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FROM "THE OREOOSIAN® © Thursday, July 3, 1967 | AUG 7 1947 SAN FRANCISCC PILOT RECALLS SSEINC DISCS. {OUND Ie Dick Renkin Tells Of Odd Airerafts More reports of “flying flapjacks" turned up Wednesday, one fron no less than Dick Sanicin, brother of the late Tex Rankin, and himself an experienced pilot of more than 7000 hours’ flying time. Rankin, who is recovering from an old back injury received in an autonobile accident, cane to Portland over the weekend te spend the summer. Se sew the "si!ver Leeigg Meme een Cal., June 23, while lying on the lawn aun bathing, to! onian. "I hesitated so any mich alout thom," Rankin sald, “until I notiesd all the hullabaloo in the papers. I pussled over their strange shape for @ while and finally concluded thet they were the nevy's now XPStU<l flapjacks, which are thin and round, with twin propellers and stubby of OWLY ONS XPSU-1 BUILT. The navy and the manufacturer have announced officielly that only one such machine was built and that it never left Connecticut. "These planes were flying hich, maybe 9000 feet, and : about $00 or 400 miles an hour. I first counted ten of them in going north. About 2:15 P.M. they returned on the reverse course, headed south, but there were only seven in the formation. “They were not weaving or bobbing in formations I couldn't make out the number or location of their propellers and couldn's distinguish any wings or tail. They appeared almost round. They looked like pictures of the navy's flying flapjack," Rankin said. Rankin, who plans to spend the summer here at 834 N. Fs Ste, is now able to resume a little flying for fun, but not > he seids fie now operates a string of auto courts, spending his winters at Palm Springs. TWO DESCRIPTIONS CHECK. Renkin's description of the mysterious serial objects agrees with thet of Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho, business man, ; i over the Stete of Nashington, except that Arnold clocked then at en estima= ted 1200 wiles an hours " Other reports came Wednesday from Astoria. in St. Mary's hospital there, said he saw two of the disos Monday flying south-— west at @ rapid speed and that they vanished behind the Mre. Eerl Seado, Fort Stevens, said she sew. diso treveling north a over Port Stevens Tuesday noon, and thet other observers saw the sane object. The army at Fort Stevens and the coast cuard eat nearby Point Adams did not see the discs. F r The report of « Centralia, Wach., man Wednesday coincided in matter of time with the original report made by Arnold. Sidney By Callagher of Contre- lie said he saw nine aluminumehued objects FavEng north ot. & Pate tent Wes He was working 11 miles southwest of Mineral, 2, at the time, at AARON DATI A A. COPY CUNPILIVUOEIN LIAL :