Sightings1947

United Air Lines crew sighting near Boise

When: 4 Jul 1947
Where: Boise, ID
Sources: 2 public sources

A United Air Lines DC-3 of the era; a United crew reported objects near Boise in 1947 Crookall, James, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Shortly after leaving Boise, the crew of a United Air Lines flight reported five flat-bottomed objects silhouetted against the sunset and followed them for about 45 miles. Ten days after Kenneth Arnold's report, it was one of the first airline crew sightings and is cited in a 1952 CIA briefing.

Sources

OfficialFlying Saucers (OSI briefing, 14 August 1952), CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020013-6 (opens in a new tab)CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room / 1952-08-14
FirsthandThe Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Edward J. Ruppelt, 1956) (opens in a new tab)Project Gutenberg / 1956

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