FBI file 62-HQ-83894 Flying Discs, section 3

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At. or rout 12:05 p.m., J~ 29, 1947, a sedan, driven b7 Stove
Herrr:ann and carrying H. J . (Bob) awn 1n t.ho .rront aeat and Kllrl. lbr.D3nn
in tt. rear seat., s pr-ocoodinG nortJrueot.er ly along the road leoding £ rom
Caeyon ~•eny to York., both in l!ontans. some 2.5 miles N. E. o! Helen:1-
n at n point approximtc~ 1/4 mile U•• or Canyon Ferry, (as ohown
on Foreot Service p to be 1n tm NE or llE~ or • 10 n011 Rm) Karl
suddenly shouted Sec it J See itJ There 1s a :Oy1ng saucer I" Steve ~d-
intoly sloned domi am dually broueht too sunan t.o a atop., he an:i Bob
&anft bile scanning the sey in the d.1.rcction pointed by Korl 1n an ei'£art to
soe tm 11flyine onucer11 ., but m..thout Guccess .
Approxmiately' ton seconds elapsed betl1cen the t 1m Xarl report.od aeoing
the •sauceru., coI:11.ng over the horiton at high .apeod trom the southv:oot, (Knrl
first thcraght 1t a meteor) and travel.11ng northeasterly, and the briJJeing of
the car to a stop.
As the car cane to a stop. :tove, Karl and Bob, m.multaneously, atm tho
follo;1iQc :
Direct~ ahead., (H .ii) 2 to 3 ell.es dismnt and approxi!:mto~ )(X)() .rt .
above the grcr.md., a bright disc hovering and .nutter.1.ng in the air. Dcoccnd
lnt; and rinin.,. through n vertical distance or fifty or a bWldrcd feet for a
period of about five seconds then., while at the top of nn ascent, tho ri.:H.oc"
suddenly moop:?d to the Northeast at treocndoua speed and di.sap red into
too clear air m.thi.n a diotance of 200 i't . Th t 1B to eay it did not p:30D
beyond an obstruction to 1'urtber v1Dibil1ty blt "c:elt.od into thin nir" iu:: :1.f
bccall!le of tre;;xmdoua apeod.
This disc as., from the vic"apo1nt or the observero, oppc.ron~ 3 ft .
in d.ilu:13tor circulnr un:1 of 110 ercat thiclmoDS - approxiL:ote~ .) or 4 incbos •
1
The oey uas blue .ith scattered m:Dll clouda, the 6Uil 1rao ohinin{;
bri.chtly nm the disc e).camed and ahir:::13rcd :1.n tho brlebt cru..'llicht oo it
covered m.th highly p:>liehed niclml•
After the "di.Ge" di&1. rcd.f ro:J Vien, the secbn and it occup:mto
roceeded nortJmostcrly alone tho road, llUt c~ discern no evidcnco of the
~sence or the "disc" along or adjacent to that 'tb>rotare .
It io to be rc:iemoored tmt too dimnotons as stated abov ro ac
',llf!Y appe3red to thO observan; OOl:lC 2 or 3 miles rrom the 1
'di0c11
nd the
true dimnm-ons ?:USt be cone:tdcrobly grcn.tor.
/s/ R. J • Uldclon.,
R. J . l!ADDI:21,
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