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VENTURE PRESS 305 STUDIO BUILDING 1718 SHERMAN AVENUE EVANSTON, ILLINOIS June 26, 1947 Mr. Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho Dear Mr. Arnold: I have just read an account in the Chicago Tribume concerning an aerial train composed of at least 9 units shaped like a pie-plate and silvery in color, traveling at 1200 m.p.h. near Mount Ranier, as witnessed by you while flying in the vicinity. This is quite important to me, because I have in my possession numerous independent confirmations of what you saw, although none in as great detail as your account. I am interested in publishing an article in our magazine, written from a personal account by yourself, and accompanied by pix of yourself, plane, and rough sketches by yourself, of what you saw. if you care to do this for me, I am prepared to pay our usual rates of 2¢ perword, plus $5.00 for each photograph you can provide, or for each sketch which can be used by our art staff to illustrate the article. Included in this material, we'd like a short biographical sketch of yourself as “author background" material. The article would appear under your by-line. If you are not interested, I wuld at least appreciate a letter from you, confirming the newspaper story. Very truly yours, 45 Raymond A. Palmer Editor, The Venture Press In your reply, please use airmail.