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Office LVléwmovranduiy + UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT oe ETANDARD F. . Ea Director, FBI DATE: September 27, 1947 Mb P oe, Butte go. SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS SIGHTED MAY 5, 1947, BETWEEN ELLENSBURG AND SEATTLE, WASHINGION ~ RG, vntensa State Frison, Deer Lodge, Montana, has ® s 4 ”~ = ieee - ™ - ‘i naira s- Y 3 SITE Dg hOR ye hdatynters gall Spee wnemleg tt , et chee : aey hg! po ee i as Rea RS eet Et To eel ate rr ' 5 dae ‘a . Rai ee. 13! sat, advised the writer that while driving betwoon Ellensburg and Seattlo, Washing~ “i ton, about 3:50 Pele, on May 5, 1947, he sighted a silver object streaking wi; across the aky. This was also. seen by. » convict chaurfeur, oe and This object wont into a nose dive and they thought it would b C ¥ crash, However, before reaching the earth it disintegrated, leaving a long 7 : pillar of "gas" hanging in the sky. It was particularly odd decause this re- we mained in form and did not blow away. It was observed by these thre: people while they drove fram twenty to thirty miles. 4 Sek. LEA ST or ere os This smoky, zasoous pillar was a iong ways off-and Yénained high... in the eir. Guat: «ii that this silver object was traveling at on « jé excessively high rate of speed and when it disintegrated it was atill a lon; wey fron the earth, @QQMMMbcaia whon he first saw it he thou-ht it was h qe probably a jet propelled plane but that he couldn't tell except that its mo- sions wore erratic, He said he had not reported it until he hid noticed so much in the papers about these discs, Although threes people sar it, they de- rided that they must be "seeing things”. The Seattle Office is requested to advise ir. Si 44} h7 C Air Force, S-2, McChord Field, Washington. cs No further action is being taken by the Butte Office due to the time elapsing between the sighting of this object and the report. WGB:LB cc - Seattle