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AIRLINE'S CREW OFFERS REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS. FIVE STATES.
Circumstantial reports of flying discs in the sky Friday over from the coast of a United Airlines plane over Boise, Idaho, and a coast publication here Seattle, as well as from Portland area police and civilians.
E. J. Smith, Captain of the airliner, told Oregon Press that the flight crew "saw two objects 'like discs' about 100 feet in the bottom and about 100 feet above the plane. The objects moved against the wind. Shortly after the plane took off at 5:00 a.m., he said:
"We saw them clearly," he reported. "We followed them for a short distance. They were about 10 feet in diameter. Finally the objects disappeared. We were unable to tell whether they outpaced us or disintegrated.
NOT AIRCRAFT.
"We can't say whether they were aircraft," he said. "But we know they were not aircraft. They were not planes or clouds."
In Seattle, C. [illegible] of the Oregon Press that the plane "saw two objects 'like discs' flying over the area."
A. News Pictures, New York City, said a 7" print of the 16mm film showed two tiny dots, one of which was "like a flying saucer."
A. [illegible], N.Y. Our Assignment said early Friday, "reported objects 'like flying discs' in the sky Friday. No official reports, including a report from the Portland police, confirmed this.
In Vancouver, Wash., S. [illegible] Doolittle, J. S. Sullivan, Clarence McKay and Prof. Krives were at the Portland police station Friday morning. They went to the police office to look at the sky. Over Portland, they saw two objects, Sullivan said, they saw two objects 'like flying saucers'. They heard a low humming sound.
OTHERS UNUSUAL
Col. J. R. Dodson, Commander of the Oregon national guard, made an inspection of this area from the air after the lights were reported here. He said he saw nothing "suspicious".
Only seven military airplanes in the air at the time of the reports were 23 B-29 bombers near Astoria.