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Offi U Mens andum * UNITED gid GOVERNMENT To 2 JTMICTCR, FEL DATE SAC, SEATTLE "Ty =) o x Te cea pacar F emnyonot eet ante de te SUBJECT: aryins JISKS Reported by BRUCEYEELISTRONS fy. “anc Yh -ICHOLS, Seattle, dashington, a0) ‘ i gs August 12, 1947 ; SECURITY MATTER x rg The newspeper, Seattle Fost Intelligencer, carried an trticle in the as morning issue of August 13 renorting the sighting of flying disks. The srticle pO apps ered on the fifth pare enc wes headed "Blue Triangle Latest Thing Seen In fy, Disks. Under this ception there wes a short writeun which strted, in substance, ; Se thet one BRUCE ARMSTRONG, an electronics technician, and ¢ number cf other en- a. gineers at the Boeing Aircraft hed sivhted a mysterious flyine object ebout 2:20 P ie perm. on fugust 12. The newspaper report further stated thet the object seemed i, ie to be fluttering like » leaf, and anneared to be a bleck or derk blue trianguler ye substance. Jn this article also erneared enotner renort of + disk surncsedly be 5 Sishted by one \', ¢. NICHOLS, 1L20 5. ‘VY. l0@nd Street, Secttle, and MWICHCLS des ¥ ie crioed it as 2 big ball reflecting light, giving it e ourplish tinge. * Interview with BRUCE /TMSTRONG on furust 12 revesled that ARI TRONS wes standing in front of Section 9 of the Boeing Aircraft Plant with abcut ten ct ver research engineers and had noticed a small blee’: object flyine nisut 2C0 feet high, going south over Soeing Field runvay. ARMSTRONG further Steted, upon interview, that the object arpeered triangular in shape end fleated in the air li. # leaf, and he estimated the sneed t- be abeut fiftcen miles per hour. EXMSTROKY could not accuretely determine the distance between hin. and the object but it is noted that Section D is about half e mile frou the orposite side of nn. Boeing Field where he supposedly hed sighted it. ee htheet: Wea The following cther research enginters were also interviewe? resarding this object: RECORDED ; yre + . i} igh 7¢ INDEXED iy ae — ~ §39 the 197, The consensus of opinion of these men was thot the object resembled + wléek Ye= f in flight «nd looked more Like a piece of ter paper then any tg. ing Then the oavsect Peo thed the end of the runway in Bozing Field it climbed into the sky in a south ‘wosterly direction on] disapnesred, ed pebor of the esntrol tower for the Morthwest t4irlines stated that he reviews tll revorts of oblicts seen 7 : Vr. Wes then contected, in the vicinity of the, feld snd mékes a lop of such. reviewed nis log bit eculd not cb “any record of such an item, but uron contact with ‘tr, Qa —_— who was “or aut et the time the ob‘ect wes sunrosedly sizhted, the ollowing infoppribion | wee obtained: MMMM stnted that about 2 o'clock int: Ja ~ | Ae pete, IC Nae att POPES Orsenaye ut Vw RO NOVAS tvs 4 Se Tithe IRAP Ee mT bee tp