FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 02

I was born

I was born in Minnesota until I was six years old when my family moved to Scobey, Montana, where they housed. My grandfather, also honestly lived in Scobey, Montana, and became quite prominent in political circles along with the famous

I went to grade school and high school at Minot, North Dakota. I entered scouting at twelve years of age and achieved the rank of Eagle scout before I was fourteen. Mr. former scout executive was now a for the Boy Scouts in Kansas City, Kansas.

As a boy, I was interested in athletics and was

I entered the

U. S. Olympic trials in

I taught swimming and diving at scout camps and the municipal pool in Ninot, North Dakota. I went to the University of Minnesota, where I swam and did fency diving under but upon entering college I was unable to continue my football career because of an injured knee. My high school football coach was who is now the

I had little or no finances, and my ambition in furthering my education in college was through my athletics. As a boy in Ninot, North Dakota, I did a good deal of dog sled racing.

In 1938 I went to work for manufacturer of automatic fire fighting apparatus. In 1939 I was made for them over a part of the western states, and in 1940 I established a own

My flying experience started as a boy in Minot, North Dakota, where I took my first flying lesson from who was originally from Greet Falls, Montana. Due to the high cost at that time, I was unable to continue my flying and did not fly of any great consequence until 1943. I was given my pilot certificate by senior CAA inspector of Portland, Oregon, and for the last covering my entire territory with name and flying from forty to one hundred hours per month since. Due to the fact that I use an airplane entirely in my work, in January of this year I purchased a airplane, which is an airplane designed for high altitude take-offs and short rough field use.

In the type of flying I do, it takes a great deal of practice and judgment to be able to land in most any cow pasture and get out without injuring your airplane; the runways are very limited and the altitude is very high in some of the fields and places I have to go in my work. To date, I have landed in 823 cow pastures in mountain meadows, and in over a thousand hours a flat tire has been my greatest mishap.