The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA, page 10, on July 29, 1947.
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BOISE, Idaho, - (P) - It's flying discs time again in Idaho and the United Air Lines pilot who spotted the latest one says "they ought to be kept off the civil airways."
Capt. Charles F. Gibian, who while coming in to Boise for a landing Monday night reported spotting a disc-like object "going like hell" at about 9000 feet, told the Boise Statesman:
"If it is real it must be some sort of military experiment and if that is the case they ought to arrange to keep the objects off the civil airways."
Deny Knowing
Army and Navy spokesmen had denied knowledge of the discs.
Gibian, who talked to the Statesman by telephone from Pendleton, Oreg., became the second United Pilot on flight 105 to report seeing the flying objects. His predecessor was Capt. E. J. Smith who said he spotted two groups of disc July 4, near Emmett, Idaho.
During Climax
Smith's story came during the climax of the flying disc reports, which started in late June in the state of Washington. During early July there were few states in the nation without at least one report of a disc and persons in numerous other countries, including Japan, also said they sighted the objects.
Gibian's disc - or whatever - was the first reported since word of the objects tapered off about two weeks ago.
The pilot said his first officer, Jack Harvey, also saw the object Monday night.