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DATE: 10/18/47
Director, FBI
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REPORT OF FLYING DISCS
This is to advise that we have been able to locate a
.flyer, JA~K, who is employed by the Al Jones Flying Compa.cy in
Bethel, .Alaska.
It bad been ~ported to Military Intelligence that
Mr. PECK and his co-pilot VIN
AJJi bad observed sane flying object
near Bethel, Alaska, in July, 194
Eff or ts previously to contact
Mr. PECK were negative until the above instance.
He related that the occasion of seeing the flying object
near Bethel was on a July day when the sky was completely clear of clouds,
am it being during the early part, it is daylight the entire night.
The time of bis sighting this flying object was about 10 FM and the sun
had just dropped beyom the horizon. Flyir€ weather was extremely good
am he, with Mr . DALY, was coming into the Bethel Airport with a DC-J.
He observed the flyiq,; object immediately to his left alli stated that
it apparently was observed at approximately the same time by Mr. DAIX
am both of them· manipulated the controls of the plane ma.king efforts
to miss the object inasmuch as they could not tell in which direction
it was going.
They made a forty-five degree t urn in order to get out of
the way of the object arxi then noted that it appeared to be going away
from them.
He described the object as appearing to be some flying wing arxi s
said that it appeared to be about the size of a C-54 without any fuselage.
He could not see any propellor or any exhaust f r om jet propulsion or any
vapor trails arxi could not estimate the size due to his failure to be able
to estimate the distance he was away from the object.
He was flying at
1, 000 feet and stated that he tried to catch up with the object am in­
creased his manifold pressure to approximately 42 inc hes am was traveli!)g
at the rate of 170 miles per hour.
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He called on his radio to the Civil Aeronautics J,dminis­
tration station at Bethel, asking what aircraf't was in the vicinity am
they bad no reports of any aircraft.
The object he sighted vras
some five or ten miles from the airport before his arrival and stated
that the path did not go directly across the airport. He, of course, could
not tell whether the object was making aey noise arxi stated that it was
flying at a thousand foot altittrle am estimated travel at 300 miles per
hour.
It was travel ing in the direction from Bethel to Nome, which is in
a northwesterly direction.
He noted no radio interference and is unable to
describe the color other than that it appeared dark but of definite shape
and did not bl erxi into the sky but had a definite, concise outline.
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he and Mr. DALY clearly observed the object at this time.
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