The article below was published in the newspaper The Medford Mail-Tribune, Medford, Oregon, USA, on page 1, on July 14, 1947.
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Kenneth Arnold (left), Capt. E. J. Smith, and First Officer Ralph Stephens (right) compare notes on the "flying discs." Arnold, a private pilot, was first person to report the objects, and clocked the at about 1200 mph. Smith and Stepehens said they turned their United Airlines passenger plane off its course near Boise, Idaho, and chased a "strange object" for 15 miles before it outdistanced them of disintegrated in the dusk.
To: Kenneth Arnold or Newspapers 1940-1949.