U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 101-172

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horizon of Boise at 3:30 p . m. and another l ine be dra"'ft'll from tbe position
of the ooon a t one hundred hours before the s ighting of the Boise object,
and projected to t he center of the earth, it will be seen that this ten­
degrees-altitude and the moon-earth line intersect as a place tar above
a geographical position considerably to the west of Cape Bla11ce, in the
neighborhoodof about 700 miles off the coast.
The Boise object in its appearance suggests a rocket-type ar craft possibly
using r eaction blasts to brake itself down for a landing on the earth.
The brig"lt point and plumy tail of the description suggest this, as also
its apparent fixity in space.
HOLLE' S 11SHIP Ir F1J\MES" -
Nine days after the siehting of the Boise
object a forest lookout named F..arl Holle saw at or soon after 4:00 p . m. ,
3rd July, 1 ,47, something he took to be a "tanker in flames".
This was
seen horizon-ward f r om a point 1n Sonoma Gounty, Cali fornia , near to Fort
Roos .
A search waR inst:!. wted by the Navy or Coast Guard, and nothing was
foum .
Tho s ov;et tanker ELBRUZ , w'1idl had been in t.he vicinity, was
quer i.ed a rd found to b~ all right. This was not explained.
Ir this apperance had been on the horizon, there is no telling how far
it may have been from the observer.
CAPE MENDOCINO BLDAP H'CIDENT -
Hot far from the l ocati on of Holle 's
"burnini; ship" an accident occurred to a navy blimp, 14 July 1947, off Cape
t,1endocino.
This blimp soodenly settled into the water, slipped out its crew and rose
ai;ain.
'1110 anoMaly here is that one would not expect to find drastic do'Tm-<:lrafts
of such violence as to thus upset a lighter than air craft. Possibly a
dovmdr :ift accounted ror t ~ accident - but if the Signal Officer will look
up the incident of the British steamer Talma w',ich, at the time of the
sighting of a luminous wheel- like phenomenon in the Gulf of Llartaban,
reported a slowinr: of the engines from some unknO\m cause, it may be seen
that possibly forces are ,-:enerated in son:e manner by certain unk11own
ohjects at times in t he or ean, which may have physical attraction for
materj al objects .
1'1is blimp aceidP.nt occurring in waters where occnrred
othPr phenomena shortly to be mentioned, seems to have a doubtful side
t.o it.
TI 1E OAKIAIID ODJ"EX;T -
!!.arly on the morninc; of 13th Octob0 r, 1947, a
photographer named Hen Dobus togehter with a taxidriver named A. J.
Goldman saw a thing "that looked like Saturn with a rinc around it."
lt shot at terrific speed WEST,7AfID across the sky of the Bay area, anci was
seen shortly after midnight.
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