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INTERNAL SCURITY-X.
FBI SEATTLE
8-14- 47
5-21 PM
/4RECTOR FBI
URGENT
L. R. BRUMMETT.
SID'l}ECKER.
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FLYING
AUGUST FOURTEEN INllflffHXK NINETEEN FORTYSEVEN SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER
PUBLISHED ARTICLE TO EFFECT THAT L. ~UMMETT, BOX TWO FIVE FOUR RED­
MOND, WASH, AND SIDNEY DECKER BOX TWO NINE SI X REDMOND, WASHINGTON HAD
SIGHTED TWO DI SCS AT APPROXIMATELY NINE AM AUGUST THIRTEEN NINETEEN
FORTYSEVEN .
UPON INTERVIEW DECKER STATED THAT TWO VERY BRIGHT OJECTS
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TRAVELING AT AN EXTREME RATE OF SPEED WERE NOTICED BY HIM AS H~WAS
STANDING NEAR THE REDMOND POST OFFICE .
DECKER DESCRIBED THE OBJECTS
AS HAVING NO WINGS, NO TAIL, AND BOTH ENDS WERE TAPERED .
DECKER ADDED
THAT THE OBJECTS RESEMBLED A BELLY TANK AND THAT THEY WERE NOISELESS .
THE OBJECTS WERE VERY BRIGHT AND TRAVELING IN A NORTHEASTERLY DIRECTION
OVER REDMOND, WASHINGTON, ONE A BIT BEHIND AND A LITTLE ABOVE THE ◊,HER
MAINTAINING EQUAL RA TES OF SPEED FOR APPROXIMATELY EIGHT SECONDS A1'rv-/
WHICH TIME THEY DISAPPEARED FROM VIEW.
DECKER ADDED THAT THEY WERE
HIGHER THAN A PLANE GENERALLY TRAVELS.
BRUMMETT ADVISED THAT HE NOTICED
THE OBJECTS AND CALLED DECKERS ATTENTION TO THEM AND ALSO POINTED THEM
OUT TO A MRS MAMIE ENGLISH .
BRUMMETT STATED THAT HE SAW THO OBJECTS
FLYING AT A FORTYFIVE DEGREE ANGLE NORTHEASTERLY OVER REDMOND t~ /Ir}
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