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_ : ) &y airplanes flyirs so close to the romtair tops, flying directly south to southenst down the hor's back of vr. mountein range. I would estimate their elevation could have yveried n thousand feot ona war or another uo or down, but the: were nretty much on the herizon to me which would indicate they were near the seve elevation as I vase They flew like many tires I heve observed geese to fly in 1 rather dieconel chain-like line as if the: were linked together. They seemed to hold a definite direction but rether swerved in and out of the high mountain peaks. Their spsed at the time did not impress ne particularly, because I knew that our army and air foress had plones that went very faste , Nhat kept bothering me as I wntehed them flip and flash in the sun richt along their path wes te fect thet I couldn't make out any tail on them, and I em sure thet eny pilot would justify more than a second look at such a plane. I observed them nnite nlainly, and I estimate my distance from them, which was almost at richt encles, to be between twenty to twenty-five miles, - : I knew they must be very large to observe their sh=pe at that distance, even en as clepr a doy ps it wes thet Tucsdev. In fact I compared » zeus fastener | er cowlirg tool I hed in my recket vith = holding it up on them and holdins it up on the Ui-4 - that I could cbserve at quite » distance to my left, nunc they seened smnller than the [C-4; but, I should judse their span voulc have been as wide es the furthercst engines on cach side of the fuselape of the UC-4. The wore I observed these objects, the rore upset 1 decemes, as I am accustomed and fomilisr vith most all objects flying, whether I am close to the crourd or at hirher altitudes. I observed the chain of these objects pessing another hish srow-covered ridge in between it. Rainier and It. Adams, and as ti: first one was massing th: south erest of this ridge the Last evjcet wes enterin: the vorthorn ercst of the ridre. As lowes Plyirr in the direction of this particular ridge, I measured it and found it to be rpprexivrtely vive miles so I could safely assune that tie chain of these saucer liJ:> objects were at least five miles lonc. I coulé quit? eceuratel: determine their uathwey due to the fact tuat there - were severrl hich vonks tint vere a little this side of them as wall as higher pees on the other side of their nathway. As the lest unit of thir forontion nassed the southern most hifh snow- covered crost of *t. Ades, I locked at my sweep secend hand and it showed thet they bad travelled the distance in cne minute end forty-two seconds. “wer at the tine this timing cid not upset me as J felt confident after I - would land thern would b> tome explaretion of what J] saw. A number of news men and exvertis sugrested thet I might heave been seeing reflections or ever e riragee This I know to be absolutely false, es I observed these objects net only throurh the rlass of my eirplane but ca turned my nirplane sidevoys whore I could open mv window and observe them with a completely unobstructed view. ("ithout sun plasses) yen thourh two minutes seems Vike a wery short time to one on the rreund, in the rir in tvo minutes time a pilot crn observe a great many — things and anythine within tis sicht of vision vrobebly as many es fifty or sixty tires. I continued my seerch for th? marine plane for another fifteen or twenty mirutes and while searciing for this marine plene, what I had just observed kept roing throuch my mind. I becane more disturbed, so after a teline a lest look at Tieton Aeservoir I headed for Yakima. - —_ wer oa sv a Oa” . ” Va we (Abt eo : paregoes poem fatind integer BEE Re ong eee: ra gist ee ne ny SOE ee - - ce peep eg AEN Pe na OE EC Ean EE ERT ge RS SIRT ETS aad Se ee ee ae a ai a