TeletypeUrgent teletype Sacramento to Seattle and Portland re Redding sighting, polyethylene bag and stolen 1965 Plymouth29 November 1971page 1 of 5
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Part 100, page 98

DB Cooper-45020Serials SC 164-50, SE 164-81

Document date 29 November 1971

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 100 p. 98 (DB Cooper-45020), Teletype, dated 29 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-100/pages/98

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NR 010 SC PLAINTEXT 643PM URGENT 11-29-71 LCH TO SEATTLE (164-81) PORTLAND FROM SACRAMENTO (164-50) (5P)

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Susp. Illuminated Object Benton Airport Redding, Calif.

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UNSUB; NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR LAST, CAA - HIGHJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.

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RE SACRAMENTO TELETYPE TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY SIX LAST; AND SACRAMENTO TELEPHONE CALL TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY NINE INSTANT.

ON NOVEMBER TWENTY SIX LAST, [REDACTED – b6/b7C] [REDACTED – b6/b7C], CALIFORNIA, REPORTED HAVING OBSERVED WHAT HE BELIEVED TO BE AN ILLUMINATED OBJECT DRIFTING IN THE AREA OF BENTON AIRPORT, REDDING, AT APPROXIMATELY TEN TEN P.M., NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR LAST, AFTER WHICH THE OBJECT DESCENDED RAPIDLY AS IF FALLING TO THE GROUND. [REDACTED – b6/b7C] STATED THAT HE OBSERVED THIS AFTER BEING ALERTED TO THE SKY BY NOISES FROM AN AIRPLANE.

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164-81-[illegible] SEARCHED [illegible] INDEXED [illegible] SERIALIZED [illegible] FILED [illegible] NOV 29 1971 FBI - SEATTLE

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5C handling

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DB COOPER-45020