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Incident 4aF 1208 I 16 July 1947 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 Mountein Range of Washington State on July 25th. Mr. Arnold voluntarily sgreed to give the interviewer & written report of exactly +t he hed seen on the above mentioned dete. The written report of Mr. Arnold is attached to this report as Exhibit A, AGENT*S NOTES: WM Arnold is a man of 32 years of age, being married md the father of two children. He is well thought of in the community in which he lives, bei: very much the femily men end from ell appearances @ very good provider for his family. Mr. Arnold has recently purchesed a home on the outskirts of Boise, recently purchased a $5,000 sirplene 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, 4rnold actually saw whet he stated thet he sew, It is difficult to believe that ea men of Mr. Arnold's character and epparent integrity would state thet he saw objects end write up a report to the extent that he did if he did not see them. To go further, if Mr. Arnold cen write e report of the cheracter thet he did while not having seen the objects that he claimed he sew, it is the opinion of the interviewer thet Mr. Arnold is in the wrong business, thet he should be writing Buck Rogers fiction, Mr. Arnold is very outspoken snd somewhat bitter in his opinions of the lesders of the U. S. Army Air Forces and the Federal Bureeu of Investigation for not having made an investigstion 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 heaving checked an aeronautical map of the erea over which Mr. Arnold claims that 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 eeroneutical charts of this srea, 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 wheat he had seen, Mr. Arnold steted further thet if he, st any time in the future, sew anything in the sky, to quote Mr. Arnold directly, “if I sew a ten story building FRANK M. BROWN, S/A, CIC 4th AF