UFOs and the Media

Idaho Daily Statesmen
August 5, 1947

"Flying Disc" Arnold Unhurt As Plane Crashes in Oregon

Kenneth Arnold, flying businessman of Boise who was first to report sighting flying discs, escaped injury Monday at Pendleton, Oregon when his airplane crashed during takeoff.

The Civil Aeronautics Administration's communications station here said that the engine on Arnold's two-place airplane quit while the plane was about thirty feet in the air.

The aircraft crashed, bending the landing gear and breaking the main spar in the left wing, the CAA station here said it had been in informed.

The accident took place at 6:00 p.m. while Arnold was taking off for Boise.

Arnold was alone in the aircraft, the CAA said.

The Boise pilot, who late in June told of seeing nine flying discs between Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams in Washington, was returning form [sic] several days spent in Tacoma Wash., where he and Capt. E.J. Smith of United Air Lines investigated another flying disc story.

Arnold and Smith said they had given six pieces of metal or lava to Lt. Frank M. Brown and Capt. William Davidson of Army Intelligence, who were to take the material to Hamilton Field, Calif., for further inspection.

Brown and Davidson were killed when their B-25 twin-engined bomber crashed shortly after taking off from McChord Field on the flight to Hamilton.

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