The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Daily Sitka Sentinel, Sitka, Alaska, USA, page 1, on July 5, 1947.
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ANCHORAGE (AP) Two veteran Alaska pilots reported yesterday a five-minute aerial pursuit of "a disc-like object" at 170 miles an hour.
The pilots, Jack Peck, a veteran of 17 years flying in the north and co-pilot Vance Daly, informed the Civil Aeronautics Administration that the incident occurred northwest of Bethel at about 500 feet altitude.
The CAA issued the following release on their report:
"A disc-like object resembling the rear view of a C-64 without motors or flying wing; wind negligible; ceiling and visibility unlimited; true course northwest; no visible means propulsion. After determining no reported traffic at Bethel, Peck followed the object in a DC-3 for five minutes at indicated air speed of 170 miles per hour before it disappeared."
