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: pocmnnnt. q é y Office Memorandum * UNITED S...... GOVERNMENT TO z * DIRECTOR, FBI : Sept. 12,1947 F SUBJECT: FLYING DISKS Reported by seu AustRoNG and W. A. CHOLS, Seattle, Washington, August 12, 1947 SECURITY MATTER X The newspaper, Seattle Post Intelligencer, carried an article in the issue of August 13 reporting the sighting of flying disks. The article ed on the fifth pag nd was headed "Blue Triangle LatestThing Seen In Under fs tion there was a short ich stated, in substance, BRUCE & G, an electronics technician, number of other en— at the Boei reraft had sighted a mysterious flying object about 2:20 r August newspaper report further stated that the object seemed to be fluttering 1i leaf, and appeared to be a black or dark blue triangular substance. [In th rticle also appeared another report of a disk supposedly sighted by one M. f. NICHOLS, 1125 S. W. l02nd Street, Seattle, and NICHOLS des~ eribed it as a big ball reflecting Light, giving it a purplish tinge. Interview with BRUCE ARMSTRONG on August 13 revealed that ARMSTRONG was standing in front of Section D of the Boeing Aircraft Plant with about ten other research engineers and had noticed a small b. object flying about 200 feet high, going south over Boeing Field runway. ARMSTRONG further stated, upon interview, that the object appeared triangular in shape and floated in the air like a leaf, and he estimated the speed to be about fifteen miles per hour. TRONG could not accurately determine the distance between him and the but it is noted that Section D is about half a mile from the opposite Boeing Field where he supposedly had sighted it. The following other research enginéers were also interviewed re. this object; RECORDED f The consensus of opinion of these men was that the object re Bick Za in flight and looked more like a piece of tar paper than anythingiCTWHelichtie object reached the end of the runway in Boeing Field it climbed o the sky in a south- westerly direction and disappeared. W \T, opybbor of the control tower for the Northwest Airlines was then contacted. } fe ak stated that he revi orts of objects seen in tt vicinity of one Zid and m a log of such. y' VAUGHN LOCKWOOD, who was y following hee weg obtained: LOCKWOOD stated t about 2 o'clock in the re 2 ae \ ei” corms DESTROYED 2.70 NOV 181964