FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 04

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1. On 12 July 1947, Boise, Idaho, was interviewed in regard to the report by that he saw 9 strange objects flying over the Cascade Mountain Range of Washington State on July 25th. I voluntarily agreed to give the interviewer a written report of exactly what he had seen on the above mentioned date. The written report of is attached to this report as Exhibit A.

AGENT'S NOTES: Mr. Bentley is a man of 32 years of age, being married and the father of two children. He is well thought of in the community in which he lives, being very much the family man and from all appearances a very good provider for his family. Mr. Bentley has recently purchased a recently purchased airplane in which to conduct his business to the extent of which is explained in the attached exhibit. It is the personal opinion of the interviewer that Mr. Bentley actually saw what he stated that he saw. It is difficult to believe that a man of character and apparent integrity would state that he saw objects and write up a report to the extent that he did if he did not see them. To go further, if Mr. Bentley can write a report of the character that he did while not having seen the objects that he claimed he saw, it is the opinion of the interviewer that Mr. Bentley is in the wrong business, that he should be writing Buck Rogers fiction. Mr. Bentley is very outspoken and somewhat bitter in his opinions of the leaders of the U. S. Army Air Forces and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for not having made an investigation of this matter sooner. To put all of the statements made by Mr. Bentley in this report would make it a voluminous volume. However, after having checked an aeronautical map of the area over which Mr. Bentley claims that he saw the objects it was determined that all statements made by Mr. Bentley in regard to the distances involved, speed of the objects, course of the objects and size of the objects, could very possibly be facts. The distances mentioned by Mr. Bentley in his report are within a short distance of the actual distances on aeronautical charts of this area, although Arnold has never consulted aeronautical charts of the type the Army uses. Mr. Bentley stated that this business had suffered greatly since his report on July 26 due to the fact that at every stop on his business routes, large crowds of people were waiting to question him as to just what he had seen. Mr. Bentley stated further that if he, at any time in the future, saw anything in the sky, to quote Mr. Bentley directly, "if I saw a ten story building