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The article below was published in the daily newspaper Las Vegas Daily Optic, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, page 7, on July 29, 1947.

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HERE WE GO AGAIN, FLYING DISK REPORTED SEEN IN IDAHO SKIES; OBJECT WAS 'GIING LIKE HELL'

Boise, Idaho, July 29. (AP) -- It's flying disc time again here in Idaho and the United Air Lines pilot who spotted the last one says "they ought to be kept off the civil airways."

Capt. Charles F. Gibian, who while coming to Boise for a landing last night reported spotting a disc-like object "going like hell" at about 9.000 feet, told the Boise Statesman:

"If it is real it must be some sort of military experiment and if that is the case they ought to arrange to keep the objects off the civil airways."

Army and Navy spokesman have denied knowledge of the discs.

Gibian, who talked to the Statesman by telephone from Pendleton, Or., became the second United pilot on flight 105 to report seeing the flying objects. His predecessor was Capt. E. J. Smith who said he spotted two groups of discs July 4 near Emmett, Idaho.

Smith's story came during the climax or flying discs reports, which started on June in the state of Washington. During early July here were few states in the nation without at least one report of a disc and persons in numerous other countries, including Japan, also said they sighted the objects.

Gibian's disc - or whatever - was the first reported since word of the objects tapered off about two weeks ago.

The pilot said his first officer Jack Harvey, also saw the object last night.

They said they saw a round flat object in the sky west of Mountain Home, a village 45 miles east of here.

Both men said they thought the object was an airplane until "in a matter of seconds it disappeared apparently going away from us."

Gibian said if the object was 40 miles or so distant from the airliner, it was as big as an airplane."

The civil aeronautics administration's communications station here reported there were no other aircraft in the sky in the vicinity of Mountain Home at the time Gibian and Harvey reported seeing the object.

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