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they had travelled the distance in one minute and forty-two seconds. Even at the time this timing did not upset me as l felt confident after I would land there would be some explanation of what I saw.
A number of news men and experts suggested that I might have been seeing reflections or even a mirage. This I know to be absolutely false, as I observed these objects not only through the glass of my airplane but turned my airplane sideways where I could open my window and observe them with a completely unobstructed view. (Without sun glasses.)
Even though two minutes seems like a very short time to one on the ground, in the air in two minutes time a pilot can observe a great many things and anything within his sight of vision probably as many as fifty or sixty times.
I continued my search for the marine plane for another fifteen or twenty minutes and while searching for this marine plane, what I had just observed kept rolling through my mind. I became more disturbed, so after taking a last look at Tieton Reservoir I headed for Yakima ...ght add that my complete observation of these objects, which I then follow by their flashes as they passed Mt. Adams, was around two-and-a-half or three minutes --, although, by the time they reached Mt. Adams ..... were out of my range of vision as far as determining shape or form. Of course when the sun reflected from one or two or three of these units, they appeared to be completely round· but, I am kaing (sic.: for making) a drawing to the best of my ability, which I am including, as to the shape I observed these objects to be as they passed the snow covered ridges as well as Mt. Rainier.
When these objects were flying approximately straight and level, they were just a black thin line and when they flipped was the only time I could get a judgment as to their size.
These objects were holding an almost constant elevation; they did not seem to be going up or coming down, such as would be the case of rockets or artillery shells. I am convinced in mv own mind that they were
