CONFIDENTIAL O. N. I. 96—1943 ISSUED BY THE INTELLIGENCE DIVISION OFFICE OF CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS NAVY DEPARTMENT INTELLIGENCE REPORT Flying Discs Monograph Index Guide No. (To correspond with SUBJECT given below. See O. N. I. Index Guide for additional details) From DIO-11ND of San Diego Date 23 June 1949 (Ship, Coast, unit, district, office, station, or person) Reference CNO Conf Ser 01422P32 dtd 4 May 1948, subj: Flying Discs - Re (Directives, correspondence, previous related report, etc., if applicable) Source See Below. Evaluation B-3 (An official, personal observation, publication, press, conversation with— identify where practicable, etc.) Subject Unidentified Flying Objects - Report Of. (Briefly recorded as) (Make this as per index guide) (Sub-titles) (Make separate report for each title) BRIEF: While flying north in a private plane source, who is believed reliable, saw 6 or 7 "flying discs" in southern Oregon 27 May 1949. The discs are described as elongated ovals, perhaps 20' in length; they flew in a steady file formation at between 200 to 250 MPH; they appeared to be made of unpainted metal; no smoke or exhaust trails were observed. SOURCE: LTJG [REDACTED] A5(L), USNR (Inactive), Serial [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Los Angeles, California. He was commissioned E 5 January 1944. Served at Corpus Christi 30 days AV(T); in Dallas two months VRF-2(U). Ferried SNJ's from North American Company plants. To Willow Grove, Pennsylvania for 30 days. Served at check-out base for squadron VRF(2) at Columbus; served at Columbus until August 1945. Source then was with VRF(3) at Terminal Island, California, where he became personnel officer. Was discharged from the Navy in January 1946 as LTJG. Source holds Naval Aviator's Certificate [REDACTED] plus a pilot's rating in the Ferry Wing of the Naval Air Transport Command. He holds a commercial license, single and multi-engine, and flight instructor ratings. His flight time began in 1934 and now totals over 5000 hours, of which time 1300 hours were in the U.S. Navy. Source secured a private in 1935, a transport license in 1937, a commercial pilot's license in 1940 and a re-issue commercial pilot's license in 1945 (#184256). From March 1942 to September 1943 he was flight instructor for the Army Air Force (5 months as primary instructor at Cal-Aero, and the balance of the time as basic instructor at Lancaster, California). From September 1943 to January 1944 he flew for the Superior Oil Company of California. Since 1940 source has been Vice-President of the [REDACTED] [REDACTED] of California, Long Beach, a concern in which he and his relatives own all of the stock; he also is part-owner of three other oil producing companies in Southern California. Source is married and has three children. He has a B.S. and M.S. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; he also had two years of law at the University of Southern California. Source is thirty years of age, but appears to have a background of experience far beyond his age possess. He is believed to be conservative, sincere, absolutely reliable, and very competent. [REDACTED] (Original and Master Ditto); DIO-11ND (2) [REDACTED] 15047 OIA (8) Op322V DI USAF (6) (DAB) 322F2 ON 15-6 ID G2USA (4) 321G(2) 322Y (4) 322H2 322H2D6 Declassified by NIS letter 9/26/77 [unclear] 52 AUG 22 1949 CONFIDENTIAL