U.S. Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects in the United States, 1-100

Capt E. J. Smith, UAL Pilot, en route to Seattle reported that he and the entire crew of a westbound UAL plane saw five flying saucers over Everett, I. W. At first he saw 5 discs flying what appeared to be a "loose formation." They called Party Morrow, Stewardess, to the cockpit to verify that they were actually seeing the discs. She saw them too. Then they saw 4 more of them, three cluster together, and a 4th flying by itself, very far in the distance. Capt Smith described them as follows: 5 "somethings" which were "thin as a coin, the bottom and top were shining on top." Silhouetted against sunset exactly after the plane took off at 11:40 p.m. "We saw them clearly," he reported. "We followed them in a northeasterly direction for about 45 miles. Finally they disappeared. We were unable to tell whether they were aircraft or flying saucers or something else." He couldn't say where the plane "We don't know if they were aircraft, saucers or something else." But whatever they were, they were not other aircraft, as we were "very close to them." [illegible]: Corroborated report by a UAL Pilot