SUBJECT: Matters of National Interest

TO:     Commanding General
            Fourth Air Force
            San Francisco, California

         The attached letter has been received from the NCOIC of the Alaska Communication System station at Bethel, Alaska.   It is submitted for your information.

         For the Commanding Officer:    /s/ Svend C. Hensen
 

1 Incl

SVEND C. HANSEN

 

Cy ltr fr NGOIC at Bethel

Captain, Signal Corps

 

to Hq, ACS, Seattle

Acting Executive

 

333.5/14 (Gen)

1st Ind

4 AFDA

HQ FOURTH AIR FORCE, Hamilton Field, California                                                  3 SEP 1947
 

 TO:     Commanding General, Air Defense Command, Mitchel Field, N.Y.
             ATTENTION:     AC of S, A-2

             1.   Forwarded for your information.

             2.   This headquarters wishes to correct the impression stated in par 2 of the inclosure, that Fourth Air Force claims there are no such "things" (flying disc).   It is the opinion of this headquarters that T/4 Harold Johnson has misinterpreted the statement made by the Public Information Officer,
Headquarters Fourth Air Force, to the effect that a collision of a flying disc and a surface craft did not take place.

             FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL

WILLIAM J. (illegible)
U.S.  Army
Asst. Adjutant General
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  n/c

 To:             Commanding Officer, Alaska Communication System
                    550 Federal Office Building, Seattle 4, Washington.
 
 

            1.     Per AGAO-S 319.1 the following report is submitted on a matter which may become of National Interest .   Captain Jack Peck and his CoPilot Vince Daly have stated that on August 4, 1947 they sighted and followed a flying saucer Northwest of Bethel Alaska.   This object was bigger than the
Douglas DC-3 they were flying, crossed their course at right angles to them. It was flying at an Altitude of one thousand feet.   They swung in behind it and followed it at an air speed of one hundred seventy miles per hour but it was out of sight in four minutes.   They state the object was smooth
surfaced and streamlined with no visible means of propulsion whatever.

            2.     It is realized that the Fourth Air Force claims there are no such things but Captain Peck is Chief Pilot for Al Jones flying service and is not a man given to exageration. (sic)   In view of the excellent reputation of Captain Peck and the fact that no one here doubts in the least but that he
actually saw this object, this report is turned in for any action deemed necessary by your office.