The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Nanaimo Daily Free Press, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, page 3, on August 6, 1947.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Two veteran Alaska pilots reported today 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 Monday 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-54 without rotors 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."
