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This NICAP-hosted Blue Book file, credited to Brad Sparks, collects 1949 US Air Force Office of Special Investigations reports on a disc seen over the Rogue River near Gold Beach, Oregon, on 24 May 1949. It includes signed statements from fishing party members, among them staff from the NACA Ames Laboratory at Moffett Field, along with character references and interview forms. The witnesses describe a silvery circular object with a fin that flew silently. Investigators noted that radar test kites might have drifted that far north.
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Name and address of observer: NACA Ames Aeronautical Lab. Hoffett Field, Calif. Occupation and hobbies: Comments of Interrogator relative to intelligence and character of observer(s): Appeared sober, well-rounded, very mature not easily swayed by someone else's opinion. HARR TIVE SUMMARY: Oregon, in a boat anchored approximately midstream, about the same distance East of the town of Gold Beach, Oregon, an object was sighted about 5000 feet above the ground in a direction approximately 60° reading clockwise from North. Object appeared to be about 1 to 2 miles away. Mr. Smith observed the object about 30 seconds with the raked eye at which time he could see only a bright glitter, like a round mirror standing on edge with no apparent motion. Just as the object began to move, a pair of S-power Navy type binoculars through which viewed the object. With the binoculars the object resolved into a pancake-like shape, somewhat thicker in the center than in the edges, perfectly flat on the bottom with a small fin or vane arising about midship and growing gradually higher to the rear ending flush with a trailing edge as the object traveled. Flat surface was parallel to earth. The object appeared to be made of metal, aluminum or some other shiny metal, and while it appeared oval it could have been perfectly round in plan section. There appeared to be no opening or protuberances of any sort other than the fin already described. Object appeared to be 25 to 30 feet in diameter. It was traveling in a southeasterly direction, about 170° clockwise from North. It executed no maneuvers; no lights, no propellers, no landing gear or any method of propulsion that could be seen or heard. There were no clouds and the sun was at back at the time of sighting. The trailing edge of the object as it traveled appeared to be somewhat wrinkled and dirty looking. Ventured that these might have been vents but said he could not see them well enough to say for sure. With and in the boat at time of sighting was Mrs. wife of a druggist at Ione, California; Mrs. wife of a distributor at Gold Beach, Oregon; and Mrs.
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