Memo · SA Robert H. Wick to SAC Seattle re Tumwater witness (file copy) · 1 December 1971 · 1 pageAIType, title and date: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
Document date 1 December 1971AIDates: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 13 p. 31 (DB Cooper-2826), Memo, dated 1 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-526 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-13/pages/31
On November 27, 1971, [REDACTED]
advised that he recalled hearing on the radio that the above plane
was being refueled at Sea Tac airport and somewhat later he decided
to go jogging. He was running on a road near the airport, when he
noticed a plane flying at about 1,500' circling the airport. This
plane had two strobe lights blinking simultaneously. [REDACTED]
said this is very unusual that a plane would be flying that high
when the weather was bad and the lights were highly uncommon. He
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On November 27, 1971, [REDACTED]
Olympia airport, advised that twin strobe lights on planes are quite
common and there would be nothing unusual in a plane flying 1,500'
on any pattern around the airport during the time mentioned. He said
this is a common sight around the airport.