UFOs in the daily Press:

Flying Discs In Air Again

Flying saucers, which had thousands of necks craned skyward a fortnight ago, sailed back into the news Monday night when two United Air Lines pilots reported seeing something over Idaho which they believe may have been either one of the sky-going "discs"—or a cloud.

Capt. Charles F. Gibian, an airlines pilot for 11 years, and First Officer Jack Harvey, a pilot three years, were flying at 7500 feet over Mountain Home, Idaho, at 8:34 P. M. (mountain time) when both noticed an object which they believed may have been 20 to 40 miles ahead of them.

Size, Shape in Doubt

"I'm not convinced this was a disc," Captain Gibian said after arrival in Portland at 11:05 P. M. "This was just after sundown and at that time of day condensation is rapid in the dry upper air over Idaho. This might have been a small fragment of a stratus cloud which dispersed as we watched it."

Gibian also pointed out the difficulty of ascertaining any definite size or shape or distance to the object for he said he watched it for only about three minutes, then saw it disappear completely within less than five seconds.

"If it were some sort of aircraft, it could only have been a disc," he declared. "Nothing else flies fast enough to get completely out of sight in that short time."

Gibian's flight was trip 105, the same on which Capt. E. J. Smith reported that he, his copilot and stewardess saw nine flying saucers over Emmett, Idaho, west of Boise on July 4.

Object Reverses Course

"While I'm not certain the thing we saw was a disc, I've talked to Smith and his description convinces me the discs do exist. And I've talked to other commercial pilots who have seen similar objects, but haven't reported them," Gibian said.

Gibian said Harvey first saw the object when it appeared to be coming directly toward the airliner, but it seemed to be going away just before it disappeared. He called the control tower at Gowen field in Boise and was told no other aircraft was in the sky in his vicinity.

The pilot was not able to give any description of the flying whatnot other than it "had a thickness about 20 per cent of its breadth which is about that of an airplane."