FBI UFO file, part 2

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Th" followinr: .';ory of whet I obser9'ld over the Cascade mountains,
RS im~ossibl. Rs It ~"Y S"O~, is rosltively true. I nevor asked n0r wanted
f'!1:1 n(}tnriet:, for .i1J~I. f'ccidr:mt.ly ~)!?in~ ill thF;! r:l r;ht spot lit tho right time
to ooserv'l whnt I did. I re:,orted s"mnthln~ thf't ! hl0,," ~ny ollot would
hnv" r8p(lrted. I don't thin', th"t in nny wRy ny observ~tion ... as due to any
eenstvit:1 of eye 5lf,h-~ or judC:no;!ut t.hen vlhat is .-:-onsidered nQrrnnl ~t.
Cr\~U~~e~!~i;, T:~·::~~~~t!~~7~n! ~~de;~:!s~:: :~c~~~~ iO~o~h~rr from 6~
", ·::n shin r;ton , eirp"rt wi th tho intention of !,;oin!', to YakilllR, T.ash •
..~, trip '''"s deln:,od for "n hour Lo seRrch for a laT/';" ",,,rine transport that
supposedly went dOl...·n Hoar or eroun,l the southwest side of j·1t. Rninier in the
st!\te or ~7e'-BhiT!.r::to!l nnd· to dnte has nevor been found.
I naN diractly toward t't. Rainier after renchinr, p.n Bltitude of about
9,500 feet, whic~ is th" n;>proxinllte elevation of the hi.:h plateau from which
:'t. ;"inler rises. I }",d mnde one svreep of this hir;h plateau to the west1lWard,
searchin~ nIl of the verio"s rid~9s for this ~Rrine ship and flel·, to the 10est
down rn,1 "onr th3 rid'·,e sid" of th~ can:ron Vlllere Ashford, Washington, is located.
Un"'>l" to s~., n":~hin:: th"t looke·l like the lost ship, I "",de a 3GO degree
turn to t~'" ri:-:ht Ol"d abovo tIl" little cit:.' of !.'inernl, startinG again toward
:.It. Reinier. I clb,bcd back Ury to pn altitude of "pproxiMat!lly 9,200 teet.
Thn air TillS so smooth that day thot it ,;as a renl pleasure flying and,
as ,"ost ,...ilot. do IThen ths "i r is smoot1, and they ere flying at f\ higher
"ltitud~, I tri",mod out ny eirplano in the direction of YBkima, Washington,
which vms Illmost directly e!lst of my position and simply sat in my plane ob-
69rvinr, the sky pnd t~e t~rrBin.
Th~re wns a DC-4 to the 1" ft end to the rear of me approximately
fifteen '"iles distanc~, end I should judp;e, at 14,000 foot elev_tion.
Thp sky Bnd air Was as cleer as cr'rstal. I hadn't flown more then
two or t "ree minute s on my course when " bright fl •• h r"flect .. d on my
a;rphn~. It st!lrtled me PO J thou,~ht I ..as too close to some other air-
cr~ft. I looked every plac~ in th~ sky nnd couldn't find where the reflec-
tion had corne from u,.,til I leoked j 0 th~ left end tho north of ~'t. Rainier
where I observed 0 chnin of nin~ peculiar lookin~ aircrAft flyin~ from north
to sout:, at e~proy.iM.+.ely 9,500 feet elevation Rnd going, seeminrly, in a
definit~ direction of about 170 de~rees.
Thn:; were "ppronchinr; "~to Rainier very rapidly, and I merely assumed
they T/~re jet rlnnes. Anyhow, I discov3red that this was where the reflec-
tion "",1 co",~ from, 8S two or three of them every few seconds would dip or
chnn;;e t'lc·ir cours" slif:htl:r, just enou~h for the sun to strike them at an
an,~le U,>t reflected hrir,htl:! on ~. plon3.
1: ~s,' objects beinf, quite far awe:" I ..... s unable for a few seconds to
1I:!lke Oelt t.heir s"apo or th",ir for,.-etion. Very shortly the:! approached ,.It.Rainier. r.nd I obs'lrvcd their outline p.r"inst t!.e snow quite ploinly.
I th"u~ht it WRS ver"' :-oeculinr th,t I couldn't find their tails but
,,·,su..,ed l,h.,), .nr~ som" t:'T'S of j9t "len"l. I was determinf)d to clock their
""'ed, re, I h"d t17t) d,:rin;~,· "oiI11" J cnulcts finn detertnine their fl:?proximate
s;;"pe ~tl'l 5i.!~r ('t. Rl"lr:'s~.. rift.? 1-11105 tJrqt d!\y.
I "('~,,?~1lr'r d!ni,inctl:: +.h"t M:·: Slvn"O 50cond hnnd on m:' ~ight. d!l.Y clock.
""'ich is locp.ted on "':; in5tJ·um·)n'; "~nnl, reed 'Ad thes" obj('cts tlrith Trent in1.'lrest as I had neTer before obeened
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