Case file · Sighting
Fred Johnson's Mount Adams discs
A prospector working high on Mount Adams, Washington, reported five or six round, shiny objects banking over the Cascades on 24 June 1947, the same day as Kenneth Arnold's sighting.
1947 CE · 46.20, -121.49 · status: account
The account
Fred M. Johnson said he watched them through a telescope for nearly a minute and that his compass needle swung while they were overhead. He wrote to the Army Air Forces after reading of Arnold's report, and his letter sits in the Air Force's UFO files alongside Arnold's.
The sceptical view
He only came forward after Arnold's story was in the papers, and nobody else confirmed what he saw.
Connections in the atlas
- Portland flying discs, 4 July 1947
- Trout Lake skywatching ranch
- Maury Island incident
- Kenneth Arnold sighting