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Office Nlemoranaum • uNrTEn sTATEs GovhRNMENT
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Director• FBI
DATE: September 27, 1947
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SUBJECT:
FLYING DISCS SIGHTED MAY 51 19471
BE'ffl'EEN EL!EllSBURG AND SEATTIE. WASHINGTON
We.rd.en JOmt"HENRY. Montana State Prison, Door Lodgo, Montana., has
advised the writer that while driving between Ellensburg and Seattle, Washing•
ton, about 3:30 P.M., on May 61 1947, ha sighted a silver object streaking
aoross the sky.
This was also seen by MELBOURlTE J.t<lfILL. con-net chauffeur,
and Yrs. HElffiY•
This objeot wont into a nose dive and they thought it would
crash. However, before reaching the earth it disintegrated, leaving a long
pillar of
1'gas" hanging in the sky. It was partioularly odd ·oecause this re­
mained in form and did not blOW' uwo.y. It was observed by these three people
while they drove from twenty to thirty miles.
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This smoky, gaseous pillar was a long ways ofr'imtt"Yema'i'n'ea:J.ligh
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in the air. Warden HERRY said that this silver object was traveling at an / !'
exoassively high rate of speed and when it disintegrated it was atill a long
~y f rO!:l the earth. Warden HENRY said when he .first sa.w it he thought it was
probably a jet propelled plane but that he ·couldn't tell except that its mo­
tions were erratio. Ho said ha had not reported it tmtil he had noticod so
mu.ch in the papers about these discs. Although thre~ people saw it, they de­
cided tha.t they must be "seeing things"•
The Seattle Office is requested to advise Mr. H. R. PETERSON, 4th
Air Foroe, s-2, McChord Field, Washington.
No further action is being ta.ken by the Butte Office due to the
time elapsing between the sighting of this object ..an~1.~
report.
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