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U/NATOOTIYVG! é ae Bs jaa _ : airplanes flying so close to the mountain tops, flying directly south to southeast down the hog's back of a mountain range. I would estimate their elevation could have varied a thousand feet one wey or another up or down, but they were pretty much on the horizon to me which would indicate they were near the same elevation as I was. They flew like many times I have observed geese to fly in a rather diagonal chain-like line as if they were linked together. They seemed to hold a definite direction but rather swerved in and out of the high mountain peaks. Their speed at the time did not impress me particularly, because I knew that our army and air forces had planes that went very faste What kept bothering me as I watched them flip and flash in the sun right along their path was the fact that I couldn't make out any tail on them, and I am sure that any pilot would justify more than a second look at such a plane. I observed them quite plainly, and I estimate my distance from them, which was almost at richt angles, to be between twenty to twenty-five miles. I knew they must be very large to observe their shape at that distance, even on as clear a day as it was that Tuesday. In fact I compared s zeus fastener or cowling tool I hed in my pocket with = holding it up on them and holding it up on the DC-4 - that I could observe at quite a distance to my left, and they seemed smaller than the DC-4; but, I should judge their span woulc have been as wide as the furtherest engines on each side of the fuselage of the DC-4. The more I observed these objects, the more upset I became, as I am accustomed and familiar with most all objects flying whether I am close to the ground or at higher altitudes. I observed the chain of these objects passing another high snow-covered ridge in between Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams, and as the first one was passing the south crest of this ridge the last object was entering the northern crest of the ridge. As I was flying in the direction of this particular ridge, I measured it and found it to be approximately five miles so I could safely assume that the chain of these saucer like objects were at least five miles long. I could quite eccurately determine their pathway due to the fact that there were several high peaks that were a little this side of them as well as higher peaks on the other side of their pathway. As the lest unit of this formation passed the southern most high snow- covered crest of Mt. Adams, I looked at my sweep second hand and it showed thet they had travelled the distance in one minute end forty-two seconds. Even at the time this timing did not upset me as I felt confident after I would land there would be some explanation of what I sawe A number of news men and experts suggested that I might have been seeing reflections or even a mirage. This I know to be absolutely false, as I observed these objects not only through the glass of my airplane but turned my airplane sideways where I could open my window and observe they with a completely unobstructed view. (Without sun glasses) Even though two minutes seems like ea very short time to one on ground, in the air in two minutes time a pilot can observe a great things and anything within his sight of vision probably as many sixty tines. I continued my search for the marine plane for another twenty minutes and while searching for this marine plane, wh observed kept going through my mind. I became more distu taking « last look at Tieton Reservoir I headed for Yaki This image contains all the information on the document. ~~