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This US Air Force Project Blue Book case file on Kenneth Arnold's sighting of nine objects near Mount Rainier, Washington, on 24 June 1947 was released through The Black Vault. It contains the Project 10073 record card, which concludes the objects were a mirage, plus Arnold's telegram, questionnaire data and interview notes. It also includes J. Allen Hynek's analysis arguing the objects were closer and slower than Arnold estimated. Other items are David Johnson's sworn statement on a Boise sighting, a Tacoma investigation telegram and news clippings.
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Galley 12-THE WORLD OF FLYING SAUCERS "an eerie feeling." In the intervening months he had also remembered more about their shape (see Figure 2). He no longer described them as saucer-like, flat and shiny like piepans. Instead, a picture based on his revised account shows objects like the crescent moon with a sharp protrusion on the inner, concave side and a dark, mottled circle marking the center of the top surface. Further more, he told the readers of Fate, one object had been darker than the others and of a slightly different form-a detail he had forgotten to mention to reporters, to military officials, to his friends, or even to his wife. Figure 2. flying saucers. Left, as first described; right, as later sketched. Arnold had never been much of a reader and was not a science fiction fan, but his interests were obviously widening. The next two issues of Fate carried other articles under his name. Palmer's growing influence is suggested by the titles: "Are Space Visitors Here?" [4] and "Phantom Lights of Nevada." [5]
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