryden f or hi s cour tesy i n l etti:ie oe know j ust
who to rel a t e t hi s i ncident to, and t ~anks t o you for l i stening
and I hope t hat
i t ;..akes t he right ki nd or i mpressi on.
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conditiona, and that the objec~ 111.gbt be either ffl"tical or bori.sonal. !bl
subject rel&t.d that an7 change 1n spNCl ot the car reault.ed 1n a change 1n
spNd ot the object, and that cbang•• ot di.Net.ion reaultecl 1n a change 1n
th• anclA ot t.ra~l ot the object.
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aucera or daca but he bell.end tbat thue renect.iou plu the
u.oi~t and b,rateria caued b7 other report. bu been tbe buia tor.,.,
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M\ICer report.. Subject aleo •tatecl tbat th1a .... tbeol7 coald be
t.ra• 1n relation to~ Mucera •Mn troa aircraft.
Attached hereto 18 a detailed atat...nt b7 ~• co~ h18 nnct1np
and •xp)a1n1ng h1a aoluUon to the BO-Called Fq1ng Sancer lf;1wter'y'.
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Th• aoat 1apnaa1•• report• ot the ao-oalled fiylng . ,,
aauoera or d1aoa wre tho•• tro ■ ariatora llbo clai■ th•J
aaw diac-abaped obJ•c~• flying through the air 1n Yarioua
toraationa at high altitudes and at a high rate ot apeed.
The tirat report waa tro■ an arlator who atated that th•••
ao-called flying d1eca had a ao■ewhat ahiny appearance and
would fly in formation and change their poa~tion from t1ae
to time.
Moat report• atated that they appeared in the late
afternoon or about dusk.
Most all report• were to the effect that theae objects
had the appearance of an inverted diac or saucer, and ao•
of them reported that they appeared to be rotatin~ in their
flight.
The mystery of the flying aaucers or discs may be sol­
ved by the. uae of a little applied science along with a
few simple experiments.
These fiying discs or saucers can be observed by any
mot orist traveling along the highways when the aun is
shining on moat any afternoon or evening.
During the day­
light moat of these ao-called flying discs are r eflections
from the sun shining upon some bright object in or on the
automobile driven by the observer.
For instance, if you
were driving i n a north-westerly direction with the sun
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ahininJ on the handle of the front or rear door on the l eft
side of the car, you may notice a shiny object appear in the
ventilation wing of the window on th~ drivers left, if it is
opened to about a 45° angle.

tbeH lhllly objeot ■ ■ay hn• -.rloua tor■■ and th•re ■ay
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be aore than one, dependia& on the nuaber ot retlectioa ■•
They aay appear to be 1D the aky when th• drinr look• through
th• Yent11a,1on wins &la~••
Their poa1t1on in th• ■ky depend ■
upon·the angle at lilllich th• objeot la reflected 1D· th• ftn•
·tilation wing ·and the poaition of the obaer.er.
They may baTe
yarioua !ol'lla but ••17 frequently they are or a aaucer ahape
or a tat ahape when they appear-to be in the aky.
Tbe ••ntilation wing during day-light ie not ot cour••
a pert•ct ■irror, therefore, it appears to the driver or ob­
aener that h• ia actually looking through the glaaa into the
aky.
Aa h• ao••• along, t he bright object• a ppear to be
traTeling at a high rate ot apeed in comparison with the
atationary objects on the ground, or the distant horison, that
he aeea through the window, or in comparison with the faintlf
ailbouetted objects on th• landacape which at times are re­
flected in th• window.
Th• fiying saucer a ppeara t o be travelini.i; in the ea.me
general direction aa the automobile but sometimes a little to
the right which makea it appear t hat it will eventual ly croea
the driYera path.
The a pparent flight direction or the
aaucer is due to the angle of the ventilation wing glass in
it.a relation to the direction in which the car ia traveling.
The number and poaition ot t he saucers reflefted int.he glaaa
depend upon ~h• number and contour of object• reflected there­
in by t.h• aun.
Bri:;ht objects on a car a pproaching from the
rear ■ay caat such reflections on your ventilat i on wing in
the daytille• .
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It th• ._,11at1on wing window were a perfect airror th•
obJeota oauain& the re£leot1ona would a ppear therein••• well••
all ot.ber object• within range, but th• ventilation win being
a aort ot a aeal-alrrc>r, do•• not Nllect the object but only
th• bright .•pot, which leaves the impression that the obaerver
1a actually looking through the glaaa and that the object act­
ually a opears to be in the aky, or at timea a lon~ diet ance
away.
Th••• Nault• are beat obtained in the late artemoon,
or after aun down.
Tba arlatora who reported seeing fiying diace or saucers,
undoubtedly were seeing th• reflection of bright objects in or
on their own plane.
They nw t.hem aa r eflected in t heir canopy
or wind ahield, but failed t o recognise them as retlectiopa.
Oth•nd.•• t.hey were retlectione from other air craft.
As the aviator ·traveled along obaervin~ the n,ovement of
the disc in coapari aon with tbe mountai ns , clouds or station­
ary object• on the earth, male them appear to be traveling at
a high rat• or speed.
Th• sloping angle or t he avi ators
wind-ahield and his position in the plane made it a ppear that
the discs were in the sky.
The poaition of t he discs also
depend upon the position of the observer and the angle at which
they are Nflected in t he gl a sa.
Some ot the report• stated that where there were more
than on• flying disc, they appeared to be tastenH ~ogether
and frequently performed a dipping or rising motion and when
one would dip, they wo~ld all go thro•.igh the same "otion s i m­
ultaneoualy.
The aiaultaneous movemant iu due t v t he reflect­
lona all coming troa the aame object. ror instance, 1! they
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are r eflected tro■ eome ·bright object i n or on the car or plane ,
th• up and down motion or the car or plane cause• the tlyi ng
discs to a ppear to be &oing through a dipping and riaing motion,
or , if the reflecting object i e atationvry and the car movi ng ,
th• results will be the••••
The statement that the dieca a ppeared to be rot at in1 aa
they aailod through the atmoophere ie due to the vibration ot
the automobile or plane.
Vibrations make thu, a ppear to be
rotatin~ at a very high rate ot speed.
Vibration is lfhat ives
them a flat or disc- like. ahape- also•
If you wish to see some fly1n~ dis cs , make a drive at about
dusk or at ni ,ht , open your ventilation win~ window at about a
45° angle from tho Jrivers seat and watch the refl ections o!
the etstionary elec~ric lights t h ,t appear on your left , if you
are driving, a!t3r you paos the~ 1and see how many discs you can
obeerYa flyin~ through the air .
It there ar e not t oo many l i ghts
t o your rear, you may have a pertect formation of beautiful
flying discs which may be red,
reen or ~ilver accordin~ to
the color of the elect r ic lights which you ha~• passed.
They
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ar moat realistic \,hen travel i n~ about forty-five or fift y
ail•• per hour. Ir you do not get satistactory r esults from
your first experiments, try again.
Afier yo 1 have learned
when and nher• to l ook tor t hoc , your observation~ become more
pleaoin~ ..nd interesting.
Evon tho 11 :ht s of an approachin~ automobile f r vm your
rear mn.y appear as one flying di sc 1n your ventilation win~.
The r efl ctions ot the approachin~ liyits will ap~ear in your
veneilation uinb unless the eide ot your car prot rudes out so
f ar as t.o pr e v ..nt tte 11 ~ t beam ""rom shinin , on the ·.:ing.

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Th••• appear beat when the approachin~ car is some distance
away, perhaps a quarter or half a mile.
The results at night
may not be aa impressive ae tboae in the late afternoon because
at night your ventilation wing window makes a more pertect
mirror and the passing landaca~ is not as pronounced, theretore,
the reflections therein are more easily detected as reflections.
In t he l ate afternoon, boweYer, you have a teelin~ that you are
actually looking through the glass and the r eflected objects
• ~pear more real. The sun ahinin~ on a bright ring on your fin­
ger with your hand resting on the steering wheel may caat disc­
like reflections in your wind shield.
The form or the reflect­
ion will depend upon the ornamental decorations on your ring.
Th• rear door handle on my automobile reflects nine beau­
tiful, little, silver, flying disca in the bright sun-light.
These appear in the lower part of the ventilation wing and when
traveling on a level highway, they appear to be racinz along
with me at the road side.
These nine discs a ppear in a fora­
ation of two rows ot four each, with the ninth one 1n the lead
at the center ot the formation.
They appear as whirling pro­
pel lers in a vertical position. · These discs also have atreaa­
era which are due to the curYeture and decorative pattern on
the handle.
While traveling north in the early afternoon under
a bright s\Dl, these nine discs appeared tar below to my lert,
racing up the Talley at a terri fic rate.
You may be able to ••e flying disc ■ 1n your own home.
It you will tum on a aaall electric light 1n the hall-way
and then l>olc through the window at the other end ot the hall,
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you aay s ee aa many as three flying discs from one electric
light bulb, w<hich may haTe more or less of a bell shape. Thea•
discs many timoa • ppear as inverted aaucera, and it you will
change 7our ?()Si tion slowl y you will see that they change their
position also.
Those ara best obserTed in the late a ftomoon
or between sun do..u and dusk, lilen it a ppears to you that you
ara merely look1n~ through the window pane at the discs sus­
pended in the distance.
As darkness comes on, the window pane
becomes a more perfect mirror nd your discs a ppear as r eflect­
ions 1n a llirror.
To watch the discs, through your venti lation \·:ine; , Nil
along uith you as you drive through the country, becomes Tery
rascinat1ng, eapacially if' you use a little imagination. It
may absorb your t hought• completely, therefore , I ,ould adaon­
iah •~0110bil~ driTera watching the flying discs, t o be cautious
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and not. run orr the road or into some other car.
Some or t he reports on tlying aaucera, heretofore not ex­
plai.D~in this article, such as those reported seeing bright
fl.aahea 1n the aky, were no doubt reflected sun-light fro■
planes. These light beams chanced to cross t he line of vision
of the obaerYer.- They frequently appear Yery brilliant and
may aore or l••• blind the obsener for an instant. If the
plane 1a Yery high it may not be aeen by the observer, which
aa7 be due to iapaired Tia1on or the great height at 'Nhich
the plane 1a flying.
\le very often get th••• aame blinding
flaahea fro■ automobile wind-ahielda,
Many ot the repor'ta
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around July 4th. were incited by variou• tortDa ot fire worka.
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SOllle report.a ateamed tro■ pure illagination or hysteria. while
other• were deliberate hoaxes•
.my other re ports can be ex­
pld.ned it all the surrounding facts ar e known .
Moat all of' the r e-.iorta and descri-ptions of the flying
aaucera coincide eo clearly with the findings herein. that
there could be no doubt bu~ that we baYe the correct aolution.
Th• ~oregoing atate..nt may not be coached in precise
ac1ent11"1c t•nu• and may not be acientitically exact. bow­
eyer, we belieYe it la ao worded that the average l ayman can
understand it and that it ii. ~,1fticiently correct to prove
the proposition.
Persona1ly• I do not belieYe that the so-called flying
aaucers or the solution thereof. are or any military value,
unl••• the Govemment wished to retain this information for
the psychological effect upon any potential enemy nation,
auch aa Germany did 1n regard to their so-called secret
weapons during the war•
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7 Aapat 1947
MIMOWDQM.
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Ae ■t CM,d of Air ltaff-2
Collection Branch, W
Vaahin,;ton 25, D. c.
1. IJ'he inclo■uN 1• an excerpt fro• a letter to
Dr. E. Tou.e7, Micron Ya•-■ Section Bead. Jra.al Be ■earch La)ora,­
to17, troa Mr. John 7. Cole, pert&Ulin« to ■oM ,midentifiH obJect•
which Mr. Cole report ■ to baTe •een •ome ti• prior to the fir•t
report• of •tl)'in« ■aucer•• in the Iev England area.
2.
Dr. 'l'ouae7 ■tat•• that Mr. Cole 1• a well-mown ..,ronomer
and a reliable ob■ener a■ a reault of hi ■ trainiJI«.
3. The
inclo■ure 1• in a441tion t o intoraation coatainecl
i n prenoua letter■
reque•t ·of Lt. Col.
1 A"'ne1.
!' hcerpt ! 11 l tr t o
Dr. Touae7 2
to 7our office taken fro■ 1nterT1ew• at the
G. D. Garrett, Ail A.-3.
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'lxce1•p, troa letter to Dr. B. 'l'ouH7 fro■
~. John "I. Cole
South Brook•Tille, Ne.
Jul7. ae, 1947.
BaTing in ■ind the ri~cule which ha■ been beape4.on thoH iuocnt
or per-hap• cullible ind.iTidual• who baTe reported dielca, I would be a little
oauUoue in lnterpretlq. :But it 1e eat• to ■ay trutbtull7, that ■oMthiDC
'UlU11&1 attracted~ attention, and I vae in a perfectl7 eober . condltioa,
'barrinc the •lld etllnllation, atforded b7 cool ■pring water filterinc throuch
llorth BaTen green■ton• craclca. It ahould be eae7 to deteraiu if the •di•k••
were a uv type jet plue, or bomber, or rocket. '!'he !a.ct t':-t.t it vaa Jul7
3, about 3&30 P. M. ( auaaer tiM) or Greenwich C1T11 t1•e 1830 ■icht wcce•t
that the7 were •acace4 in ao• naTal demon■tration from :l&atportl, Bar Harbor
or :Belfaat. The group appeared to be at an alt1tu4e of about fiO
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troa a aild cenical arthriti ■--'but rq e7e• are well corrected tor aatigaa­
ti•• and bn,enNtropia, and I doubt if rq cerebral. cortical Ledon• are euffic­
lentl7 &chanced to affect rq balance. What firet -.de•• look up vae the un­
uWLl.17 loud roar and I va• eurprhed not to He a well defined group ot pl&nH
quite near. Inetead I had to look rather eharpl7 to••• the bunch-of Te1'7
licht colored obJecta, in a pneral northerl7 direction and tr&TelliDC ro~7
in an (true) direction. Thi• vaa reaeonabl7 correct,•• I vaa on Co:x'•
hill, ud looked OTer toward■ :Baclcvood'• Mount, that 1• the conspicuoua flat
tep planated hill at llarbor•ide. '!'he group could hardly haTe cOTered aore
than lt0 azacular diaaeter in the eq, and bunched rather cloeely with DO
regular toraation. There ■ight haTe been 10, I couldn't ••Y and with 901 ot
arc eprea4, would -•iiy be within the limit of Ti ■ibility for di•creet ob­
ject■•
A■ a group they were goin« •o •• to coTer 31J0 of arc, eetimated of
coune, in perbap• 10 or 15 eecond•.
If one of them, ■ay, eubtended 1/10°,
with a po•eible wuic apre&4 of 100 feet, 1t would put 1t at a di ■tance of
oTer 10 a1lee, and quite inTieible for a light obj ect.
Beeide ■, vlth 30°
arc~ traftl at a 10 111. dietance vould be roughly 6 ■ile• in 15 aeconda
or 20 111. per ■inute or 1200 mi . per hour! !--rather f&at for a bo■ber--hi.
A fiO ft. object at ~ mile■ diet. would be about 600 111. per hr.-alao taet
golnc. !'he only concrete e-t·idence of fon apoeared on the left tancent of
tbe group-tvo dAlrlc ahaped fora•: ~ tf;J
which a&7 h&Te been tail wine•.
Doen't tbe DouglaH bomber haTe theae? And llince they were in no regular
for■ation, but aee■ed MOD« the■aelTe ■ to be ■oTln« irre«ularly like a ■var■
of be••• vb)- ehould.n' t all of the• han ahovn win«-? The loud roar .-a««••h
the7 11a7 haft been auch cloaer, and rather amall. 'rbe •lc;y baeqTOtmd vaa
bas7 bl111, ad the eun behind ■e. One -plane tovin« a lo• of balloone, I
belieTe, vould baTe been e&eily r8Cognised. BaT7 any Meteorite• been re­
ported? At that ti•• of uy. ha• there been an7 abrupt cb.all«• of radio field
etnDgth? or ionization?

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OFFICE OF THE Alll INSPl!:CTCR
26 JULY li47
MElfORAJlDUK TOa
AC/ AS-2, Counter Intelligence Branch
l. Information contained herein and opinion• expresaed are baaed
upon conversat ion with and request by Mr. Butler ot your orfice. All
pertain t o certai n phenonema c onnected with recent widespread talk or
"flying saucer•"•
2. Approximat ely three weeks ago, on or about 7 July 1947, I
prepared to go to bed around 2230 or 2300 EDT.
I was living at 2807
North Glebe Road , Arli ngton, Virginia, with my wife. Illustration No. l
shows the ceneral layout or the r ooJ11 we occupied at that time. See
Illustrat ion No. l.
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I had juat turned ott th• light by my bedside. but aat down
on the aide ot the bed to listed to the end ot a radio proue,m betor.
reclizdng.
ID the -,a.ntiae. ay wit• and I ••r• hanng •01111 con-nr••­
tion about the seleotion or certain t'urniture tor a hCIIW we had juat
purchaaed.
At the tiae or these ewnt•• as I aat t"acinr; the windows.
a light appeared at the right•hand edge ot the extreae and window and
mo-nd rapidly along to diaappea.r below the tree• or horilon. or to be
extinguished in s c.e taahlon at acae place in a general southerly
direction. Thi• 1a illustrated on the tollowing page by a very tenta-
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t. At the ti-, 1inoe my attention wa• diTided and ab1orbed among
the 1ubjeot1 •ntioned, JI)' reaction wa1 limply that "a light paued b)","
and I gaw no turther thought to th• •tter until •oae moment• later,
When th• thought o... to .. that I had nenr aeen 1uo}) an object betore,
and that although the tir•t explanation would have been that a meteor had
fallen ~rd earth in that direction, it did not han the appearance ot
any •t•or or "1hooti~ •tar" I had ever ■-Mn. Tbinlc:1~ ot the then­
prenlent talk of flying diak:1, I :refleo\ed that probably 1ome auoh
thing a• I had just 1een wa■ the aou:roe ot a large &110unt of newapape:r
and radio publicity on the 1ubject. The next morning I jeatingly
announced in the office that I nw a tlying Hucer the nigtlt betore and
thought that it wa1 enroute to Alexand:ria,where •ome ot our o.ffice:r1
liT••
I then went on to aay that I 1uppo1ed it wa ■ a •hooting 1tar,
but that it did look: 1011tewhat peculiar. At'ter we had diaou•••d the
general topic tor acae t1ae, I dropped the subject, not wiahing to add
to the auppoaed nao:r1, which I enviaioned aa a aouro• ot 1eriou1 panic
over the country.
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A cleaoription ot the light, or object 1• almoat impoaaible,
aince obaerntion o.f it waa 10 limited. A• ahown in Illustretion Ro. 2,
the object appeared top••• in cloaeat proximity to• at the tiJDe it
came into view. All o.f my mental calculation• were baaed upon acme
impression or oonoeption ot it• diatance at the clo1est point, (AC).
I had no way ot judgi~ thil, except in the form o.f ffry crude depth­
peroeption. Ir this by any chance were correct, ar.d inatead of a di••
tant meteor aome objoot had passed near-by, I would assume tor purpose•
of description that the distance AC on the sketch was SOl!le three quarter•
ot a mile.
OM factor which I could judge quite reliably was the angular
elevation.
Thi.a Ja1St haTe been approximately 3 or 4 degrees, at any
rate, the light was lnte:rmlttently behind the tallest treea forward of
ay position a• lt pa1aed, and these treea are or a normal height, perhap•
aixty or eighty feet at a diate.no~aeveral blocks.
Baaod upon a aild
aasuaption aa to distance, and a reaaon.able as•U11ption aa to angular
elevation, the object would be at a low altitude, conaiderably bolow
500 feet, and ot a size approximating a ..all airplane, say 30 1'9et
aero•••
The •h•pe nay have been round. 0...1, discal, or irre&ula:r; at ­
the •peed with lfhich it travelled, I could only percein it a• a "blob."
I do not conaider the distance mentioned to be leas than 3/4 11111•,
lNtoauH had 1t been. I teel sure th•t, late in the evenin:; and w1 th all
my winf\owa open, I would haw heard aome sound, which I definitely did
not in thi• ca••• It llight be well to poin~ out here the relati.,.
siailarity in •ize, altitude and airspeed of~ .firefly at a diatanoe ot
30 feet, au airplane at about 3/4 mile, and a aeteor at senral hundred
ail••• Moat of u• are familiar with thi• illuaion.

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e. Although I oould not aoourately judg• th• ti•, I 1eena to
recall the object or light wa■ Ti■ibl• tor a couple ot ■ econd■•
Taking thi ■ tigure literally and applying it to the ■ketch, Bo.· 2,
on• could roughly compute th• apeed ot the objeot at 1350 aphJ however,
I did not ■ enH that it wa■ aorlng with ■uoh great ■peed a ■ thi•. It
rather appeared to acwe with the •pe•d o t a jet-powered airplane. It
did not deviate tram a ■traight oour ■e While I ob■ernd it, and did not
perceptibly lo•• altitude.
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In color, the ■ubjeot had the appearance ot a retlected wh1te
light, a oool, bright white light with no red in 1t, like the naoon on a
olear night. Th•r• wa■ no train v1■1ble to -• in the torm ot fire,
■-oke, or ■para. The wather at the aaaumed time and date was checked
through record■ ot the BollinC Pield weather otf'ioe, and con■iated ot
acattered to broken clCNdl with v1a1bilitie■ ot 10 - 12 mil•••
1'h• cloud
condition 1• further indication that the object wa■ not nece■■arily a
•.teor, ■inoe it aigbt have been impoaalble to ••• a •teor. I do not
per■ onally re-lll>er th• ..ather condition, except that I am sure it wa■
not raining.
a. At th• ti- ot thia occurrence, I waa not incll.Ded to think ot
it ■-rioualy enough to wake ay wit• and deacribe it to her, nor by a~
reaaoalng to ll&b otticial r4port. Aa tiae paaaed, I thought considerably
about the neeting glimp■• I bad ot whatenr I ■aw, and aa ■till aomewhat
contuNcl, but teel that it waa acae natural phenomenon which occur■ but
rarely.
I have tlown appro:d.11m.tely 2500 how-a during th• put ~ ■-nn
year• and being 1•nerally tam.liar with a■peota ot a-nation -.n -phati­
oally atate that (a) •it wa■ no weather balloon, (b) it was not the tla1h or
a beacon on th• oloud-b&■-, (c) it could hardly have beon an airplane on
tire, ■inc• it would han at least caaahed in thia general area, (d) it
wa■
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not entirely a
h tiae in one place.
re■ult ot i•gination, and (e) it waa not ■pending
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JAIIES O. COBB
Lt Colonel, Air Corpe
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..-=rolt..NIWAL IIISEAIICH LMORATORY
AINT LWICIJ OffICS
WASISJlr:a,,a. D. C.
NAVY DEPARTMENT
--TO:
NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
Cou uo
WASHINGTON 20, D . C.
38 .Tul7 194'7
stJB.mC'f: ft7bc Saueen
1'0:
.laet .Chld O'f Air ftatt-2
Collection Breach, AD
~ 36, D. C.
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hppleaeiatal to tbat coatalne4 ill a letter'° 70v O'fflce,
tatecl 18 J11l7 194.,, re lnternw with Mr. c. II. Zohn who purport•
to._... .. •
1m14attf1ect flJinc object . tbe followtnc &441ttonal
ldol'll&UOD ,_. obtatne4 Oil 21 Jul7 froa c. c. llockwoocl. who we Mlltlonecl
la lbat letter ae •Tille &leo eeen the object.
C. C. Bockwoo4 NpOt"t• the object to han been either a •1ln17
aphere or 41ec, which be W01114 ban tabn to be a •teorolopo&l 'balloon
eseept for tbe fact tbat U ,... tranlltnc at a aach higher nloclt7
tllaa the autoao'bll• a4 approxiaatel7 1n tbe .... 41recUoa. !he auto­
ao'bll• we aoTlnc a1HNt eo aiph.
!'bere vaa 11u1e, u 8117, -.daoe wlJMl.
1lba tint .... at •
•l•.,.Uoa O'f abo11t 46° 1 t appeancl about of
Ille .... •1■- ae t.be .,..
•
coul4 bear nothinc abon the nolN of the
car. r,..., no ■-,a or contre.Ue.
It• aoUoa ,.. appanatl7 &11 horisoatal. It• aspect 414 aot cllMce
eo h.l'.. Cftlcl be olNterncl cl1U'1.nc tbe U• O'f obeenat1oa. •
thoupt
it 41Nppe&N4 'b7 •1apl7 beco■J.llc too -11 to •"•
cu,Jt~/?'JJtdL_.
YILLUM P. fflJ,P
Major . Air Corpe
.AMC L1&1eon Officer
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RIC'Da 1200 IDT 9Ul Aue.
FROMa
A.l!. LONDON
TO:
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AIX 6328
t.ug. 8t.b 1947
Your AIX 14 Jul.7 29tb •
During normal nigh~ t1ying praot.ioe at. 2230 b0111'8 OD 16111
J &DUBr)'t 1947, <'ne ot our Moequitoe •• wotcired m to an UD.idenWW
o.lrora.ft At 22,000 teet. A long obue en.me! OCl!lll8DOiae OWi' tale ....
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Sea about ,:) dlea h-oc the Duteb coaat @nd ending at 2300 houn owr
Norfolk. Two trt.et AI cont.r.cta were a:de bat f'aded qu1.oklY,.. !ha mt-
1.dentitied airo."'9.tt appeared to take etticient controlled •••1• acts.an.
No exple.m.tion of thil ind.dent baa been tort.lloOl'dng .,..
h&s it been repeated.
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P'I.nNG DIXS
For purpoaes of ana~is by AFBm~o., eighteen reported sightings
ot "ll'lJ'ing Discs" were selected tor bre&kdOllfn into detailed particu:Lars. F.ach
report was aaeigned a number and each nuraber appears in the lert-hand colUllll
ot the data on the following pages.
Qle report, t;umer 7, has not yet been received and therefore no
1n!ormat1on is included other than Date, Na.me or Observer, and Location. The
Fourth Air Force is attempting to eecure a stat.eraent trom this observer.
Four reports, Numbere 2, 4, 17, and 18, have not been ana.l.yzetl.
The subject headings on which thfl) bre&kdol'ln has been made are;
Dato
Hour (Local standard Time )
Location
Chse:rver 'a t: ame
Cbserver•s Occupation
Observed from Ground or ,Ur
Nwii>er of Objects .iighted
Altitude
Direction of Flight
Speed
Distanee Covered
Length ot Time in Jight
Deviation tram J'traight Flight
Color
31.ze
Jhape
Jound
Trail
Weather
Manner or Disappearance
Remarks

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Report
Nwm>er
D9te
Location
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19~
1215
Manitou .ipringe, Colorado
2
22 May
Oklahoma City, Okl.&h0111a
J
22 June
UJO
Greenfield, Massachuaetts
4
24 June
Mt• Rainier, ·,18.8hi.ngton
5
28 June
2120
M.a.x,well Field, Alabama
6
29 June
lJJO
Nera ',1lite Sands; l~ew lilexico
7
1 July
Uakerstield, Callfomia
8
4 Ju~
2015
F;:urnett, Idaho
9
6 J~,
1345
Clq Center, Kansas
10
6 July
Fairtietd-Ouisun, C:1lifomia
ll
7 July
1145
Koshkonong, ,ii£consin
12
7 July
1430
East Troy, :•1isconsin
l J
8 July-
1550
:.it. Baldy, California
11.
9 July
2JJO
Grand Falb, liewtoundland
15
10 July
1600
Harmon Field, Newfoundland
16
12 JuJv,
11330
Slmendort field, JJ.alika
17
I '6
*Local ..>'tandard Ti.me

Report
flw:iber
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
lJ
14
15
16
Cbserver's Name
D. A. Houser
F. J. Smith
L. D. Jamison
Byron Savage
E. L. DeRoee
Kenneth Arnold
',1ilson H. .Kayko
John H. Cattrell
Hedman
Theodore Dewe7
c. ll. Zohn
J. R. Kauke
C. C. Hockwood
Nancy Rockwood
Richarct Rankin
:;. J . Smith
Ralph -,'tevens
A. B. I3rowning
Jas. H. Burniston
?fot Jtated
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Not Jtated
tt
II
Al.Yin E. lloorman
Irie Ke4rsey
Mr. Yehrman
llr. Woodruff
Grahm
and several other otticen,
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Occupation
Railroad .Employee
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II
Businessman-Pilot
~lot s tated
Busines s-nian Pilot
Captain, .v..f
II
II
ti
II
l l'lt Lieut., ;v.F
:)nploJee, Nl,L
II
II
II
II
:'lite ot C.C. Rockwood
Civilian f ilot
United ;dr Lines Pilot
11
11
" Co-Pilot
Uaj or, ~
Captain, .W
CAP Instructor
CAP 5tudent
CAl- Pilot
CAP Passenger
1st Lieut., ACCWG
Constable, Newfoundland
Constabulary
T,'iA Uepresentative
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II
uajor, AAY
*From letter received, observer
is obviously well educated.
O:>served
from
Ground
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Ground
Air
Ground
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II
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II
Grol.:lld
Air
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.Ur
Ground
iiir
II
Air
II
Air
Ground
Ground
II
Ground

Report
t-:umber
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
l J
14
15
16
Of!Viation rroc
.5t r a1eht :light
Clint>ed, dove, hovered overhead, re­
sumed original course
lione reported
Zi g zag course "much like a water­
bue"
li 001'! repor t ed
Konf" reported
None repor t ed
None reported
Descended edgewise, stopped at 4,000'
and asewned horizontal po~itior.. l'r o­
ceeded ir. horizont al flight f or 15
seconds , stopped Again, then disapp­
ear ect
None reported
None reported
Noni, reported
None reported
Followed contours of mountains five
miles away from observera
3ilver
Silver, very
br icht
Brilliance
slightly great­
er than a s tar
J ome solar spec­
ular reflection
.ar.tost dusk;
could not dis­
tinguish
Ver:, bright and
silvery colored
Reflection from
sun
Not stat ed
Not stated
or light-reflec­
ting nature
Phosphorous
color
.'.>ilvery
Res embled a
grayish balloon
Apparently small
Not stated
Impossible to
determine
J0-50' in di8Jlle-.er
Comparable t o a
C-54 at 10 ,000 1
Kot stated
l~ot s tated
Apparent depth of
a P- 51
lot stated
Jame span as a
C-54 at 10,000'
,\pprox. 10 ' in
diM1eter
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Report
N\&llber
Shepe
$0\p'ld
D:&11.
v:eather
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No definite Jhape could be
?lone
None
CAVU
detendned
2
3
Irregular; roWld, Db not
None
None
Not stated
appear particular~ disc-
shaped
4
5
None stated; seead like
a bright lieJit
None
None
Clear aocnllght
6
No details other than that
None
Poaaible vapor CAVU
sh&p-. was unitorna with no
trailJI
protubarancea
7
8
None definite, but seemed
None
None
CAVU
flat on baae with the top
•118ht~ rough 1n contour
9
Round, diac-shaped
None
None
CAVU
10
No shape could be dieting-
None
None
.;unny
uished
11
Not atated, but report re­
ter_a to "sauc8l"" several
None
None
CAVU
times
l2
.Saae u Report Uo. ll
None
None
CAVU
13
Flat object, ot light-re-
None
None
Not stated
tlectin8 nature 'lfhieh appear­
ed to be without vertical
tin or any viaihle wings
14
Egg-shaped, or like barrel
None
None
CAVU
head
15
Circular 1n sh.ape, like
l~on-,
Bluish black
Clear with scat­
•aeon wheel
trail approx.
t.ered cwnulws
16
Resembled balloon
t.one
15 ad. long
None
at 8 to 10 , 000'
?lot stated

1
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Report
N\@l?!t
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Manner ot
Diaappearm1c•
Cllnbed very tast and out ot ei8ht
Cbscured by a cloud bank
Lost 1n brilliancy ot the moon
C.mot explain, except that renec­
tion angle r111&y have changed abruptly
Don't know whet.her t.hoy put on a tre­
Menduows burst ot epeed, or disinteg­
rated. HOlltever, they '1.id disappear into
sunset
Unexplained
Disappeared at an anele of about JQ0
above the earth's svface
Unexplained
Unexplained
Pil ot (at J(X)MPH) attempted to keep
object in eight , but unable to do so
Unexplained
Une)(J)lained
t:ot s tat""1
Remarb
No definite shape could be det.erm
and ev.-i with the aid ot 4 to 6 pc
er binocul.ars object could not be
broucht into tocua
Froa letter thia observer wrote, i
is obvioue he 1s a well-educated
person. Seeks no publicity.
Cbservera {2 rated, 2 &ir intell.)
phoned Field Ops to aacerta:i..n no
scheduled experiment.al a/ c were in
vicinit7. Sky chart attached to re
Cbserver is Admin. "3st. in the Roe
et Jonde .;ect. or t-'RL. Two other
"scientist.e", and wife ot one, wee,
in p arty and made same observation
Cl,eervers were Pi.,,_ot, Co-Pilot, ot
scheduled UAL DC-.). ..,'tewardes s ala1
S8.)1f objects• .:iuggest reading ot VY.
detailed statement.a.
When first ei ehting obj ect near ho:
izon, observer looked at chart in
his lap to check posit.ion. ',/hen he
l ooked out windOl't aeain, object wai
off his lert wing at 11 0 1 clock
Rolled rrom side to side 3 times 1l
its path across the sky. Sun retle­
ed from top side, but never from ui
erside, even "hen turning
None
None
Cbserver contacted bues in area w:
reported no a/c 1n air at ti.me
First. 4 discs flyi.n& line-a-trail
Jeemed to cut clouds open es it
passed thru . Trail wu like be~
seen after a higb-p0111ered landing
li:11t it. switched orr.
Cbject was observed paralleling ta
course of a C-47 then landing.
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H?:AJJ-tL.:-.HTE:'.S f If rEE~TL .,
FC..-t..;E
Colorado SprinLs , Colo:·ado
2 J uly 1947
SUbJ ::CT:
Supersonic Platters
SU?a!AkY C.F INFCH!.'.ATICH :
The following infonna1 i on was related to Counter l ntelligenc~ Cor ps
Personnel at iieadquar ters Fifte entn Air Force , Color&.ao ..;prir., s, Col o r ado on
27 June 1947 o:., Mr D. A , ha.user , 24 t;or th t:hesr,ut .:>tr eet, Colorado .>pr i nbs
Colorado, Mr, F, J . .imit:- , 24. r airview, ..lanitou Sprint,s , Color ado a.nd Mr. L,
D. Jamison, 241b \,est l\iowa., Color~do Sprin 8 , Col orado .
All three o f t he
men are empol yees of the PiKes Peak kailv "y,
anitou !:>prinbs , Colorado.
"On or a bout 19 ...ay 1~~7 d\.4r ing the i r l unch ~er i..>d ,, 121, -13ltJ a mem­
ber of a t rain crew called a.t~ent ion to a s : l ver objec l in ti.e s ky a i pr oachin1,
from t r.e Nor tn Zs.st .
It a;,peare d t.o we t ravelli11, a t a i;;reat SFee<! ,
All
thret1 men stat ed tha t t r.e alti tude of t.ne object was very di1'ficult to de t er­
mine because of i t s a pparent sma l l ness.
They fur t.r,c:1r s t.a ed that. because of
th .:.s it was diffi c ult to view t he objt1ct a s beinb l arbe a nd .,avinG hie;h
altitude or s mall and being a t a r elatively l ow al ti t ude.
'i'ne~ did se.y thouc;h
that i t appeared to be higner than the t o p of ~1anitou !,'oun l.ain wnich i s over
l OUO f ee t hit.her than t ne shops which are situated a~ i t& base ,
,fo defi1w. 1,e
a .. ape of t he object could be det e rmined a nd even wi th t.i.e aid of binvculars it.
t1till could not be b r ought into f ocus .
The IJinoculers used were of a.bou t 4 t o
6 power.
The men s tated that they were cer a j n that Lite cbj-,ct did not nave
any of t ne physical characteristics of modern conventiona l aircraft .
The da y was discribed as being clea.r a 11d sunny with not
11 cloud in the
sky and.io gr ound wind .
On reacb i nt, t : e area j ust Nor th o f J.ie.r,it ou I. outs.in t he ob j e ct 1·emained
io t ne immedia ~e a rea for several minutes dur ing which time it was s e en to
exec ute manuvers s vch as cllmbl.:.g, di1·1r,
t nd r eve:sal o f direct ion of fli;:ht .
Th i s ha£pened ever y few seconds.
The. distance and l oc..ltion be we en views
pr ompt ed two 01' t .,e men to t hink tnat t here .were more of •he unidentified
object s in t he sky .
At times tlie object seer,1ed to hovee r lo t11e ai r w,d then
st.art on a no ther pa t h of fli , ht .
When last seen t : e sHvec ob,;oct was c limo­
1n,, very fat1 t towards the ~,est almost d i rectl y in to the wind ,
Pr e vious disLribu t ion:
Eval u to. t.i on
None
s our ce
01· inJ'ormt\tic,n
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HOOCAMA l'O•M NO e-eo•
JII MAY , •••
O KLAHOMA CITY AIR MATERIEL AREA
T INKER FIELD
O KLAHO MA CITY,
O l<l.AHOMA
C.J>t-./KD.S : cp
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21. Jul y 1947
ME!AO:ut;i)UU 'ro TH::: S~P.ITY CF ::-:CC.:R, OCA.MA, 7IKt,..R :-r..:.w.
SUBJ.:CT:
BTIOI\ :. . :JAVl..G':., field Enginee r, :taaio Cor poration of
America, Dallas, ':"exas . ( ltesidence:
416 K. :,. 29th Street,
Oklahoma City , OklahOl'IIB.. )
RE :
Flying Disc.
On 23 July 1947, BYRCN c. JAVAGJ was intervi ewed at his resiaence,
416 N. W. :;><)t h Street, Oklahoma Ci ty, Oklahoma, relating to his alleged
viewing of a flying disc over t he vicinity of Oklahoma Ci ty, Okl ahoma.
Subject, whose age i s 38, advi sed he is married ar:d nas one child,
and is pregent l y the hol der of a Private Pi l ot' s License, No . 39101,
(wingle ~ngine, Land) .
Subject averred he has extensively studied elect ron­
ics, sound engineering and aeronautics, and his present occupation, which is
Fiel d engineer for Radio Corporation of America , of t'ices of which are
located i n vallas, Texas, i s that of installing theat er sound equipmdnt.
~AVAGE stated that between the days 17 May to 21 Uay 1947, just after dusk,
he observed an object which he bel ieved to be a smal l air craft i n the south.
~AVA~6 advised t hat the s un had just gone down and t he moon had not a risen
on the horizon.
s~VAG~ related that he and his wife had j ust depart ed
thei r r esidence and had started to enter their car in the dri veway at
416 N. ii. 29t h St r eet, Oklahoma Ci t y.
He judged the time to be bet ween
8:30 p.m. and 9: 00 p.m., and the l ight s fran the city of Okl ahoma Ci ty
ap~e~red to be shining on this object when he f i r st saw i t. He judged the
objdct to be about 160° i n the south when he f i r st saw it, and as it moved
t owar d him he r emarked to his wi fe that "a big white plane was coming over."
,
SAVAGE stated that when this object was at a 45° angle from him., he
realized it was not a conventional. type aircraft, and it appeared elliptical
at first and a s it moved closer it appeared perfectly rowid and was flat.
SAVAGE advised the object , which appeared to him as a disc, had no appearance
of belng spher i cal and had a ratio of diameter to the thickness of approxi­
mately 10 to l, appearing thicke r in the center, but this could not be
positively ascertained. SAVAGE judged the object to be at a.n altitude of
between 10,000 and 18,000 feet, and it left no trailinf effects. SAVAGE
related that it appeared to be in bulk as big as the bulk of six B-29s at
an al titude of approximately the same height. SAVAGB advisad that the obj ect
was i n his vision approximately 15 to 20 seconds and travdlled at a speed
whi ch he judg•Jd to be approximat el y three times tha t of jet-propelled aircraft.
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Memo to the Securit7 Officer, OCAMA, Tinker Field, dtd 7/2J+/47, Fil•
372J+-I.
SAVAGE stated that there were no protrusions on this object and as it
went b7 he l istened tor a sound of noise., and at one time thought he dis­
tinguished a swishing sound like the rushing o! air. This swishing 80und
occurred a rew seconds after this object ·had passed him.
SAVAGE averred
this sound wais not verr loud and did not last very long, and it is vecy
possible that the sound could have been his imagination or expectation, as
he was not sure or the sound.
SAVA~ related that he cal.l.ed his wife to
see this object but it had disappeared before she could focus her eyes on
it. Subject s tated-that the object appeared to diminish in size and
speed as it moved away, and it was moving in a direction of 3500. to the
north.
Subject further stated t hat th4' object appeared to be frosty white
in color at all times.
SAVAGE advised that he has held a pilot's certificat e since 1934 and
has been flying since 1929.
He advised that he would be glad to answer any
further inquiries and will cooperate in every way possible.
SAVAGE s tated
he was sure this object was not a meteor and in his opinion it must be
radically built and powered, probably atomic.
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KAUUN D. SHON
C. I .
U. S. Army
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July 10, lM,
OoeeneP4lnc Ottloer
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Ohl•epee• ..■a.hullet1,■
Dear llrt
Al'Mr ha-ring read ••ffral aooomta ot ey.'""'1tnN••• Who olata the7
bad aNn t llll ao-oall•d • t lying d1101•, 111 brought to a1nd a •trance •xper­
l•noe I bad .... --- WNU •· !tw reuon I write to JeU fl that radio and
-paper repona naw ~• 1sbl air t.roN ba'ft 'been alff'Wd to lnwetlgate
the•• 111"1terioua el>jeou. A.H\ad.ng that you an la'Mre1~, I .. aaldng tlw
tollAnring report 1n the bellet that 11' ld.r)lt po■■ ibly be ot )adp to Yl»U•
I
do DDt 4e11re to haft uq kind ot publiolt7 wbatlo...,.r 1n thll oonnecrtion.
Aboub 11,ao All• 8\lllday, ,_,. HIid, I wu worldnc outdoon on a atiep,,,
ladder, loolc1ac up, and •udlll•nq t1-re appeared aoroH 11¥ line or nlion a
1pMd.1ng, bl"illlant, -11, round••ba~, •llT•~• object at aD altitude
I would jwlp to b• al»out 1,000 rt. or aore. lt waa •Tina .-.ry t'ut 1n a
atraight, non11R1wrly dlreotion ,-
I 111>uld 19.7 u t'Mt or po11i bl7 r ut.er
thin a 1pNdiJI& pl&M. It wu ao \llluaa_l and •true• a a1ght that it arreet­
•
rq attention tor about 8 or 10 ••oonda umsll it wu obeou.ried b7 a oloud­
banlc.
•turall7 rq ourioaU17,.. oonaldienbl7 aromed and I tried to 1;.b1.nk
what tb.1• objen llipt haft been.
I doli»tled ".-Y awob that it oould haft bffn
a wa~r b&loon beoaua• it ,.. DDt at all lib any weatlwr baloom I ~
H8D
before. th9 objen I •••• althouch mall, retleowd tbl eunli&ht ftry .trong­
ly u thous)l it were ot poli•hN al\llfima or 111.,.r, and 1 oan auure JOU wa•
'"l"Y real. It appeared to haw an irngular ro\lnd abape and while it oould
ha..-. been U■ o-■ hapecl, it did not partioularly 1apNH -
u
■uob.
l haTe att..pted to glff you thl• 1nton1&1Jion a• acourately and
olearly a■ I know bow, tree t~• &111' 1Jlaglat1on or exag •rat1on. Pw-ther­
aore, ,-y experienoe took plaoe betore I had any 1.Dklinc tbat •tlJing di■ oa•
wre reported eeen.
•
Thi• int'oration 1• bei.Dg pueecl on to you tor Whatenr it .,.y be
"°"h, purely and daply ln the i nteN1t1 ot niltli.onal 1eounty. and onoe
aore N quaet t hat JOU do not publiou• rq naat.
llnoer-oly youra,
A OIR!Il'IB:D fttJ'I COP'lt
/•/ B4ward L. l>eRo••
Edward Le l>eRoN
Af.th , (C
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BllDQUllffl.S POOllTH .UI POICI
ott1oe or the uahtant Chier or St&tt• .l•Z
IntelUgenot
Bm:dlton Pitld, Calitornia
stJBJICTa
1Dflnlp.'1on of •n,-1ng I>hoa•
TOt
eo-ncting 0.NNl• M'Wt7 ~ir Poroee, Wa•hinf\ou Z&• De Ce
.lrTnTIOl1
.AC ot A.I•!
1. Attaoll•4 ttate•nta a_nd lfOIC• f'ol"'llarct.d to J'O'lP otti•• per
.....n !IX tJ-oa S.adq\l&l"ter• Air DettnH Coaaand. l(Uoh•l Pi•ld• • • T.,
dated 10 July l~tT.
z. Thia ~dquanera 11 unable to looate 11obard lankla. h01NTer,
•• aoon •• he it located, atat...nt and MOIC will be tornrded direot t o
your of't1oe.
a. Intoraation oop1t• turniahed Beaclquanera .Air Def'an1e Colmand.
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t.m l2 JulT 1947, a oall •as aade at the nenpaper otf'ice of
t.be "Idaho Oail.7 .:>t at"1Ulll•, C!oiee, I dam .
The artation ed.U,or ot t.b.e
paptr , :.r. Darld N. J obnaon , •aa inteniewecl in regard to ho• ,r..U be
mew llr. lem etb Arnold ot oiee, Idaho, and u
to the credib1.llt7 ot
m 7 at.atnmt aade b7 Ur. 1mold. Th• purpoH of this urt.-d.. was u
atte.pt to ••it7 atat_.t&• ■ad.• b;r !lr . i ennetb A.mold on 26 Jum 1947,
t o yaJ"iou• national DeQ aerrtoH to tbe etfeot that be, .r. A.mold,
bad eeen 9 objeota n71,. in the air abo•e the .:ascade •ount.ain P.mge
ot 1asb.1~ton. These object.a •er• aubsequentl.7 referred t.o H f1)"ing
eauoera or n.,1.nc d.i■u and will her.-in-aft er be reterred to aa s uch.
1n thia report..
r. J ohnso n stated tbat he had known Ur. Arnold f or
quite a period ot t1.., ba'flng bad r elat.iona with
• Arnold on T&rioua
oocaai one, "1• to tbe tact th.at botb bl, ar. J ohnaon, and Hr. Arnold
were pr1 Yate tU.n and f requently cot t.og•tb.- to talk abop.
Kr. J ohnson
atated that u
f ar • • b.• •aa concerned aJJTth11'\i Kr• .lrnold said oculd be
take
"•"f7 ••riouly and tbat be, arr. J obnaon, act.uall,y beli•-nd that • r .
Arnold had •••n the ator..nti,>Ded f'l.,lnc di.aka.
lilr. Johnson stated that
aftc- 'lr. 1rnold reported bannc seen the flY1n« diaka, that the editor
of the paper had a•~icned hia, r . J ohnson, t he u ,.igaaeot ot taking t.he
airplane beloaging t.o the nnapaper and exhaustine all efforts \o proTe
or duprO't'e t he probabilitT or a71ng di.aka had n, been aeen in the
nortb..s t area. The re.ult• of thia asatgnaent t o ~ . Jobneon and what
he aubaequentl;r ••• 1a put forth i n a sworn stateant signed b7 llr. Johnson
at tached to tbia report ae ~bl.t B.
AOPT'S OTIS s wr. Jobnaon ia a aan ot approxiaat,el.y- )) to JS 19ars ot
ac•• Proa all appearanoea he 1a • ••rr reaerYed t;rpe or person.
Irr.
John■ 011 baa l.oued 2800 houra ot tlri,ng tiu in Yari.oue ~ pea of airplane•
up to and 1nclud1.nc aal.t1-encin• aircraft..
During part. of th• 1'U' 19ara,
Vr.
John■ on was the r1nt pilot ot a B-29 tn>e airoratt beinc assigned to
U. Tw9nt1e\h OSAAF and at.ationed on Tinian t.aund, in the Paoifio.
It
1a the per.on.al opinion ot the int.-nenr t.hat. tr. Jobnaon actu.all.1 sa•
what he ■ tat• that be •a• in the attaohed rtipOrt.. It 1a al.ao the opinion
ot the int.niewer that Mr. Johnaon woud have •oh aore to lose tun cain
and would ha~• _, be nr7 atroncl7 oonTinNd that be act.ll&llT aaw ■oaething
W on be woud r.port ■uoh an 1no1den\ a11d open hiuel.t tor the ridioule
tbat. would aooo1111pan.J' aich a repor\•
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Statoment or Do.vie. I, . Johnson
at Jois e , Ide.ho , July 12, 1947
To \lhom It ~·~y ~onoern :
On the sixth day of July, 1947 , I r e ceived from Je,rtes L . 3r ovm ,
r,ener e.l D'\l\naier or the :,tates ~nn Xewspo..pers , i n corpor ated in Idaho a s
T 10 Statesl'l\an Printing comoany , an assirnoent which vms in substance:
" ~onduct nn eerial search of th" nort hwest stetes in tin effor t to
see o.ncl rhoto.-rnnh a flying- disc .
Conduct this Jatrol for so lonr; a time
o.s you ~elievo rea~onabl e , or until you see a flyin• disc ."
In accordance to those in~tr uotions , I t.ook the Statosnan ' s nir pla.no ,
o.n-... ,.it;h tenneth 'rnol d as pussen er , f lew c, sJ von o.nd one- half hour. r-1ission
on tho sevc•1th do.y of: July , 1S17 .
~hi :ii - ission was wlthoul.. r e::.ult .
It
co•1.or ed n
area e•i:..>rncit~r; tho c on_'ir.o::i of tr.o ..nnford :-,1 ,nt. .:.~ ,a.si,ir.i;ton ,
u.n<l territory 'between ant! arounc 1 't .
•r. inier und
t . ..demo, wl1er& Arnold
first reported seein
ob,ioct:; honcel'orth described us saucers or discs .
On the ei~hth day of July, 1~47 , I took an AT- u of the 190tn Fi r:hter
squadron , Idaho l ationc l ;uar.:i, of ,,hich I am a ~mber, and fle·. to r.ortr.ern
Iunho , into nortl'wrester r
'ontana briefly , to Spokane , ,ashir.i"ton , nnd back
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to 3oise by woy of ••alln .a.Ha, .ashir,.ton, and Penctletor , vrt:1 ·on .
rhis
search al6o was ner,at1ve .
On tne ninth ua:, of July, l.'i7, I cont.inuud thu search , ornin usinl!: o.
national
uer d AT- G, ttis tioo centorin
my ef~or ts over tno Ov,yhe~ ~our.tains
west s.~d soutLwoct or 3ois , .. ortion of tb:t ountain .:one deser t on a tre.ck
southeast o!' ";he
ountuin f.ol':\G ar:::;, o.ir baso , t ,onco into t ho ~a'lftooth I our.­
tainJ , ar.<l back in tho :ener t l dir£otion or 3oiso on n lino carryinr no woll
to the r.ort ?. or t;he '>hnfer ":>utte for est serv:.ce lookou~ ... totior. , into tt,o
I'orseshoe Bonu. a.ref' , r>,1u t 1.cmce l.,a.c': ir n soul;:.Hesterl:· :lir ,c.. :.or. t;o &. point

between Boise and the v illo.r;e o r
or idien , west of ,oiso a few 1'liloo .
l>urinr, thi s sear ch , whioh lasted anpr oxi r.lbt..cly tv,o c.nt on<;- ht.1.l!'
hours , I flow unde r and e.rouno r e .,i<lly for l"'inr· cumulus clouds o v e r t not
area knovm as the Came.3 Pra.i r io , east of' 1oise .
The cloud3 wer, roar t.ho
villace of Fnir f.iol<:.. ir: thot va.llo:, , H !cl ?oirfi r:.lcl is 7'CJ riLn air lin'?
dist a.nce oust of 1oi se •
..t that time I saw nothi n ,· ir. i,hc vicinity of
these cl ouds .
At tr.e timo I reacned the point between 3ois.J a.nu
e r itlii n , I was
f lyinr, at nn altitude of 14 , 000 feet mean sea l evel , which woulC: be a rntie.n
aver are of 11 , 000 feet above the e r r th in this area , not consi~er in; error s
in tho altimeter induced ol.t,her by bo r oMotric chPnP.;es cinc e m~, taJreoff, or
by tho tompcrcturo at thrt.. a l titude .
I tur ned tho uircrcft on Pr. cc~stt.r l:1 hcatirw , pointin tov;arc. ~owen
Field , &nd h• d I'l o ,r on tht .. cour~( ror
>Grr,llp:; o ;ninuto wi,on '..r,er e sut!aenly
e.ppoared in Lhe l Aft hnnd oortion of::-.:, i'i,L, of.' •1ision r_n object -.:hich was
black and round .
I im' odiatcl:v cer.tered !'l"Y ~azo o n ➔,lo object .
/.r, t..,.at time , due to ii;G
err atic J.CIV~··.ent , I i 110u ·ht I ·:.u:; seeir:
a ·.-,ec.t1.er b"lloon .
1 CC'lled the
CAA ' s COMMunicnticn :;tnLio"' 1 t
oise , c.n c! • :..kou : 'tie ·1cC1.'; .or ::;to.tio?" ho.cl
rE.;cer.tl:· r elo'l:;od a
bnlloon .
- .,e renl:' fron co:-t."1'.rn •en to r
l
r'tsor was 1;,.ut
the b\·r~e.u hnJ not .
I rlo not re"'er">er hi ::i •1XEit"t worc.s ;
i.n-,r ession he si id " not fer s~ven 1 hcJrs" o r ·nve '!'., •,n
o:r.t ct tl:r,'3 of t .e
ot·evious roloese , Hhic:. was arountl .)8 : ~O t ..·t day .
•:non '..enrin'" t.ni:; r(;s-,ons , I turn d ;.nc f> ~ rcrat't br c•o.d:side "..o the
o!:>.ject , ri•..illed bt>clr
hn .,l,nci -1, ss coverin
•.o c.void an;, dis~ortion . took
my ce.r,er!l f r o.., t ho ru::, er s , ,ir.d ex-.osed i. ~out 10 seco?'lcis '
...i irftio!" o!' e i p-ht
'l'i llime ..e r !"Otion oict•..:re fil:n .
.J\lri!'l
t.,o "Ci!"F-J the cir e r £ ·.vos
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cou l d not se e the object beccJse of ~inute~ess 01 sco?e introduced ~y the
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optical view finder with \':hich the canera , t.n f . 1.9 East-:an , was equipped .
Takin-• the camer a away and once ar;ain cer.torin ~ n;v gaze on tnc ob5€ct ,
I observed i t to r ol l so that its ed~e was nresented to me .
At this ti~e it
fla shed once i n the sunli";ht.
It then appear€d e.s c thin bl ack line .
It
t hem per for med a :r.aneuver which looked as if it had be17.1n e. $low roll , or
a ~arre l r oll , wl,loh instesd of heinf co~?leted, was br oken off at about
the 18O- de,:r ee point .
~'he object r olled out of tho t.op o~ the maneuver at
thi s point , and I lost sibht of it .
rhis ontir o )0r forna:icc was o">sorved asainst u~e ':>eckf;round of clouds
pr e viousl y f <M"rrinr; over th"" ~ana5 Prairie .
!'he o~ject o.p'.)e&reci to r1'? ,
r e l atively, [1.S the s.izc of a twenty- five cent oioco .
I do not knO\'t i1ow
far awa~' it ua~ .
I <lo not kno,·1 , nor cun I truthfully os'.;ir.iatc , its soeed .
I can or:ly say it was not an airolr.ne, end if it wns at a very ·reat dis­
t ance from me , its s')oed was ·reat, tokinr; into consideration thnt n::>par.,nt
speed i s r educe d to the viewer if , n ob.iect is a verv n-reat distance av,ey .
I f oreot to l ook ct ~v cl oc~ ~o deterrine the exact time I sa.w the
objoot .
The CAA' s loe; o!: r adio contacts shows my first conta.ct to hnve been
maae o.~12 :17 hours .
3ut n few seconds elapsed between the tir1e I fi r st saw
the object , and the t i me I cnlled the C.-.A ' s station .
I subsequentl y r elated over the r adio fl descrir,tion of what I savr, and
0O!Tlr.luni oator .:..1bertson may romer ber it .
lhe contr ol towor nay have· a. record­
in; or the conversat i on .
I
1ave not chocked to deter r i n~ that .
'J.he purpose o f '"fl.Y rol e.tin
over tho air whnt I saw wo.s to enable raoid
transmi ssion of the r e_)ort to tho uevrspe.per, for at thut t i me I was on
assir.nment o.nd my ener ~ies 1hencoforth we r e devoted to (1) t r a'1s11ittinL the
i nf orn-.at i on o.n cl (2 ) oonductinr, o. fur ther search , which I did aftor l unding
for fuel a nd to make some t eleohone calls .

rhe next search , bt: un wit:iin :.c.lf :r. :1our nf'ter· l·~ ... :n
.fro!'l t he
Irr.:nudiatt1lv after ..i ·ntinl" tho object . -
• s::cl~ -=--· t . t re "..oro ot~or
nircrnf~ in the urea .
rioncvv\;)r: in t. o vi.ci~it." o ' :·una ,
u t t. t ,.....s
HJ ir.~ --:.c .
• C- 82 ,a ssca
over
oi se , '>ut I saw t l.t\t tdrcrnft go b€:-.ea.t:. me. by :ic t.' 2 , 01)) feet .
'Iho ::>- 51 1r: t.r.c v~cir.it.' of r:un~ or oceedeo to tho a rea. ,-r.,ere I sa.v:
t'1e ob,iect, at:"'?' request , a.nd condicted a searer .
was ne •tive •
Tt
.Jurinr the afterroon, ~lights of P- 5ls wer e sent out to cover the a r e&.
and sol'"\e 01' thG"'l flew hir;!-. e.l"titudo :-.issions on oxyren .
I'hese st:1srci es
were ner,a tiva .
I was sul::>soc:uently .:.nfor1, tJd thnt -,Drsonni:,l on ·,otn thE, t ni.tad Jtir
tinos ·sitlo or ~~won fie l a , a~~ on t he catio~al ~ard side , obsorved o black
ob.}oct n:ar;ouvorir. "' it. f r ont of the so:- c clou<l !'or"'lll..,ior: , ·,:} ici. by 1.ow had
f r om a :,eon bnso o~ 13 , Juu or 14 , 000 feet , '"eR:' sea. level •
.,'ltr oe of ~hase
:-:ton wora r.a.tione.l · unrJ
r son.'1 .. 1 t:' llU :r trl1<cC to t f,cr.1 , ns'::n th~.. to
do::.crilJc ,.he t th-?·• so..,, ')c "or, t .. llinr them r:ry :;tor", i n ~,rdcr ~o uvcid
su ·•~L-stion o,· inf'erenoe of n ltlt\.lln r.otur o .
'i'ha:-,· SE\\', t h o o :<-ot. \from
tho r,r ound)' whi l e I wns on "':ly socond search .
They ocli eved ... i,o tirr.o to
have been 14. : 00 hours .
The o':lj.::ot oer for n1od in the sa•:\o? erratic ntnner ,
they said, as I observed .
The above ls the extent or the stor y , and ini'or:rc.ti on conoernjn­
rn,vself is now in order .
I have npproxinetol y 2800 hour s of f l ~in~ t irne in cquipmtnt r nn~in~
f r om pr imary t.r fl inors t.o J- 2Js .
Of cour se , thnt does n ot. incr oase ny
power s of observation oxoept f'S to those nr ncti ced dnily b~ nn nirut-n .

•e COt~fi'IDENTIAII
It dooa not 111&ke my eyesi ~ht any sharper except again as to the incidental
demanda upon t ho oyea of 'a pilot.
At t ho. time or· t ho expe~ienoe re lated above . I had flown fourteen
and one- half hour e on an a asi ~nmont t o find a di ao and i ~ possibl e. to
photogrnph it .
In all f r ~nknoss , I was t i red.
I may have been suffering,
al though s11::;htly. f r o:n wnnt of oxygen .
Prior to si;htin~ t he object , I had concluded thor o was no po1ot i n
pr es sing t he s ear oh . t hat I pr obably ,.ould never see tho diso- liko objcot.s
reforred to JY Arnol d ~nd by Captoin Sni th of Unitod Air Lines .
At nll tinos tlurin· t:1e, soo.r oh , both on that day o.ntl tno b-10 preoodi ni;
days ( part1oulnrly w:1en I was ,nt:1 Arnol d) I had liter a lly tt.lkod t o· myself
to keep bee.ti n• into ny head tho.t I would not fnll vioti-i to tile power or
sur~est i on or sel f - hypnosi s ari si nr, f r on o. nc~ur nlly ver y intent dosi r e to
find a disc ond bring success to tho assi nr.ient e;1ven "'• •
I ther eror o do not ?el iove that I was the vioti­ or su ;costion or
h~•onosis .
I O'II ft'l"i li r with the opti011l illuai or. of e fixod o b,1eot :>e;in ­
·nin • t o oove o.ftar it is v.atched a s u!'f\.cient l onr-tl, of time .
I know whet
t r iolcs -:he e~:o s will p;ay as to r:>0vin~ bod ·es, and l ve l ear ned of this
:>O.rt ioul nrl:, duri.,.. • ni ht !'c.ir
tion :l:,rin..,..
1 so.w tho 0:1.-loct n!);>ee.r :;uc.denly .
If it hno ,ovod in l ~or k!,r ~a::i1ion
(a3 i t die cit :'irs:.J .'.'or
:1e "'ul l l<.in·th o!~ ti::--• I observad 1 • : T.ou d ~ot
ho ~u'lstior. rer • ~
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241 B&~ery Street, San Franeisoo~ ahowed no traee of a117 object. Stohr
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says that if it was more than a nile di~tant ,from ne at tbe •1~• I described,
the objeot would not h&ve registered sufficiently on the ftlm to be shown .
Ile aaid it probabl7 •• too far away to be apparent eTeathrough croat en­
largement of the negative, and enlarcement in .that e&J• ia limited beo&uae
of the aise of ~he N.lm and the fact"l did not have any teleaoopic equipment
on the lena. The expoeure was r.16, •to~ set at infinity, at a speed of 16
frame• per aeoond.
I h.nve•worr1ed over this matter a great deal a1noe seeinf it.
I "took
myself aside" and said, "oome now, Johnson, don't be atupia. •
dut I carmot·
•
bring myself to the point of thinldn& I did not see anyth1n&•
Tho im~resaion
ot the Momont was too vivid, too realistic, and I knew in the air when I saw_
thnt par tial slow roll or barr el roll, that I wns not a victim of illuaion .
I t ruat this mattor will be of hel~ to those inveatigatinc t he flying
diao phonomena which hD.vo been r eported.
chart is attached depicting the Movements of t he object as I saw it.
1his stotensnt io made voluntarily and freely , in response to the
request or Ur. 3r own and ~ant ain Davidson, who called on me this ~ornine.
/s/ IJo.vid _r . Johnson
Suh•cribed end sworn to botoro ne , a·notary oublic, t h i5
12th
n y of July, 1947.
/a/
Geo. L. Flaherty
l,otary ?Ublic for Ada
count::, Iaaho . "y
ooa.~ission expire3
~an 2, 1949.
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ti}NFIDENTIAL •
COPY.
SOME LIFE D>.'l'A ON KENNETH ARllOLD
I wae born Maroh~, 1916 in Subeka, ~inneeot&.
Uy father 's name was
Edward Erb Arnoldi my mother's maiden name ns i3erth& E. Barden.
I was a
resident ot Minneeota until I was ·six years old whon my ramily moved to
Scobey, vontana, where they homestea~ed.
My Y,randfather , Roland c. Arnold
also homesteaded in Scobey, 'ontana , and became quite gromlnent in political
oirolee along with Surton K. Wheeler, the famous Montana senator.
I went t o grade school and hip;h school at l1inot , Horth JJakota .
I
enter ed scouting at t we lve years of ago and achieved the r ank ot Be.gle scout
before I was fourteen. ..w former scout executive was u . rt. Prescott , now a
regiona l commissioner for the
10:r Scouts in l..a.nse.s City, Y.a.nsas .
As a boy, I was interested irl athletics and was se l ected as an a ll­
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sto.te ond in 1932 and 1933 in the et ate or 1:orth De.kot a.
I entored tlle
U. S. Ol ym9ic t r ial s in ftncy divine in 1932;
I was a Rod Cr oss Life Scvinc
Exvminer dur ing t he yeor s or 1~32 , ' 33 and ' 34 .
I ta.u~ht sw1!11J!l1ne; and divint
at scout camps and tho municipal pool in . inot , l,orth wakot5. •
I went to the
Univer sity or .•i nneiso-t.o., vrl1ere l s wam Pnd did f ancy divin ~ under .,eils 'Ihol"'pe ,
and also played footbnll under aernie iie r rAn , but upon entering college I
was unab l e to continue my football career because of an inj u red knee . ·y
hirh school footbnll ooecr. was Glenn L. Jarrett, who ia now the read football
coo.oh of the Unive rsity of l\orth l.)akota .
I had little or no finances , and
my &:1bition in fur t hor ine r:ry e ducation in colleie was throu~h my a t hle t ics:
As a boy in 'inot , l,or t h ..;c.\-:otr , I did a &ooJ dorl -:,f dor- sled r e.cint;. placed
first with rtfJ doi; i n 1930 in tho Lions :;lul) ;JOI; lierby.
Ir. l :.13'3 I wer.t to i!Or'< for r.Gd Comet , Inc . of Littleton, Col orado , a
nanufacturer of a•1tocati c fire f ight inc; ;pparatua .
In 133!, I v,a s .no.de
distr ict manaeer f or ti.er, over c ..,o.r t of the westorn sto.tos , nuci in 1940 I
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e stablished my ovm fire contr ol supply known as the '"reat \1estern Fire
Contr ol Supply.
I have been wor ki nt as an independent fire control
en&ineer since , and I handl e , distr i bute, sell and install all types of
aut omatic and manual f1ro fi)lt i nt; equipment in the rural aroas over
f ive western. states• •
l'y flyinr; o.xperience started a:; c. boy- in 1·1not, liorth De.koto., w .ere
I took my f irst rlyin~ lesaon from Earl T. 7anoo, who was or i,i nally rron
Great Ptlla, - ontana .
lJua to the hi 0h cost at ·t hat ti~e , I wns unable to
cont inue my flyinr, and did not fly of any great consequonco until 1943 •
. I was given my pilot certif i cate by Ed Leach. a senior CAA inspector of
Portland. Ore gon. and f or tne l est t hree year s have owned my own air plane
ooverin& my entire territory with same and f lying from fo rty to one hundred
hours per month since .
Due to t he faot that I use an airplane enti rel y in
~ work, in January of this yeo.r I purchased a new Callai r airplane , which
is an airplane designed for hiuh al t itude take-offs and short rou&h field use .
In the typo of flyini I do, i t t&kos n great deal of pract ice and
judgment to be abl e to l and in moat any cow pasture and r,ot out without
1njur1~ your airplaneJ
tho runways are vor y li~i ted and t ho altitude i s
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very high in some of t he fiel ds and places I ho.ve to go in my .,ork.
To
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date . I hove landed in 823 eov, pastu res in mounto.in IIM6ado,7a. and in over
a thousand hours a f l at tire has been my greatest mishap .
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The !'ollOTrint; :stor~, or what I observed over tne Cascade C10untaina •
a• 1~poaa1ble as lt cay aoe~; ia poai t iTrly t rue .
! nover as~ed nor -nted
any notorie.ty for Just acc1dently beln ; in t .'16 right 1-,ot at the rir,ht ti,e
to obaer~o r.ho t I dld.
I reported ,omethin t hat I 'mow any ~ilot would
haYe r eported.
I don ' t t !\inlc tl ,, t ir. ~ny W!'I" ir.:• o"-servation was due to an.v
seoaivity or •:·e 1 1 ht e r j uJg::iont ttui.n
hat i s cnn siuered nor-I'l l for any oilot .
On June 24th. Tueaday , 1947 , I }uod finished my ~ork ror the Central Ji r
.
SerYico at Chehalis , ,,a ,hintt;on. and at obout tl,o o ' oloclc I took off f'roo
Cneh&lia.
o.shint~ton . ai r port with tho int.eution or ·oi-, · to Yalci u . ,faah .
/ t rip wa ~ del ayed tor an hour to search tor a large
rine t ranarort that
au,poaedl y went down ~•or or arounu the southwest side of ft . ~.ainier in the
at.ate of ,ashinGton and to date has never been round .
I flew dirootly toward
t . Rainier arter reachlnc an a l titude of a.bout
9. 600 !'eet. which ia tho • ?proximate elevation o!' the hi :1 :,lntenu froo which
•.t . Hainer risea .
I ilnd nado ono swoop or this high pl ateau to the 'Westward.
aoe.rohing all or the various r i dges ror t his marine ahi? and Clew to t he west
down and near tho r idge aide o!' the canyon where AshforJ , 11ashington, 1s located.
Unable t o aeo anythinr. that looked like the lost. ship, I made a ~GO degree
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turn to t he rir,ht and above the little oi t y of J'ineral • atartin"; again toward
.ft;. Rainier. I climbed back up to an altitude of ~oproximately 9, 200 reet.
The air•• 10 Rooth that day that it was a real pleasur e tlyinr, and ,
•• most pilota do when the air ia smooth and t hey are flying at a higher
altitude, I trimmed out !!ty airplane in the direotion of Yaki.Qll .
aahingten.
whioh wa1 alJDOat directl y ea,t or m:, position and si,mply aa\ in m:J plan. ob•
aen-ing the •icy and the terrain.
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Ther e was a DC-4 to the left and to the rear or me approximately
i'ifteen miles di stance , nnd I should judge, at 14, 000 foot elevo.t i on.
'rhe sky and n1r w-as as olear as orystal .
I ho.dn 't flown more than
two or throo minutes on rny course when a br i :;ht f lash r ofl ooted on my
o.irplane .
It startl ed me o.s I t hour,ht I wo.s t oo c lo:se to some other air ­
or a.ft .
I lookod every p l aoe in the sky nnd ooul dn ' t rinu where the rorleo­
tion hau cor:ie l'rom until I looked to tho l ert o.nd the north or
t .
..ainier
wher o I observed a cha.in o r ninc1 ooculinr lookin~ niro1·nft flyinr-
""rom north
to south at appr oxi1,,ately 9 .soo foot e levation nnd c;oinr: , seeminr l y. in o.
definite direction o: a~out 170 de~r oes .
They were approo.chin•~
t . 1\Sinier ver~• ra:,idly , and I nerely o.ssumod
they were jet planes .
Anyhow, I discovered that t h1 s was wheru thll r e fl e c ­
tion h{ld oorne from , as two or three or thain every few :seconds would di:> or
chan;e their course sH c.htl ;v, just enou ·h for I.he sun l..o str iko t hem at an
ang l e that reflected b r i r;htl y on my pl ane .
These objects boin - qu i te rar oway , I was unable !'or a f ew seoonds to
make out their shaoa or their Cormction .
'!ery shortly they aopr oo.ched ••t.
~ainier , and I observed their ou~lino s~r i nst tho sno, QJi.u ~lLinl~ .
- thou ht it wo.s very --eculiar t:1r,t I coul:ln ' :.. f in.i t?1eir tails but.
assumed "'..hey wer e some ty;,e or jet plar.o .
I was tleterninou to cloc:: tb:i r
speed. as I had two de!'ini -.e '.')Oints I could cl ock V ·1•JM :>;1 ; t.: r.:
l- i r wn:; so
clear that it ,;as very oas:• to seo o'1jects Pnd uetor ...ir. , t toi l" c '''.Jr ox inut.u
shape ar.d size at a l r,ost fift:· "!il• s tr.at. aa:' •
I r enet:1:>er distinctl.v tht t
r:lY s'"rooo seco"ld hand on rn:' e i h~ day clocic ,
.:hi ch is loco.tad on ~y instrument ""10.nel , r ead one !nin 1t.o ~o S t> , ' . os tho
fi r st object of this formation oassed t he southe r n ed~e of
t .
ticier .
I wyltched these objects with ~r eat inter est r. s I h&d never '> "'or e oosorv9d

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airplnne~ flyin~ so close to t ho nountn1n topo , fly1nr, diroct ly couth to
aoutheo.st d,,vm tho hor, ' s bock of n rnount1in rtinr,e .
J s,oul d es t imate their
elevation could have vo.ried a thousand feet nne we.:r or another up or dovm ,
but they l1ere pretty much on t.hti horizon to mo which woul J indicate they­
were near the s ome el evation rs I was .
They flew liko many ~imee I hove observed geese to f ly 1n a rather
dia~onal chein- like lino ns if tho~ were l inkea torether .
:h~v seared to
hold a c.lefir.1te di rect i on but r ather swerved in end out of the n i ~h mountein
peaks.
! heir soeed at tho time did not imnress me ~articul arly , b~oau3e I
knew that our army and ti i r "orcos had nl~nes thc.t w,.rit ver~, fast .
,fuot kept botherin~ ,~ us I wo.tc~ed Lhem ~l ip ard fls~h i n tno sun
ri ht ulon
th1 ir •10.U, w1..s the fe.ct thot I coulcin 't :".like out t.rCJ
t,1., il on
thom , ana I ur.i suro tht.. t. any r,ilot \,ould justi f':1 r.ore !.ha.n u socor.a look at
on P.S clear a uay as ii. was t;nr.1, . uesdc;; .
ln !'r ct r CO~")ared ft u ,us fas"';;oner
or cowlin' tool I hBd ~n ~y ~ocket wi t~ t h~m - holcin• i t up on thcrr ~nd
ho l din it U? on the ~~- • - th•t I coulo observe at ouite a di sta~co to ~y
lert , und th"V seor:ed snollE:>r t i- 0 n th~ :ic- 4 ; ~ut , I shoul a j.1ci ·e +.h·ir s:,on
vtou l d ►,r,ve beon as wide o.s t h.- "ur t ,er est en~i nes on c.s.ch side o!' the
fusole r o o~ the ~c - 4 •
•he nore : observoa +,he se ob.i..3c ts . t .. e •·ore
..1'lset I beca'lle , i..s J ar:i
accus tomed aria ff--:ilicr ,,i';h :-.o~t, all objects flyin1; .:· . .:it.i"'r:;. e:-i close t.o
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and as , t he first one was oassin~ th~ south crest of thi s ri d~e t ~e l ast
object ~s ent er ing t he nor t her n or osi of the r i dr,e .
As I was rlyi n, in the direct ion or this :>ar ticula r r ia.::;o , I c.casured
it and f ound i t t o be appr oximatel y f ive miles so
~ couL s fol:, assJmo '.hat
the oho.i n of these s~ucar like objects were at l oas t f ive mi l e s l on~.
could quite accuratel y deter Mine their ~athwc.:• uue t o •..h-, fact t .nt t l1er e
were sev-.,r "\ l hic;h -:>ePkS t .P t wor e r little t his s i de o!' ti.••:, ns vroll as
nis hor
".>ee.·-cs on tho 01;!1er side of their -,ath1•,ay .
As the l r..st unit of' thi s f'o rll"Ation r,a. ssed the soutr1ern :nost hirh s~ow­
cover ed crest of .!t . Adan s. I looked at my sweep second ha n<l o.nu lt s11owea
t hat they had t r avelled the di st&nco in ono mi rut e and .'.'or ty-t ·.,o seconds ,
: ven at t he time t his timin ~ di d nnt uoset rre as I rel ~ confi dent after I
woul d l and t her e woul d be sone ex~l anation of wnat I saw ,
A nu;nber of news men and exper t s ~~~rested thc t r miwht have ~oen
seein P' r e fl- cti ons or eve n E, 111irar;e .
'rhis I know t o be abso l utely ~f! lse ,
a s I ob serve d ~ he se objects n ot only t h~ou ~h th~ r l r s s o ~ ~y air plan e but
tur ned r:ry airpl ane si deways wher e I coul d ooen ny wi ndow 1:1nd obsenre them
with e. conpl otoly unobst r uct ed view.
(,1ithout. sun -lnsses )
~v9n~ hou,:h t wo minutes seems lika a ver y shor t t i me to ono o.n t he
~round, in the air in t,,10 minutes ti~e e. ni lot can obser ve a croat meny
thinl"S ana anythi n!' vrithin hi:; s i ht of vision ">robobl y an ri:any ns !'if t:r or
slx t.y t i nes .
I continued rrry s~arch ror the J'l'larine pl ane fo r another fi fteen or
twenty minutes and wnilo sear ching f or t hi s mar ine pl ano , wha~ I had just
observed kept ~oin~ t hrou~h rrry mind .
I became mor e di stur bed, s o af t er
taking a l ast look at Tieton Reservoir 1 headed ror Yaki:na.
I mi ght add that my ·complete observnt i on of t hose ob_joots , \'ihi oh' I
could eren follow by their !'lashe s as they passed 1:1. . Adams , was around two

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writ t en b • so-,t; ~: ti cse o11scrvers t .. t
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so rved th•J s.,,,ti t,in • th· t I Jio ;
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l O"dOs , thc/-t r:t o,,,nn f r or-: ,klah.o-a City And the l ocor.o­
tive onr-inoe r in Illi..,ois , -,l us ~art '>" i th a!"d :;o- ""ilc-t 3tever. s <'
'l'nitec. Air Li ne s
Somo d()scril"lt i on s coul o r.ot oe ver y nccur r t.o ..:c k0n i'r o•n the r-n,uno. unl ess
thosc1 saucer - like di sks v:ere o.t <'uit e a r r aet ,.oi•~•·t n1.J • t n
• s £' ...,os sibi lity
t hat Nl l o r tho ~uopl o who obs e r ve~ ~ecu l inr ob~ucts coul ~ ::•o s~on ihL ser~
thi n
I di d ; ~ut, , it woult. hf vo bt:o:, vc•r y ui!'f icul 't. i'"r vr t.hC' , r oun-1 t.<' C'bso rve
tho so ror -,or o t hen rour or ."iv v :iccon~s , end Lr.u 1·e is• h.c :,t i.le !"'ossioi lit.y
or atr,osph or ic noist•1r o ur,-1 uusL n1..,u r tho r,r ound which coul ~ .:1.sto r t c-n... ' s vi si on .
•,;ho ·>t·of o!l s t:,i..t t. hosll o~ject s
: vc.. 'Jeen o sorvod ove r othor ,o ·tions ol' tho

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cn:nor o. with a to l t-phot o l ons and f r orr1 ·now on I \Ii 11 nevor be vrit hout one
but , to continue f'u r t hor 1·tith my story .
\'/hen I landod a t the Yakima , Wash.,
airpo!'t I descr i '.:>e d what I had seon to ny vor y ·;ood fri onu ,
l :Jo.xter , v.ho
l1st onod "8t1ently and \'/as , ve r y courtoou::. ~ut i n e. j okinr wa?·tlidn ' t. believe no .
I d j d not noourntvly r.101\sure t.ho c i st.,~r:cc botv1oon t ,o;;o trio
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cllffer er,t ocoosions whictt a :1pe1 r1mtly set tno r,ation buu in1;, if our
Intellit once was nnt nwor <, of ,, u.:t I obser ved , the:, would be t r.e vvr ? fi r st
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HEADQUARTERS TACTICAL AJR COMMAND
LANGLtrY
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7 Jul:,, 1947
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Roport of unu::ua.l Cel estial Phcna:io?ll'.
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Headqu1.r-';er!" Tacti -~:. .ir Ca:u-..rnd
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T'to foll~1inv re ort i:; :;utnitted concorn.i~~ an unu3Wll occur­
re:ice ob::crved b:,
:>or::onnnl 1t .E.r.'roll ::olc!, ''ont;;<rlor-J,
Ala . on t!10 nic;h
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CAPT• .!IBD...A.1, , To.ndolph Field, Tox:1s
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At Appro-/.i1.0.toly 2120 Contra.l time , a li.:;ht, ,r.ith a 'brilliance
sliihtly :-;r aator than a. star , a.pponrod from tho 'lost .
It \'l't\G firot noted
above the horizon of a clear 1,1000- li;;ht ni.;ht , tr.i.velinc in a.n ea.A t~.:-ly
dir ection nt n hich r e.to of spood .
Thora 1,nA no audib le sounr! :1nd it was
impooniole to c.etorru.ne the n l -';i tuc.o, exoe:-,t thn t, .it a.pr,onrad to be a.t
Gr ea-'; heicht . It traveled i nn zic za.G cour30 ,nth f r oquent bw'~t3 of
opoed ,.-.r.1uch liko a v,u tor uuc as it spurts a"'ld ::top:; ncro:Js tho sur.Co.oo of
water .
I t continued until it was directly ovorh~d a.nd cha.l'll;Otl courso :)Qo
into tho couth.
A.i'tor t ravolill{; in tho a b ove r.nnnor !'or o.pproxinntely fi"Te
(5) n i nutoo, it turnod oouthwoot· e.nd ,•,as loot in the br i l lia.noJ of tho r.1oon.
at 2145 Contr e.l it ,·in.a no loncer posoihlo to oboerve it.
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A ca.11 wns pla.cod to lJa.xwell Fiol<l oparo.tion:i reforenoo titio
phenomom nnd inquirJ made if any oxporiuental a.ire.raft 1·1oro schodulod for
a. flir;ht in the vicinity.
Tho reply wan negative .
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llo pl a usible expl amtion is o!'fe.red for tho unuooo.l o.ction of this
courco of li:1lt, which nctod oontr&..ry to o.ny cOl'llnOn a.erodynrunioe.l laws.
'i'hio report is submitted upon roqueot, in view of Lho many recont ropor ts
referenco \.10.U.::lual a.oria.l objoots obsorvotl throuchout tho u . s.
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Two of the nbovo notod obsorver o a r e r ated pilots and tho other two
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NAVY DEPARTMENT
ANO MRJI TO:
NAVAL RESEARCH L\BORATORY
Colle 110
WMHINQTON l0, D . C ,
18 Jul7 1947
SUBJJlC'l':
late"1ew ot Penon ReporUn« tllidentitied Aerial Object
TO:
Aaat Chief d
Air S\atf-3
Collection ~re.nob, AJJ
Waahin«ton a~. D. C.
1. .l\ the requeat of Lt. Col. G. D. Oe.rrett, UJ A-2, the
un4eraipe4 baa interriewed. thia 4ate Mr. c. JI. Zohn, .ldainiatraUTe
Aaai■\aa\ 1A the Jtooke\ Soade Section. lllL, who bad preT1oual7
Nleued Wonatlon to the PNH ftCaZ'dinc an aerial objec\ which
he a\a\ed he •w at Vh1te Sallda • Bew Mexico• 29 June.
2.
Subatance ot the 1nte"1•w la aa followa :
At betYHD. 1:00 and 1:30 p. •• Sunday, 29 June 1947,
!Ir. 7.olm, in the colll)NlT of the tollovin,;:
Mr. J. R. Bauke, mn. Rocket
Son4.• Section teleaetering eupe"1aor; Mr. C. c. Rockwood, llRL Rocket
Sonde hip &lt1tu4e apectrocraph acientiat; an4 Mra. llanoy Rockwood,
vite of the latter, wa• proceedinc &lone Bichw&y 17 in a •orth-katerl7
directioa t'ro• Laa Cruce■, Iew Menco to Whit• 8and.e Y-2 tirlnc groUDd•
la an au\o110bil• drinn 'b7 Mr. Iauke. At aom• time between tho•• ginn
a11d about oae-third ot the diat&Dce fro• Laa Cruea Mr. Baulce, who waa
dr1Tinc the car, noticed the aubject ct.Tic• and called attention to the
other oco-capenta.
Mr. Zohn opened the viJM\ow neanat him and obeernd
th• obJect aoTing at •
unknown rspid Teloc1t7 at an -cmlalovn altitude,
vhioh be e■U•tect at about 10.000 feet. u.4 which Mr. k"aD, vbo alao
obael'ftd it thro'QCll • .~
window, Htiaated at betnen 8,000 and
10.000 feet, al.thouch the toner pnta little credence in the ••ti.ate■•
When fir■t aighted th• object vaa to the right and forward
of the autoaobil• at an ,matated elen.tion and waa • PP•rentl7 aoTin,;
horisontally in a •ortherly diNction av.eh a■ to oroH the highway fro■
ript to left. '!'he object vaa obHrnd by &11 peraona in the autoaobile.
Mr. 7.olm etate4 that he coul.4 aot obHr..-e &Jl7 detaila of the object
other tbaa tbat it ■ ahape va■ ,m1fora, with ao protuberance• mob aa
th• w1nc■ of an airplane. It waa too diatant to epable atereo■co oic
Ti811&1.isatioa.
'!'here vu appareZLtl7 ■olH eolar apecular reflectioa
which ••-ed to~ 1A intenaity ae the object receded until it
waa loat fro• eight after an eaU-.ted 30 aeconda troa the ti.me tir•t
aoUced.
Be could aot e,cplain bow it 41aappeared except perbapa that
the reflection an«l• 8AT baTe ch.azlce4 abruptly. !'here were app&rently
no cloud.a or T1aibillt7 ob■truetiona at the ti••• The aun wa.a to the
rear ot the autoaobile. Mr. :taulce tho~t that at one time be aaw
T&por traila.

Ltr, .ALO, NRL, 18 July 47 to M•t Chief Air Statf-2, Collection Br., A>J,
•ubj: "Inter,-iew of Per•on Reporting Unidentified Aerial ObjectN
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Thi• interview va• made in the pre•ence of Dr. H. E. Newell,
Act1n& Rocket Sonde Section Head, vho •aid that Mr. Zohn had recently
been in the Ba•y and h familiar with the appea.rance of the ma.Jor1ty of
aircraft type• and with meteorological balloon•. Mr. Zohn al•o •tated
that none of the occupant• of the car were intoxicated.
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WILLIAM P. MEI.I.;:Y
Major, Air Corp•
AMC Liahon Officer
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C.r~t,,.i-, E • .; . C.!'.~To was :.ntorvi ~ .--,-! .. ~ 1500,
0 .:-'lY 1917, concurn!ns
t~e • flyi~b Jisks", ar~ stat<-1 W#~~~1'!"!t: ~llv ~, !'allows:
"""o 16ft .;:iois e , I d,.~1,,,. et 2::i"4 rc.(.i!'ic S:,..., -1:i.n. :.:.""!• .
A~ approxir:,itoly
2015, the co- pilot, Ralph STE'"IE:S, calle~ ,y ott1J'1t 1 ?~
o t he f :rst o~~~ct
S'3en.
7ic ..,~r ~ .,hr-n i"l t i'l" •1ici-,ity of Ot..-"t, ldci.1>, our altitude we~ c.:,p­
r?ximet~ly 6500, and ~e wPr J clL-~:.~~ t o o~r ~roposoc cr ~ising altituie cf
3000 !'ro~ t her'3 t o Po 1dleto-:., C,1·ub,;,-, .
~-·" .~()9.dinb ? !' tho pl::i...-,e '\t that t.i.'"lo
-..u 300 due;reeo l:c._;netlc ''ortr., as1d t i.13 ..,i.,~._c+ (-,.,,.) --.a... ::.:..;htG:! at-
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c~_:!3ct:: q>i)ee:- J1 to .,}"I,, 1" :t er thtJ 11:1....:.., ,
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rl1es e !-, .r
ob~~~tc appearc.~ ~li0 htly sm~ller th~n t~~ fi-st c~j~ct _: 0 ~tuJ, t~t c._l
of t~o o~j'9cts appe11:-..,J on t he t '!."'"l- r l ".nc.
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th~ object~ t o bu ti.r-o...t 8500. r, ...y ...,,..r .. ·-::th::. o_.- ::.liht !'or a:-:,:-"""!.:'l"tc. ly
two rr.1~...t~c, -..hM t~"Y ji:::c.:,:9.,f'lrt><l .
"Shortly aft6r the !'irat gr c~i) disap?ear~d, probabl y O"le er t w? w:n~t~•
later, the oeco~ d gro~i> eyp~o.r~J abo...1t 310 d~~i uc~, o~ to the ri~ht of the
plime.
7h.,ir i.ltit•.1de was t!le r--;,, > o.s ~ho :'irct 6r o.1,;,.
;:ir o• of the orj~cta
e:,peareJ to b... on th~ Cant, plen•, lltld one 0¥~0-·
'l!'r "~r<.J ::li6 htly hi0her
Vld to the right o~ t hE: other& .
':'!,13 s ...o-,:,1 6roup stpy.,-! T;.:, tt.i n o..r sl.,h~
twel'le to f.:..!'toon :nin.1tc.:o, thon dlsapp~nrc.J.
':':<; i.'lri l E;·tulled off by the
t.i.ne tho second gro-.lp d:s~ppeP~ ...J .
"~~e v~j•ots wore nat on the =~&e, the top s!i~htly rough i~ contour .
The dimenaiona appeared the s::imo ~3 a DC- 3 appro~imately five ~ilrJ from
ua.
IL ?.,er 11':)rds, it could have been nl~ety ciles away if it would be
possible for an obj~ct as larb~::..: t hat ~o~l1 have to bet~ b~ flying, but
sinco "'"' J.i1n't knO'II' l'lha.t we were look!.ng l\t or !low lart,~ it was, we de­
cided that if it were the size of a·DC- 3 winb span (90 :oet), lt was about
r:ve milco c!.:.3tect.
Actually, w~ t o.Te no lde~ Just ~ow large it -:,ras since
~e c~ul d ~~t 1etenn1ne it~ di,tM ce frc~ ~••
l'fhen we first sightad tho
objects, we decided they wero oither goin~ away from ...1a or ootnine towar dn
\.41! .
Alter a ahort ,Thile, l10'Tev~r, we k:nO'l'I' they coulJn' t be oominc; toward:l
~s , bocauae we nev~r approached them.
I d?n't believe they could have
bee~ 6oing a. groat rate of cp•~d and atill st~ed in si&ht for as long as
they did.
I wo ...11 Ju~e t hey r.iight t.ave bEson travelling about 300 miles
per hour.
"1.::,· pers~n,u opinions r 8&arding the object3 are - that their speed
varied, was not conatllilt.
ffi'lm first ai&hted, they were going slow o.nd
st ayed within aisht for quite sooe time.
However, when we lott ai6ht of
them, they seeme1 t o disap,ear ~rnotically immediatoly.
I think they
either put on a tran9ndous burst of speed and disappeared from sight, or
else they dissipated. Also, it appeared that only one objeot, the large
one, was cort rolled, and it in turn controlled the other objects , and I
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" IL ~oth instancos, the co-pilot s l~hted the obj~cts firs~ end callc1
-ey attention t o them.
';11e weather 'l'!'aB cl..i~r and unlimited, with not a cl:>ud
in the sk'.r.
1:'fe checked the wind, and .it was 230-10, or c...t. c: t ho South'1"1est
at ten miles per hour .
The ai r spE"P1 of tht ~hip was abo~t 135 ;JPH.
7he
sun was bel ow the hor iion and t he objects wer e silhoueted against t he sky,
ht!ll'lce w~ coul d distin~uiah no col or or ref lection. "
Ralph GT~!S, co-pilot vf the plane, was intG~viewed et 2130, 9 July
1947.
STE\:::?-1S corroborated the r emarlca cade by St~ITH .;;oncarnin~ the fli&}lt
of t he plane, the time the objects were sighted, dir ect ion of th~ flibht of
the plane, etc.
Ther e wer e two discrepancios in thei r stat.m:ents as ~o t he
size of the smaller objeots an~ the alti t ude gt w;.ioh t hey were flyinb •
STEV'JWS atated that ther e was a big differenc~ in t he si1.e of the large
objeota and t he smaller ones, and that it was hard to dist inguieh the ah ape
of the small e?" ones.
STEVE:rn alco stPtod that the object s .,..er o at the aame
altitude s.s their pl ane and eefl'!led to be cli.mbin6 with t hem .
In addit ion t o
confirmi ng S'~ lT~ ' S stat ~ents concer ning tr9 f l ight, etc. , STb"VENS stated
oubstll..~t ially as followsa
" I was f l ying t he plane when I apotted the fir st object Pt 2012 on t h e
4t h of July, eight minutes after depar ture from Boise, Idaho.
I t hought i t
waa an oncoming aircraft similar to ourc (DC- 3) about five mil es awftY. ao
t u.med on our landing lights , whio~ is the usua l si gnal t o anot h er pl ane t o
let it know you' re in the vicini ty.
I mEll"tioned t.hi s fact to SY.ITH, and he
watohed the objeot also.
While we were botr watching, fo~r more objects
appenr od at t he se.r.o altit~do as the f i rst.
They s eemed t o be at the sftme
altitude as our plane, about 6000 feet. They were heading about 290 dPgress
magnet ic North. so I t urned to follow them.
Vie watohed them fo r four or
f i ve minut es, then t hey all mer ged as one and disappeared.
I don' t lm01'!'
t'f.1ether they mer ged i n 1i.ne of f l ight or not , nor do I know whether thel·
went beyond our vision or whether they dissipated.
"Two minut es l ater, the large ob j ect reappeared wit h thr ee smaller
ones on i ts l e.ft and one smaller one a great a1stance t o the ri&ht .
W~
had t he second &roup in si~ht fo r about twelve minutes.
The last t il'\e
seen , they were ct i ll in t hat formation and disappeared into t he sunset.
Also, when we last caw t hem, they e eemed to have cont inued climbing aft~r
we l evel led off and wer e a.bout nine or te.n t housand feet .
"At the timo we aaw t he objeot s , t he sun wae below t he hor i zon, but
t her e was quito a bright r od glow above t he hor i zon from the sunset .
i
couldn't r eal l y •~ what distance they were from ua, not knowing what they
were or how large they wer e .
However, while we wer e watchi ng t hEllll we
radiod ahead to Ontario. Oregon, about t hirty mi l es distant , t o th~ weather
station there, and t ol d t hem what we were s eeing and asked thern t o 60 out ­
aide and cee if t hey coul d aee t hem.
They r adioed back anrl saia they could
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aee nothing. • o the objects could have been beyond Ontario. •lnoo we had
told thom that they wero betwea:i our plane and Ontario.
It should alan be
•noted that the pera.onnel at Ontario would bo looking at a dark alcy and
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not be l i kely to be o.ble to aeo them anyway.
•1 oan' t •a:t whether th-ey are lllan-made diaka or nbt, whether they are
radio controlled or not, or onythinb about them,
They did not maneuver muoh
at all, except when the first group merged. All I can •a:t 1a that t~ey were
going our direotion and were climbing.
I don't think they were clouds, aa
there hadn't been a oloud in the alcy, end it woul rl ho.ve been quit o a pha:i­
• Onlenon a• it was l ike nothing I had ever seen before.
There was a big dif­
rerenoe in the ai&e of th~ objeota. The amaller one• were hard to diatinguiah
as to ahape; t ney were not shiny. nor did tho •r11p•.
I couldn't swear on a
stand that they were not olouda, but I think it impossible. l ad they been
clouds, they wouldn't have appeared and diaapp,arod s o suddenly, end we
would h&ve approached them.
"A• we wero taxi in& out to take off ~ro~ Boise, tho tower oalled us
and uked us if we had •~en imy ~i•k• lately.
Aa ~ conaequenoo, we were and
had bem talking abo~t the flyi~ disks when we sighted th'll'I\.
I don't baliove,
however, that i t waa a f igment or the imagination, as S11ITH and I were seeing
the aa:ne thi~a, even t ho object far off to th o right in the second s roup.
'ffe also called tho st~-.rard~s•, whn bad not ~oen in on th~ co,,versatio~. and
ff'i't hout me!'ltioninb " ~iaka• akaed ~er w~at she saw.
She state1 that 1hfl! aaw
t 'le sa:no thin.;s we did, which s eC!"lled to prove t o ..lll that j t was not. our
!.ma;ination."
In addition t o the abovo, STCTV.S statod, off the . e~ord, that he was
rat her disappointed in SMTTa tnd all th~ publicity he r~R ~etting.
uo
t hol.l{;ht t hat SlJITH was probably "grnnd-atanti.ing" aome, and that as far ~s
~e , STEVEfJS, ws1 ooncerned, he wu not 6 oing t o t~ intorviewf'j by any r t-­
por~ers, or go on the ~adio, et c .
Jo stated that he WAS blad to talk t o
a -~-..vy r epr11!S9'\t&t~vo a.bout it, or to any ot~er ~ove'"?Ullent official, M:i
hel p ::..n &"'1:Y way he coul.i, b•.1t :.e certainly did.-' t ~.,t t o be b-:>thercd r..t o
a lot of intervi ews wlt'l ~"spspers nnd radio stations .
ST~li''S :e~ed to
the writer to bo e vory level heade1, aena\bl o man, ar.~ not in r~vor or a
lot of }'~blicity, ltl ereaa s,~ITE, alt.,-,:,itt}, a a-,::iai blo mM and all , e ene..! to
• ~ mor ~ in fa·,or of t1.ll t ~e publicity he was i;Ottin&•
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16 July 1947
MBKJUNDUtl Fm T1£ OFF'ICER Df CHAROE:
l. On 12 J~ 1947, Captain Sini.th, o~ the United Airlines, was
interrlaed at the Boise !-lun.icipal Urport, Boiae, Idaho. Captain
5111th wu passing t.hrouah Bot.• on a echedule flight at the time and
had a 20 ainute stop-oYer. Captain Smith rei.terat.d the etatements
origiDally aade by bi.a to the press as to what he bad •••n in tha late
•Y~ of J'l.117 4th, wti.n 8 ainutes out ot Boise on the route to Seattle,
Wuhi~ton. It is th• opinion ot tbe intervi•er that due to tha poaltion
Captain Saith occupies, that he, Captain Smith , would have to be Te'rT
etrongl.7 convinced that he actually saw t1ying disk• be.tore he would open
huuelr tar the ridicule attached t.o a report ot this type.

16 July 1947
TO ·mou rr •AY ca.:mm1
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.ijor Archie "1 . Bromine,
,C, •j o hor eb., m1ear, Usie dete,
that t'..c. follcdnt st.;.te;..ent s a re t r ue to the best of :'l\i. krionlod~e:
' On 6 July 191.?, <iile £lyir1g frcm Ocden, Utah, to Yansas
C~tJ , 'issouri, at 1(1()()1) ft 1r. a
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ob.., ct lo,., c.nd to er..; left, eppr oxinately lO r.-.Ues away.
Tbe
was 1 :15 f . • • , and position approY...iJnately 100 m.i.l '.:c ~,est of
l,c.nsas ~.:.t., . ' 'y first i.mpres3ion ~:as that it ,-:as thd top of a
·,oter tant-.
fter checkine r.i; po::;iticn on th~ map ! a..;iin
looi:E:d +:.o :- left (elapsed t:L-:,.e 5 aecond,) .
A r ound, disc
she.peel object, v1?1-y br i6ht and silver colored, s .. <:. e·t to be
fl.,'.in(. on6 to t t10 miles off :r--.;,· left :winz at ll ocl oc . a t
D 000 ft.
T"le bri~htness of the object which I ,·rould 3st .i.11a te
at ;0- 5 ft • .:..1 d~ e"t.;r , m:.s ver;,
reat. It seer.ied t o be
travelin.., •n crune riirlctior. nt sa.1:1e rate of speed ( 210 Pn
until I s~rted to t.un 1 into it, then it. c rlot el y iisapp r oct.
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mission in C
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