The article below was published in the newspaper The Medford Mail-Tribune, Medford, Oregon, USA, on page 1, on June 26, 1947.
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Pendleton, Ore., June 26 -- (U.P.) Residents of Pendleton sought an aexplanation today for the nine strange "saucer-shaped" planes an amateur pilot claimed he saw flying at an estimated speed of 1.200 miles an hour across southwestern Washington.
The story was told by Kenneth Arnold, flying fire extinguisher salesman from Boise, Ida.
He landed here, slightly bugeyed, yesterday and told how he spotted the "extremely shiny nickle-plated aircraft" skimming along at 10,000 feet on Tuesday. Arnold was on a search for a missing marine corps plane at the time.
"They were shaped like saucers and were so thin I could barely see them," he told Jack Whitman, a local businessman.
To: Kenneth Arnold or Newspapers 1940-1949.
