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CONFIDENTIA COPY EDERAL BURCAC CF IIVESTISATIO U.S.DE FROM THE CRECONIAN-ThursayJuly 31947 AUG71947 SAN FRANCISC PILOT RECALLS SSEINC DISCS. OUTEDTO DRN FILE Dick Renkin Tells Of Odd Asreraft: oy oo py dn pns S s no loss than Diek anicin, brother of the iate Tex Rankin nd himself an experiencad pilot of more than 7o0o hours flying time. Rankin, wno is recovering from an old back injury received in an autonobile accident, came to Portland over the weekond to spend the summer. June 23,while lying on the lawn sun bathing he told The Oregonian. I hesitated to sey mich atout thom Rankin said until I noticed all the hullabaloo in the papers.I pussled over their strange shape for a while and finslly concluded that they were the nazy's now XFsu-l flying flapjacks, which are thin and round, with twin propellers and stubby tail. ONLY ONE XF5U-1 BUILT. The navy and the manufaeturer have announced offisially that only m yn e These planes were flying high,maybe sooo fset, and feirly fast, about s00 or 400 miles an hour.I first coumted ten of them in formation, going north. About 2:15 P.. thoy returned on the reverse course headed south, but there were only soven in the formation. "They were not wesving or bobbing in formation; I couldn't make out wings or tail. They appeared almost round. They looked like pictures of seid. He now operatos a string of auto courts, spending his winters at Palm Springs. TNO DESCRIPTIONS CHECK. Rankin's desoription of the mysterious serial objects sgrees with thst of Kennsth Arnold, BoiseIdaho business man who first reperted them g e y y e ted 1200 miles an hour Other rsports came Wednesday from Astoria. Jack Hsyes, patient in St Mery's hospital there said he ssw two of the discs Monday flying south- west at a rapid speed and that they vanished bshind the hills. oee s s se g p o png s e pp y pn p g not see the dises. time with the original raport made by Arnold. Sidney B. Callagher of Centra- lia said he saw nine aluninum-hued cbjeets flying north at 3 P.M. June 24. He was working ll miles soathwest of Mineral,Wash. at the time. CONFIDENTIAL COPY