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a Se OE eee allen AR dN ae, a r nym de leatis eth a BV Oe ee ae : “ty “oll Men. Q _ 7 * UNITED . iH " VERNMENT a TO '! Director, FBI “DATE: 10/18/47 fe oath Ck IS SE AF a imma be nn atin cb igette co SOPJRCT: REPORT OF FLYING DISCS _ This is to aivise that we have been able to locate a who ds employed by the; Flying Company in Ti had bean reported to Miiitary Intelligence that he and his copilot had observed some flying object near Bethel, Alaska, In July, 194 Efforts previously to conteot Nr. @@iercre negative until the above instance, He related that the cecasion af seeing the flying ob ject near Bethel wae on a July day when the sky was completely clear of clouia, am it ceing during the early part, it is daylight the entire night, The tima of his sighting this flying object wes sbout 10 Mi and the sun heel duet dropped berard. the harigan. Flyin woehhor wee extremely good ard he, with | lire was coming into the Bethel Airport with @ DG-3, He observed the fly: object immediately to his left and stated that it apparently was observed at approximately the same time by vr, C aml both of them manimilated the controls of the plane making efforts 7 to miss the object inasmuch as they could not tell in which direction it was golog. Thay mada a forty-five degree turn in order to get out af the way of the object and then noted that it appeared to ba going away from them. He deseribead the object aa appearing to be som Flying wing and # aaid thet it appeared to be about the aize of a G=S4 without any fuaelege s He could not see any propellor or any exhaust from jet propulsion or any vapor traile and could not astimate the size due to his fatiure to be able to estinate. the distame ha was away from the object. He was flying at 1,000 feet anid stated that be tried to catch up with the object ani im ereased hie manifold pressure to approximately 42 inches and was traveling — at the rate of 170 miles per hour, RS flyer, Bst hed Alaska. Ms ; re ee 2 ee . ed il oa oe ene y tae 4 ° whe Re Gy ee ia He called on his radio te the Civil Asronautics faninis- tration atetion at Bethel, asking what aircraft was in the vicinity ani they hed no reporta of any aircraft. The object sighted was gome five or ten miles from the airport before hié arrival and stated that the path did not go directly across the airport, He, of course, could not tell whether the object was making any noise amt stated that it was fiying at a thousand foot altitule and estimated travel at 300 miles per P hour. It was traveling in the direction from Bethel to Nome, which ta in é / a northwesterly direction, He noted no radio interference and is unable te >. describe the color other than that it appeared dark but of definite ghape aml did not blend into the sky but bad « definite, concise outline, Hoth he and he TF Sheariy sbserved the object at thia tine, ed 0b a? yp NTA ice) om mes 6.0 NOV qe inl |? a reg Cares Cpa RS