The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Daily Astorian, Astoria, Oregon, USA, page 1, on July 5, 1947.
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Irving C. Allen, former city attorney of Seaside, saw a 'flying saucer" east of Moscow, Ida., Friday 10:30 when he was flying from Coeur d'Alene to Lewiston.
Allen, who is now airport operation and management chief of the CAA's seventh region, reported here today that the "saucer” first sighted by William Farrell, assistant district airports manager or the CAA, who was a passenger in the plane.
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Allen said that the flying object traveled in a northerly direction in a wavering, flitty way but on a regular course. By checking its course against that of his own plane and two plane& which were following him, Allen said that he and Farrell roughly computed the speed of the saucer at 300 miles an hour. His plane was then flying, at about 4000 feet and the saucer appeared to be at a somewhat higher elevation.
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Allen related that the disc-like flying mystery was in sight for five minutes after it was discovered by Farrell.
"I could have taken a picture of the saucer," Allen said. It was remarkably white and larger than the largest plane, the former city attorney said. Allen saw no trail of vapor nor did he see wings on the disc. His description of its flight, which he observed closely for five minutes, was that it bounced along."
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Allen indicated that veteran airmen do not regard the flying disc as a fragment [sic, figment] of Imagination. His description of the disc is similar to that given by people of the Fort Stevens annex who sighted a "plugged doughnut" over the fort several days ago.
