Altoona reported disc saucer observation — July 1948

Below is the text as requested: --- 'Flying Disk' Seen At Yakima, Wash. Airport Men Twice Sight 'Moon-Sized Blob' YAKIMA, Wash., July 25 (UP).—Hundreds of telephone calls flooded the Civil Aeronautics Administration office here today from persons who had seen "a silvery, moon-sized, flying-silob-shaped-thing" cross the sky above the city. The apparition, termed "another flying saucer" by the C. A., was observed by two control tower men at the Yakima Airport, both of whom agreed as to its general description. Arnold, aircraft communicator, said they saw it wheeling west of the city about 2 p.m. today. They saw it again at 4:20 p.m. "At first I though it was the plane Venus had Mr. Robinson said when he saw the silvery, flashing ball it looked as if it had "blisher lights, something like an airliner's fog lights." But both agreed that it couldn't have been an airliner because there are not that time and they know it wasn't a weather balloon because he was bucking the wind. Riggs, who was one of the first to see the object, said, "I make my living by looking at the sky, but I've never seen anything like this." Tells of Sky Monster— ATLANTA, July 25 (UP)—Two Eastern Air Lines pilots who reported seeing a huge, flame-shooting sky monster near Montgomery, Ala., yesterday; maintained stoutly today that what they saw was a "man-made gadget." Capt. Childs, of Atlanta, and Co-Pilot John Whitted, of Huntsville, Ga., said they saw "the apple-shaped" object — with stuff four times the circumference of a B-29 fuselage, during an Eastern Air Lines trip from Houston, Tex., early yesterday.