UFOs in the daily Press:

Nine Flying Discs Seen By United Air Lines Crew

BOISE, Idaho, July 5 (AP) - The entire crew of a Boise to Seattle United Air Lines plane last night reported they saw nine flying discs near the airline's route over Emmett, Idaho.

Capt. E. J. Smith said his co-pilot Ralph Stevens blinked the transport's landing lights in the belief the discs were other aircraft.

Blinking landing lights during a night flight is a pilot's signal of warning to other aircraft that a plane is flying in the same area.

Smith said Stevens and himself saw five discs, flying what appeared to be a "loose formation."

They called Marty Morrow, stewardess, to the cockpit to verify they actually were seeing the discs, said Smith, and she agreed they saw them.

Then they saw four more of the discs, three clustered together, and a fourth flying "by itself, off in the distance."

The plane was flying into the dim twilight sky when the objects first were sighted, Smith said.

Smith and Stevens said as the landing lights were blinked, they could see no responding lights on the objects.

"The discs were flat and roundish," they said. "They definitely were not aircraft. But they were bigger than aircraft."

Following their first sight of the discs, said Smith and Stevens, it was observed the five objects apparently were climbing on a course approximating that of the airliner's.

At no time, they said, was there any apparent danger of a collision.

Smith said he and Stevens joked about the discs before they left Boise. They said: "You'll have to show us these things," to local airline personnel.

Then, said Stevens, they were off the ground, climbing to cruising altitude, when the objects loomed out of the gathering darkness.

The transport was at an altitude of 7,000 feet over Emmett, said Stevens.

By this time, said Stevens, the first group of discs disappeared.

"Then," said the first officer, "I saw the second group, three together and a fourth off by itself."

By then the transport had reached 8,000 feet and was cruising over the rugged country leading to the Blue mountains, athwart the liner's path.

Stevens said these objects "merged, then disappeared, then came back in sight and finally vanished again to the northwest. They seemed to be higher than our flight path this time. When they did disappear, they went fast."

"I know this," said Smith, "They were nothing from the ground in the way of fireworks reflections or anything like that. I know they weren't smoke. I know they weren't aircraft. I don't know how fast they were going. We all saw them. They are flat and circular. They are bigger than aircraft."