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O KLAHOMA CITY AIR MATERIEL AREA
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21. Jul y 1947
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SUBJ.:CT:
BTIOI\ :. . :JAVl..G':., field Enginee r, :taaio Cor poration of
America, Dallas, ':"exas . ( ltesidence:
416 K. :,. 29th Street,
Oklahoma City , OklahOl'IIB.. )
RE :
Flying Disc.
On 23 July 1947, BYRCN c. JAVAGJ was intervi ewed at his resiaence,
416 N. W. :;><)t h Street, Oklahoma Ci ty, Oklahoma, relating to his alleged
viewing of a flying disc over t he vicinity of Oklahoma Ci ty, Okl ahoma.
Subject, whose age i s 38, advi sed he is married ar:d nas one child,
and is pregent l y the hol der of a Private Pi l ot' s License, No . 39101,
(wingle ~ngine, Land) .
Subject averred he has extensively studied elect ron­
ics, sound engineering and aeronautics, and his present occupation, which is
Fiel d engineer for Radio Corporation of America , of t'ices of which are
located i n vallas, Texas, i s that of installing theat er sound equipmdnt.
~AVAGE stated that between the days 17 May to 21 Uay 1947, just after dusk,
he observed an object which he bel ieved to be a smal l air craft i n the south.
~AVA~6 advised t hat the s un had just gone down and t he moon had not a risen
on the horizon.
s~VAG~ related that he and his wife had j ust depart ed
thei r r esidence and had started to enter their car in the dri veway at
416 N. ii. 29t h St r eet, Oklahoma Ci t y.
He judged the time to be bet ween
8:30 p.m. and 9: 00 p.m., and the l ight s fran the city of Okl ahoma Ci ty
ap~e~red to be shining on this object when he f i r st saw i t. He judged the
objdct to be about 160° i n the south when he f i r st saw it, and as it moved
t owar d him he r emarked to his wi fe that "a big white plane was coming over."
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SAVAGE stated that when this object was at a 45° angle from him., he
realized it was not a conventional. type aircraft, and it appeared elliptical
at first and a s it moved closer it appeared perfectly rowid and was flat.
SAVAGE advised the object , which appeared to him as a disc, had no appearance
of belng spher i cal and had a ratio of diameter to the thickness of approxi­
mately 10 to l, appearing thicke r in the center, but this could not be
positively ascertained. SAVAGE judged the object to be at a.n altitude of
between 10,000 and 18,000 feet, and it left no trailinf effects. SAVAGE
related that it appeared to be in bulk as big as the bulk of six B-29s at
an al titude of approximately the same height. SAVAGB advisad that the obj ect
was i n his vision approximately 15 to 20 seconds and travdlled at a speed
whi ch he judg•Jd to be approximat el y three times tha t of jet-propelled aircraft.
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