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. COPY Saad » Incident 2 40F 1208 I 16 July 1947 HE OFFICER IN CHARGEs 1. On 12 July 1947, Mr. Kenneth Arnold, Box 387, Boise, Idaho, was interviewed in regard to the report by Mr. Arnold that he saw 9 strenge objects flying over the Cascede Mountain Range of Washington State on July 25th. Mr. Arnold voluntarily sgreed to give the interviewer a written report of exactly what he hed seen on the above mentioned dete. The written report of Mr. Arnold is sttached to this report as Exhibit A, AGENT*S NOTES: Mr, Arnold is a man of 32 yeers of age, being married md the father of two children. He is well thought of in the community in which he lives, being very much the family men end from all appearances @ very good provider for his family. Mr. Arnold has recently purchased a home on the outskirts of Boise, recently purchased a $5,000 airplene in which to conduct his business to the extent of which is explained in the attached exhibit. It is the personal opinion of the interviewer that Mr, Arnold actually saw whet he stated thet he saw, It is difficult to believe that a men of Mr. Arnold's character and apparent integrity would state thet he saw objects and write up a report to the extent that he did if he did not see them. To go further, if Mr. Arnold can write a report of the character thet he did while not having seen the objects that he claimed he saw, it is the opinion of the interviewer that Mr. Arnold is in the wrong business, thet he should be writing Buck Rogers fiction. Mr. Arnold is very outspoken end somewhat bitter in his opinions of the leaders of the U. S. Army Air Forces and the Federal Bureeu of Investigatién for not having made an investigation of this matter sooner. To put all of the statements meade by Mr. Arnold in this report would make it a voluminous volune. However, efter having checked an aeronautical map of the erea over which Mr. Arnold claims thet he saw the objects it wes determined thet all statements made by Mr, Arnold in regard to the distances involved, speed of the objects, course of the objects and size of the objects, could very possibly be facts. The distences mentioned by Mr. Arnold in his report are within a short distance of the actual distences on aeronseutical charts of this area, although Mr. Arnold has never consulted aeronattical charts of the type the Army uses. Mr. Arnold stated that this business hed suffered greatly since his report on July 25 due to the fact that et every stop on his business routes, large crowds of people were waiting to question him as to just what he had seen, Mr, Arnold steted further that if he, st any time in the future, saw anything in the sky, to quote Mr. Arnold directly, “if I saw a ten story building FRANK M. BROWN, S/A, CIC 4th AF