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DIRECTOR, FBI
FLYING DISKS, Report of
8/26/47
afternoon there were several pieces of burnt paper which flew over the field,
and he did recall a large piece of l:urnt paper which the wind had blown across
the runway and down the south end of the field .
LOCKVlOOD estimated that the
paper v,as approximately three feet in length. Mr. GRANT stated that undoubtedly
this was the object in question, and inasmuch as the control tower has a complete
view of the area in which the engineers had sighted this object if anything fur­
ther was noted it would have appeared in the log.
Mr. M. A. NICHOLS, 1119 S , W. 102nd Street, was then interviewed regard­
ing his report of a flying object .
NI CHOLS stated that about 4 p. m. on August 12
he had sighted an object which he estimated to be about 35,000 feet in the air,
which was f l ying over his home in a southwest direction.
A neighbor, RAY STANLEY,
also saw the object and STANLEY examined the same with a pair of binoculars.
According to STAlJLEY the object looked like a ,-nite dock moving, ·cylindrical in
shape, and reflected the light of the sun with a sort of purplish tinge .
Other
witnesses who had seen the object at this ti re were a Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE KROGSTADT,
of 1113 S. w. 102nd Street, Seattle, and their version of the object corresponded
with that of NICHOLS and STANLEY.
Contact with Mr. THQi!AS B. GERMJ,IN, of the Seattle Weather Bureau Office
at Boeing Field, revealed that weather balloons are released every six hours
from his field coinrrencing at 1:30 a . m.
The balloons, according to Mr. GERMAIN,
are of a white gum color and reflect the light of the sun at a high altitude .
.Al though Mr. G3RHAIN could not understan:i why a balloon could have been sighted
at 4 p.m., he nevertheless was certain that, from the description of the object
seen by these people, it must have been either one of his balloons or one released
from some other area in the vicinity.
No further investigation is being conducted in this matter by this
office.
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