24 July 1949
(The Salt Lake
Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah)
Source: theufochronicles.com
The whole article:
“Seven V-shaped objects which appeared about the size
of fighter planes were reported flying within 1500 or 2000 feet of a civilian
aircraft over the Mountain Home desert Sunday (24 July 1949).
The pilot told the Idaho Statesman, Boise,
that so far as he could determine the objects were not United States
planes.
He notified the Civil Aeronautics administration radio
station of his experience and the 190th fighter squadron of the Idaho national guard reported it to McChord Field, Washington.
The Statesman quoted the pilot as saying he was
‘frightened and shaken’ by the experience. He said the objects, in tight
formation, but not the type of formation used by military aircraft, were flying
‘at tremendous speed.’
The pilot, the Statesman said, has wide experience in
aviation. He trained pilots during the war and operates an airport in the Boise Valley.
He made his information available only on the condition that his name would not
be used, the paper said.
The pilot described the objects as being in the shape
of a V, with a solid, circular body under the V.
There was no evidence of any means of propulsion, he
said—no propeller and no smoke trails indicating jet or rocket power.
There were no markings of any kind. The color, he
said, was a shade he ‘couldn’t describe and hadn’t seen before.’
He said he had the objects under observation for two
minutes.
The pilot said he was about ten miles west of Mountain
Home, flying toward Boise
at about 10,000 feet
on the right side of the highway. He said the objects were flying at about 9000
or 9500 feet.
He described the formation as in two lines of three
each with the seventh object either in the center, between the two lines, or
above them.”
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Satellite photo of Mountain
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