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

Sept .
,
S"tANOARD FORM NO. 454
•Office Jylemorandum . UNITED s·... a .........., GOVERNMENT
DATE:i°,J . TO : • DIRECTOR., FBI ~947
J \t)(:lROM : SAC, SEATTLE
SUBJECT: OFJ:YING DIS~.~orted by BRU~l~'l"RONG
and M. A,ttrICHOLS, Seattle:...,.w;s~ton,
August 12, 1947
SECURITY MATI'ER X·
The newspaper , Seattle Post Intelligencer, carried an article in the
morning issue of August 13 reporting the sighting of flying disks. The article
appeared on the fifth page and ,'ias headed 11Blue Triangle LatestThing Seen I n
Disks 11 • Under this caption there \vas a short writeup v·hich stated, in substance,
that one BRUCE ARMSTRONG, an el ectronics technician, and a number of other en
gineers at the Boeing Aircraft hed sighted a mysterious flying object about 2:20
p. m. on August 12. The newspaper report further stated that the object seemed
to be fluttering like a leaf, and appeared to be a black or dark blue triangular
substance. In this article also appeared another report of a disk supposedly
sighted by one 'f. f. NICHOLS, 1125 S. ''/, 102nd Street, Seattle, and NICHOLS des
crib~d it as a big ball reflecting light, giving it a purplish tinge.
Interview v•ith BRUCE .ARMSTRONG on August 13 revealed that ARMSTRONG
was standing in front of Section D of the Boeing Aircraft Plant with about ten
other research engineers and h~d noticed a small black object flying about 200
feet high, going south over Boeing Field run•1ay. ARMSTRONG further stated, upon
interview, that the object appeared triangular in shape and floated in the air
like a leaf, and he estimated the speed t n be about fifteen miles per hour.
ARMSTRONG could not accuratel y determine the distance between him end the obj~
but it is noted that Section Dis about half a mile from the opposite side of
Boeing Fiel d where he supposedly had sighted it. ._ .,..,. ___ - o--~t,,J .....:t•f4 .. 0
The following other research engineers were also interviewed regarding
this object:
( 1,/Mr, JOHN H. STONER
Mr , GEORGE H. STONER RECORDED
Mr. BEN HAGER I Ir~
INDEXEDMr . LEROY PERKINS 1/J
Mr, DAN HAGE {')_ /(j 11;
1'The consensus of opinion of these men was th~t the objecl resembled a tilack iar
in flight and looked more like a piece of tar paper than anyfiling.1. l mle.rt the object
reached the end of the runway in Boeing Field it climbed into the sky in a south
westerly direction and disappeared.
Mr. KEN GRPNT, op~~ the control tower for the Northwest Airlines
was then contacted. Mr.. , ,d_-rr stated that he reviews all reports of objects seen
in the vicinity of the end makes a log of such . Mr. GRANT reviewed his
log but could not s nJ repord of such a'1 item, but upon contact with Yir. VAUGHN
LOCK'"OOD, wh~~ duty at the tire the object was supposedly sighted, the
follov,ing in.1.v~yion wa obtained: LOCK:100D stated that about 2 0 1 clock in the
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