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United Flight 147

About mid-August 1947 (reported August 20)
Near Mountain Home Army Air Base, Idaho, USA

Unresolved
Representative drawing from the Discs page, not this specific sighting.
"skeet targets"The witness's own shape words

What happened

The crew saw two silver round objects pass beneath the airliner. The captain said they were shaped like "skeet targets," about five feet across, and covered about four miles in 15 seconds.

Witnesses

Unnamed captain and co-pilot, United Air Lines Flight 147 (names withheld at their request)

Explanation

Unresolved

Sources

  1. Patrick Gross UFO filesufologie.patrickgross.org

*Boise Statesman*, Aug. 20, 1947