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% OCAPN/KDS: cp 3724-1 24 July 1947 MEMORANDUM. TO THE SECURITY OFFICER, OCAMA, TINKER FIELD. SUBJECT: BYRON B. SAVAGE, Field Engineer, Radio Corporation of America, Dallas, Texas. Residence: 416 N. W. 296h Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahome. ) RE: Flyind Disc, On 23 July 1947, BYRON B. SAVAGE was interviewed et his residence, 416 N. W. 29th Street, Oklahome City, Oklahoma, relsting to his alleged viewing of a flying dise over the vicinity of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Subject, whose age is 38, advised he is married and has one child, end is presently the holder of a Private Pilot's License, No. 59101 (Single Engine, Land), Subject averred he has extensively studied electron- ics, sound engineering end aeronautics, and his present occupation, which is Field Engineer for Radio Corporation of America, offices of which are located in Dallas, Texas, is that of installing theater sound equipment, SAVAGE stated that between the days 17 May to 21 May 1947, just-after dusk, he observed an object which he believed to be a small sircreft in the south. SAVAGE advised that the sun had just gone down and the moon had not arisen on the horizon. SAVAGE related thet he and his wife had just departed their residence and had started to enter their car in the driveway et 416 N. W. 29th Street, Oklahoma City. He judged the time to be between 8:30 pem. end 9:00 pem., and the lights from the city of Oklahoma City appesred to be shining on this object when he first saw it. He judged the object to be about 160° in the south when he first sew it, and as it moved towerd him he remarked to his wife thet "a big white plane wes coming over.” SAVAGE stated that when this object was at a 45° angle from him, he realized it was not a conventional type aircraft, end it appeared elliptical at first end as it moved closer it appeared perfectly round and wes flete SAVAGE advised the object, which eppeared to him as eae disc, had no appearance of being spherical and had a ratio of diameter to the thickness of approxi- metely 10 to 1, appearing thicker in the center, but this could not be positively ascertained, SAVAGE judged the object to be at ean altitude of between 10,000 and 18,000 feet, and it left no trailing effects. SAVAGE related that it appeared to be in bulk as big as the bulk of six B-29s at an eltitude of epproximately the same height. SAVAGE advised that the object was in his vision approximately 15 to 20 seconds and travelled at a speed which he judged to be approximately three times that of jet-propelled aircraft.