Blue Book file, Rivera and Heaphy (CUFOS)

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approximately one (1) minute. Sun was at our backs and there were no clouds.

(Mr.C) "While fishing with a party of friends about two and a half miles up the Rogue River from its mouth at Gold Beach, Oregon, at approximately 5:00 p.m., 24 May 1949, my attention was called to an object in the sky. The object was to the East of us about one (1) mile, at approximately 5000 feet altitude. With the naked eye little but a glare and a silvery glint could be seen. But after watching it for approximately one minute and a half I was handed a pair of 8-power binoculars by Mr.B. It was then possible to see that the object was roughly circular in shape and appeared to be 30 to 35 feet in diameter. It had somewhat the cross-sectional appearance of a pancake, being thicker in the center than at the edges. A small triangular fin started approximately in the middle and grew gradually higher to the rear as the object traveled. When first sighted the object was moving very slowly. As I watched it through the glasses, it picked up speed and when it vanished from sight approximately 90 seconds later, it was traveling as fast or faster than a jet plane. As far as could be seen, it had no openings or protuberances of any kind other than the fin and there was neither sight nor sound of any driving force. It was a clear day and no clouds in the sky, and the sun was at our backs as we watched the object which vanished in a southeasterly direction, mostly south. "

Agent Brooks also obtained statements from six other people who had known one or the other of the witnesses for periods of time ranging from several months to several years. These character references concluded with statements such as "inclined to take seriously any statement Mr./// might make", "inclined to place considerable reliability in anything Mr./// might have to say", etc.

The above interviews and signed testimonials were obtained by agent Brooks at Moffett Field and Sunnyvale, California on Aug.2, 1949. Several days previously, July 26, 1949, in a completely separate interview, agent T.H. Kelley obtained the following signed statements from Mr. and Mrs. D. of Ione, California:

(Mr. D)"During the latter part of May 1949, at approximately 1630 in the afternoon, while fishing in a boat on the Rogue River near Gold Beach, Oregon, together with (list of people deleted: assumed to be Mrs. A, Mr.B, Mr.C) and my wife, my attention was attracted by a silvery object in the sky, traveling at a height of approximately 5000 feet in a southerly direction. The object, circular in formation as a silver dollar, traveled without sound at a speed greater than a high speed or jet plane. Mr.B and Mr.C used a binocular to view the object which was visible to the naked