Editing 1947 flying disc craze (section)

====Lt. Governor sighting followed by official investigation====
On July 2, Idaho Lt. Governor [[Donald S. Whitehead]] revealed publicly that both he and Boise Justice J.M. Lampert had witnessed objects on June 24, the day of Arnold's sighting.<ref name="auto31">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/566291520/|title=2 Jul 1947, 1 - The Times-News at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7aJVq5-ZkuEC&pg=PA180|title=Outbreak!: The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior|first1=Hilary|last1=Evans|first2=Robert E.|last2=Bartholomew|date=April 11, 2009|publisher=Anomalist Books, LLC|isbn=9781933665252 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D5tTAAAAMAAJ|title=Report on the UFO Wave of 1947|first=Ted|last=Bloecher|date=April 23, 1967|via=Google Books}}</ref> The next day, papers nationwide reported that Lt. Gen. [[Nathan F. Twining|Nathan Twining]], commander of [[Wright Field]], had announced that Air Material Command had opened a probe into the discs. Twining claimed that a "reputable scientist" had seen the disc-like objects in flight. Twining urged all persons seeing the strange objects in flight to contact Wright Field.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/566291653/|title=3 Jul 1947, 1 - The Times-News at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

That day, headlines proclaimed "U.S. Stops 'Laughing Off' Stories of Flying Discs", quoting an Army Air Force spokesman as saying "If some foreign power is sending flying discs over the United States, it is our responsibility to know about it and take proper action".<ref name="auto36">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/683746478/|title=3 Jul 1947, 1 - Los Angeles Evening Citizen News at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Army experts acknowledged that they could not explain the disc and reported having checked research authorities and contractors, none of whom knew anything concrete about the discs.<ref name="auto25">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/38901616/|title=3 Jul 1947, Page 2 - The Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  They suggested the discs might be the product of a civilian inventor.<ref name="auto28">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/358928569/|title=3 Jul 1947, 1 - The Daily News-Journal at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

The ''[[Idaho Statesman]]'' quoted an unnamed military officer as saying he thought the air forces and FBI had been showing "complacency" by not pushing for a more "vigorous investigation". It also reported that Kenneth Arnold has not been contacted by military or the FBI about his sighting.<ref name="auto23">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/723487694/|title=3 Jul 1947, 1 - The Idaho Statesman at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  The ''Statesman'' quoted the FBI special agent in charge of the area's FBI force, [[Guy Banister|W.G. Banister]], who reported "I don't know any more about it than what I read in the newspapers."<ref name="auto23"/>