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TODAY REQUESTING TELETYPE SUMMARY CONCERNING NEWSPAPER REPORTS OF
RECENT REPORTED FLYING DISCS IN PORTLAND AREA AND A REPORTED CONFERENCE
OF ARMY OFFICIALS IN PORTLAND CONCERNING FLYING DISCS .
LEAVERITT G.
RICHARDS, AVIATION EDITOR THE OREGONIAN, ADVISED THAT A CAPTAIN
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SAN FRANCISCO WERE IN PORTLAND JULY TWENTYSEVEN LAST AND INTERVIEWED
DIC~NKIN, AN EXPERIENCED PILOT, UHO HAD REPORTED JUNE FOURTEEN
LAST SEEING A FORMATION OF TEN FLYING DISCS OVER BAKERS­
FIELD , CALIF .
ACCORDING TO RICHARDS THEY HAD ALSO INTERVIEWED
FOLLOWING FOUR EXPERIENCED PILOTS UHO WERE AMONG FIRST WHO REPORTED
SEEING DISCS -
KENNETrti"1\1tNOLD, BUSINESS MAN, BOISE, IDAHO, CAPTAIN
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EVENS, UNITED AIRLINES, AND DAVE
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TO ASCERTAIN THE
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WASH OUT THE Dt~~ REPORTS , SINCE THEY ARE'fEFINITELY NOT OF AAF ORIGIN .
ON.. FRIDAY, iv~ FIRST, THE PLANE IN WHICH AAF INVESTIGATORS CAPTAIN
DAVIDSON AND LT. · BROWN WERE RIDING, CRASHED AT KELSO, WASH. AND BOTH