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UAP Report and a Mini

Estimate of the Situation -

A Comparison

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The day after the first article appeared in the
Denver Post, there was a second one. This time
the Post reported witnesses had been
interviewed by members of the 15th Air Force
Headquarters and the results of the investigation
would be sent on to Washington, which
suggested those results were seen by Garrett.
The conclusion, unknown to the witnesses, was
“possible birds.” (Bloecher I-1). This case itself,
is not mentioned in the Project Blue Book files.

The reason that Garrett might have been
impressed with the sighting would be the
number of witnesses, that they observed the Edward L. de Rose said, ...there appeared across description of the motion of the objects, reporter
object through binoculars, and that they were his line of vision a “brilliant, small, round- Bill Bequette, coined the term "flying saucer,"
men with some mechanical expertise. It should shaped, silvery white object” moving in a though in the next few days, most reporters and
also be noted that the object was in sight for northwesterly direction as fast as or probably then scientists and Army officers would call the
about twenty minutes and that a bird, observed faster than a speeding plane at an estimated objects flying disks. The term, then, according to
first with the unaided eye would be resolved as altitude of 1,000 feet or more. The object stayed most investigators, didn't originally refer to the
a bird when seen through the binoculars. in view for eight or ten seconds until obscured shape of the objects, but to the style of their
by a cloud bank. It reflected the sunlight strongly movement through the air.
Garrett next cited a report by Bryon Savage, a as though it were of polished aluminum or
businessman pilot, living in Oklahoma City, silver… He said it did not resemble any weather Within days Arnold would provide the military
Oklahoma. Savage said that he, and his wife, balloon he had ever seen and that “I can assure with a written description of the events. In a
had seen a round, flat object, described in some you it was very real.” document that was originally classified, but that
accounts as “disc-like,” traveling nearly due has long since been downgraded and was a part
north at a speed estimated at three times that of According to the information available, this was of the Project Blue Book files, Arnold wrote:
a jet on May 17 or 18, about 8:30 in the evening. a case that had been secretly investigated by the
(Maccabee UFO Investigator January 1978 p. FBI, and given Special Agent Reynolds’ On June 24th... I had finished my work... and
3). participation with Schulgen and Garrett it is not about two o’clock I took off for Chehalis,
difficult to believe that the FBI was involved. It Washington, airport with the intention of going
The Oklahoma City Times gave it prominent does demonstrate an FBI interest in UFOs that to Yakima, Washington... I flew directly toward
space on June 26th. At the time of his sighting, began at the very beginning, something the FBI Mt. Rainier after reaching an altitude of about
Savage had been out in his yard near dusk, and sometimes suggests they wanted to hide. 9,500 feet, which is the approximate elevation of
the sky was still light, when he saw an object the high plateau from with Mt. Rainier rises...
“come across the city from just a little east of Garrett finally reached the case that had There was a DC-4 to the left and to the rear of
south … its altitude was very high somewhere launched the problem. It was the one that had me approximately fifteen miles distance, and I
around 10,000 feet, I couldn’t be sure. Funny been featured in newspapers and on radio should judge, a 14,000 foot elevation... I hadn’t
thing about it, it made no noise. I don't think it programs. It was the reason that people were flown more than two or three minutes on my
had kind of internal combustion engine. But I talking about flying saucers and flying discs. course when a bright flash reflected on my
did notice that right after it went out of sight, I Kenneth Arnold, a Boise, Idaho, businessman, airplane. It startled me as I thought I was too
heard the sound of rushing wind and air. I told said that he had seen a string of strange objects, close to some other aircraft. I looked every place
my wife right away, but she thought I must have flying one behind the other, at about 9,500 feet. in the sky and couldn’t find where the reflection
seen lightning.” Watching them, he at first thought they might be had come from until I looked to the left and the
water spots on the windows or maybe sunlight north of Mt. Rainier where I observed a chain of
He said that the object was “a shiny, silvery reflecting off the mountain top snow but then nine peculiar looking aircraft flying from north
color,” and very large -- “bigger than any aircraft realized they were something unusual. to the south at approximately 9,500 foot
we have.” He said it was “perfectly round and elevation and going, seemingly, in a definite
flat.” He was also quoted as saying that it Using the cockpit clock to time them, and direction of about 170 degrees.
appeared “frosty white,” and that its speed was guessing at their distance, he calculated the
about three times as fast as a jet. It disappeared speed to be more than 1500 miles an hour (Continued on Page 15)
from view in about fifteen to twenty seconds. thought there are various other reports about
Although the sighting details provided by their speed. He was unsure of the exact shape MISSION EVOLUTION
Savage are far more complete than those given but later said they were crescent shaped. He
for many of the official cases listed by Blue counted nine of them in an undulating formation WITH
Book as “explained,” this report falls in the that he described as flying like geese. He said it GWILDA WIYAKA
category of Insufficient Information. looked as if they were chained together and that ON
(http://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportUFO the formation was rather diagonal. THE ‘X’ ZONE BROADCAST NET
(WWW.XZBN.NET)
Wave1947_SectionI.htm)
When Arnold landed in Yakima, Washington, AND
Next up in Garrett’s Mini EOTS, was reported later on the afternoon of June 24, he told the SIMULTV
from Greenfield, Massachusetts on June 22, assembled reporters what he had seen. In the (WWW.SIMULTV.COM)
1947. According to the report: course of describing the objects, he said they AND
moved with a motion like that of saucers MISSIONEVOLUTION.ORG
skipping across the water. Hearing Arnold's