Unidentified Flying Object (Interview - Alpheus O. Powell / Walter I. White)

## Title

Saucer Seen Flying Down Snake Gorge

## Subject

Urie (primary observer/witness)

## Locations

## Summary

Newspaper article reporting on Urie's account of a UFO sighting. The narrative details:

## People

## Physical Characteristics

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## Document Type

Messageform

## Message Center Number

C6-1

## Classification

Confidential (marked with strikethrough redaction)

## Date-Time Group

1 July 47 (1 July 1947)

## From

99th AACS Group, Elmendorf Air Base, Alaska

## To

DONAS Army Assistant Chief Staff Intelligence

## Precedence

Priority

## Subject

Unidentified object observation report

## Content

Object resembling grayish balloon approximately one zero feet in diameter. Observed from leader field flying in northwest direction. Following contour of mountains five miles away. Flying altitude five zero zero feet. Estimated speed one zero zero miles per hour. Object observed paralleling the course of Charlie. Three zero landing northwest into two zero miles per hour. Object observed one two zero zero feet three zero zero feet. For sighting minutes by range chart. This headquarters several officers from Alaska department questioned his story. For subject observed.

## Receipt/Distribution

## Notes

Report quality degraded due to OCR or transmission artifact artifacts. Text appears garbled in places but indicates military observation of unidentified object near Elmendorf Air Base, Alaska in July 1947. Object described as balloon-shaped, approximately 10 feet in diameter, grayish in color, flying at low altitude in northwest direction at approximately 100 mph.