The article below was published in the newspaper The Ottawa Journal, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on page 6, on June 30, 1947.
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SEATTLE, Wash., June 30. -- (AP) -- The *flying saucers" controversy continued today with eyewitness converts almost as numerous as the announced skeptics.
The last appearance of the mystery objects seen "tumbling" or "undulating" through the skies from Texas to Canada, was reported last night. Frank M. King of San Leandro, Calif., told reporters he and a group of friends heard a "swishing, whistling sound" and, from his backyard, sighted a "gleaming object" last night.
"The moon was shining brightly and we could see it plainly," he said. "It seemed to be oval in shape and fairly flat."
However, while the mystery continued to baffle many, Ray Taro, Everett, Wash., iron works operator, refused to be alarmed. for several weeks he has been melting down beer bottle caps for the metal. The "saucers", he asserts, are merely aluminum disks, carried hundreds of feet into the air by blowers and 3000 degrees of heat, and wafted away by air currents.
The controversy began after Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho, flying businessman, reported last Tuesday he saw nine mysterious objects whizzing over Western Washington. He estimated their speed at 1,200 miles an hour.
To: Kenneth Arnold or Newspapers 1940-1949.
