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Page ID (PID)	MAXW-PBB2-850
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Roll Description	Maxwell Blue Book 2
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MAXW-PBB2-850

MAXW-PBB2-851

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ttilliams Fid.,-''chandler,  Arisi.
UNCLASSIFIED     16 July 1947  x
MEMORANDUM FOR THE OFFICER IN CHARGE
. j.   1.    On 14 July 194.7,  let Lt Eric B.   Armstrong, O-2O597O9,  170th
AAP Base Unit,  Ferry Division,  Brooks Field,  San Antonio, Texas was , .
''interviewed nncl  the following infonnrtion was obtained!    Lt. .Armstrong
depprted Williams Field,  Arizona nt 1400'' CST on. 28 June 1947  in a    P^-Bl
for Portland,  Oregon,  by the w&y of Uedford,  Oregofir     At approximately
 1515  CST onie| course .of 300 decrees,   and   ground  speed! of 285,   p.ltitude
10,000 feet]   approximately thirty miles northv/est of Lp.ke Veade,. Nevada
Lt.   Arrristroni sighted five or  six white,   circular objects nt four o''clock,
altitude approximately 6,000 pct,   courses  cpproximptely 120 decrees  end
an estimated  speed  of 285 V.PH.     Lt.   AnrEtronu said the "objects wore flying
very smoothly --mi   in  & cloer form-tion.     The estimated  size of the vhite*
objects v.ere upproximttely 36  inches  in diameter.     Lt.   /rmstron^  stbted
thrt ,Iie is  furc.   the v.hite obiects Viere not birds,   since the rate of
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closure vjqs very fast.    Lt.  (Armstrong was cer^.in thfit the white objects   .-/j
v.ere not jots  or;  convontionel  type nircraft  since he has flown both types*Ci
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Lt. Arrstron^ was very sincere in the explanation
 and was not the
exaggerating type., He, merely stoted that he! saw and h&s drawn no con-
clusions be to v.''hat the white objects wire '' 
Lawrence R, King,   Jr*,   Special  A,^en|,   CIC,ADC
CERTIFIED A TRUE COPY:
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