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On December 7, 1948 •• went out J.n Mr. tfA'l'HAlf
SNITH'• car and ploked up h1a wife and left hia hoae in
South Pasadena about 11 A.M.
We drove out to an airport
where hia plane was about rorty a1lea trom Pasadena DN
he was having the plane repaired.
He wanted to be aure
the plane was on a truck betore we left for the destination
where the di•c •••. Iri aaking thia trip, we proceeded
out by a race track and ~•••done ot the Kaiser ateel
works and the Virginia Dare Wine Orchard.
I would say
we went directly north or northeast tr,om Pasadena,
ca11rom.1a. We droTe through a town called Matonia
(phonetic) and tollowed a roaa through •o•e mountaina and
through. a ••11 de1ert.
I would eatiute the di•tance trom
Pasadena to where the d1ac ••• tound to be about 150 mllea.
The terrain 1n wh1oh the diac waa tound could be described
•• tlat,deaert. and de■ olate.
t would like to •~lain that Jlr. PERSON haa
private ~pert,- (an airport which he purcba••d rrom the
govemaent) right by the location or the d1ac.
Mr. PER.SOR
thought the di•c might have been launched tro11 hie ail'J)ort.
but whether that ••• it or not - •• don•t know.
Nr. PERSON
1a1d he usually tlew at an altitude or about 8,000 te•t
and, or course, he tlew lower 1n ao• apaced. He did not
mention hia altitude at the t1M he tlrat eaw the diac.
'lbe disc waa located preot1ca117 Juat outa1de his pros:,erty
and •• were going north, •o it would be eaat or hia property.
He has about 900 acres.
When •• arr1ved at Mr. ,PERSON' • propert7, •• aaw
the d1ac, or .flying wing, and it n■ on th• ground 1n a
aeJll1-vert1cal poe1t1on, approxiJnately a 45 de~• arigle,
With the le:t"t wing babedltd in the gr9und. In loold.J:tg at
the ground, it appeared that the obJect had hit the earth with
cona1derable force and had slid 300 to 400 feet. It wa•
dent•d but was generally intact. I th1illc the picture, I took
with a Revere 8 -
camera quite well ahow th• tom, shape
and size or the "wing." I am 5' 7" tall and 1n atand1ng next
to the object when it was in an upright poaition, 1t wae
alightl7 higher than my height.
I would ••7 it waa rollgbly
seven feet in diameter, b•fore crashing.
On each e1de or the obJect there were w1rma
approxillately t~ur feet b7 twent7 inches and three 1nohes thick
with an axle that protruded through the dlac and 1.J\to the wing■•
It waa aounted on ball bear1nge which the diac rotated on.
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