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morning issueof August 13 renorting the sightingof flying disks. The articleappeared on thefifth page and was headed"Blue Triangle LatestThing Seen InUisks". Under this caption there wass short writeup "hich strted, in substancthat oneBRUCE ARMSTRONG, an electronics technician, enda numberof other en-gineer: at the seeing Aircraft had sighted e mvsterious flying object Ebout 2,33p.m. on August12. The newspaper report further stated that the object seemedto be fluttering like e leaf, and apnesred to bea blackor dork bluesuhstence.' ' ' '

triengulerIn this article also appeared snotner renortof c disk supposedly

Si*hted by one Y. I. ETCHOLS1125 3. T. lO2nd gtreet Seattle and UICFTLS du$.J ' _ 3 Qcrioed it ase big ball reflecting light, giving it a purplish tinge.

Interview withBRUCE IRMSTRONG on Auoust 1 revealed ttnt Agjfgyw"s standing in frontof SectionD of the Boeing Aircraft Plant witha bout tenot*er research engineers and had noticed a smell bloc? object flying2 out 2C0

' st.fvt high, going south over Boeing Field run ay. ARMSTRONG furtherinterview, that the object appeared triangular in shape and floated in1ios loaf, and he estimated the speed t~ be about fifteen miles perAnH?TRON3 could not accurately determine the distance between hin andbut itis noted that SectionD is about halfe mile freq the oppositeBoeing Field where he supposedly had sighted it. r_

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paper was approximately three feet in length. =5-tated that undothis was the object in question, and i_nas::;uch as the control tower hase compleview of the area in which the engineers had sighted this object if amrthing fur-ther was noted it would have appeared in the log.

, was then interview re- HIing his report of a flying object. stated that about h p.m. on august12

he Led sighted. an objectwhich he estimated to be about 35,000 feet in the air,which was flying over his home in a southwest direction. A neighbor, _also saw the object and pexemined the same witha pair of binoculars.

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about12:05p.m., July 29,1947, ssedan, driven- and carrying R. J. Bob! Maddenin the front seat and Earl

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Directly ahead, NJ! 2to 3 miles distant and approximtely 3600 ft.above the ground, a bright disc hovering and fluttering in the air. Deseend-_

ing and rising through evertical distance oi fiftyor a hundred feet tore _period of about five seconds thenuhile at the top ofan ascent, the "disc"suddenly swooped to the Northeast at tremendous speed and disappeared intothe clear ad; within a distance or 200 it. That in to any it did not pagebeyond an obstruction to further visibility I111. melted into thin air" as if because of tremendous speed. ,. p _" J .,_.

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-I"bridne, resorted that they saw three brief flirhts of saucers, the first at

10:40p.m. and two more before 11:10 p.m. the evo1%}g,nf Sentewber B, 1947.This news articlekgls contained the namesof KBlILf.UGHES, JOAQJBRUUKSTON andMr. and Mrs. FPEQ*T6ELL of Lopan who had 1ikewise_made senarate rsoorts ofhavino observed these flying discs. _

went out on the porch. The AHDERSQNS believedsize to nirsons and stated that they seemed toThey infaried that the obiectsto be oovinw faster than birds

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- thousand feet is the air. They stated that they first observed these obiectson Seotehber 8, 1947 at10:30 o.r. when their bridge some broke an and both coiole

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believed these objects were travelinv muvh faster thr. and Mrs. HALLbirs.

It was deterwined that Mr. and Mrs. H. P. AJDERSOH and Mrs. BESSIEHFNDRICKS were not available for interview:

, Military Intellir-enceDivision, Fort Dong-lSalt Lnke_ ity,Utah, is beinr advised bv letter of the FBSJ1tS of thisinvestieatinn. A

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by the Phdelphia, a vise as follows: Between10:30 and 10:45 p. . on August 6, 1947, she was sitting on

thestepsof her home with* She was facingnorth and observ _a large white object traveling at avery fast rate of speed to the. south iiThere was a buzzing sound, not too loud butplainly audible, just after thiobject passed through the air. This white object left in its trail a~ thinstreak of smoke, which was grayish in color.

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the evenin of August 6, 1947round 10:45 p.rn. in conversatiowithb when *tl'ruptly sto ed in the middle of her conversation and- appeared to be ightened. t that time was sittingin a position in which sb was facing south.She did not see any object inthe sky after noting change of expression, but she did hear aslight buzzing sound.

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6, 1947, with his wife; and his neighbors,the amily, were sitting ontheir steps next door t the residence of All of the above partieswere facing east.- messedat this time an object, emitting a bluish-white flame, passing quickly through the air. The object was traveling fromnortheast to southwest. Using his experience in the Army Air Corps as a guid_estImated the above object was between1000 and 3000 feet in the airand traveling at a rate of between LOO to 500 miles an hour.This object dis

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the stepsof theirhome, when noticedan objectresembling tohimagiant firecracker, pass quickly through the air. heard no noise, butthe object had completely passedfrom view in a sothern direction Wlthln asplit second. It left afiery trail for about 100 feet.August 6,1947,was aclear night,and nostormwas brewing. wassure theobjecthesaw was nofalling star, and he noted the above oject did notfalling but maintained the same altitude. '

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in Northeast WPhiladelphia near Oxford Circle, which is about ten miles removed from theresidence 01* _ residence is located in the westernpart of Philadelphia The d.are hot knownto the above-.Fm -mentioned -and- It sfurthernoted theobservationof3-issthe- and the vroughlycorrespond. Allof theabovepersons seemreliable and not t e typeto seek publicity or to spread rumors.

_called the "Inquirer", Philanewpaper,an inquired ifit couldofferany explanationas towhatthe hadseen.Arepresentativeof thatpaper hadadvised atthe object they saw may have been some product of an oil refinery or chemicalcompany in their neighborhood.

Both the Offices of Naval Intelligence and Army Intelligence in Phila-delphia were recuested by the Philadelphia Office toascertain if either the

Armyor the Navywas doingany experimentalwork onnewtypesof planes or equipment, inthe vicinity of Philadelphia. buch was done with negative re-

sults. The Office of Naval Intelligence indicated that an explosion had oc-curred at the CHARLES I_.F1NNIG CI-IEREICALCOMPANY onAugust 6, 1947

' rDe tm t 1'the CHARLES LEINNIGCHEMICAL, S3 ety par en oINCL, 5000 Richmond Street, Philadelphia, advisedas follows:


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This isto advisethat twoarmy officersreported totheOffice of the Director of Intelligence, headquarters Alaskan Department,at Fort Richardson, Alaska, that they had witnessed an object passingthrough the air at atremendous rate of speed which could not be judged

as to miles per hour.

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this airborne object, and he in turn pointed it out to the second of-

ficer. The object appeared to be shaped like asphere and did not give the irrpression of being saucer-like or comparable to adisk. The first-*officer stated that itwould be impossible to give minute details con-

cerning the object, but that it appeared to beapproximately two orthreefeet indiameter anddid notleave anyvapor"'trail in thesky; D121"-E :*1f

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proximately l5 to 20 seconds. When sighted, the object was travelingdue south at aspeed considerably in excess of any plane. The second

officer stated that the object appearedto him tobe approximately 10 feet indiameter andcompared itto halfthe 5133of a-fullmoononan flyordinary night. The secondofficer based the altitude at approximatelyyathe same as the first officer except for the fact that due to the size

- _ hebelieved the object to be, he estimated the altitude to be onlyapproximately 3,000 or 4,000 feet. The object appeared broadside to

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stated that his dog hed been killed and his boy hurt and thatthe wheel mount on his harbor patrol boat had been struck by disc fragments,and that abouttwenty ton of this material hed fallen on the beech at hsuriIsland, end into the boy, and that a day after this incident,s men aboutveers of ewe had contacted him and told him.'"I know whet you sew at '

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around it. ihe object in the center seemed to be descending while the othersFollowed. As the objects descended he sewport holes around the inside of the

i object and whet appeared to be windows. He stated that the objectescendedto about 500 feet, end that suddenly one of the circlini

. ~-oers came out" ihen thesky seemed to rein lava, the lave coming

the boat for shore. He stated that the lave conine from the3. :?-heeded

f*W minutes, while the other objects continued to circle above,- _u ich had descended and touched the object in the center and which- then rose and took its place with the other objects.

' All of the objects then started to rise

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. clouds of stern rose from the water. He stctcd that some of the love lcndcd o

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H tented he received a telephone call from the press uponreturning to his hotel room, and that the press wanted to knowabout the flyingdisc fragments, and he told them that he was not talking: until he had provit. He stated he did not know how the press ever knew he was in Tacoma or ha59" i .

informed that at 9:30 5-.!v?. the next morning, July $1, 194appeered at hishotel room and again asked him to so hand forget about the discs, that his story was not false, but that he had hadenough trouble. _said that his boy had been missed one morning-; and had befound at Lust, Montana, waiting on tables in a cafe; that he did not know how

he had got there and that too many things were happening. statedthat when _came to hishotelroom, they had an arnfulof 6fregzsents, and that ihad then informed about how he had seen anobjecresembling those seen by steted he had taken the patrol boat'on July 23, 1947, and had gone to Msuri Island and had found the beach litteredwith lava. ststed he had looked up and had seen s balloon-like objecwithport holes and windows, which had disappeared into a large cloud. Qstated um; he askediag-sin to see the picturesof the objects; that:had again agreed to show them to him. _info1-med that he had thenasked -1 it wouldbe all right for him to call a friend,

who had also seen some flying discs and let him ape the fragmeand hear __stoq. Qdissented, however, _ readily agreedHe also stated that he hadplaced a call to Lieutenant BRO!-'1 erd Captain

DA.'I1S092!, Army intelligence officers at Hamilton Field, and had asked them tocome to his hotel, as they had previously instructed him to report to them -anything;of an unusual nature orof interest regarding: the flying discs.

_ He stated he flew to Seattle and gotlnd that -Lieuteand Capts._in"192A"IDi'IO?i had come to his room about 4:00 PJJ. ~

advised that he had asked Li"e'i'ter=ant BRO'i| just what he had found out regardinthe discs, and Lieutenant BRO.-.1"92'i had confidentially informed him that they hadobtained a picture of s disc, which appeared to he authentic, which picturewas taken by e man in Phoenix, Arizona. The picture, according to Lieutenant.-{_;!!BOz.'N, wa oi s circular object with a hole in the center, andof another obje--that looked like a flying wing. He stated that when Lieutenant BEG-N told him

this that he iunediately thoughtof the object seen by-EAHL. He stated -thatafter hearing story, Lieutenant BPOWW s-d Captain 11WJD$ON's attitudehad changed immediately, and that they appeared disinterested. _It was thensup-rested that they all '0 to Maur-i Island and look for the disc fragments.

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NINE THIRTY AM WHILE FISHING IN RIVER APPROXIMATELY FORTYMILES

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