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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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(Associated Press Wirefoto) Kenneth Arnold, businessman flyer, holds camera at Boise, Idaho, airport where he described seeing flying discs over Cascade Mountains in Washington. He didn't get any pictures. # Who Has the Saucer? 40 States Join Game (By Associated Press) The game of spotting flying saucers broadened yesterday to include Massachusetts and Vermont, as stories about the discs continued to swirl fully as rapidly as the objects themselves. Explanations of the phenomena ranged from the theory that they were radio-controlled flying missiles sent aloft by U. S. military scientists, to the suggestion that they might be merely sunlight re- lected on wing tanks of jet propelled planes. One That Didn't Move. A Spokane, Wash., woman insisted the objects she saw were "about the size of a five-room house" but a Clearwater, Fla., woman said the disks she observed resembled pie pans. At Rutland, Vt., a woman reported she and her husband witnessed a brilliant object in the night sky which she assumed to be a flying saucer; although it was stationary. But at Cambridge, Mass., a housewife said she saw "a group of white, flying saucers whirling around and going at a tremendous speed." The Massachusetts and Vermont reports brought to 40 the number of states in which the objects have been observed. Thinks He Saw 'Em First. With New England getting into the game the Harvard University astronomical observatory took note of the reports, but said,it had had no luck so far in photograph ing one of the discs. The mysterious saucers first were reported June 25 in the state of Washington, but Charlie T. Hamlet, superintendent of the Kingsport, Tenn., Times News composing room, said yesterday he had seen the discs two years ago. They were of a bright, aluminium color and were going at. terrific speed, Harrolet said, explaining he kept quite abpless them because of the Oak Ridge atomic bomb plant, then a war secret.
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