The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Solano - Napa News-Chronicle, California, USA, page 5, on July 29, 1947.
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PORTLAND, Ore., July 29th (INS) -- Flying saucers were back in the limelight today after Pilot Charles F. Gibian of United Air Lines reported seeing something which he believes may have been a "disc" or a cloud.
Gibian said he and his co-pilot, Jack Harvey, noticed an object from 20 to 40 miles ahead of them as they flew at 7500 feet over Mountain Home, Idaho, at 8:34 last night.
He said they watched the object for three minutes and then saw it vanish in less than five seconds. Gibian and Harvey were on the same flight as the one on which Pilot E. J. Smith of UAL said he, his co-pilot and their stewardess saw nine discs, west of Boise.
Gibian said he is "not convinced" that this was a disc and continued:
"This might have been a small fragment of a status cloud which dispersed as we watched it."
"If it were some sort of aircraft, it could only have been a disc. Nothing else flies fast enough to get completely out of sight in that short time."
He said he called the control tower at Gowen Field, Boise, and was told that no other airplane was in the sky at that time.
At the same time Gibian declared that Smith's description "convinces me the discs do exist," and added:
"I've talked to other commercial pilots who have seen similar objects but have not reported them."
