July 9, 1947 — Boise, ID
12:17 p.m. Idaho Statesman aviation editor and former B-29 pilot David N. Johnson, flying in an Idaho Air National Guard AT-6 Texan, sees a black object standing out against the clouds as he prepares to land at Gowen Field [now Boise Airport], Boise, Idaho. Johnson takes 10 seconds of 8mm motion-picture film (but it shows no trace of the object). It makes a slow roll, then makes a stair-step climb, then disappears into the clouds. [Eberhart]
SIGN Incident 63:
Sources:
Dave Johnson, “Flying Reporter Finally Sights Black, Darting Disc High over Boise,” Boise Idaho Statesman, July 10, 1947, pp. 1, 6;
The Salt Lake (Ut.) Tribune, July 10, 1947, p. 6;
Dave Johnson, “Boise Newsman Photographs Disc,” Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, July 10, 1947, p. 9;
Dave Johnson, “Flying Newsman Learns Disc Failed to ‘Take’ on Movie Film,” Boise Idaho Statesman, July 11, 1947, pp. 1, 9;
Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, Case 794, pp. III-12–13;
Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, pp. 39–43, 55;
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 36, p. 23;
Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, pp. 13, 33, 130, 148, 158;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed., p. 436;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 4th Ed., p. 482;
NICAP, “AT-6 Encounters Black Disc”;