July 22, 2002

The new and the old of the UFO's.

Vivian Lightfoot, Roy Timm are the old, June 24, 1947. Vivian's sighting up West Birch at her home by her father's sawmill. Roy Timm, center, sighted 3 ships coming over the ranch, June 24, 1947, low enough to see four windows.

The new sighting: Arnie Schmidt and his granddaughter, Hillary Edwards (10 yrs) on SE Byers, Pendleton, Oregon, 9:30 p.m., June 1, 2002. Vivian also had a sighting April 22, 2002, 7:25 p.m., north of the LDS Church in Pendleton. It was a silver ice-cream cone shaped ship; also seen by Martin Lightfoot, after turning East on Isaac St. (drivers side).

Matthias Untrburg and his video crew came from Germany, to make a documentary, with Mr. Timm and Vivian Lightfoot, the last two living sighters of flying saucers the same time Kenneth Arnold saw them over Mt. Rainier in 1947.



Two Pendleton Area Residents See Mysterious Objects


June, 2008 - Mysterious objects, flying high and fast, were reported today by two Pendleton area residents.

Mrs. Morton Elder, McKay Creek farm wife, reported seeing seven "perfectly round, umbrella like" objects flying in the northeasterly direction about 11 a.m. Sunday.
    She said the "planes" made a humming noise that resembled the sound of a musical top.

She said they were flying in a perfect wedge-shaped formation at a "very fast" speed. She described them as "white as snow" and "round like a mushroom or an umbrella".

She sighted them while she was picking peas in the garden. They vanished from sight before Mrs. Elder could tell the men who were working in a field nearby.
    She said there was no sign of a tail on the objects. They were flying "very high".

At the same time, Bill Schuening, foreman of the Lester King ranch about 15 miles north of Pendleton, said he had seen objects similar to those reported near Mt. Rainier Wednesday by Kenneth Arnold, Boise, ID, flying businessman.
    Mr. Schuening said he saw "planes" the same day Mr. Arnold reported seeing the so-called "flying discs" whistling along the Cascade Mountains at an estimated 1200 miles an hour.

The objects were so high, he said, that he was unable to determine their shape, but he said they were "weaving in and out of formation". Mr. Arnold reported the objects he saw also were weaving "like the tail of a Chinese kite".



Pastor Says "Discs" Portent End Of World


LA GRANDE, June 30. (AP)--- The end of the world is imminent, declared Rev. Lester Carlson, pastor of the gospel tabernacle church at La Grande, today after "flying saucers" were reported by several persons here.

The strange zooming objects first reported zipping across southwestern Washington, are the signs of a second coming of Christ, Rev. Carlson insisted.

He said the millennium would come at any minute.

The discs were reported here by Leland Jones, a La Grande high school student, who said his attention was called by them by two Catholic nuns. There were nine, Jones said, and they kept weaving in and out of formation. He estimated their speed to be around 300 miles an hour.

"They looked bright and round, and seemed to have fins," Jones said.



I am having many recent reports of sightings. If anyone would like to share their sightings, or experiences in the local area, please call me at (541) 276-2756 or email me at: timm@nwhistoryofsaucers.com