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Tete gee crane A ME aed Ae Ba Rt Tey t 30 3:7 at on ene ey g' at. ef Mewes ee £5 “A ka earner i pane fs Bt PR a ay: Joa ei pad et Tate er BL Sela Z etsey hen yf om are ‘ 7 ” a . . et Boise, Idaho, baer ae wey , aN - - obo orn fog @ ee eee eo ee eet Core oF ane * . . * . “es mm e ~ noe sf - fo Shom It May Concernt | ees coe lace tae wee sae ee tee Tee ee” oy a Fale. - * " Ba 3 On the sixth dav of July, 1947, I roceived frocay ae of the Statescan Fewspapers, Incorporated in Idaho as . {= _otatesman Printing company, an assignment which was in substances ~ eo le Oe me 4: fo3 7" "wcgnauct an aerial search of the nortiorest states in an a Poe | ee effort to * 7 . wes and photograph a flying disc. Conduct this vetrol for so long « time <-- [.. 8 you delfeve reasonable, or until you see a Flying Gisoe™ .. 25 2 ts a 4s77 - 7 In accordance to these instructions, I took the Statesaan’s alrplaue, " and wit 8 passonger, flew a seven and one-half hour nission -=.. >... on the seventh dav of duly, 1947. This mission was without result. It "yh .. “64s a oe covered ap ares embracing the confines of the Kanford plont in Tashington, - 7 4% end territory betweon and around Wt. Rainier and —t. Adams, wher ABW: -, first reported seeing objects henceforth described as saucers or Giscse” = <7? | . pA. 07) Os the eighth dey of duly, 1947, I took an AT-6 of the 190th Fighter 238-22 ©. ts gquadron, Idaho Nationel Guard, of wiaich J om a member, end flew to northera zeeser . Idaho, into northrestern Sontans briefly, to Spokrne, “ashington, and back .- Fe. to Boise by wey of “alle Galle, Sashington, and Pendleton, Oregon. This a eee search also was nopative. , wm EES On the ninth day of duly, 1947, I continued the search, agein using @ 2. 2 mational guard Av=-6, this tine centering ny efforts over the Owyhee mountains =. - ‘west and southwest of Boise, a portion of the Yountain Lome desert on a track ~- | southeast of the Mountain Eome army air base, thenes into the Sawtooth moun- ... _ :. teins, and back in the general direction of Boise on a line carrying ne wll -°™ Lo the north of the Shafer butte forest service lookout station, into the . 7 - Sorseshoe Bend area, and thence beck in @ soutinvesterly direction to a point ~ “"*) Detween Boise and the willege of seridian, west of Boise a few milese ..-- 0203. . - During this march, which lested approxinstely two end onechalf =: ~ 20+ =" hours, J {lew under an4 around rapidly forming cumulus clouds ower that ~<-" my aren known qs the Cazas Prairie, east of Boise. The clouds were near the -.= --:- : _-yillage of Fairfield in that walley, and Fairfield is 75 miles airline “Fe ee. . . Gistanoe east of Boise. At that time I saw nothing in the vicinity ef =. an these clouds. Ce at te ae be on At the time I reached the point between Jose and Meridien, J was “rae | flying at an altitude of 14,000 feet mean sen lovel, which would be a mean." © - average of 11,000 feet above the earth ir this ares, not considering errors pee fn the altimeter induced either by barometric changes since ry takeof!, Or . = Cr) : . | by the texperature at thet altitude. Set oe ee Z turned the aircraft on an easterly heading, pointing toward Gowen ~° 17° °. Field, and had flow on that course for perhaps a minute when there suddenly 22 ~*.. sppeared in the left hand portion of my field of vision an object which we |... Bleck and round. se ae OT Pet SIO MDa - I Smnedietely centerod ay gare on the object. At that tine, due to Stas... a moverent, I thoucht I was seeing o weather belloon. J ealled the = eo. es —-- CAA'A cocmunicetion station at Boise, and asked £f the weathor station had Sr” receptly reloased a balloon. The reply fron communicator Albertson was that “°*":- the bureau had not. ZI do not reaenber his exact words; I an under the boos nee Gworeseton he seid “not for several hours” er cnve ne the exact tim of the =< a . previous release, wish was around 05:30 that Gaye er ee eee a cr DUTTA ET ene