Project 10073 Record: UFO Sighting, Boise, Idaho, 28 May 1967

This document details the investigation of a reported UFO sighting in Boise, Idaho, on May 28, 1967, by two brothers, Carl and Harry Hess. The report was brought to the attention of the United States Air Force via a letter from L. Gorrono, the Prosecuting Attorney of Emmett, Idaho, who had been contacted by the boys and their families. The boys claimed to have seen a 90-foot, light-blue, umbrella-shaped object in the foothills north of Boise, accompanied by a small entity with a large head. They provided a photograph taken with a Polaroid Swinger camera as proof. The local newspaper, the Messenger-Index, published the story, and the boys' account was taken seriously enough that the Prosecuting Attorney requested an official Air Force investigation. Major William C. Salyer of the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing at Mountain Home Air Force Base was tasked with the investigation. Upon further inquiry, the boys admitted to the Prosecuting Attorney that the story was a fabrication and that the photograph had been provided to them by another boy. The investigation was subsequently closed, and the incident was officially classified as a hoax. The Air Force noted that the individual who supplied the photograph had previously submitted a report of a UFO sighting, which was also under evaluation. The documentation includes correspondence between the Air Force, Senator Len B. Jordan, and the local authorities, confirming the resolution of the case and the dismissal of the sighting as a hoax.