Blue Book file, Rivera and Heaphy (CUFOS)

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eye for approximately two minutes. Not using binoculars I could not make out any irregularities of formation, or whether the object had a motor or motors, landing gear, or other items usually connected with a plane. It had no appearance of the conventional plane but in size would be of the diameter of the fuselage length of the DC-3 plane. I have fished in the general area a number of years and have observed various type planes flying in this area, but have never observed anything of this nature before."

(Mrs. D ) " While on vacation near Gold Beach, Oregon, during the latter part of May 1949 and while fishing from a boat in the Rogue River in the late afternoon, my husband,Mr. D , called the attention of the group to a silver object , circular in shape, crossing the sky at a high altitude and at a high rate of speed. I could not estimate its height and its size was a large as a large passenger plane though shaped like a shiny circular disk. No sound was heard and it crossed our range of vision in two or three minutes. The day had been clear, visibility was good, and the sun was just setting. Other occupants of the party who observed the object were (names deleted ; assumed to be Mrs.A, Mr. B, and Mr.C) and my husband. There was no sound and the object traveled on a direct course."

Several days after agent Brooks obtained the signed statements from Mr.B and Mr. C.,agent Brooks compiled the documents he had obtained to that time and sent copies to the OSI headquarters, several other places, and to Wright-Patterson AFB (the headquarters of Project Blue Book - actually Project Grudge at the time of the sighting). He had marked his file "closed" even though he had not at that time obtained a statement from Mrs. A. Several days later, on Aug. 8, agent Hauser interviewed Mrs. A in Gold Beach, obtaining the information given on page 49 of this Addendum. Although this interview was subsequently included in the file compiled by agent Brooks (and is to be now seen on the microfilm copy of that file), the Blue Book (or Grudge) investigators didn't realize the connection between the sighting of Mr.B, Mr.C, and Mr. and Mrs.D and that of Mrs. A, even though the estimated times were the same (about 1700 hours) and the locations were virtually identical (near Elephant Rock in the Rogue River, Oregon) !! Thus, in the BB files these two cases should be combined into one, and, moreover, the identifications should be deleted!!! (It certainly couldn't have been both an aircraft and a "kite".)

During his investigation agent Brooks compiled the following supplementary information: the weather charts for the area indicated the coast was clear on the date of the sighting; the San Francisco