The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Daily Times, Twin Falls, Idaho, USA, page 1, on July 29, 1947.
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BOISE, July 29 (AP) -- Speculation over the "flying discs" revived today after a United Air Line flight — the second in the past month — reported sighting a [?] sauver-like object last night in the sky 45 miles east of here. One of the airmen said it "might have been" a cloud.
Capt. Charles F. Gibian and First Officer Jack Harvey reported the incident to the airways control tower and to the United operations office in Boise before landing their mainliner at 8:40 p.m.
Four hours later after landing at Portland, Ore., Gibian was quoted by a newsman as saying "I’m not convinced this was a disc. This might have been a small fragment of a status cloud which dispersed as we watched it."
In an interview Gibian was quoted as saying that the "only logical explanation was that it was a bit of rapidly forming and disappearing cloud. But I say that’s logical because I don’t know what I saw. It wasn’t an airplane and if it was an object when it vanished it was going like hell."
Harvey, who first sighted the object, was quoted as saying "the object appeared to have considerable substance."
