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Houoton, Texas
Dec • ?.8, 1948
,I, LOiffiIE EDWARD )WACK, residing 2921 Cl'.1cago
Street, Houeton 17, TexaE, make the following statement to
Special Agent Robert D. Plemine and Chr1etopher R. Dradley,
reDreeentatlvcc of the Of.t'1ce ot E-pecia'l Investigat ton,
Ellington OSI Detachment, Ellington Field, Texoa, and
Special J\gents Orahain . &itohel ana Galen N. I1llia who
I know to be Special !agents of the Pederal Bureau or
InYest1pt1on.
On Monday afternoon December 6, 1948, at about
6 P.N., Mr. a.c. PERSON, Mr. YfATHAlf SJII'l'H,. )Ir. C.A. TOCK,
Mr. R01SER'J.' BROUSSARD and another man, n&Jl8 not recalled,
and I had dinner at the Old Virginia Inn, Loa Angeles,
California. After dinner we went back to Mr.. Ssnitn•a
electrical manutactur1ng company which he own.a and operates
1l1 Loa Angeles, CA11torn1a.
Mr. PERSON told us about aeeing
a tlytng diac and we made an appointment to leave early
the next mom!~ by car• with our oueraa, to go to the
location or the d11c.
Mr. PERSON waa detained at some
private air f.ield so we did not leave until about 2 P.M.
ml. December 7. 1948.
We arrived at the acene ot the
tlyin.g diso and ~ook pictures of the d1ac which vaa still
171.ng around. Mr. SIIIITB took about 10 1'eet of 16 mm tilm
and Mr. PERSOX took five or six ahota wlth a Speed Graphic
Camera.
He noticed that the t1r•t three shots were taken
when the adapter on his lens was closed too much and I
don•t icnow 1r they turned out all :right.
Jllr. SMIT!I
•uggested I hold the t1ying diac up and rotate it around
and he would teke llY' p1ctu
•1th 1ror came~.
Atti!r
taking the picture•, we patched the fence o~ Mr. PERSOK'•
property where people had been cutting the wire to get to
a road.
f left and then d~ove baok and had dinner at
Eaton•a Inn and they took me back home to Hollywood,
ca11tom1a.
I would like to recite that I loft Houston, Texan
11:30 A.M. on Sunday; December 5. 1948, tor Cal~fornia by
plane and tlew to Hollywood, California on o commercial
plane on buoinese matters.
On arriving 1n Hollywood, I mot
Mr. PERSON in Holly,rood on Monday, December 6, 1948,. and
at that time he told :me about the tlylng disc he had located.
'He stated he bad gone to Laa Vegaa by h1a personal plane
and saw the disc from the a1~ on hie way back.