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This is Section 1 of FBI case file 62-HQ-83894, covering the bureau's earliest documented response to the "flying disc" phenomenon. The file spans June 1947 through the first weeks of July 1947 and consists primarily of newspaper clippings, public correspondence addressed to J. Edgar Hoover, internal teletype messages, and inter-agency memoranda. Incidents documented include a Wisconsin priest's report of a metal disc found in his churchyard (Grafton, WI), an eyewitness account of a flaming object dropping in an Omaha street, fireball sightings near Palestine, Texas, and scattered disc reports from across the country. A memo from Hoover to Army Intelligence (Col. I.R. Forney) transmits a letter from civilian Fred R. Reibold regarding flying discs, indicating early inter-agency information-sharing.

The file is notable as a contemporaneous record of the FBI's initial institutional handling of the 1947 wave of disc reports, showing that the bureau logged public tips, coordinated with Army Intelligence, and monitored press coverage in real time. Several items reveal how quickly individual reports were debunked internally: the Grafton disc was identified as a circular saw held by an intoxicated priest; the Omaha object was analyzed as pipe tobacco ash. Anonymous and semi-coherent public letters are preserved alongside formal memoranda, reflecting the breadth of unsolicited reporting. Redactions are described as minor in this release; the file's prior partial posting on the FBI Vault had heavier redactions and missing pages.

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The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.

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4-596 (Rev. 3-20-79) 62-1 HQ-83894 SERIALS 1-52 RTMENT OF JUSTICE MOVED FROM OR ADDED TO TH AL BUREAU OF TIGATION FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER HQ - HEADQUARTERS Class / Case # Sub Vol. Serial # 0062 83894 JUARTERS + SECTION 1 8/11/1274199 RRP003IXH5 SECTION 1 SERIALS 1-52 DO NOT DESTROY FOIPA # 1366404) PICKETT STREET DO NOT DESTROY FOIPA # 993087 Declassification authority derived from FBI Automatic Declassification Guide, issued May 24, 2007. Transfer - Call 3421 Use Care in Handling this File

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72055 кт Mr. Tolson Мг. Е. А. Tamm - Mr. Clogg Mr. Coffey Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd Mr. Ni choi Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Carson Mr. Egan Mr. Hendon Mr. Pennington _ Mr. Quinn Tamm_ Mr. Nesse Miss e About Saucers Pliest Finds 'Whirring' Disc In Yard and Holds It for FBI Chicago, July 6 (U.P).-A Catho- FBI office said he hadn't heard lie priest at Grafton, Wis., saial yet about the disc but that an off- cial report might be at his office. tonight that a round, metal dise, The flying dises have been re- which mightibe one of the myster- ported "seen" by persons in 30 ious lying (aucers." had crastred States, but Brasky's disc was the into his parish yard and that he first one that actually had been is holding for the Federal found--if that is what war found. Bureau of/ Investigation. His report came a few hours The Bey. Joseph Brasky of St. after a military plane made an Grafton, 45 te hoth of Milwaukee, said he tempt to tasted destin on tie unsuccessful speed dash in an at- & swishing whirring discs and the Army and scientisis noise this morning. A second later, sought to ascertain whether coas). he said, he heard a thud and a to-coast reports about the mild explosion. zooming through the sky were fact He investigated and found a or faney. sheet metal dise about 18 inches in Army planes scoured the north- diameter, resembling a circular west Pacific skies for them without saw blade. success today and one "eyewitness" "The object still was warm, even reported having seen one of weighed about four or five pounds the dises take off in Arizona. and was about one eighth of an St. Louis railroad man exhibited amnl Hus inch thick," he said. some paper "dises" he said he had There was a hole about one seen floating over St. Louis. inch in diameter in the middle of the dise, he said, and in the open- The flying saucers which have ing were "gadgets and some been reported skimming through wires." America's skies at speeds up to The priest said he did not know if his discovery were important 1200 miles have eluded the usual- ly keen eye of radar. whether it might be an elab- Capt. Tom Brown of the Army state practical joke. He said he had notified the FBI of his find. Air Forces public relations st f H. K. Johnson of the Milwaukee] See SAUCERS, Page 3, Col. SE 40 TINDE XIUP 98 162-83894-1 NOT RECORDLD 83 JUL 10 1947 15 & JUL18 JUL 7 1947 WASHHINGTON POSIT Page_

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AGERS-From Pag es has attain missil cof 1200 Priest Finds "There's b about guider W, said he In Yard and Holds said. Howard W. Blakeslee, Associ- ated Press science editor, said the said the Army Airways Communi- In the wake or tnese new eve- fitness accounts came a new series whole business may be an optical cations Service had reported late illusion. i comments, and explanations, but yesterday that so far its radar most of them were tinged with a "At any distance which is close scopes throughout the country slight tendency to laugh off the to the limit of how far a person have been unable to pick up any can see," he wrote, "all objects whole thing. strange objects in flight. Dr. Winfred Overholser, nation- appear round or nearly so. Th's And in the Pacific Northwest— ally known psychiatrist and super- law of sight covers both small where most of the fly-happy plat- intendent of St. Elizabeths Hos- ters have been reported-—the Army pital here, said it "has some of the things seen nearby and large ones has radar equipment which can earmarks pierce fog and darkness and pick teria." of being national hys- at great distances. "The one outstanding fact about up objects in the sky 200 miles "Everytime someone comes up virtually all the saucers is that away. with a sea-serpent story," said Dr. Even so, Brown acknowledged Overholser, "others with vivid they had no structure — they that the Air Forces had decided imaginations are sure they havel seemed merely round and flat. "there's something to this" and seen the same thing. That description fits exactly with had been checking it for 10 days. "The critical faculty in man, the "And we still haven't the slight- last one he received, is still not the tricks that eyes play. This est idea what they could be, very well developed. Scratch the trickiness varies with differences added. surface and you find the same mass in weather and lighting." And a new wrinkle-the report- hysteria which predominated dur- However, Nova Hart, St. Louis ed landing of a fleet of eight skim-ing the witcheraft scare. Some mechanic who was trained during ming platters-was reported from persons are quite ready to see service in the war to spot all types Idaho in full view of 10 persons. A. things and follow beliefs." of aircraft, yesterday offered a Dishman, Idaho housewife, said Dr. Overholser said that when minute description of one of the she and others in her party had he made his rounds of the mental flying patterns which he claimed he seen the saucers land on a moun- patients yesterday at St. Eliza- saw flying at an altitude of about tainside near St. Maries, Idaho. beths not a one commented on the 300 feet. She said they came into view at flying saucers story. Reporter Sees One an extreme speed, suddenly slowed. "I think they may be a little He described it as circular with "Auttered like leaves to skeptical," he added. the ground." However, Dr. Overholser said he a ribbed framework and silver gray in color. He said it appeared "The mysterious part was tha wasn't trying to dismiss the matter to have a motor with a propeller we couldn't see them after the as a joke "because there are SO attached in the center and that it landed," she said. "We could se Vany strange things going on to kept turning like an airplane do- them flutter down into the timbe ay that one can't be sure." ing a slow roll. yet we couldn't see that they did Maj. Alexander P. de Seversay, Although anything to the trees." noted aircraft designer, told many explanations have been offered, none has been She said she hoped to hike into Post by telephone from New York convincing. A Los Angeles news the timber tomorrow and search that until he sees a flying saucer paper quoted an unnamed nuclear for the objects which she said were saucer-shaped but resemoled wash- he "wouldn't like to pass judg- plysicist as saying the silvery disc tubs more than disks and were ment." resulted from experiments in the transmutation of atomie energy." "about the size of a five-room He agreed with Dr. Overholser This report was rapidly herded house." that much if not all of the story into the hoax column by David Locally, Hazen Kennedy of 2615 may be because of hysteria. Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic 4th st. ne. reported he had seen Commission, and several "After all," he said, Energy one passing over "we are the Northeast prominent atomic scientists. section of the city at about 8:40 more or less an hysterical Nation." Starr Expects Word p. m Major de Seversky said it was pos- Louis E Starr, national com- This would be the first one re- sible that the persons who claim mander of the Veterans of Foreign ported over the District, although to have seen the aerial discs have Wars, announced Saturday at Co- others have been reported over instead glimpsed the exhaust of lumbus, Ohio, that he was expect- nearby Maryland. Kennedy, who has 125 hours jet-propelled planes. ing "momentarily" information flying time as a student pilot in He conceded, too, + that they from Washington which would ex- the Army Air Forces to his credit. might be guided missiles let loose plain the dashing discs. But the said he believed the saucer he as part of an experiment, but message never arrived. The Air Forces said that Gen. had seen was traveling at "well added: over" 1000 miles an hour at an "I don't think the Government Carl Spaatz, Air Forces chief, was altitude of between 1200 and 1500 would fire them so promiscuously. in the Pacific Northwest where most of the saucers have been re- They would test them in one spot, feet. "The best way I can describe it," in an isolated area, like they did ported, but added that his trip there was planned two months said Kennedy, "was that it looked the atomic bomb." ago, long before the saucers scare. like an orange lamp bulb without Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, who General Spaatz is expected back in the socket. It was going faster than as Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Washington late tomorrow. any jet plane I've ever seen." Research and Development would Muroc Army Air Field in Call- Mrs. Mar in dare on a raine in 214 know if the saucers involved ex- tornia had a P-80 jet fighter standr periments with racing in 2-15 commented: guided missiles, ing by, and the National Guard i Gregon had prepared six regula ormation at "terrific speed." frot "Whatever these people have er backporch. "They sounded like fighters to give chase should seen it hasn't been anything re- saucers be reported nearby. + a faraway train," she said. sulting from experiments by the Army Air Forces. As for as I'm concerned there's nothing to it at all. The whole thing is un- toftinate

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UNITED STATES POSTATE BRING .WIL 5 2 M 1947 5 CENTS 5 * The • B.N. Washington Distrito Colombia

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Dear 21. B UNICAMION ANCHYNOUS OPE ATTACHED Iti my sparion about those flying dies" reposted V, Dentity, new mexico, California, regon, Washinglon, Jalaho, Colorado, Southo Carolinia and Castern Canada that some mope - an outing is wing chome frea miles they digo cheri contente and dissappear. 63J11 lost suggeit that you key

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Mr. Tolson Mr. E. A. Tamm Clegs Glavin Ladd Nichols Resen JUL 8 1947 ovin TELETYPE Mr. Garnea Mr. Harbo Mr. Monr Mr. Penninston Mr. Quins Tamm FBI NEW ORLEAN 7-8-47 11-22 AM T™C DIRECTOR ROUTEIN RE FLYING DISCS, MISCELLANEOUS • DISC Date REPORTED FOUND BY F. G HARISTON REVEALED TO BE PRANK SOU CENS WEEKS Flying aucers sine END cut. 9 ~ AN REConSt 4062 - 83894-3 29 JUL 10 1947 1-24 PM OK FBI WA BW 98 V 2U0L181945 10 5 C

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This image contains all the information on the document. 10 BY SPECIAL MESSENGER 8 3 August 5, 1947 Director of Intelligence War Department General Staff The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. Attention: Colonel I. R. Forney, Chief, Security Group rom: John Edgar Hoover - Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation abject: FRED R. REIBOLD There are attached hereto copies of a letter received fron the above-captioned individual, together with copies of a newspaper pping enclosure, concerning "flying discs." Mr. Redbold's letter has been acknowledged and he has been advised wat goptes of hia letter have been furnached to you for your confide ration. amBlES SECTION Nd2БD 11 894 - INVESTIGA froN APPROPRIATE AGEN JUSTICE AND FIFT 2816 1-34 DECLASSIFIED BY 1359 ON 10 - 28-28

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Federa Bureau of Anertifalioi Vashinglon 2, C Yentlenan: on luly 1ch 1947, 10:30 P.M. Keitrune Aniffen my mocher in les and witnened a flaming object which dropped in street in port остана No ск 2215 irmbange an upon cranenation, the offect was soled and had four of round arula dise, use o a silver dollar and '4" thick. burning weth intume hear. RECORDED 62 83894-4 was notified and reptitan was ма вел и. s On the mean time, a Dog Recked

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the offect per and in fell into pecer When the reporter arrever he scooper up the fragments and said he would You attention no derecter to Attached analysis. There were sex people who aCtually saw the offect and an seati We dea nos clam a was one o the so called lyrig sauces г ину дись рвинотела вих еле ded want some! explantion because rad apped on a would have Certainly We can defensily ady it

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was nor tobacco ashes ai Is parnes with such extreme hear as to scorch pagement on and near pageaned chee u let Possibly thes could have ти ало силад рт bul ar any nate we are calling N to yur altention as the ansver the learned " de Kenn fours sencere WER RIBALD Fred Aruball 2915. Нітьсь але eucha retra

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Flying Saucer' Just Someone's Pipe Dream' The "flying saucer" that fell near 2319 'Himebaugh Avenue Monday evening was nothing but "ashes from somebody's pipe dream." So says Dr. C. L. Kenny, head of the chemistry department at the Creighton College of Den- tistry. He had two students an- alyze the ashes. They found so- dium, potassium, iron, alumi- nam, carbonate, sulphate and un- burnt carbon, he said. "This is the same analysis you would get from ordinary pipe to bacco," Dr. Kenny said. 62- 83894-1 ENCLOSURE

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lear Mr -TON GI. R. ANONYMOUS ATTAUG set haue also seem a fyny saucer - tha Reuering of gly 4- about 1039pm - only ih was in the air at the same level as two obvious partione of light in the search light beams from the air file wreas Lake It clair. I was setting on my parch at the time. could A few trucks could with proper equipment create the same illusion. There were two clearly sullied beans - one partly faded out to the lee The Dam

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peared vers the third beam faded out from the ground to the saucer. KHOORDINE Recently " 9 mentioned the distreased she The Piro na N being due ent and JUL, 221947. to natural plenonema. cs. arde that aliye, the bout

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Mr. g. Ealgar Noouer Wackington, s.a. • Personal atteution.

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Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation U.S. Dept. of Justice Bldg. Washington, D. C. JUL IF 930P M 7947 UNITEN STATES GRAND CENTRAL ATION 3 CENTS. 3

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EURE ENVBLOPE ATTAOHED July 1l, 1947. 81/1 iNg SAUCE Dear Sir: Have you seen one of the mysterious "Saucers"? What did it look like? Do you think these strange, celestial manifesta- tions are harbingers of a better day? Do you believe it means that a new and revolutionary advance is coming? Will it make your life brighter, happier, more useful? We believe one of these startling discs is on its way to you. Then the secret will be out. The Combined and Amalgamated Committee of Sky-Scanners, Disc Decipherers and New-Product Introducers. G. I. R. -5 RECORDED 62 - 83894-6 37 JUL M11947 911941

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retura Boston mao Dear Sir; July 14,42. G. I. R. -5 May 9 call your kind altention tothe heartlera criticiam in some paper, o people ho re - » parted the Tyingo, especially, SnoRe in the 1933. 1628114- Boston Globe Family, by a writer c Kinken. also, an

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¡aporgy in theo Boston Post" this weele, This criticism of people who make there reports is very unfair, Everyone: jerychiatrists damned them, publicly, in articles, It is a people • will happen when thin are needed, a they babl MISS will not, sother

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : MR. D. M. LADD FROM : H. B. FLETCHER SUBJECT: DATE: July 7, 1947 Mr • Tolson A. FEEEEEEEEEE CLege At 10:45 a•l., July 7, 1947, I talked to SAC Johnson of the Milwaukee Office concerning the United Press item appearing in the Washington Post for Monday, July 7, with reference to a flying disc or flying saucer allegedly reported to the Milwaukee Office by Reverend Joseph Brasky of St. Joseph's Church, Grafton, Wisconsin. SAC Johnson advised that the Associated Press and the United Press between the hours 1:00 and 6:00 a.M. today had made inquiry off him as to whether anything had been reported to the Milwaukee Offices He declined to comment. He stated as a matter of fact the priest had not made any contact with him, and he learned from the Associated Press that the priest was intoxicated and as far as the Associated Press was concerned they were not releasing the story because all that was involved was a circular saw. Mr. Johnson stated the Milwaukee Sentinel apparently sent the report out and that they handled United Press service. He stated a photograph of the priest was in this morning's paper holding a circular saw which apparently covers the body of the priest from arm pit to arm pit. Attached to the saw are several wires and two small tubes described as about three inches long and one inch in diameter. Milwaukee Sentinel indicates it was believed some prankster had thrown it into the yard, perhaps with a firecracker attached. Mr. Johnson stated the Milwaukee Sentinel had stated the priest would make a report of this matter today to the Milwaukee Office. I instructed SAC Johnson in the event the priest made a report to furnish details of the report immediately, but in view of the nature of the information in his possession, no inquiry should be conducted at the present. HBF : cmw Egan Hendon Putan Faom Quinn Room Nease Holmes M188 Gandy 62 - 83894 JUL INDEX 58 JUL 2249471 3

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CHENT OF COMMEN CIVIL AEROHAUTICS ADH: '47 7. JuL 15 8 44 MAIL ROOM - WASHINGTON en yoakum, Jaly, 1. 1947, RECEIVED JUL 1 5 1947 pentlemen: I do send to you someting new from led seying titire ar- Texas Flying de. are arend chero тро. thazyway de ename or nazi mo want ruin and the Texas , RECORDED INDEXED 62-83894-9 B 54 34 JUL 17 15,47

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they did start in lexan city - demach the factory. like that, We do not know no are them. Now got no ransars and Broad • towes needles eeing got the lichate pant tram the rung

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she elecktrn and ins e and is talking wil Ms. . In the Broadcast - ing Station and seamo Begister pres, 3

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4 and with the Old ubishon residence. and with the cale- drale priests. The alamo Broad asting ie areate wit, and the men. ale now sick gramon ne blind and thy tolk with us And thee are two emer ting and posing togethe and we can heare them. che arbishop is bad unmoral

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5 In thre alls arbi shops residence are some priests, One ins name Morko- to ky, hy is bad mar Hi was in care wreck with arbishops care and his mother rom that time m > leave in the des so all the people luck 5

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D-TIMES 5 CENTS PER COPY. No. 91 PAGE 1 set Home Boy FIRST ITS FLYING DISKS - NOW •Winner In ITS "FIRE BALLS" PEOPLE i SER say Contest A lot of Texans are disk-gust- with the flying It was the first time the aerial but objects were reported in that a- Residents ie second time in the past Flying balls of fire circled a Cre condents ty, 15 miles Brushy wide aten around Palestine, aud east or Latesults called Sheriff of months a Sweet Home some nerroes, believing the enc Stanford about. 8:30 LaSt has brought nonor. to his holastic acclaimhimself unitv by winnno iteram of the world was near, began savino 19 halls were tirine in o praying. A white grabbed a rifle and shot at the myster- tren, this oper the community ious oblects tormed a Anthony Sheriff Paul Stanford of An- circle which began mov. ing toward Palestine nigh schoel graduate whe a schel arshm to A and derson County described them as By 9 p. m. hundreds of Pales ge. Now word acaches 11 orange basketballs of fire. tine spectators reported seeing as many as three balls in the Brenek, eleven-yea, of Mr and Mrs. lek of Sweet Home nas oech Revealing Flying at once, moving in a in the shy It stantord ascounted any sus gestion that the balls originated sense. Di1ze 0f.9 525 09V119 1 in the KTRH Farm Essay Disk Data May from a spotlight Bud Everett, druggist, chason them for a better view. He said annis won sixth place with his They tinallv disappeared aboub 1 in the mb the Fam aid Bring Prosecution p. m. Rost Serve the Harm 2nd Mrs. Horace Valentine said she Farm Home." In commenting perfectly round UH Farm and Ranch Director Anyone willfully that " nearly scared me to death' ine lntormation essav on when they 8d: "Your i defensa or security of the nation Then they appeared omen over her excel ant ideas which et to use in future farm pro- - even in time of peace be playing with each other, the subjeet to a fine of $10,000 and way they jumped imprisonment of 10 years, aceord- around Her husband and Lee Chavers nothing to Jennis. who. in 1940. won istered pig with an essay ed in the February he a calf in the Hallettsville aub show. and ont. of starded he took fifth 1n2 10 8651568111 United shot a box of 22 rifle bullets District Attorney Joseph .W Cash without any effeet on the objeets. tthe bresent mystery of tiv Mrs, Valentine said neighbor ine disks are connected with re ing negro families thought the world was comins to Elle law might apply, he said. 2n1d began nraving as the bals the aw applies whether the of fire gamboled overhead. information is released accident Mrs ally. 'through gross neghgence," Brenek is Sweet Home's "with intent to injure the U- red ball streaking overhead last nistress nited States or aid natco States or aid to me forei foreign n19ht. Mrs Marian Reed. tarm wite The Atomic Enerey Act of 1946 found what she believed was part provides even stricter penalties of a flying disk. It landed in her revealing information Mr. GrOWing Lah art, public hares par the back yard while she was hanging out the clothes vesterday after Seventy-Ninth Congress provides noon She admitted. she death or ate moisonment. after frightened. She deseribed it as a mateurs' Display ano nroepse of aw. for diselosing piece of tinfoil eight inch- atomie information with intent to es wide injure the United scorched burned round the edges. Both sides wer ‹cellent Form FOr acclaenta disclosures shinv. out one side was marked with haer ctencilen ines a anar ine of nu to 240.000 and an prisonment up to 20 years are ter-inch apart. She said the tin- provided, Mr. Cash pointed out. akum setthall teams showed the dropped straight down from She lifted it with a stick, put of good playing in the gomes ad at the Bulldog Stadium Gas Truck Hits "it in a tin can. and trove tive miles to Gunter, 20 miles south west of Sherman, Scores crowded •teams. orpanized hr van mezchants and eoncerns composed of members m, Local Station about to see At talisa, Collin County, Mrs. Mame Kitten and Mis. Kav orati amateur standing who have reported seeing a strange object A pasoline trailer truck of the some previous experience with 8:40 p. lavor Concolanted Transnorto Motor sencel hall playing. Charles yesterday Calhoes, and his fati- vever, some players van into a heavy pipe upright in W. J expert front of Rohan's Service Statio Grayson county mathou prominent Tarmers ling and doing some damage to they saw a disk yesterday nea hard to believe they are no asionals out of plaee. The truck. chants who organized these The truck was coming alono. West Grand. as ate certainly coino them se toward providing reereation turned into the station. As the me Cuero Residents lities for the young people driver eut the cab back to swing ommunity, and are trailer into position, the cab ohmented on their line work skidded into the steel olve 100 sunport on the right of the truck See Flying Disc er merchants or concerns who hending considerahi h to moanize a team me T n all the particulars Cuero has finally produced its truck itself suffered a bent bum inst Fluine dise ph MeMaster at the Firestone It was reperted by Mrs. F. W. Street, 1101 gasoline pump directly behind the Haak of 410 Stockdale street, and unmight was net damaged hy the ociate Stora on West Grand crash. both she and her husband saw it However, Mrs. Haak's flying boys or men wishing to pla: dise is no narticular mysterv to of the lication at the Firestone Store, k's, Rohan's store Lions To Make her. cho thinks she knows jus what caused it service station. It was simply a reflection front Hamiltons ewelrv Store. ding on the player's choice of to pla with. There * Farmer Award an airplane, she said Sitting on the porch with her hashend ahont 40:m. plenty of room for good Mrs. Haak said she heard ers. so anvone interested Is The Lions Club has announced! trange noise from the sky, ane on to contact one cokea u0. 500! Tnocdor Inle 15th it mil nre into view, higl 1n one game is definitely ed one ranet is efinitely sent to Lee Pargmann of Route was very small. out plainlv dis- cernable as a plane, she said. It Farmer for the Middle Guadalup Monday nicht. whet The "Tre e Store will tangl Basin Sorenservation Distrter. was coming from the east. inst with the Soon it turned north, zales Dr. Peppe ht Lack' Tuesdat ociate Store will to The plaque is given each ser after that a perfect dise was vis thie some distance TrOn where Talmer from each conser vation distriet who has contribut the plane disappeared into v. but their opponent has af most to the coll concontation I clouds n named vet Also. on "nurs moht tho Wirestata toam will projects in the particular distriet The dise appeared bright ar play a game, but no team The award is silvery. oppose ber of organizations, among then very silvery. It appeared dinam the Lions Clubs On Friday night of this week ot the vamou steering wheel of a car, Mrs. ame will he naved. but. towns Sinee the Lions do play ay as who will participate have active part in sponsoring this a Haak reported. It seemed to bi been listed yet. ward, the local club is "floating" across the hearens. hese oames will start about ward, the lopt chat is gie ph the She called her husband's at- each Light. Everyone is in- to Mr. Pargmann tention to it After They hoth saw. five and cheer •for his Representatives of the Soil Con- dise was gone. The plane and the No admission will be charg servation Service will be present sound disappeared. to make short congratulatory and Mas Haak1s convinced the explanatory speeches on the giv flying saucer was reflected from 1o of the annnal aware CURITY MAN BE HERE nurnose of receivino elsims and I. Davis, tiel representa- discussing Old Age and Survivors with all who wish to San Antonio Social Seeu- nice. Wi de in Loakum al Davis will not be able to fur tv Hall at 8:30 a.m., Wed- uish mtormation concernmo Oid July 23, 1947, for the Age Assistance pensions. the airplane. This theory also has seen advanced by others. The flying dise mystery has the stan in a dither with reports coming from all sections on strange objects. Mrs. . Haak's ex planation to us, reaso mble te thy Ivet out torch. solution to the phenomenon,"

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62. - 83894. PACE TWO Yoakum YOAKUM HERALD - TIMES Owned Ly VALEC PUBLISHING CO. Anero THE WAY - BY W. M. - HOW CAN Norman Thomas J. MALEC, debate about Russia Editor-Manager mas questions gave Largest guaranteed circulation of John L. Lewis calls the ny puclication in this section new labor law a "slave law" "I seriously ques Zeraid Est. 1897 mimes Est. - - -1892 The big trusts had undoubt- ested in world domina Gonzoidated Oct. 25, 1943 edly the same idea about the ing to rehabilitate the says Wallace, just w] emuscantion Ra.a eo50 anti-trust laws when first Published every Tuesday and Fri- introduced. And what are ths What happened tay morning 810-813 Lott St., Soakunt, exas. trusts compared to the harm country, Hungary, and what ta should be b Covering Lavaca and DeWitt the unions can do with their what the Reds say, strikes? "And, once agai Entered as secund-class matter at the Post Ofs.ce. Yoakum. Texas inder the Act of March 3, 1897. WHEN ADVERTISING CIRCU- LATION OOUNTS - TRY THE HERALD-TIMES. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS For Sonator, 18th Dist. JOHN J. BELL MORRIS ROBERTS If the new labor laws ference between the are "slave laws", so are of Hitler Germany, in government strue the anti-trust laws and any other laws for the protec- What Hitler stc tion of people against a- simple, and lar mort age. But when Russia buses by any group. So far the same. the people were utterly helpless against the labor As to Russian tac they don't differ greal power. * Ra * When independence is Such labor dictators and maintained in Gree ing to Wallace's reasor Lewis, Petrillo, others, have a far greater power to harm But since the Rec WE SPECIALIZE mocracy.Ius very sim this country than the British to suit the purpose. E king ever had. This is just Whiskies, Wines as untolerable today as Moseow's fifth column, ard Gins was then. Wallace talks of hi sistance and sincere pi R. * DARLING PACKAGE STORE: Last Sunday was, for the people." How can Wall British, a national Dav of Russia will take Prever. The kin? with Prime without changing in t and other And now can he the government leaders went to when there cannot be Chas. Micek Your WATKINS City Dealer Pinnne, hou.W St. Paul's Cathedral to pray less, voiceless, and cut with the nation for help in any friendship reach t these ominous times. Wallace is not sc politics evidently mea helping to divide Amer most. You will save hy building your new home of firesate CONCRETE A house of whatever archi- tectural style or floor plan fits your family requirements will lave longer life, lower main- tenance cost and greater fire- safety if it has concrete walls ond shriers and o firesafa roof. Let us tell you how to ger stich a house altirnow using oup quality tested Not so long age England went through the most desnerate struggle in hen whole history. The peace is not yet established and even greater menace threatens the people of Ungland and elsewhere to Mont. Man Wil Truck Award much. In a great danger brave people tura to God. rete one 881 BBS Large and Small Animals Office Phone 831 Residense Paone 749-W Quors Mexa She'll Never Forget: THIS GIFT See Us For QUALITY MERCHANDISE EXPERT WATCH REPAIRING HAMILTON JEWELRY Yoakun Horace Wimberly. Jr. Lawver Offices now in Yoakum National Bank Building Phone 50 The oldest - Chevrelet tr Here, too many do nor. entered in the recent fully realize today's danger.! a 1918 1-ton model. The We suffered comparatively truck was little and the Red threat 2019 in Chevrolet's seems to he But Calitornia piant. that does not minimize truck is owned and by Mi. Leslie A. Storey We need to jace the menace with the Montana; and the entry same seriousness mitted through Pioneer the British people with their the Chevrolet dealer in ti lendere manifested last Sun- which is locates in our Sa day. For, we cannot escape Sity Zone. The winnere hash Advance-Design Chevrolet It cannot be said anymore will be presented to Mr. that the stories of the "fly- by Chewe et Meter Divisi ino disks" is mere fiction. Mewo Sahan 6000 Ch One disk was found by trucks were entered from tions of the Pelly man, near Houston. On hrasd onhha interact Ent it was a warning about its eluded more than 50-1919 military secret and that the till in operation, Army Air Force at Spokane, man 92ed012 Washington be notified at months after the winning The once. uncks entered In the searc So the mysterious disks bility of Chevrolet trucks are not messengers Mars or some other star. Nor are they missiles which Red Russia is al- ready showering upon us. They are our own secrets with which armed forces are experimenting. What propels them? How far can they fly? What is M their purpose? —That is a mighty secret. It is a French paper Just Paris that claims that Ame- rica has a far more destruc- tian hamh than anty evey in. vented before. In one blow it could destroy all f Poric or Moscow. This is also con- firmed by Robert M. Hut- chins of the University of Chicago, familiar with what Men C goes on here. We can thank only the good Providence that this immense power is in our hands. " Writes John Fisher in his book "Why They TAL Puccians". "Officially religion is still regarded as deplorable superstition and church-goers can never hope to gain admittance the Communist Party." Yet what do you find in this country? Even cer- have only praise for the mala which very Lava The The eyedudles Christian, but they demn their fellow con- Chris. tians, instead of the Reds.

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MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS This Paper Is Connected With NCW Washington News Headquarters by Direct Leased Wire, Has International Service Daily Wires, Its Own Special Service, Religious News Service, Inter-Catholie Press Agency, Lumen Service of Fides Service, Religious News Photos, International Illustrated News, NCWC Picture Service, Photo Features Newe China THE ALAMO REGISTER (Name Registered in the U. S. Patent Office) FORTE A 1046 SECTION TWO

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let" Speaking at Castelgandolfo, his as an summer home, Pius All asserted that the world today has men who on ignore not only the Church, but the ed "very rudiments of religion itself;" in. men who see no evil in evil deeds rd and lust and would spurn "the ve primary norms of morals and jus- as tice;" "there are cynics who would 16. deride holy things and weak men nat m- who would permit these offenses to pass. vin Despite this turmoil, His Holi- an ness said, "there are great rays the of hope and fields white with har- in vest for those who labor to bring she Christ to the world." He stressed Ipe the oath of the Jesuits, which en- cor ables them to bring "a spirit pre- In- pared and prompt to obey in all se- things the true Spouse of Christ ... our holy Mother Church." In another audience, held for the Most Rev. Emmanuel Suarez, O.P., and the Dominicans who elected UnEr 11111% WORLD UNREST! a Lte ve Co lat ani for tio] anc voi ma dis] ent the ish‹ slar res dra U. ma Ita

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DEMAL BUREAU UF INVESTIGATION U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMMUNIGATIONS SECTION JULY 347 WESTERN UNION TU WU17 47/46 2 EXTRA COLLECT Sir. Tolson Mr. B. A. Tamm Clegg Glavin tr. Ladd Mr. Nichol Mr. Resen Kir. Tracs Mr. Egan Mr. Gurnea Mr. Barbo Mr. Mola Mr. Pennington Mr. Quinn Tamm. Mr. Nease SAN MARCOX TEX JULY 7 1947 714P FBI WASHDC CHECK FILES IN INVENTORS COUNCIL FOR DRAWING OF MULTI-APRING CATAPULT THIS INVENTION SENT BY ME TO WAR DEPARTMENT. IN 1945 POSSIBLE LEAKAGE OF INFORVATION HAS RESULTED MY DEVICE OR MGLOR URGE VARIATION THERE FROM COULD CONCIEVABLY CATAPULT A DISC AND IN SILENCE FOR SEVERAL MILES WOODSON C COPE CLIFFSIDE HALL: 111° 1945. men wac Cancelled changer referee 941P RECORDED 62-83894-10 37 JUL 109947

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TANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO FROM : SUBJECT: D. M. Ladd 3. 8. compub WOODSON * СОРЕ Informant DATE :7-10-47 G. I. R. -5 Mr. Mr Tolson A. Clegg clavin Ladd N1chols RoSen Tracy Carson Egan Gurnea Har bo Mohr Pennington Qu1nn Талт Tele. Room Mr. Nease Ho Imit Vales pandy • Lying Luc There is being attached hereto a Western Union telegram received from the above individual in which information is furnished concerning a "disc." This telegram has been acknowledged. ACTION: It is recommended that this telegram be turned over to the Liaison Section in order that they may make the information contained therein available to the War Department. мето ва дити RECORDED INDEXED 62-83897-10 10V 37 JUL TENgST EX-74 63JUL 2 3 1947 EX-74 WYC :mn

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ERVICE Ite is a full-rate Telegram Of Cable- gram unless its de- - ferred characteris i- dicated by a suitable symbol above or pre- ceding the address. WESTER! UNION A. N. WILLIAMS PRESIDENT (50).. SYMBOLS DL = Day Letter NL # Night Letter LC - Deferted Cable NLT = Cable Night Letter Ship Rediogtam The filing time shown in the date line on teleg is and day letters is STANDARD TIME at point of origin. Time of receipt is STANDARD TIME at point of destination •QA 92 1947 JUL 6 PM 6 50 Q• CNA392 PD= DARLINGTON SOCAR 6 630P US DEPT OF JUSTICE: -W ASHDC = ABOUT 12 SO-CALL FLYING DISCS PASSED OVER DARLINGTON SC APPROXIMATELY 5:30 PM TODAY • ADVISE IF WISH DETAILS= IJ U WATTS JR. Ty 6 m 17 6 7-10-47 FED. BU. OF INV. RECORDEN -// memr wue DEPARTE AT EE JUSTIGE 30 10: X 2 0 0 37 JUL 164947 JUL 7 1947 EX-56 12 5:30 PM- DIVISION OF prenons Ch PED, BU. OF INV GUARD' ADV HAVE MSG DLVD SA 720P THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERVING IFS SERVICE

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PORM NO. 64 Diffice Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO FROM : SUBJECT: D. N. Ladd RA 3. 2. coma pub J. U. WATTS, JR. Informant DATE: 7-10-47 • Mr. Tolson E. A. Tan Cleng Glavin Ladd Nichols Mr Mr Rosen Tracy Carson Exan Gurnea Harbo Mr Mohr Mr. Pennington Mr. Quinn Tar Tele. Room_ M: MOLIS Miss Gandy. CHOI EX-56 5x-56 WVC : mn 50 JUL 2 4 19% 92 lying luc There is being attached hereto a Western Union telegram received from the above individual in which information is furnished concerning a "disc." This telegram has been acknowledged ACTION: It is recommended that this telegram be turned over to the Liaison Section in order that they may make the information contained therein available to the War Department. Attachment Опро ні авалитив It talkin a 3. geta G. L R. -5 hou 11я CORDED INDEXED 10V36 62- 3894-11 7 1047 EX - 56

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'Saucer' Stories Disk Found Is toward the eouth and disappeared. she said. It was flying high and appeared illuminated, according to Mrs. Hoffman. "It looked like a small meat plat- ter," Mrs. Hoffman asserted. Glenn Rowden of Detroit claimed he saw a "saucer," about 50 inches Priest Hears a 'Bang, Tries to Call FBI Man in diameter, over Billy Mitchell field Father Brasky said he did not at 10:05 p.m. when he alighted from Discovers a Circular an airplane. He said it was in sight bother to show the disk to any of his for 90 seconds. parishioners Sunday. He tried to Blade With Teeth; telephone an FBI agent whom he William Humphrey, who lives knows, but was unable to reach him with his wife in a quonset hut at Other Disks 'Seen' Sunday, he added. Asked whether 3148 S. 20th st., telephoned police it could have been the work of a at 9 p.m. Sunday that he and Mrs. Picture on Picture Page practical joker, Father Brasky re- Humphrey had seen a slightly illu- The "what is it?" which Father plied: "Could be. I don't know." minated disk which appeared to fall The disk, apparently of steel, had to earth near Pulaski high school. Joseph Brasky said he found early a one and three-eighth inch'hole in Mrs. Humphrey said Monday that Sunday on the lawn of St. Joseph's the center. Through it ran a few her husband tried unsuccessfully, to Catholic church in Grafton may be wires. To each end of the cluster photograph the disk. of wires was attached what looked Changed Colors, He Says just another gadget to add to Fa- like a small condenser about three ther Brasky's already sizable col- inches long. The condenserlike ob- Orwin Rottman, 1328 N. 19th s lection. jects were wrapped in black tape laimed he saw three of them flyin Those who saw it Sunday said which still was sticky. The disk was through the air in a northwester y greasy and direction at 6 p.m. Sunday. "what is it?" was a circular saw somewhat dirty Stamped on it was: "Approved, turned from orange to gold to siley blade with a few wires attached. Dunlap." before disappearing, he said. Father Brasky, who said he knew of Father Brasky declined to part Reports came also from Janes- no sawmills in the area, would not with the disk. He showed a number ville, where Mr. and Mrs. Alva Sie- claim it was a "flying saucer" when of items in his trinket collection. vert and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Roth he called newspapermen to his All of them had something to do reported seeing a flying disk about home. with fishing, Father Brasky's favor- 11:35 p.m. Saturday. The Roths "It may or may not be one of those ite sport. They included his "bass were leaving the Sievert home when flying disks that have been report- bottles," beer bottles with the head Sievert saw it, according to Roth er all over the country," he said. "Tet's just call it a 'what is it?"" of a fish-and a fish pole from It appeared to be several thousand Manila which folds up into a cane. feet up and about 10 miles away, Meanwhile, Milwaukee and Roth said. He described it as vague- When opened, it extends to 12 feet. other points in Wisconsin, several ly resembling the moon and as hav- persons reported seeing the "flying "I use it in reaching folks whe ling a regular motion in a counter- can't be touched with a 10 foot pole. saucers." Father clockwise, elongated orbit. Brasky's disk, Father Brasky quipped. It ap- however, was the only case here in peared to Roth to be moving faster which the "landing" of a "saucer" Others Report "Saucers" than an airplane. He said it was was reported. Father Brasky also passed out yellow on its face, but when it turned it looked silver. Hears "Bang," Finds Disk copies of his recent publication, "Fish Tales." Roth said that the four of them Father Brasky gave the follow- viewed the disk for 10 minutes. "I'm going to revise this thing," ing account of how he found the ob- he explained. "T've got some new Stopped in Sky, Claim ject, a steel plate 19 inches in di- and better tales to put in it." "It fluttered around, faded out ameter, about an eighth of an inch There were other reports around and came back again, and once 1 thick and with saw teeth Milwaukee and Wisconsin of "fly- just stopped and hung there fo "I usually get up about 5 a.m. on ing saucers." Mrs. Anthony Hoff- about two minutes," Roth said. "The Sundays. I was at the front door man, 3410 W. Layton av., said she of my house, about to take my dog and her husband saw one at 8:25 last time we saw it, it had a very out for a walk, when I heard a p.m. Sunday flying toward Billy - Turn to page 3, col. 5 'bang!' like a big firecracker. Mitchell field from the northwest. stepped outside and found this disk When it neared the field, it veered on the church lawn. "Although the grass was still wet from the night rain, the disk was too hot to pick up. I noticed the glass ball had been knocked off one ENCLOSURE 62-8389% st the pose it struck the in lach, suppose it struck that in land- ing." RECORDED 44/2032 JUL 16 1947 6 0 0CT1=1947 223

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'Saucer' Tales Buzz in State Disk Found by a Priest Is Circular Saw; Others Seen by Milwaukeeans From page 1, column 3 noticeable tail. When it disap- peared entirely, it just popped out." Janesville police reported a tele- phone call from a Dick Thompson, who said he saw flying disks about 12:15 a.m. Sunday. At Oshkosh, Mrs. L. A. Davis re- ported that she and her husband had sighted one of the mysterious disks whizzing over the city at 6:45 p.m. Sunday. She said they were driving on a town road six miles west of Osh- kosh, headed east toward the city, when they first sighted the obiect "flying very fast and very high." At first, she said, it looked like an airplane and then loomed larger and larger until it "appeared as big as the sun." Stops Car, Disk Vanishes Her husband stopped the car so that they could get a better look at the disk, which appeared round and silvery, but by the time they got out of the car the object had dis- appeared, she said. At Green Bay, Eugene Le Plant reported that he and his 12 year old son, Duane, had seen a rapidly mov- ing silver ball or disk about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday while working in his garden on the western edge of the city. Le Plant said he saw the object silhouetted against a dark cloud to the north and that he and his son watched it for three or four minutes while it moved away to the northwest Le Plant said he couli not estimate the altitude or dis tance, but that it "definitely was not an airplane." Laws of Eyesight Clarif. Reports of Flying Saucers By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Many descriptions of move- Associated Press Science Editor New York, N. Y. - The flying ments of the flying saucers fit saucers may be explained by cer- with the common maneuvers of tain laws of eyesight. airplanes, singly or in groups. All objects appear round or Some of the maneuvering report- nearly so at any distance close to ed, which took saucers out of sight the limit of how far a person can and back into sight again, resem- see. bles what can be, seen while If the objects are seen by re- watching distant airplanes. flected light, as in most cases re- Whether planes are guided, pi- ported, they are almost certain to lotless or jet, they all would look be round, and if the reflections the same at great distances. are sunlight then the sizes report- ed are those which would be ex- pected from distant light reflec- tions. Descriptions of virtually all the saucers as round and flat fit ex- actly with the tricks that eyes play. This trickiness varies with differences in weather and light- ing. This writer has seen flying sauc- ers over Long Island sound, not only this year but in previous years. They were round, bright and moving fast. But they were no mystery because they were light reflected from the bodies of. airplanes that soon identified themselves by changing course and coming near enough to be seen distinetly. Mirages, Traveler Says Philadelphia, Pa. -(P)- Dr. Aurel Aczel, editor of a Hungarian lan- guage newspaper, expressed belief that the flying saucers were mi- rages-possibly circularly distort- ed reflections of real airplanes many miles away. A world-wide traveler, Dr. Aczel said: "Years ago I have seen similar things on the Egyptian desert and on the Buszta (Hungarian plain). At sea I have also seen mirages of ships known to be a great distance away. "In July and August, and some- times even in June, atmospheric conditions are especially adapta- ble to the creation of mirages."

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Who, what, where, why are flying disks? The year's biggest mystery produced these Sunday photos while reports came from everywhere and everyone that the saucers were everywhere. Top left, a movie camera is fitted to a P-51 fighter plane at Portland, Ore., as Oregon national guard planes are made ready to chase the disks. Lower, Mrs. Walter Johnson (right) of Spokane, Wash., and her chil- dren pose and tell how they saw the saucers land on a mountainside in Idaho and disappear. Right, is Father Joseph Brasky of St. Joseph's Catholic church at Grafton, Wis., with the disk he reported struck his church early Sunday. It turned out that the disk was a prankster made projectile, featuring a Dunlop cir- cular saw blade. Note that something apparently took a glass ball off one of the lightning rods. A whole lot of Milwaukeeans reported that they saw the saucers traveling past Sunday night. -AP Wirephotos and Journal Staff 1805 17-

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Seen in 36 States; Jet Fighters Alerted • SAN FRANCISCO, July 6-(7P) - Military aircraft hunted the shes over Pacific Coast state! oday for sight of the mysteriou "ying saucers" that for 12 days have puzzled the entire country. Early reports of results were SEEN IN 36 STATES. First sighted June 25 and greeted generally with scornful laughs, the objects have been re- ported every day since by observ- ers in 36 states. Most of the ob- jects were reported seen July 4. A few were reported yesterday. Such competent observers as airline pilots said they had seen the totally unexplained discs or saucers, larger than aircraft and Five P-51s of the Oregon Na- tional Guard cruised over Cascade Mountains of Washing- ton-the area where the strange objects first were reported sight- ed. A sixth circled over Portland, in constant radio contact with the graphic equipment. Col. G. R. Dodson, command- ing, described their flight as "routine patrol," but said they had been instructed to watch for the flying discs. wl Manhattan Beach, Calit, A. McKelvey took a Mustang fighter plane up above Van Nuys For two hours he cruised at 35: ood feet, but "didn't see a thing." Gen. Carl Spaatz, commandan? of the Army Air Forces, was on a Pacific Northwest fishing trip. He denied knowing anything about the flying discs — or ot plans to use AAF planes to look for them. JET FIGHTER SET "I've been out of touch with things for four or five days," he said. Louis E. Starr, national com- mander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, yesterday in Co- lumbus, O., said he understood Spaatz had a "group out right now" looking for discs. At Muroc Army Air Field in California a P-80 jet fighter stood ready to take off the moment any flying saucers are sighted in that area. flying-in "loose formation" at high speed. David Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, said they had nothing to do with atomic experiments, and Army and Navy officials also entered positive disclaimers. Newspaper stories quoting an unidentified California Institute of Technology scientist as saying the phenomena might have some- thing to do with experiments in "transmutation of atomic energy" caused a brief sensation late yes- terday. The institute quickly de- fled the report. Reports generally agreed that the flying objects were round or oval. Estimates of their speed ranged from about 300 to 1,200 miles an hour. They were de- scribed as flying with an undu- lating motion at heights of 10,000 feet and less. Some described them as glowing, or luminous. PROPELLER IN CENTER' Nova Hart, St. Louis mechanic who was trained during in the war to spot all types of aircraft, said he saw one of the strang objects near Pattonville Testerday. It was flying at 300 eet, he said. He described it as circular, with a ribbed framework and silver gray in color. Hart said it ap- peared to have a motor with a propeller attached in the center and it kept turning like an air- plane doing a slow roll. A cautious attitude marked both official and scientific com- ments, but Capt. Tom Brown pf star in ores Pull Air Forces Public Relatiogs edged the Air Forces had decided "there's something to this" and had been checking up on it for 10 days. 6 0 0CT 1 - 1947-2 First, published reports of the phenomena occurred June 25. Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Ida., businessman pilot, told of seeing nine of the discs flying in forma- tion at 1,200 miles an hour over the Cascade Mountains in Wash- ington. SEEN BY 200 Arnold's account was taken lightly. Various explanations were offered-"reflections," "per- sistent vision," "snow blindness." Soon afterward other individ- uals-in New Mexico, Missouri, California and other states-re- ported they also had seen the flying objects. Then on Independence Day 200 persons in one group and 60 in another saw them in Idaho. Hun- dreds of others in Oregon, Wash- ington and other western states reported seeing them. July 4 also brought first re- ports of the flying discs east of the Mississippi. Since then they have been reported seen n widely separated sections of the country-in 33 states in all. 'Must Be Insane' LONDON, July 6-(P)-Don't mention those flying saucers on this side of the Atlantic unless you're prepared for an argument about your sanity. Maybe they have been seen by sober citizens over a vast area of the United States, but Europe won't believe in them until some- body lassoes one and has it photo- graphed by Frank Sinatra, the Supreme Court justices. "America's reply to the Loch Ness monster," Sanday chortled today's dispatch, referring Fritain's hoariest tall story the erpent that is "seen" romping Scotland's Loch Ness every time the tourist trade needs a shot n the arm. ENCLOSURE RECORDED 62-83894 MILWAUKEE SENTINEL MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN

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Planes Chasing Disks Find Only Empty Sky Jokesters Add radio announcement that disks were flying over Lewiston, Idaho Sunday sent hundreds into their Some Comedy yards for a look. Weatherman Louis Krezak said the objects were mov- ing eastward with the prevailing to Air Mystery wind and probably were weed seeds. Three air transport pilots agreed. Searchlights on Clouds East St. Louis Objects A Birmingham radio station was deluged with more than 400 calis in Prove to Be Washers; one hour by persons who said they Chicago Woman Spots saw fluorescent balls circling over the city and clearly outlined against One With Legs near-by mountains. A carnival at Alabaster, Ala., was playing search- lights on cloud wisps. By the United Press An argument raged at Lodi, Calif., Army pilots were ready Monday er the cause of a spectacular glow for another air search for the mys- n the sky and a roar shortly before terious "flying saucers" now report- Mrs. W. ed seen in 39 states and parts of C. Smith said she heard a noise "like Canada as practical jokesters added to the confusion. Equipped with telescopic cam- eras, 11 army planes searched the Pacific northwest Sunday without finding any trace of the flying disks which had been reported over scores of communities the preceding two days. At Sioux Falls, S. D., a na- tional guard plane already in the air was ordered to investigate a silvery disk with a short tail which Gregory Zimmer said he saw shoot across the heavens. The pilot found noth- Give 'Em Room Newport News, Va.-Peninsula airport here is taking no chances with flying saucers. Pilots report- ing Monday to take out planes found this notice on the bulletin board: "Two thousand feet ver- tical and horizontal clearance re- quired between aircraft operat- ing from this field and any fly- ing saucers." ing but empty sky. The army "camera patrol" over the Cascade mountains Sunday in- cluded eight P-51 pursuit ships and three A-26 bombers. Illusions Or Jokes There was growing belief that the concentrated aerial search would show the saucers to be optical illu- sions or the work of practical joke- four motored bomber" just before the lights went off at dawn. Erving Newcomb of the Pacific Gas & Elec- tric Co. offered the explanation that a low flying crop dusting plane probably had struck a power line and burned out a transformer However, no planes were reporte damaged and no one could explain what a crop dusting plane was do- ing in the air at dawfor Sunday. It was the first time any noise had been attributed to flying saucers. J. U. Watts, jr., Darlington (S. C.) attorney, said he saw an army pur- suit plane chasing a V-formation of flying saucers at 250 miles an hour 3,000 feet high. However, no pilot reported such a chase. Saw One With Legs Meantime, authorities were plagued with reports that bordered on the fantastic. An excited Chi- cago woman reported that she had seen a flying saucer with legs. "I wes standing on my porch and I th ught for sure it was coming right a yn and slap me in the face," sie reorge Kuger of Denver said he sa / a flying disk with an Americat flag on it. Francis Howell, Tempe, Ariz., claimed he saw a saucer two feet in diameter disappear behind a row of trees near his home. When he rushed to inspect it, he said, the flat, thin, aluminumlike disk took off at "high rate of speed" toward Phoenix, nine miles away. Mrs. Walter Johnson returned to Spokane, Wash., after a vacation near St. Maries, Idaho, and after reading newspaper reports of the flying saucers said she and several others had seen speeding shiny ob- jects "as big as a four or five room house" disappear into the forest covered mountains. The first of the saucers over New York State was reported by Mrs. Kenneth Wohley of Rochester, N who said she and her husban‹ saw an object "about the size of an ordinary saucer" flying above her back yard at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. sters magnified by aroused imagi- nations. A number of "disks" whirled over rooftops in East St. Louis, IIl., Sun- day. J. T. Hartley, a locomotive en- zineer, gathered some of them up nd found they were made of essed white paper, 11 inches in di meter and with a two inch hole in the center. Railroad workers MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE JOURROORDED ENCLOSURE 1/2/47 4412% 62. 62-83894-13 said they looked like locomotive 32 JUL 16 01/ packing washers. T1.19 біз

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New Jersey residents said they "thought" they saw flying disks over Palisades Park and -near-by Bergenfield Sunday night, Skeptical scientists recalled the mysterious "rockets" seen over Swe- den last year. Eighty per cent of the "ghost rockets" proved to be meteors, and Swedish officials said the others could be discounted as pure imagination. Scientists asserted that the ob- jects in order to be seen clearly at 10,000 feet-the level at which most of the saucers have been reported— would have to be 20 feet in diameter, would require a large mass of metal, would be more conspicuous at night and would be seen by a far greater nber of persons Dr. J. s Nascal director of the Warner & Swasey observalory at the Case Institute of Technology at Cleveland, said he was inclined to "think the reports are fancies." Capt. Tom Brown, army air force spokesman at Washington, said the army was trying to run the reports to Earth. "We're not dismissing the possi- bility that there's something to it," . he gaid, "and we're not dismissing the possibility that it's all a hoax."

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U.S. Planes Hunting Discs; Russ Tells of 'Atom Saucers' FBI Probes Story of Soviet Ship Officer LOS ANGELES, July 6- (Spe- cial)-Federal agents today in- vestigated a letter to the Exami- ner describing Russian supersonic atom-powered planes resembling the "flying saucers." A top flight atomic scientist to whom the Examiner referred the letter said it was "not all non- sense," and suggested the matter be turned over to the FBI. The letter writer said he got the information from an officer aboard a Russian tanker recently in Los Angeles harbor. ULLED EVEN WORMS The Russian, he said, also de- scribed experiments with con- trolled radioactive clouds in the Arctic, where birds, animals and even worms were killed. The planes, as described by the Russian to the writer, are only 18 inches thick, with a kidney- shaped outline and no propellors. The pilot lies on his stomach and is artificially cooled against he heat develoned by air fric tion. The outer s" fuse in gail. the Russian Both upper and lower surfaces re convex, like a giant lens. The lifting force is an entirel different principle found about 10 years ago among unpublished papers of a Russian chemist. "Energy is required only for climbing, but no energy is need- ed for support when the air- plane goes along the earth's gravitational contour lines." The writer of the strange let- er said he met the Russian of- icer in Wilmington and, because e wanted to hear about Russia, vited him to dinner. Tire Pussian first asked where he could sell 18 polaf bear pelts which he received "for very dan- gerous work." He said he had been assigned to go over the route of the radio- active cloud near Lake Bakal (or Baykal) and pick up dead animals. ALL LIFE DESTROYED "They loaded a few small ships with all kinds of animals and directed the cloud over them," the writer said. "During this experiment, a violent storm blew the cloud far north into the tundra, but before it dissipated it destroyed all life on its way. "The cloud may be controlled from land, from a plane from a robot-piloted or leader.' As I understand it, the control based on electro-magnetic aves and the cloud has two components: The carrier and the killer." ENCLOSURE 583894-13 RECORDE 32 JUL 16 1947 silwankee Sentinel Milankee, Wis 6 0 0C1 1 1947 213 7, 1947

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Quirks of Eyesight May Explain Disc Mystery By HOWARD BLAKESLEE AP Science Editor NEW YORK, July 6- (P) —Certain laws of human eye- sight will explain much of what has been described about the flying saucers reported from nearly all parts of the United States. At any distance which is close photograph of the oval object to the limit of how far a person taken by Yeoman Frank Ryman can see, all objects appear round north of Seattle, Wash. The Long or nearly so. This law of sight covers both Island oval closer and small things seen came turned into an airplane.. nearby and large ones at great Planes at great distances tend distances. to look round when light is re- Regardless of shape, the ob- flected from their sides. Many ject near the limit of sight looks descriptions of movements of the round. If the thing is silhouetted flying saucers fit with the com- against a bright sky, as some of mon maneuvers of airplanes, the flying saucers have been re- singly or in groups. ported, then it is more likely to They fit also with what birds revial its true shape. look like, flying at a considerable HAVE NO STRUCTURE' distance. However the bird llu- sion is not very common. Some it the thing is seen by reflected of light, as in most cases reported, the maneuvering repotted which took saucers out of sight it is almost certain to be round, and back into sight again re- and if the reflections are sunlight, sembles what can be seen while then the sizes reported are those watching distance airplanes. which would be expected from distant light reflections. SPEED MYSTERY The one outstanding fact about There is no explanation for re- virtually all the saucers is that ported speeds of 1,000 or more they had no structure - they miles an hour. Meteors, although seemed merely round and flat. they go much faster than that, That description fits exactly with the tricks that eyes play. This not explain it because the saucers mostly appear in daytime trickiness varies with differences and there are not enough day- in weather and lighting. This writer has seen flying light meteors. Ice crystals forming little round saucers over Long Island Sound clouds have been suggested. But near his home, not only this year these fail to fit in most cases be- but in previous years. They were cause the ice crystals form at round, bright and moving fast. altitudes which are higher than NOT A MYSTERY most of the saucers reported. Nothing published in science or But they were no mystery atomic studies gives the slightest cause they were light reflected clue to flying saucers unless the from the bodies of airplanes that objects are aircraft. soon identified One scientist today said that at charging course and coming near least a lot of saucers are ex- enough to be seen distinctly. plained by the force of suggestion Last week this writer also saw which causes a person to say to one oval flying form which for himself: a moment looked exactly like the "Oh, gee, I see it too." RECORDED. 4+02 32 ENCLOSURE 62-83894-13 JUL 16 1947 0 OCT 1 - 1947 2

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'Saucers' Fly Here; Grafton Disc Joke What was reported as a "flying dise" which struck a church in Grafton early yesterday turned out to be a circular saw with two small tubes and several wires attached to it. Father Joseph Brasky, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Grafton, holds the "dise" nd points to the lightning rod on the church (arrow), whicl he said was struck by the dise Sentinel Photo by Ernest Anheuser. One theory was that pranksters The mystery of the "flying discs," strange luminous objects seen speeding across the sky in many states, turned to Wiscon- sin yesterday when several per- sons reported them at Milwaukee and Janesville. Mystery was added to mystery when Father Joseph Brasky, pas- tor of St. Joseph's Church at Grafton, Wis., reported a missile hurtled through the air early yes- terday, knocked the ball off the church lightning rod, and landed on the front lawn. WIRES AND TUBES ebott 16 inches in diameter- was a large circular saw- -and still hot when Father Brasky icked it from the lawr Chere were wires and two tubes attached to it. The tubes were an inch in diameter and three inches long. or belated Fourth of July cele brants had attached explosives t the saw, and sent it skimming through the air. Father Brasky said he heard a swishing noise and a sizzling at 5 a. m., followed a second later with a thud and an explosion. An excited resident telephoned to Billy Mitchell Field, and said he saw 15 flying saucers, in U formation, heading north over Granville, at 10:05 p.m. He hung up before his name could be pro- cured. A passenger aboard a New York-Detroit-Milwaukee plane, Which landed at Billy Mitchell Field at 10:05 p. m., told employes in the office of Northwest Air- lines, Inc., he saw a flying saucer bobbing up and down over the airfield just after he had alighted, from the plane. 41 Other passengers with him also saw it, he said. He gave the name of J. W. Rowden of Dotroit: DE- spite its bobbing, the saucer was going at great speed, and was out of sight in a few seconds, he said. Rowden is stopping at the Plaza Hotel. DISCS HAD TAILS Erwin Rottman, 1328 N. 19th St., said he saw three of them, with tails, flying northwest to southeast, as he stood at N. 18th and W. Vliet Sts. They turned from gold to another color and then to silver, he said. Frank Phifer, stopping at the Maryland Hotel, said he saw three balls of fire shoot take bichi an at 8: 2b last ross, about a mile from shore, "going at terrific speed." What he described as an illu- minated saucer was seen last night by William Humphrey, 3148 S. 20th St., he said. It was zig- zagging directly over the Heil Co. plant, said Humphrey, and seemed to land in a wooded area nearby. REPORTED IN JANESVILLE Four Janesville residents re- ported they had seen a flying disc Saturday night. They are Mr. and Mrs. Al Sievert and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Roth. They saw the disc flying in northwesterly direction from Janesville at a "terrific speed." They viewed it for 20 minutes. It was yellow-golden, and seemed to turn at times to a silvery color, they stated. An oval flight pattern was followed. Then, they said, tails appeared on the disc and shortly afterwards it disappeared. John Bosch, 4377 S. Adams St., Milwaukee, a machinist, insisted he saw two flashing saucer shaped objects pass over Billy Mitchell Field shortly after mid- right yesterday. They were close enough so he could definitely state they were not shooting stars, mor airplanes, he said. Bosch's home is near the airport. ENCEOSURE RECORDED 162-83894-13 32 JUL 16 1841 21.

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO FROM SUBJECT: : DIRECTOR, FBI I PAC, MTIWAUKEE FLYING DISCS OR SAUCERS MESCELTANEOUS TELEPHONE CALL FROM MR. FLETCHER AT THE BURFAU AT 8:30 AM, 7/7/47 DATE: July 8, 1947 ATTENTION: MR. H.3FLETCHRE Attached are newspaper clippings from the Miltraukee Sentinel and Milwaukee Journal of July 7, 1947. Матерув For the Bureau's information, United Press and Associated Press telephoned me at my residence about three or four times between 1:00 A.M. and 2:30 A.M., July 7, 1947• The United Press representative informed me that Father JOSEPI BRASKY had stated on interview by a Milwaukee Sentinel reporter, one BILL WEEKS, (Phonetic) that he, Father BRASKY, was going to call the FBI concerning the contraption, which apparently was identical with one of the flying discs recently publicized throughout the country. The United Press representative desired to know if we had any statement to make on the matter. I informed him that I had no official comment, other than "No Comment." Since I have contacted the United Press representative on various occasions, I asked him what the actual details were, and he stated he did not know except that the interview of the priest reflected that a circular saw had been found with some devices attached to it. 510CT 3 The Associated Press called me shortly after the United Press representative did, and on being advised that I had no comment to make concerning the story, I asked the Associated Press representa- tive what the actual facts were, and he informed me that as far as the Associated Press was concerned, the facts were that a circular saw had been found and a story had been obtained from a priest who had been drinking quite heavily. The Associated Press representative informed me that apparently the United Press desired to get a statement from me denying or affirming that the FBI was investigating the matter. I informed the Associated Press representative that apparently someone was suffering under a misinterpretation of any comment I had made, and possibly some reporter was in an embarrassing posit ion if a story had gone out over the xi services. en 12 RECORDEI I then telephoned the United Press representative, who apparently in the meantime had been called by the Associated Press in an effort to straighten out the United Press. No reference was made to the FBI in the Milwaukee Sentinel article appearing July 7, 1947, but the Milwaukee Journal article, which is attached, referred to an alleged statement by Father BRASKY that he attempted to get in touch with an FBI Agent whom he knows. Father BRASKY has never conta tacted the Milwaukee FBI Office or any Agent concerning his find my opinion, this is just another hoax story, since a photograph of Father BRASKY with the saw indicates no basis for any authority. I€D 62-0 Enclosures

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : D.M. LADD DATE: July 11, 1947 Mr. Tolson FROM : K.C. Howe SUBJECT: Flying Disc Mr Mr. E. A. Mr. CLegE. Tan Glavin Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols Mr. Rosen Mr. Mr Tracy Mr. Carson Egan At 10:45 PM on the evening of July 1l, 1947, Clerk Piercy of the Mr . Mr. Gurnea Harbo Washington Field Office called and stated that at the instbuction Mr. Mr Mohr Mr. Pennington Mr. Quinn Тали Hennrich he wanted to pass on to the Bureau information he had just re- Tele. Room_ tr. Nease ceived from one ALvin Be Parker, 200 6th Street, Laurel, Maryland, to the Miss Holmes Miss Gandy effect that a "flying dise" had just landed in Parker's yard "and the machinery is still buzzing." Piercy stated Parker was apparently so excited he had a difficult time even getting his name out, and no further detail could be obtained from him. At 10:50 PM I passed the above information on to Captain West, duty officer at Guz who indicated he had also received the same data from another source, and would pass our information along to appropriate army quarters. Sid Roberts of the AP called at about 10:55 PM and asked whether the Bureau had received any report on a "flying disc" in Laurel Maryland. After checking with Mr. Nichols I told him we had received such a report and had passed it on to army authorities. KHOORDID 62-83824-15 KCH: H 97. INDHXED 36 JUL 16 1947 57JU124 19

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : MR. E. A. TAMM FROM : D. M. LADD SUBJECT: DATE: July 11, 1947 Tolson Mr. Mr E. A. Tam Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Carson Egan Mr. Harbo Мг. Hendon Pennington Mr. Quinn Room Gandy SAC Johnson of the Milwaukee Office called to advise he had just received a telephone call from Colonel Harry Schafer, Reserve Officer with the Civilian Air Patrol, Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Colonel Schafer reported that at 3:30 p.Il., July 10, one sig Hanson, City Engineer at Black River Falls, Wisconsin, had found a large 17" disc which appeared to have been possibly made out of cardboard painted with silver airplane dope. In the center was a tube and a small motor with a propellor attached to the side. Colonel Schafer expressed the opinion that this disc would not be able to fly by itself. He advised it would be taken to the Air Corps Headquarters. Colonel Schafer advised, however, that Hanson did not want to release the disc without FBI approval. I instructed Mr. Johnson to advise the Air Corps officer to get in touch with Colonel chafer and tell him he saw no reason for the Bureau to attempt to secure the release of the material since it was not in our custody and we had no control. He stated the press was also calling concerning this matter. I instructed him to make no comment to the press. C.I. R. -6 DML: cmw flying el RECORDED EX - 56 162-83894 - 16 37 JUL 17 1947 50 (7 JUL 24 1947

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : MR. LADD DATE: July 12, 197, To 80 Cleg FROM : F. P. GRIFFEE Glavin N1choi! Rosen SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS Tracy Egan Hendon Pennington Reference is made to Mr. Howe's memorandum to you Quinn Tamn dated July ll, in the above-captioned matter. Room Nease Holme Mies anay At 11:55 P.M•, July 11, I took a phone call from Sergeant Lonis of the Laurel, Maryland, Police Department. Lonis said that he had examined the "flying disc." He said that it had been made from a Gulf Oil sign and the top of a garbage can and had been painted with aluminum paint. It had been recently painted because the paint was still wet, Attached to it were a dry cell battery, a flashlight bulb, some wires and a buzzer. He asked if we were not, that we had referred the matter to the Army, and suggested that he call them. I subsequently telephoned Captain Calvert, the Duty Officer at G-2, and passed on to him the information furnished by Sergeant Lonis. Sante G. I. R. 5 FPG: jc RECORDED EX - 56 62-83894-17 36 JUL 77 1947 24 20 КЛОН ВЕСЕЛЕВ 57JUL 24 1947

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GIN" FBI DALLAS 7-8-47 DIRECTOR AND SAC, CINCINNATI th 6-17 PM Harry URGENT FLYING DISC, INFORMATION CONCERNING. MAJOR CURTAN, HEADQUARTERS EIGHTH AIR FORCE, TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED THIS OFFICE THAT AN OBJECT PURPORTINC TO BE A FLYING DISC WAS RE COVERED NEAR ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO, THIS DATE. THE DISC IS HEXAGONAL IN SHAPE AND WAS SUSPENDED FROM A BALLON BY CABLE, WHICH BALLON WAS APPROXIMATELY TWENTY FEET IN DIAMETER. MAJOR CURTAN FURTHER ADVISED THAT THE OBJECT FOUND RESEMBLES A HIGH ALTITUDE WEATHER BALLOON WITH A RADAR REFLECTOR, BUT THAT TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION BETWEEN THEIR OFFICE AND WRIGHT FIELD HAD NOT SOR ADIO BORNE OUT THIS BELIEE. DISC AND BALLOON BEING TRANSPORTED TO WRIGHT FIELD BY SPECIAL PLANE FOR EXAMINATIC INFORMATION PROVIDED THIS OFFICE BECAUSE OF NATIONAL INTEREST IN CASE PEAK AND FACT THAT NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, ASSOCIATED PRESS, AND OTHERS ATTEMPTING TO BREAK STORY OF LOCATION OF DISC TODAY. MAJOR CURTAN ADVISED WOULD REQUEST WRIGHT FIELD TO ADVISE CINCINNATI OFFICE RESULTS OF EXAMINATION. NO FURTHER INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED. N2-8394-18 29 JUL 22 1947 EX-29 -WYLY RECORDED END CXXXX ACK IN ORDER VA 92 FBI CI MJW BPI H8 8-38 PM 0 8-22 PM OK FBI WASH DE sw Reyp cc. Mr. A

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AL BURE" TIGATION U. 3, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMMUNIGATIONS SECTION 1 TE PAYE FBI NEW ORLEANS DIRECTOR FBI 7-7-47 8-02 MSo ney Ro CGE VERY URGENT FLYING DISCS, _MISCELLANEOUS. F. CHARISTON, FIFTEEN FIFTY FOUR AVENUE, SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA ADVISES HE OBSERVED. A CIRCULAR DISC AT SIX FIVE PM THIS DATE COMING FROM NW DIRECTION. DISC LANDED IN FIFTEENI HUNDRED BLOCK OF TEXAS AVENUE. HAIRSTON PICKED UP DISC AT FIFTEEN FIFTY FOUR TEXAS AVENUE. DISC WHIRLING WHEN SEEN IN AIR AND FIRE SEEN SPOUTING EROM SIDES. FIRE WENT OUT ON LANDING AND SMOKE ISSUED FEW SECONDS AFTER FIRE WENT OUT. DISC PICKED UP AND NOT HOT. M HAIRSION NOTIFIED C-2 BARKSDALE IMMEDIATELY AND THEY TOOK DISC BEFORE SA ARRIVED. DISC DESCRIPTION-- THIN ALUMINUM DISC SIXTEEN INCHES IN DIAMETER. HAS SMALL COILS TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER AND FOUR INCHES LONG AT THE ENDS OF THE DIAMETER. COILS CONNECTED BY TWO COPPER WIRES TO TWO TERMINALS ON EACH COIL AND THESE WIRES ARE CONNECTED AT THE CROSSING IN THE CENTER OF THE DISC TO AN OBJECT ONE INCH IN DIAMETER BY TWO INCHES LONG, SIMILIAR TO STARTER ON FLOURESCENT LIGHT. CENTER OBJECT HAS ON UPPER END - --MADE IN USA--MADE SOUND LIKE A POLICEMAN-S WHISTLE AND SMOOTH SIDE TOWARD EARTH IN FLIGHT. BARKSDALE FIELD AGREED IF NOT HARMFULL. WOULD TURN OVER TO FBI IF WE WANT IT SUBJECT TO SUPERIOR INSTRUCTIONS• NAMES OF ALL PERSON WHO HANDLEI AGENT SECURED. 1 @BARKSDALE FI REC DISC BEFORE ARRIVAL OF AND FORWARD PHOTOS TO BUREAU. MAKING PHOTOS • 62-83897-19 LL SECURE BELIEVED PRESS AWARE OF INCIP 22 1947 C CEKS ms told

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RECORDED 01.53 July 10, 1947 62 - 83894-20 MT. Le Ca 1. Hoersch 349 Central Avenue Jersey Citu, Hew Jeraey Dear Ur. Hoerach: Tour letter dated July 6, 1947, has been recelued and I do want to thank you for nating thia information, ausslable to me. Your interest is appreciated. Sincerely yours, John Sagar Hoover Director FRY im jo Tolson the Wd 6E E 1, m Herod Pennington Quinn Tara Wiss Cand C COMMUNICATIONS SECTION MAILED 11 * JUL 11 1947 P.M ĐG 6 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 494 aw

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CMA#. G MAGREYNOLDS TELEPHONE 2-14 The MarKeynolds 305-307 Sunset Atenue Ashury Mark, New Jersey 7/6/42 Federal Bureau of Inuestigation washing ton, D.C. sentlemen: I thought it was a ballow bul i O menl in a definite diuction at an apparently conctaul yeed t adely anting fallowig, patt bulled bul ropeasked i the long the elDer line! 3. at the dance hall. I hope this may to you, youre vy luly nnl ach 349 Central Ave 11' versey CiTyNN.

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Mr. J. Edgar Hoover Wash. D.C. Doesn't it seem wisest for you to forbid papers - No not forbid - but ask the co-operation of all papers) to keep all news of those discs out of the news untillyou are sure just what they are & where from. Seems to us with all the enemies we have, even within our borders, it could be something far more important than may seem at first. I had 2 sons in this war & another who over-did for his America - & we do want it really protected from danger from now on. Enough are dead & maimed - with-out losing out now as it easily could be. Why have the papers carried that story if reporters were made to see how much more sensible not to report - it except to the F.B.I. There is too much of danger ahead anyway -- Hastily / s/ y. T. Norris 1734 Thome Ave Chicago - TRUE COPY

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : D. M. Ladd DATE: FROM H. B. Fletcher July 11, 1947 SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS Mer 2. 40 Clogg N1cho 18 XO801 Tracy Egan Gurnee Harro Hendon Pennington Quinn Tany Holmes M188 Gandy SAC Bannister of the Butte Office called at noon today and stated that a Mrs. Fred Basterbrook, 215 7th Avenue East, Twin Falls, Idaho, at 2:45 a.m. Mountain Time today heard a noise in the back of her home. She thought a collision had occurred and investigated and found in the back yard of the home next door an object described as follows: A disc 302" in diameter, circular in shape, it is dished like a saucer and actually there is a saucer within a saucer in the manner of cymbals. On one surface there is attached a plastic dome described as about 14" in diamter and affixed by 8 bolts in a rather rough manner. The bolts can best be described as similar to stove bolts. On the other surface is another dome of metal which is gold in color on one side and on the inside is silver in color, which looks like tin. Through the plastic dome can be ob- served three tubes similar to radio tubes and there is some wiring. The disc generally is 10" thick and at the point where the domes are located about 14" in thickness. There is an object on it similar to electric coil which has some type of an arm on it and bears the words "Inspected TS". Some of the wiring has been burned off and it looks as though something might be missing• Mr. Bannister stated that if this were the work of some prankster he went to quite a bit of trouble. He stated the press is aware of this incident. He stated that the dise had been picked up and was now at the Police Department, Twin Falls, Idaho. He was instructed to notify the local Army authorities of the existence of this disc. RECORDED INDEXED 2 HBF: PEs ICe 2 00 bh s43 cx - 65 MECCINED 62-83894- 21 37 JUL 22 1947 71 Pukh 51 JUL 301947 144 papers

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RECEIVED LIAISON SECTION HUL 16 5 09 PM ?47 FBI • S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE RECEIVED SuL 16 10 02 AM °17 INTERNAL SECURITY Jubbl 4 39 PM '47 F. B. I. -PT. OF JUSTI RECEIVED-LADE FBI S. DEDE DE TUSTICE RECEIZIO hARBO RECEIVEN lUL 17 10 08 AM '47 CHNICAL LABORATOBY F B S. DER /SE JUSTICE 9 29 AM 247 RECEIVED-LADD 0F02 JUSTING 15 J0I. 47: 10 22 AM 307 г B LABORATORY DIVISION

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July 18, 1947 nh Norris 173L Thone Averue Chicago, Illinoia R EXo Dear In. Nons 8 94-22 12 wish to acknoledge receipt of your letter postmariced duly 7, 1947 INDEXithe Inforntion contained therein has been carefully reviewed and la being mack 16V a natter of permenent record in the files of this Bureau. Your interest in waiting an you did is indeed apprecisted. In the future should you have information which you feel right be of interest to this Burenu you wight find it convenient to contact the Specinl Agent In Charge of our Chi ongo OFFice, which in located at 1900 Benierst Fullding, Chicago 3, 1131n01s. Sincerely yours, cc. - Chicago Jolm Edgar Hoover Director There in no identifiable information in the Bureau's files concerning the writer of this letter. Despite the fact that this letter refers to "flying discs", it is not believed that the information furnished is mufficiently important to refer to Army authorities.) WVC : WMJ Mr. Mohr Pennington quinn TaTe COMMUNIGATIONS SECTION MAILED 10 JUL 18 1947 P.M. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 14131947

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hilif you are sure war t awother who just-what the y are T overdid for his America - Whee prome. I we do waut it Seems to really protected forc with all dange pou чок ди the enemies me lave, even dead y mained - wilhe - ville our tales, - could be somelhe but losers sat now far more umportach than as t teasily could be. Tay seem at first? Ти на and the papers carried had 2 cows u • Пи That etory - froforters

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made To see ne how muck :. Tore surible not to refort Прега is Ба повід danger ahead any Hastily Sorrie 70.. 14734 Проше 6 03013038 лісадо TЛ3038 Uk) Edgar door Flying Nice. rash. Д.C. -Don't it seem wisest for you to fertid pafers, no rot fertil - tata the co- operation pal. RECORDED 62-83894-9 racs out - d Kie news

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• STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO MR. LADD DATE: FROM : Roy Er Wood July 10, 1947 Mr. To 180 Tam A. SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS (DISCS) INFORMATION CONCERNING Ke 555 Harbo Pennington Quinn amn Room At 5:45 AM this date, SAC Hood telephonically contacted the Miss Holi Bureau and advised at approximately 11:30 PM, July 9, 1947, the office Miss Candy. in Los Angeles had received information from the Resident Agent at Burbank, Califomia, that a "flying dise" had landed in or near Burbank and had been seen to burst into flame when it landed. Further, that it had been the cause of a fire in some woods, this fire either in Burbank or possibly in the either limits of Los Angeles, which Mr. Hood could not be certain. The fire chief' at Burbank had called the resident agent at Burbank and told him he would hold the disc for him. Coincident with the information received from Burbank, the Los Angeles Office received calls from the newspapers requesting information. The newspapers stating they had called the Army Air Force Intelligence who had stated "we are not interested". According to Mr. Hood, this comment had aroused the newspapers and they stated they intended to publish this quotation and belabor same in their firstissues. Mr. Hood stated that he had refrained from making any statement to the press other than to admit possession of an object and that it was being turned over to military authorities in the noming (this AM), it being Mr. Hood's opinion that he did not want any quotes in the press and certainly not one to the effect that we were not interested. As described to him, Mr. Hood stated that the object was an aluminum dise about 2' in diameter weighing about ten pounds, painted with aluminum paint and having some sort of a radio tube in the center of the disc. This object was in possession of the resident agent at Burbank and would be turned over to military authorities (G-2) in Los Angeles this morning• RECORDED 12- 83894 -2- r. Hood's purpose in calling was to place the Bureau on notice regardin the above described object and any further information would be transmitted to the Bureau at once. 37 JUL 22 1947 -53 Action: None indicated. Лі ПА REW: da at let oh 160 57JUL29

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U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE JuL 10 10 31 AM '47 RECEIVED-TAMM U.S. DEPF. BF JUSTICE JuL 10 9 15 AM °47 RECEIVED RECFIVED ATOM SECTION Jut 16052 16 PM '47 RECEIVED LIAISON SECTION •F. B. I. 10 24-ÂM S DEAD OF JUSTICE FBI DEPT. OF JUSTICE ỤL 17 12.28 PM '47 CHNICAL LABORATOR: F S. DEPT OF JUSTICE J5 ST. 40 5 0g PM. MT: ờc 10 2 33 PM 347 RECENED-TORSON F B U.S. DEPT OF JUSTICE

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Once Memor Maum • UNITED STA LES GOVERNMENT Anto пром SUBJECT: Director, FBI SAC, Los Angeles RECOVERY OF "FLYING DISC" NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, JULY 9, 1947 DATE: July 17, 1947 On the evening of July 9, 1947, a report was received at the Los Angeles Office that a so-called "flying dise" had landed in the vicinity of Radford and Magnolia Streets in North Hollywood, California, the contraption being briefly described as approximately 30 inches in diameter, all metal, disc shaped, and having a radio antenna. It was reported to have burst into flames upon landing. At the time of the report the disc was being held at the Valley Fire Department in Van Nuys, California. SA RICHARD D. AUERBACH went to the fire department immediately at which time it was found that a number of people had gathered including news- paper reporters and photographers who were taking pictures of the disc. Battalion Fire Chief WALLACE E. NEWCOMB advised Agent that at approximately 10:30 P.M., an unknown woman called on the telephone and excitedly reported that the disc had dropped into her garden where it began to flame, her residence being located at 11858 Magnolia Boulevard, North Hollywood. fire department truck was sent there and put out the flaming object with the fire hose, after which the object was taken to the fire station. SA AUERBACH thereafter arranged to transport the disc to the office. The device is briefly described as consisting of two convex steel discs approximately 2 feet in diameter, fused together at the outer edge and fastened together in the center by a hollow cylindrical connection. vertical galvanized iron fin was screwed to the top of the disc, and a short length of pipe closed at one end ran from the outer circumference into the interior of the contraption. What appeared to be a radio tube was installed in the center of the top side. The contraption had a total weight of approximately 20 pounds. At the Bureau Office a series of photographs were taken of the device from various positions, and a set of these photographs are being forwarded herewith for the Bureau's inspection and information. The "flying disc" was thereafter turned over to Major COURTNEY VI. G-2, Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, California, who subsequent- Iy reported that the obfect was definitely a hoax and under no circumstances could have flown under its own power. ATTACHED EX-64 RECORDED INDEXED 102 62 - 83894 JUL 23 1947 24 EX-64 6 0 0 CT 2.70 NOV 18 1964

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RECEIVED 1. 3) 12. 35 PM: INTERNAL SECURITY F. B. I. T. OF 13 RECEIVED LIAISON SECTION luL 31 3 06 PM '47 RECEIVED 2 00 РИЗЫ DEPT. / BI JUSTICE IG 7 -NICAL ABORATOR S. DEPT OF JUSTICE

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Director, FBI Re: RECOVERY OF "FLYING DISC", NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, JULY 9, 1947 July 17, 1947 On the following day, July 10, 1947, one FRANK V. BROWN, 6552 Teesdale Avenue, North Hollywood, reported that on this morning he was at the North Hollywood Service Station eating at which time there was considerable talk about the flying disc having been found in the vicinity. A number of what appeared to be young high school students were present and were having quite a laugh about the excitement caused by the finding of the disc. BROWN stated that he received a definite impression that these young students either had themselves or knew of someone who had been working for the past two weeks making this "flying dise". BROWN was unable to furnish the names of any of these young men but identified one of them who was making the statements as being employed in a Chevron Service Station at the corner of Victory Boulevard and Whitsett Street. He described the youngster as about sixteen years of age. The above information was also furnished to the G-2 Office at San Pedro, California. MMB: MGM 100-9099 ENC. (3) - 2 -

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : Director, FBI WHEROM : SAC, Butto SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS DATA: JULY 36/2047 Marney 96. FreTchen Mr. DAVE JOHNSON, of the Idaho Daily Statesman, Boise, Idaho, tele- phonically contacted the Butte Office and asked if the FBI was checking on the flying discs reported to have been seen by many citizens. He advised that so many had reported having seen them that it undoubtedly was not a figment of the imagination. He said that these discs had been seen on July 1, 1947, in the vicinity of Trail Creek near Sun Valley, Idaho, by reputable citizens. DEFE The writer informed Mr. JOHNSON that this office was not making an investigation and inquired as to whether he had contacted Army and Navy officials. He said that he was inquiring of these agencies. WGB: LB AIR MAIL EX - 46 51 AUG 5 "1947 RECORDEI INDEXEI 71 eukh 62- 83894-25 36 JUL 23 1947

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JUL 1 6 1947 Ovn TELETYPE 10 15 5 00 FBI SIR 7-16-47 CTOR URGENT FLYING DISKS. MRS. T. L.TKREMMER, TWO SIX NAUGHT EIGHT DASH MIEMEYmm. Mr. Nease THIRD AVE•, WEST, SEATTLE, REPORTED FLYING DISK HAD LANDED ABOUT NINE FORTY TWO PM LAST NIGHT, THAT IT WAS BURNING AT INMEDIATELY EXTINGUISHED. SHE ALSO ADVISED ONI, AND DISK FELL SHORT DISTANCE FROM THEIR OFFICES. AGENTS IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED TO SCEN AND RECOVERED DISK TAKEN ONI OFFICES AND EXAMINED BY NAVY BOMB AND ELECTRONICS M # EXPERTS AND AGENTS. DISK DESCRIBED AS ABOUT I TUENTY EICHT INCH GEOMEN CIRCULAR PIECE THREE SIXTEENTH INCH PLYWOOD CUPPED UP ON TWO SIDES AND HELD THIS POSITION BY WIRE ACROSS ITS CENTER. DISK NEWLY PAINTED LIGHT GRAY OUTSIDE AND RED INSIDE, AND INSIDE OF DISK MAD PRINTED LETTERS IN WHITE PAINT AS FOLLOWS QUOTE US S R UNQUOTE, ALSO QUOTE E Y R UNQUOTE, WHICH WOULD APPEAR TO BE RYZ PRINTED BACKUARD AND A HAMMER AND SICKLE. MOUNTED ON PIECES OF BAKELITE IN THE CENTER OF THE INSIDE OF THE DISK DERE TO RADIO TUBES, WHICH WERE WIRED UP AND ALSO SO MOUNTED WAS ABOUT A QUART TYRE CYLINDRICAL SHAPED OIL CAN TO WHICH WAS FITTED A SHORT PIECE OF RU RDER TUBING RUNNING FROM CAN TO ENTRANCE TO A PIECE OF ONE INCH POE NABOUT FOURTEEN INCHES LONG. CORDAD/ THE PIPE EXTENDED THROUGH THE DISK AND 04 63894-26 PIPE WAS ABOUT A SIX INCH PIECE OF CLOTH WAS WOUND ABOUT AND STUCK INTO THE END OF THE PIPE. THE ENDS EX-57 T113 CLOTH WEAT BURNING. THE CLOTH WAS SATURATED WITH SOME SUBSTANCE 137 A08 1 PAGE ONE

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RECEIVEU NICHOLO JUL 17 7 00.PM RECEIVED-LAGE RECEIVED-TAMM FBI U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE JuL 16 4 28 PM °47 RECEIVED, IL 24 - 12 16 RECLIVED-VE 25019 43 AM 247 S. DEPT OF JUSTICE АБОРАГОВ: S. DEPT OF JUSTICE: Ju. 16 2 34 РМ °47 fuL 17 DEPT. OF JUSTICE FBI RECEIVED LIAISON SECTION 3 12 PM °47

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PAGE TWO BELIEVED TO BE TURPENTINE. CONSENSUS OF ALL PRESENT PRESENT THAT DISK COULD NOT FLY. DISK PRESENTLY IN POSSESSION OF ONI SEATTLE AND NO INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED. NO PUBLICITY THUS FAR AND NO COMMENT BEING MADE IN EVENT PRESS INQUIRES ARE RECEIVED• END m 10 MAYNOR 2-22 PM OK FBI WA про д.с.

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RECEIVED UL 17 9 48 AM '* INTERNAL SECURITY F. B. I. TOT. OF HIS RECEIVED NOISES NOSIN S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE Jur. 16 7 00 PM 347 RECEIVED-LAUD OF P JUSTI F.B.I. DEPT. OF JUSTICE JUL 16 2 26 PM '47 RECEIVED TELETYPE UNIT

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO BROM SUBJECT: DIRECTOR, FBI SAC, NEW HAVEN "FLYING SAUCERS" EDWIN M. BAILEY, JR. STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, INFORMANT ATOMIC ENERGY ACT DATE: July 18, 1947 Karney For the information of the Bureau this is to advise that on July 7, 1947, EDWIN M. BAILEY, Jr•, 6 Home Court, Stamford, Connecticut, appeared at the Stamford Resident Agent's office and furnished the following information;- Mr • BAILEY prefaced his remarks by stating that he is a scientist by occupation and is currently employed at the American Cyanamid Research Laboratories on West Main Street in Stanford, Connecticut, in the Physics Division. Mr. BAILEY further indicated that during the war he was employed at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Radiation Laboratory which Labora- tory is connected with the Manhattan Project. BAILEY advised that he is thirty years of age and is a graduate of the University of Arizona. Mr. BATLEY stated that the topic of "flying saucers" had caused considerable comment and concern to the present day scientists and indicated that he him- self had a personal theory concerning the "flying saucers". Prior to advancing his own theory, BAILEY remarked that immediately after the conclu- sion of World War II, a friend of his, RENATO FECHETTI, allegedly observed the "flying saucers" from an observatory in Milan and Bologna, Italy. He stated that apparently at that time the "flying saucers" had caused a little comment in Italy but that after some little publicity they imnediately died out as public interest. Mr. BAILEY stated that it is quite possible that actually the "flying saucers" could be radio controlled germ bombs or atom bombs which are circling the orbit of the earth and which could be controlled by radio and directed to land on any designated target at the specific desire of the agency or country operating the bombs. He stated that one of the items of interest which he personally has observed is the fact that the saucers have been observed in Mexico City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Halifax, Newfoundland, Paris, Milan, Bologna and Yugoslavia as well as Albania. By placing a string around the globe of the earth rec KANOORDEL 162-83894-27 FXM/clb 117-0 EX-36 15 JUL 22 1947 60 AUG 4 ' 19471 COPIES DESTROYED 270 NOV 18 1964

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RECEIVED ATOMIC ENCE SECTION JuL 23 4 26 PM 347 F. B. I. U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE fudlud to BiN 5 7-23 22 fiodlud 129 es RECFIVED RECEIVED ATOM C C+ SECTION 1 24 9 03 AM düL 28 9 20 AM *47 INTERNAL SECURITY F. B. I. F. B. I. -TOT. OF JUST U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE

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Letter to the DIRECTOR, FBI "FLYING SAUCERS" EDWIN M. BAILEY, JR., STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, INFORMANT ATOMIC ENERGY ACT July 18, 1947 would be noticed that all of the above-mentioned cities form a direct orbit or circle around the earth and would be more or less in line of any path in which the saucers could be circling. Mr • BAILEY further stated that he had recently talked with RICHARD PERKIN, one of the owners of Perkin-Elmer Company in Glenbrook, Connecticut, and had been inforned by Mr. PERKIN that his company is making a large powerful telescope to be used in searching the strato- sphere for atom bombs. GENED

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4 AM 119149 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CEMMUNICATIONS SECTION JUL 18 1947 TERTYRE. Мети Mr. Tolson Е. А. Тати Mr. CleRk - Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols. Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Egan. Mr. Gurnen Mr. Mohr . Mr. Pennington Mr. Quinn Tamm. Mr. Nease Miss Gant WASHINGTON FROM BOSTON, 3 18 - 53P DIRECTOR Z lyn thr METAL. FRAGMENTS OBSERVED AT WEST RINDGE, N.H•,JULY SEVEN, FORTY EVEN, SECURITY MATTER-X.. DEAN JOHN IS JUNKER, SECURITY OFFICER, M.I.T., CAMBRIDGE, MASS., ADVISED THAT TODAY HE WAS IN CONTACT WITH ONE CHARLES N TASKER, OF WEST RINDGE, N.H., A RETIRED VICE PRESIDENT OF THE NEW ENGLAND TEL. AND TEL.CO. MR. TASKER ADVISED THAT AT APPROXIMATEY THREE PM ON JULY SEVEN LAST SEVERAL PEOPLE SITTING ON A PORCH OBSERVED ON THE LAWN OF EARL TIHITÉHEAD, ROUTE TWO NAUGHT TWO, WEST RINDGE, NOH., LITTLE CURT. OF SMOKE, WHICH ON INSPECTION DISCLOSED SMALL BURNED WISES SPOTS ABOUT ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES IN DIAMATER ON THE GREEN LAWN. ALSO IN THE LONG DRY BRASS ON BOTH SIDES OF ROAD IN A CIRCLE APPROXIMATELY TWO HUNDRED FEET IN DIAMETER SEVERAL LITTLE BLAZES HAD STARTED AND THE FIRE 8800% DEPT.UAS CALLED. TIRES WERE APPARNTLY CAUSED BY METALLIC FRAGMENTATIONS WHICH WERE TURNED OVER TO PROFESSOR RENTGES, OF MIT, BY A MR. PARKE DAAPPEL, OF THE TELEPHONE COMPANY. RENTGES HAS ADVISED DEAN BUNKER THAT THEIR GENERAL APPEARANCE ARE SIMILAR TO THE LINING OF V DASH TWO BOMBS, WHICH HE HAD OBSERVED AT NEW MEXICO 12 F PROFESSOR L.H. W WALD, AN OURRGORDED INDEX WH MTALLURGIST AT MIT TATED THAT THEY ARE POSSIBLY THE EX-64 TROM A SE • TURBO PLANE. ^ 28 IS ENT TIME HE IS IN PROCESS OF ANALYZING TWO OEOTHESE PIECES. THESE SCIENTISTS IN ROUGHLY RECONSTRUCTIN THE METALLIC OBJECT STATE 58 AIL 15154748 FOURTEEN INCHES IN DIAMETER, THREE COPIES DESTROYED A-----END PAGE ONE- --270 NÓV 18 1964

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---PAGE TWO---- SIXTEENTHS OF AN INCH THICK, AND MACHINE TOOLED, AND SOME FRAGMENTS INDICATED THEY WERE BURNED AND # APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO TERRIFIC HEAT. THESE SCIENTISTS ARE TREATING THIS MATTER AS CLASSIFIED INFORMATION. MR. E • TASKER, AT WEST RINDGE, N.H. IS ALSO ENDEAVORING TO COLLECT ADDITIONAL FRAGMENTS AND HAS STATED THAT THE FIRE CHIEF AT WEST RINDGE HAS ALSO SEVERAL FRAGMENTS IN HIS POSSESSION. MR. TASKER INDICATED THAT THE WHITEHEAD RESIDENCE IS SEVEN TO EIGHT HUNDRED FEET EAST OF THE RAILROAD TRACKS. DEAN BUNKER STATED HE WILL MAKE THE RESULTS OF M IT RESEARCH AVAILABLE IF SIGNIFICANT. OPINIONS OF SCIENTMISTS AS SET FORTH ABOVE SUGGEST POSSBLE MILITARY INTEREST. MILITARY AUTHORITIES AT BOSTON HAVE NOT BEEN NOTIFIED. SOUCY HOLD On 40 ga сс - жи. Дале

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W July 23, 1947 RECORDED 162-83894 29 INDEXED Mra. John Maurice Clark 42 Wright Sareet Westpores Connect cut Dear Urs. Clark: Tour letter dased July 17, 1947, cogether with enclosures, has been received and I want to thank you for aubmitting che lesser you menssoned to me. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director. COMMUNICATIONS SECTION MAILED 2 -JUL 23 1947 P.M. FEDERAL BURGAU OF. INVESTIGATION D. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE BHuspib Mohr Pennington Quinn Tarn ele. Room Miss Gandy БИ ОСТ 111047167

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Mr. Tolson. Mr. E. A. Tamm MRS. JOHN MAURICE CLARK THREE CORNERED POND R. F. D. 6 AUGUSTA. MAINE Mr. Clops Mr. Glavin • Lado Nichola Nr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, F.B.I. Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Hoover: Flyi " Disc Mr. Egan Mr. Gurnea • Mr. Harbo. Mr. Mohr Mr. Pennington … The enclosed came to my husband yesterday. Quion Tamm.. After reading it aloud to the family, as a good example of crack-pot-ism, advertising or what have you, he threw g it into the wastebasket. I retrieved it, thinking it might better go into your wastebasket than ours, examined by your department en route thither, as of possible value. I presume several thousand have been mailed, and you may reveive numberless duplicates. I will risk that. Mr. Clark as an economist at Columbia University receives many strange missives. This is as strange a one as has come for some time, and very appropriate to the present moment. Sincerely yours, Winifred G/ClarK Mrs. J.M.Clark July 17, 1947 wiped M. Clank Home address: 41 Wright St. Westport, Conn. Dr. John M- Xe-lark 4-57 R28OORD80 62-83894-29 IN DEXED 28 15 JUL 28.1947 EX-57

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MR. JONES In 22 9 08 AM 347 RECEIVED RECEIVED® BI VESTIGATIVE DIVISION ICA Ост 1 1| 47 АМ 347 VED-ROSEN FBI S. DEPT OF JUSTICE RESEIVEU в I NEPT OF JUSTIE fur. 21 5 28 PM 9V) TECEP DIRECTOR U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTILL JuL 21 3 29 REctiveD-POSEN Ост | / 19 PM 217 FBI DEPT OF JUSTICE

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July 1l, 1947. Dear Sir: Have you seen one of the mysterious "Saucers"? What did it look like? Do you think these strange, celestial manifesta- tions are harbingers of a better day? Do you believe it means that a new and revolutionary advance is coming? useful? Will it make your life brighter, happier, more We believe one of these startling discs is on its way to you. Then the secret will be out. The Combined and Amalgamated Committee of Sky-Scanners, Disc Decipherers and New-Product Introducers. 62.83894-29 ENCLOSURE

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July 10, 1947 Mr. Woodson e. Cope C11ffside Hall San Marcos, Texas Dear Vr. Cope: , 7, 19,70 I wish to acknowledge receipt of your lestern Union telegran dated July 7, 1917. Tour interest in making this information available to me is greatly appreciated. Inasmach as the contents of your telegran appear to be of interest to the War Department only, I have taken the liberty of making the infornation furnished by you available to that Department. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director Tolson Gurnea Harbo Mohr Pennington Quinn Term cc - San Antonio NOTE: The telegran referred to "flying discs." RECORDED EX-64 INDEXED 2-83894 - 30 89 51 JuL 28 1942 FO SNIOVAN 05AI3031 COMMUNICATIONS SECTION MAILED 2 * JUL 14 1947 P.M. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIBATION U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CaN 0 AUG 1 1 1942 WVC :mn

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MESAT У FOOd TIVI-CA303E CLSTODa8 132* Hô -XC ИОНТОЗа СИОТАЗІИММОО S •M.9 TAPT 1 J JUL МОСТАВІТОВУИЕ 30 VASAUA 1AR3633

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July 10, 1947 72054 Trais Mro da Ve Slatte, Jr. Darlington, South Carolina Dear Me. Wabtat I wish to almonledge receipt of your Western Union telegran dated July 6, 1947. Tour interest in bringing this infornation to my attention is greatly appreciated. Inamuch as the contents of your telegrun appear to be of interest to the War Department only, I have taken the liberty of turning this inforation over to that Department. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director cc - Savannah COMMUNICATIONS SECTION JUL 141947 P.M. RECORDED 3- INDEX 6ID FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U. S, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 119 EX-53 Nease g Gand WVC :mn GU AUL 6 - 19470

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NE DESPHINENE DE IRALICE LEDEBVE BRBEYN DE INAEGLIEVAOR, 20г 11 1811 3 17 PM °47 RECEIKED-MAIL ROOM WVITED СOWWПИICYLOИ2 РЕСЛіА» JUSTICE 83 а 5501 abissatur

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AUG 14.1947 Cow TELETYPE Ree 10°g Mir, Taigoo Mr. B. A. Tamm Clepa Mr. Nichols Mr. Rosén Me. Tracy Mr. Izan. Mr. Gurnea Mobr FBI SEATTLE 8-14-47 5-15 PM DIRECTOR ROUTINE The ghin FLYING DISCS SIGHTED BY FRED CHRISMAN AND HAROLD A. DAHL, TACOMA, WASHINGTON, SM X. REURTEL INSTANT DATE. PLEASE BE ADVISED THA JOU DAHL DID NOT ADMIT TO SMITH THAT HIS STORY WAS A HOAX BUT ONLY STATED THAT IF QUESTIONED BY AUTHORITIES HE WAS GOING TO SAY IT WAS A HOAX BECAUSE HE DID NOT WANT ANY FURTHER TROUBLE OVER THE MATTER. COMPLETE REPORT NOW EN ROUTE TO BUREAU AMSD, WHICH INDICATES PROBABLY CHRISMAN OR DAHL MADE THE ANONYMOUS PHONE CALL IN THE HOPE OF BULDING UP THEIR STORY THROUGH PUBLICITY TO A POINT WHERE THEY COULD MAKE A PROFITABLE DEAL WITH FANTASY MAGAZINE, CHICAGO ILLINOIS. DAHL AND CHRISMAN WILL NOT BE REINTERVIEWED UNLESS ADVISED TO THE GONTA CONTRARY BY THE BUREAU. 62 83894-32 WILCOX RECORDED INDEXED AUG 16.1 A AND HOLD PLS G. I. R. -FC: Mr. Fletcher 9-16 PM OK FBI WASH DC GAR 3 AUG 2 6 19400 25 2 EX-67 5- RA

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DV1 HEA 00 RECEIVED TTP GuG 15 9 31 AM 2ц7 INTERNAL SECURITY -D УТВОЛІДИТ ПОЛОЛИТ ЗЛОТО ПІОНТ- F. B. I. 90:111 HOWA О В ОСЕ ВІТАНТ ИГЛО ОЛ РТУТА ТОРТЕОТНИЯ A PONCENTE Залат бантяит осил тат тон ста знадинаты KEINO DE ake. LINN ЗАЛ13734 0341303

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FLYING DISCS -- The Bureau, at the request of the Army Air Forces Intelligence, has agreed to cooperate in the investigation of flying discs. The Air Forces have confidentially advised that it is possible to release three or more discs in odd numbers, attached together by a wire, from an airplane in high altitudes and that these discs would obtain tremendous speed in their descent and would decend to the earth in an arc. The Army Air Forces Intelligence has also indicated some concern that the reporte sightings might have been made by subversive individuals for the purpose of reating a mass hysteria. 7-30-47 BUREAU BULLETIN NO. 42 Series 1947 - 2 - You should investigate each instance which is brought to your attention of a sighting of a flying disc in order to ascertain whether or not is is a bona fide sighting, an imaginary one or a prank. You should also bear in mind that individuals might report seeing flying discs for various reasons. It is conceivable that an individual might be desirous of seeking personal publicity, causing hysteria or playing a prank. The Bureau should be notified immediately by teletype of all. reported sightings and the results of your inquiries. In instances where the report appears to have merit, the teletype should be followed by a letter to the Bureau containing in detail the results of your inquiries. The Army Air Forces have assured the Bureau complete cooperating in these matters and in any instances where they fail to make information available to you or make the recovered discs available for your examination, it should promptly be brought to the attention of the Bureau. ORIGINAL Any information you develop in connection with these discs should be promptly brought to the attention of the Army through your usual liaison channels. 162-83894- GOT RICORDED 78 AUA 4.1947 152 5K AIG 181007

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AFTER FIVE DAYS RETURN TO 6512 Mission St Daky City, Call? 1941% Mr J Bager Hoover J.B.I. Weshington, D.C. UNITED ST POS ES AGE BUILD YOUR WISELY, SI 3 CENTS 3 U.S. SAVINGS

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6513 Minion St. per 4-4469 M. LOS COMMUNTCATIONS ENVELOR A ATTACHED диаси elles Daly City Sheet Metal Works Air Conditioning - Gas Furnaces Sky Lights - General Repairing July 20 Mr J Edgar Hoover 194 Washingten. D.C. 8 Dear Sir, • I lying Sauced Reading about Kennbth Arnold seeing these flyling saucers. I got a brain- storm, Maybe there is someone that ie Manufacturing a contraption that could be sent up • by Remote Control. and could be used against us. You- 1.P sen 252 RECORDRD 50 SEP 30.1947 INDEXED 129 162-83894-34 36 JUL 31 1947

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MR. JONES 1. 25 3 09 PM 247 RECEIVED F B 1 S DFPT OF JUSTICE Rana 251

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This image contains all the NDARD FORM NO. 64 information on the document. Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO FROM : D. M. LADDI : E. G. Fitch DATE: 7/10/47 SUBJECT: FLYING DISKS At request of Brigadier General George F. Schulgen, Chief of the Requirements Intelligence Branch of Army Air Corps Intelligence, Special Agent S. W. Reynolds discussed the above captioned matter with him on July 9, 1947. General Schulgen indicated to Mr. Reynolds that the Air Corps has taken the attitude that every effort must be undertaken in order to run down and ascertain whether or not the flying disks are a fact and, if so, to learn I- about them. According to General Schulgen, the Air Corps Intelligence are 11zing all of their scientists in order to ascertain whether or not such a nomenon could in fact occur. He stated that this research is being conducted the thought that the flying objects might be a celestial phenonenon and with view that they might be a foreign body mechanically devised and controlled. 1 General Schulgen also indicated to Mr. Reynolds that all Air Corps tallations have been alerted to run out each reported sighting to obtain all 1ble data to assist in this research project. In passing, General Schulgen ed that an Air Corps pilot who believed that he saw one of these objects was broughly interrogated by General Schulgen and scientists, as well as a pay- chologist, and the pilot was adanantine in his claim that he saw a flying disk. General Schulgen advised Mr. Reynolds that the possibility exists that the first reported sightinge of the so-called flying disks were fallacious and prompted by individuals seeking personal publicity, or vere reported for political reasons. He stated that if this was so, subsequent sightings might be the result of a mass hysteria. He pointed out that the thought exists that the first reported sightings night have been by individuals of Communist sympathies with the view to causing hysteria and fear of a secret Russian weapon. General Schulgen indicated to Mr. Reynolds that he is desirous of having all the angles covered in this matter. He stated that reports of his scientists and findings of the varlous Air Corps installations will be available in his office. He advised that to complete the picture he desired the assistence of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in locating and questioning the individuals who first sighted the so-called flying disks in order to ascertain whether or not they are sincere in their statements that they saw these disks, or whether their statements were prompted by personal desire for publicity or political reasons. General Schulgen assured Mr. Reynolds that there are no War Department or Navy Department research projects presently being conducted which could in any way be tied up with the flying disks. Genersl Schulgen indicated to Mr. Reynolds that if the Bureau would cooperate with him in this matter, he would offer all the run down this matter. and or an or a so romate elation a the e tort to tent on , 12-83894-. 33 Mr. Reynolds advised General Schulgen that his request would be made known to the Bureau and an answer made available to him as soon as possible. 51 AUG 7 194

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RECEN DIRE HO1: lago OF JUSTICI S/ 3 17 PM 2J7 RECEIVED -TAMM FBI U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE JuLl 8 51 AM *47 JUL 15 645 PM 97 RECEIVER HOLS I DEPT OF JUSTICE RECEIVEL-TOLSON 1 2 13 PM °47 F B1 U.S. DERT OF JUSTICE RECEIVED-TAMM US. DEPT. MAJUSTIC 27 PM 247 Jo. 15 8 35 AM 947 I EU-TOLSON U.S. DEPT OF JUSTICE ÂuG: 1 / 12 PM *47 RECEIVED-TAMM FBI W.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE

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Memorandum for Mr. Ladd Mr. Reynolds also discussed this matter with Colonel L. R. Forney of MID. Colonel Forney indicated that it was his attitude that inasmuch as it has been established that the flying disks are not the result of any Army or Navy experi- ments, the matter is of interest to the FBI. He stated that he was of the opinion that the Bureau, if at all possible, should accede to General Schulgen's request. SWR: AJB ADDENDUM I would recommend that we advise the Army that the Bureau does not believe it should go into these investigations, it being noted that a great bulk of those alleged discs reported found have been pranks. It is not believed that the Bureau would accomplish anything by going into these investigations. DMI → thuiky me should do this 1-15 vered. At on instance in the Sa case thy h epamination .

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July 30, 1947 0 Mr. George J. Pluskat 907 Seneca Avenue Brooklyn 27, New York DesticURDEliskat: 62-83894-35 I desire to aginowledge receipt of your letter dated July 14, 1947, and to express my apprediation to you for bringing this matter to my attention. The inforuation set forth in your letter has been carefully reviewed and is being maintained in this Bureau as a matter of record. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director NOTE: Pluskat has been a previous correspondent with the Bu file 62-0-34750. E: a No record could be located in the Crime Records Section indication that the Mr Might correspondent might be a mental case. COMMUNICATIONS SECTION Tracy Carson Egan Gur nea Harbol Mr. Hendon Pennington Quinn Candy JIS:FM MAILED 10 1947 P.M. FEDERA 58 AUG 13. BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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907 Sen AVe • , Brookly 37,3937 July 14th, 1947•, Mr. J. Edgar Hoover Chief, of the F.B.I. Washington, D.C. Dear Sir; Please forgive me for taking up your time,with this item It really 187 necessary. Yet,although everybodys tongue was wagging from the East and to the West coast,I couldn't resist putting my oar in. Flung saucers in the sky Heading for the Milky Way Funny?I dont know. read and read and read."Sky Disc Derby Open to All"-"Calls "Saucers"prick of Vision"-"Believe it or not,27 States see those flying saucers"-"Who saw the Saycers?40 States in the Game"-"Celestial Dishes sought between the Raindrops"- "Find 'Disk'is weather kite"-"Disks called chunks of Mirage"-"Report new Red Planes resemble 'Flying Saucers'".-Air-liner crew reports seeing 9 flying diske for 12 minutes" That's the way it went on,for days and days. Please,dont remind me that this id a military problem Soldiers faght the en- emy out in the open and away from home if possible The Federal Agents (the unsung a n1 1 81610 nine heroes)fight the ememy under cover and in their home grounds.So.Here I am. These so-dalled saucers may be kites,but according to reports, these things didn't flutter or float, they sailed and kites don't sail,the staanges part is, they all sailed in the same direction,from West to East. Rewards were offered,no collectors Planes chased them,none captured They had to land,no finders So•As long as the Military,Scientist and Civilians deny,being responsible for this Were doed it lead tozan enemy•A little while back, it was mentioned somewhere that Russia had or has a contraption for their next war,em- don't know-If a country was experimenting such a weapon, the brave people of the U.S were not scared They only informed the so-called enemy how successful they *hake were • It could be an optical illusion, or; supposing some unwelcomed persons, planted a few well chosen words, here and there and left the rest to ay confused mind. These innocent people reporting the phenomena. What confuses me is, that when we became too curious and determined to find out what they really are, those things disappeared and we found substitutes,calle kites These things resembling description as near as possible to the real thing- Why couldn't these things have been directed la ck home again like a homing pigeon? To make sport of this thing,is lad taste It sort of reminds me of the boy that cried WOLF. When the wolf really came Twas sad He,was a niceboy. There slould ho e suvure They should be con This POOH POOH business.is no joke. less or radicules We can't take any chances.At this age,Time is slow Man, is I had in mind that the floods were responsible for these disks (mirages) t) rushing waters of the Mississippi,Missourl, Platte,Columbia and Ohio Rivers.' sun going from East to West,plus the Catskill in the Easterly North, The Blu Ridge in the East and the Rocky Mountains in the West•Refactions, or were went from West to East-Hence the DIsks? REORBED 02 - 83991 Respectfully Submitt This image contains all the information on the document. Got go Pluskat. 12.

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MEMORANDUM FOR D. M. IADD 7/23/47 RECOMMENDATION There is attached a Bureau Bulletin to the Field for their assistance in handling this matter. Attachment - 2 -

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TANDARD FORM NO. 64 • Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO D. M. IADD DATE: 7/24/47 FROM : SUBJECT: E. Go Pitch FLYING DISCS Mr. Tolson Mr. E. A. 5555 Clegg Coffey Glavir Ladd Reference is made to my memorandum to you in the above captioned matter dated July 10, 1947, indicating that Brigadier General George F. Schulgen of the Army Air Corps Intelligence had requested that the Bureau cooperate with the Army Air Corps Intelligence in connection with the above Mohr Mr. Carsor Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Quinn Tele. Room Mr. Nease Miss Bea?m Miss Gands captioned matter. The Director noted on the referenced memorandum, "I would do it but before agreeing to it we must insist upon full access to dises recovered. For instance in the la, case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination." This is to advise that Special Agent Reynolds has recontacted General Schulgen and advised him in connection with the Director's notation. General Schulgen indicated to Mr. Reynolds that he desired to assure Mr. Hoover of complete cooperation in this matter and stated that he would issue instructions to the field directing that all cooperation be furnished to the FBI and that all dises recovered be made available for the examiration by the FBI Agents. General Schulgen pointed out to Mr. Reynolds that he will from time to time make the results of the studies of his scientists available to the Bureau for the assistance of the FBI Field Offices. Gene ra. 1 Schulgen indicated to Mr. Reynolds that there has been a decrease in the reported sightings of the dises which might be because of the fact that it has lost much of Its publicity value. He indicated, however, that he believed it necessary to follow this matter through to determine as near as possible if dises were in fact seen and to determine their origin. General Schulgen inquired of Mr. Reynolds the method by which the Bureau would make the information obtained from the Bureau's inquiries, known to the Air Corps, in the Field as well as at the War Department level. Mr • Reynolds pointed out to General Schulgen that the best procedure appeared to be through the regular established channels. It was pointed out to General would be satisfied to receive information throuen ti0olssH8• 1lz - 83894= General Schulgen indicated to Mr. Reynolds that he believed that there was a possibility that this entire matter might have been started by subversive individuals for the purpose of creating a mass hysteria. He suggested that the Bureau keep this in mind in any interviews conducted regarding reported sightings. General Schulgen stated to Mr. Reynolds that he would make available to the Bureau all information in the possession of the Air Corps regarding the sightings which were first reported so that the Bureau could conduct sone investigation regarding these individuals to ascertain their notives for reporting that they had observed flying dises. When General Schulgen makes the information available regarding these individuals, it will be promptly brought to your attention. OP 30191 Sway mr 25 COPIES DESTROYED 270 NOV 18 1964

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO FROM SUBJECT: DIRECTOR, FBI SAC, EL PASO Mrs. GWYNNE M. MERCHANT, Informant FLYING OBJECTS IN AIR DATE: July 22, 1947 Mrs. GWYNNE M. MERCHANT has come to the resident agency at Santa Fe, New Mexico on several occasions to report that she has received information concerning flying objects passing through the air. Some of the reports that she has received concern light objects seen at night which have allegedly been follow- ed by explosions. She advised that one of such objects was reported by FRANK BURTRAM, Forest Ranger, who works near Canjilon, New Mexico. She claims that others were seen near Park View and Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico. Mrs. MERCHANT called attention to clippings from various newspapers concerning "disc-like" objects seen in New Mexico and other parts of the country. Mrs. MERCHANT claims to be a student of radio waves and ray forms, and contends that the above mentioned objects may be missiles similar to those appear- ing over Sweden some time ago. Mrs. MERCHANT has discussed the above with officials of the Atomic Energy Connission, and has written the Secretary of war and other government officials concerning her theories. Mr. SIDNEY NEWBURGER, Chief of Security and Intelligence for the A.E.C., has advised that officials at Los Alamos consider Mrs. MERCHANT unreliable and possibly not well balanced mentally. She has mentioned to agents of this office that she was struck by lightning when a child. On July 15, Mrs. MERCHANT came to the Santa Fe resident agency and advised that she had written to WALTER WINCHEIL, promising him a story in connection with the "flying discs." The foregoing information is being submitted to the Bureau, inasmuch as Mrs. MERCHANT has written to several government officials and Mr. WINCHELL. 62-0-3594c FTM: GH RECORDED INDEXEL 38 EX 3/ 62-83894-37 18° AUG 8-1947 Pose 50 13an

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RECEIVED LIAISON SECTION RECEIVED Đc 18 11 44 AM '47 MR. JONES IG 15 4 54 PM N FBI. IN 30 9 47 AM 'U7 S. DEPT. OF JOSTWFERNAL SECURITY F. B. I. RECEIVED FBI § DEFT BE MISTIC+ NTERNAL SECURITE F. B. I.

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 → Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO DATE: July 7, 1947 9:50 PM Mr Tolson Honey A. Tar_ ClegG Glav I Ladd Nicho Rosen Tracy Carso: Egan Gurnea Harbo SAC Weeks called from New Orleans on the matter discussed in the Mohr PennIngton attached teletype. He wanted to know what policy the Bureau was following Quinn Tarn Tele. Room in connection with reports concerning these "flying discs" which were being on received. I told Mr. Weeks that, unless advised to the contrary, he should, particular case at hand, allow G-2 to handle and not take any jurisdiction for the FBI. He wasttold the Bureau would be interested in being kept advised of develop- ments, and in copies of the photographs he said G-2 would make of the object found, but that he should not allow himself to be jockeyed into a position where investigative responsibility, if any were entailed, wuld fall on us. Mr. Weeks said he would so handle unless I called him back immediately with instructions for specific action. KCH:h As you will recall, I called you concerning the foregoing. 1 12-2384-38 32 AUG 6 1947 530CT Z

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RECEIVED UL 8 436 PM 'W7 RECEIVED-TA VS. DEPT. FBI JUST INTERNAL SECURITY./M A 917 AM 7 REPT, OF JUST RECEIVED /CT 1 1 31 PM 347 CHNICAL T ABORATOR 8 S. DEPT OF JUSTICE RECEIVED LIAISON SECTION 30 2 48 PM °07 + BI A DEPT. OF JUSTICE

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DECLASSIFIED Authority: NND 90986 JFIDENTIAL UNIDENT Williams Arizona TABLE OBJECTS Field, Chandler 7 July 1947 MEMORANDUM FOR THE OFFICER IN CHARGE: On 1 July 1947, It William G. MeGInty, USN, 195803, P-80 student, Williams Field, Chandler, Arizona, was interviewed this Agent, and stated in substance: That on 30 June 1947, at about 091, mSt, he was flying at 25,000 feet over Grand Canyon, Arizona, a -80 type aircraft. he stated that he was heading south towards Willlams Field, Ariz., when he saw two round objects going at incon- ceivable speeds, straight down. He further stated that his reactions were to turn away from the objects. He further stated that one of the unidentifiable objects followed the other seconds apart. He further stated that due to the speed of the objects, he could only see that they were circular, and that they were possible light gray in color. He further stated that it was his opinion that the objects were approx- imately eight feet in diameter. miles south of the South Rim of Grand Canyon, Arizona. AGENT'S NOTES: It McGinty gave his permanent address as: N.A.M.T.C•, Point Hugu, Port Hueneme, Calif. 2. On 1 July 1947, Captain Malcolm G. Armstrong, 0-734168, Instructor, Single Engine, W1111ams Field, Chandler, hat zona, was interviewed by this Agent and stated in substance: in the vicinity of Lake Mead, Nev. Captain Armstrong, further stated that his brother stated the objects were heading south, and were at approximately 10,000 feet altitude. AGENT'S NOTES: Captain Armstrong could not give too much information on the objects that his brother had seen. Lt. E. B. Armstrong can be contacted at Hig, 10th AAF, Brooks Field, Texas for further information. RECORDED Fletchen Lynn C. Aldrich, Special Agent, CIODKXED 2.8.3894- AAF, FOTRO E 38 x THIS IS A TRUE COPY 15 NOV 5 19470 /s/ John K. Orx, + - X3 JOHN K. ORR, Major, 4.0. 53 NOV CONI IAL

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Date : August 1, 1947 PERSONAL AND To 1 Director of Intelligence War Department General Staff The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. Attention: Colonel L. R. Forney, Chief, Security Group Fron : John Edgar Hoover, Director - Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject : MRS. ARTHUR DOUGL ANDERSON There are attached hereto copies of a letter received fron the above-captioned individual concerning "flying saucers." Mrs. Anderson's letter has been acknowledged and she has been advised that copies of her letter have been furnished to you for youf con- sideration. Mr. Tolson Vr. E. A. Cle g8 attachment Nr. Glavin Ladd Mr Nicho Is Rosen Nr. Tracy Mr. Carson Exan WVC :mjp Gur nea Harbo Hendoni Pennington Quinn Tamn Nease Miss Gandy 68 AUG 131947 дего 108500262 - 83897-39 AUG - 7-196 INDEXED

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Mr. Tolson CARBON, POPY FEDENAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGAFION U. S. OEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CENMUNIGATIONS SECTION AUG 6 1947 TELETYPE Mr. Clege Mr. Giavin Ate. Ladd Mi. Nichols Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Ngan Mr. Gorkoa Fletcher Mr. Harbo Mr. Mohr Mr. Ponniniton Mr. Quinn Tamm. FBI PORTLAND 8-5-47 8-50 PM HNS Mr. Nease Вашт. LECTOR AND SACS SEATTLE AND SAN FRANCISCO UR, CE N'T FLYING DISCS, SM DASH X. RE TELEPHONE CALL FROM ME. LADD, ONE TODAY REQUESTINC TELETYPE SUMMARY CONCERNING NEUSPAPER REPORTS OF RECENT REPORTED FLYING DISCS IN PORTLAND, AREA AND A REPORTED CONFERENCE OF ARMY OFFICIALS IN PORTLAND CONCERNING FLYING DISCS. LEAVERITT C. RICHARDS, AVIATION EDITOR THE OREGONIAN, ADVISED THAT A CAPTAIN VILLIAM L• DAVIDSON AND LT. FRANK M. BROUN OF FOURTH AAF HEADQUARTERS, SAN FRANCISCO WERE IN PORTLAND JULY TWENTYSEVEN LAST AND INTERVIEWED PICK RANKIN, AN EXPERIENCED PILOT, WHO HAD REPORTED JUNE FOURTEEN LAST SEEING A FORMATION OF TEN FLYING DISCS OVER BAKERS- FIELD , CALIF• ACCORDING TO RICHARDS THEY HAD ALSO INTERVIEWED FOLLOWING FOUR EXPERIENCED PILOTS UNO WERE AMONG FIRST UNO REPORTED SEEING DISCS - KENNETH ARNOLD, BUSINESS MAN, LOISE, IDAHO, CAPTAIN E. J. SMITH AND CO-PILOT RALPH STEVENS, UNITED AIRLINES, AND DAVE JOHNSON, AVIATION EDITOR, IDAHO STATESMAN, TO ASCERTAIN THE PURPOSE OF TIENTERVEUS RICHARDS CONTACTED MAJOR CENZRAL TUENINE OF URICHT FIELD, OHIO BY PHONE AT ALBUQUERQUE, MM, AND FROM HIM CAINED THE IMPRESSION THAT. THE AAF INSTITUTED THIS INVESTICATION TO WASH OUT THE DISC REPORTS, SINCE THEY ARE PEFINITELY NOT-OF, AAF ORICIN. ON FRIDAY, AUGUST FIRST, THE PLANE IN UNICH MAP INVESTICATORS CAPTAIN DAVIDSON AND LT• BROIN WERE RIDING, CRASHED AT KELSO, WASHI• AND DOTH

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RECEIVED 16 6 10 35 ДМ ' INTERNAL SECURIT F. B. I. T NE RECEIVED P 15 9 01 AM • INTERNAL SECURITY F. B. I.

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I PAGE TWO WERE KILLED. THE WRECKAGE WAS SCREENED BY AAF INTELLIGENCE FROM MCCHORD FIELD. THE TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE AND THROUGH THEN THE UNITED PRESS PUT OUT A STORY THE PLANE WAS CARRYING PARTS OF A DISC WHICH HAD STRUCK A BOAT OWNED BY HAROLD DAHL AND FRED CRISMAN , TACOMA, WN• RICHARDS ADVISED THAT TODAYS ISSUE OF THE OREGONIAN CARRIES A UP STORY STATING THAT DAHL DENIES SAYING THE METAL FRAGMENTS HE FURNISHED WERE FROM A DISC, AND ANALYSIS OF THE FRAGMENTS SHOWS THEM TO BE FROM A TACOMA SLAG MILL. NO AAF INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL AVAILABLE PORTLAND. NO RECENT SUBSTANTIVE REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS IN THE PORTLAND AREA. SEATTLE VERIFY AT MCCHORD FIELD AND SAN FRANCISCO VERIFY AT AAF HDQRTS. SF, SUBMITTING TELETYPE SUMMARIES TO THE BUREAU. NO FURTHER INVESTIGATION PORTLAND. BOBBITT END AND ACK WA 0157AM OK FBI WA SE S OK FBI SE KLS SF OK FBI SF NCW DVIMSC DW Veh / CC Mh. Ladd.

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IAT NO PURCAD RECEIVED J6 15 2 26 PM 'i INTERNAL SECURITY 3. 1. RAME-SONS LOGETHE RAA ON 0.0432612 ANDO THSS.1R ON QUIETE AUTOAST DOCTORD ATLO RAN SV1S4 2 синице, сутенет силотимаве 41а. 1372,1044 RECEIVED P 15 9 01 AM • INTERNAL SECURITY Б. В.7. 6: 18 AM 247 PT. OF JUSTIC: STOR 10077 WE DHAN a cut most 147 6 11013 Ch. Wi 00 1 9 90g

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CONMUNIGATIONS SECTION AUG 194/ TELETYPE men Mr. Tolsen… J. A. Tun Clegs Mr. Glavi Mr. Ladi Mr. Nichole Mr. Tray Mie. Mos Mir. Censon Mr. Mario Mr. Mohr Mr. Pennington Mr. Quinn Tamm Mr. Nease Miss Gandy Fletcher FBI PORTLAND 8-5-47 8-50 PM HHS DIRECTOR AND SACS SEATTLE AND SAN FRANCISCO URGENT FLYING DISCS, SM DASH X. RE TELEPHONE CALL FROM MR. LADD, ONE PM TODAY REQUESTING TELETYPE SUMMARY CONCERNING NEWSPAPER REPORTS OF RECENT REPORTED FLYING DISCS IN PORTLAND AREA AND A REPORTED CONFERENCE OF ARMY OFFICIALS IN PORTLAND CONCERNING FLYING DISCS. LEAVERITT G. RICHARDS, AVIATION EDITOR THE OREGONIAN, ADVISED THAT A CAPTAIN WILLIAM L. DAVIDSON AND LT. FRANK M. BROWN OF FOURTH AAF HEADQUARTERS, SAN FRANCISCO WERE IN PORTLAND JULY TWENTYSEVEN LAST AND INTERVIEWED DICK RANKIN, AN EXPERIENCED PILOT, WHO HAD REPORTED JUNE FOURTEEN LAST SEEING A FORMATION OF TEN FLYING DISCS OVER BAKERS- FIELD , CALIF• ACCORDING TO RICHARDS THEY HAD ALSO INTERVIEWED FOLLOWING FOUR EXPERIENCED PILOTS WHO WERE AMONG FIRST WHO REPORTED SEEING DISCS - KENNETH ARNOLD, BUSINESS MAN, BOISE, IDAHO, CAPTAIN E. Jo/SMITH AND CO-PILOT RALPU/STEVENS, UNITED AIRLINES, AND DAVE JOHNSON, AVIATION EDITOR, IDAHO STATESNCORDATO ASCERTAIN THE gU 3894 43 PURPOSE OF THINTERVEWS RICHARDS CONTACTED MAJOR GENERAL TWINING. INDEXED OF WRIGHT FIELD, OHIO BY PHONE AT ALBUQUERQUE, 4M, "ATH GAINED THE IMPRESSION THAT THE AF INSTITUTESUTHIS INMESTIGATION IO WASH OUT THE DISC REPORTS, SINCE THEY ARE BEFINITELY NOT OF AAF ORIGIN. ON FRIDAY, AUGUST FIRST, THE PLANE IN WHICH AAF INVESTIGATORS CAPTAIN DAVEDSON AND IT. BROWN WERE RIDING, CRASHED AT KELSO, WASH. AND BOTH

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RECEIVED-TAMM FBI U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE HUG 15 2 26 PM '47 INTERNAL SECURITY F. B. I. NG2T. OF JUSTI RECEIVED CP 15 9 o1 AM" INTERNAL SECURITY F. B. I. PEAT. OF JUCH

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STALES GOVERNMENT TO : D. I. LADD L DATE: August 6, 1947 FROM : SUBJECT: E. G. Fitch FLYING SAUCERS Special Agent S.W. Reynolds of the Liaison Section contacted Lieutenant Colonel C. P. Martin, Army Air Forces Intelligence, inquiring about an article which appeared in the West Coast newspapers recently stating in substance that an airplane carrying recovered flying saucers crashed in route from Portland, Oregon, to Los Angeles, California. Mr. Tolson FEEEEEEEEEE E. A. Тали Clegg Glav1: Ladd Nichor Rosen Tracy Carson Ezan Gurnea Harbo Mohr PennIngton Mr. Quinn Tamn Tele. Room Nease Wiss Holes Miss Gandy Colonel Martin advised Mr. Reynolds that the only information that has been received by Headquarters of the Army Air Forces is that a CIC Agent of the 4th Air Forces Headquarters, Hamilton Field, San Francisco, was killed in an airplane crash. The Headquarters of the Air Forces have been advised that he was on a top secret mission. Colonel Martin indicated that he was under the impression that the CIC Agent was either on route to or from an interview with Mr. Arnold who is one of the individuals who first saw one of the flying saucers. REGORDED 2-1 3894 42 Colonel Martin stated that the Air Forces have additional information and will receive none until the report is received tron the 4th Air Egnger. Colonel Martin suggested that the San Francisco Field Office contact Colonel Springer, Headquarters 4th Air Forces, Hamilton Field, San Francisco, who undoubtedly would be able to furnish the details regarding this matter which are at this time unknown by the Headquarters of the Air Forces. Colonel lartin pointed out to Mr. Reynolds, however, that it was his belief that no flying saucers have been recovered but that it was merely an attempt to reinterview an individual who previously had reported seeing one of the flying saucers. StRichr 1. R. CAUG1 9704 1-341 2k3

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Ro .. ... 469 N. Washington Ave. "aukesha, Wis. Attn. Federal Bureau of Investigation Gentlemen; Ало Recently I have heard and read about reports of disc-shaped aircraft, or whatever they are, in our western regions. They reminded me of a nearly forgotten incident in Germany, after the war. I report this to you because I feel this may be of international scope. My buddy and I went on pass to see a friend of his. One evening the three of us were driving along some back roads when I sighted a strange looking object in the sky from eight to ten miles to our front and approx- imatly 5,000 feet high. I immediatly stopped the jeep for a better look. The object rapidly came toward us, descending slowly. About a mile away it stopped it's horizontal motion but continued a slow oscillating descent, similar to a descending parachute. Then suddenly it dropped in a spiral motion. Immediatly I drove over to where it had dropped. It took almost five minutes to reach the place but we saw nothing. After ten minutes of cruis ing around the area it became toodark to see so we went back to town. because I am not sure my companions saw this, it happened so quickly it could easily have been missed, but I described what I had seen so vividly that they were as excited as I was. My PROotinst impression was that it was a cloud, but it was traveling at richt angisono the mind 3894 - 4) The local of this incident was approximatly 120 miles north-west of Habberbishopshiem. If necessary, I will swear to the authenticity of this and to the shape of the object. No ewardes Sinceyely Yours, Pobut i Arotea Robert J.

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L-26 Invoice of Contents from DERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, D. C. Date 9-10-47 Case References Consigned tairs. i, H, Mixon Route 1, Box 30 Estill, South Carolina List of Contents Plying Saucer COMMUNICATIONS. MAILED Powered Soap Stone. REGISTERED 497251 Mr. Harbo, 7641 Mr. Conrad, 7142 Mr. Downing, 7632 Mr. Sizoo, 7601 Mr. Baughman, 7121 SEP 13 1947 P.M. SPECTA EDENS ERU OT NONISSATION Room, place date of shipment and registry number; Shipping Room, show date of shipmentineNHoGuBtlal this invoice; then return it to person whose name is checked in column at right. After this checked name has been initialled, invoice should be placed in administrative file. 62- 53894-

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Mir. E. Clegg. Clavin Ladd Michols Rosen ar son ur nea Hendon Pennington Quinn Tamm Nease Miss Gandy 62-13894 August 5, 1947 To: Director of Intelligence BY SPECIAL MESSENGER War Department General Staff The Pentagon Washington 25, D. G. Attention: Colonel L. R. Forney, Chief, Security Group From: John Edgar Hoover - Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: ROBERT J. SROKA There are attached hereto copies of a letter received from the above-captioned individual concerning "flying discs." Mr. Srokats letter has been acmowledged and he has been advised that copies of his letter have been furnished to you for youg consideration. Attachment EIVEDERLADIN COMMUNICATIONS SECTION SpELEMON AUG = 7,1947 FEDERAL BUREAU O INVESTIGATION U.S. DEPARIS 12 28 PM 249

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ORAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTIO CC-150 To: COMMUNICATIONS SECTION. Transmit the following message to: AUGUST 7, 1947 SAC, DETROIT UNSUBS, RAYMOND EDWAR DANE, MRS. LAURA SANE, INFORMANTS, FLYING DISC, MISC. REURT EL AUGUST 5 MATERIAL SHOULD NOT BE FORNARDED TO FBI LABORATORY FOR EXAMINATION BUT SHOULD BE TURNED OVER TO THE ARMY AIRFORCE INTELLIGENCE. "URGEN? " HOOVER RGF ima e ramn RECORDED TLULIAL OUREAU UE INVESHIJAIIUN U. S. DEPARTNENT OF JUSTICE COMMUNICATIONS SECTION AUG 7 1947 TELETYPE BECEIVED READING R AuG 7 7 38 PM 62-83894- JEr 36 AUG 11 1947 40 COPIES DESTROYED 270 NOV 18 1964 58 AUSENt 31942 Per 11

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AUG 1947 TELETYPE e WASHINGTON 1 FROM NEWARK 8-4-47 5-36 PM EDST DIRECTOR URGENT Coyne FLYING DISC REPORTED AT HACKENSACK, NJ AUGUST THREE, NINETEEN PORTANLA SEVEN, MISC. INFORMATION RECEIVED THAT CHARLES CASELLA, JR. AGE AGE TWENTY, TWO EIGHT SEVEN EUCLID AVENUE, HACKENSACK AND WILLIAM TRUEX, US ARMY, FT. DIX, NJ ON LATE AFTERNOON AUGUST THIRD LAST SIGHTED FROM GROUND OBJECT DESCRIBED AS FLYING DISC. CASELLA CLAIMED IT WAS TWO HUNDRED BEXA YDS, IN AIR, REVOLVING SLOWLY, MOVING RAPIDLY, AND NEITHER A KITE NOR A BALLOON. CASELLA TELEPHONED INFORMATION TO HACK- ENSACK PD. INQUIRY MADE MIQUREAU WILL BE KEPT ADVISED. MC KEE RBOORDE: 162-83894 + 44 29 AUG 1.1 NK R 1 WA CT EX-46

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SHANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : Director, FBI : SAC, Norfolk SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS DATE: August 8, 1947 Re Bureau Bulletin No. 42, dated July 30, 1947, Series 1947, wherein information is set forth pertaining to flying discs. There is enclosed with this letter a newspaper clipping from the "Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch", dated July 9, 1947. The photograph appearing on this clipping is alleged to represent a flying disc which was observed by BILLY TURRENTINE, a Norfolk school boy, who was successful in photographing the object with his small camera. BILLY was interviewed on August 8, 1947 by Special Agent (A) THOMAS J. CONNOR, at which time BILLY informed that the original negative was given by him to a Mr. BROWN of the Photo Craftsman Service, who in turn furnished the negative to the International News Service. BILLY advised that he has an agree- ment with Mr. BROWN whereby the latter will share equally in any profits derived from the use of the negative by commercial firms or newspapers. As of August 8, 1947 BILLY has notreceived any remuneration for the use of this negative. He informed that he was sitting on the front porch of his apartment which is located on the third floor at 410 West I4th Street, Norfolk, Virginia, around noontime on July 8, 1947. He had read numerous newspaper articles pertaining to flying dises and decided to sit on his front porch in the hopes of seeing one and attempting to photograph it. On July 8, 1947 BILLY observed the southwest to a northeast direction. He said the black object same direction. BILLY explained that the objects were moving at a very fast speed which appeared to him to be much faster than the speed of an airplane, and further, that the objects appeared to be extremely high. he said that they were much higher than the 9) average plane travels in the City of Norfolk and appeared to be above the clouds, and that a white mist followed each of the three objects. BILLY was unable to state what the black objects repre- sented, but admitted that they could have been large balloons. He indicated that he has observed small, toy balloons flying through the air, but that definitely these were not the toy type balloons. le said that when he first observed the objects they were at such great distance from him that it was not necessary that he raise 389 YAs his head in order to see them from his porch on the third floor of the apartment building. He immediately turned around to obtaining 80 0CT 4 - 1907 BECORDED COPIES DESTROYED 28-1-344 230 NOV 181964 1029 INDEXED pear 38

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Letter to Director, FBI Re: FLYING DISCS August 8, 1947 his camera and estimated it took him approximately twenty to thirty seconds, at which time the dises were almost directly over his apart- ment and it was necessary that he stoop and look up almost perpen- dicular in order to obtain the photograph, which accounts for the porch railing being shown in the newspaper clipping. BILLY pointed out that the day on which he took the picture, the weather was hazy and somewhat cloudy and there was a slight breeze blowing from the southwest in the general direction of the northeast, which is the same direction traveled by the black image which he photographed. Inasmuch as the Army authorities in the Tidewater Area of Virginia are cognizant of the above information, no further investi- gation will be conducted by this office in this matter. Enclosure. TJC:lab 62-182 - 2 -

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ng Fron Norfolk Ledger-Dispat Date 7-9-47 Flying Disc 'Bigger Than Automobile' Photographed By Youth Who Is Amazed Because No One Else Saw It By GEORGE HEBERT The flying disc "was lots bigger few seconds later didn't look any- thing like saucers. than an automobile," and 15-year- Looked Like Football old Bil Turrentine, of 410 West The boy stuck comparison, to his football Fourteenth Street, doesn't under- stand why explaining almost everybody in that the object was sortepf rounded, more Norfolk didn't see it. oval than disc-like, and that though In fact, when he came to the it wobbled in its northeastward Ledger Dispatch with a photograph flight it was traveling very rapidly, had taken of the object, he about 600 miles an hour. wanted to know why the newspa- pers hadn't already taken fa pic- He guessed that the altitude of the thing was about 5,000 feet, ture of it. "I thought your photo just below the clouds. In color it graphers were fast, he told a re- porter. was "gray, almost black," looked like a "burned acrisp." and •NORFOLK BOY AND PHOTO OF DISC-Bill Turrentine, 15, (right) tells Ledger-Dispatch reporter George Herbert (left) of- the "lucky" circumstances which enabled him to take the photograph at far right of a flying dise. However, the boy said the object pictured here looked and moved more like a football, being rounded and oval, rather than dise-like. Bill took this picture from the porch of his home at (Editor's Note: Although the maybe a rock or stone. The edges 410 West Fourteenth Street between 11 o'clock and noon Tuesday. Ledger-Dispatch has had many re- glittered, he said, and seemed to be using an old camera, with the shutter set at 1/100th of a second. He said the "flying football" shown here was followed by two smalli ports of flying dises and saucers in recent days, no other person trailing dust. Neither it nor the re- two which ported seeing the object which Tur. sound. followed made any ones, all moving at about 600 miles an hour and he guessed they were about 5,000 feet high, just belory the clouds. The photograph reprodu rentine photographed.) Bill said he wasn't However, Bill said he had done prised when he saw very sur'- ed here is an enlargement made by Photo Craftsmen. In the for the object, some fast moving himself shortly "almost killed myself" getting ground of young Turrentine's picture is the porch rail of his home. before zoon Tuesday, when shots of it with his camera, set at enlargement made by Photo Crafts- he 1/100th of a second.: men. stood on his front porch and saw large gray object, ahe spire e like alect balleking Josephine, to come He called his 18-year-old sister, Photo experts of this firm are and look, but convinced that the boy did a fine coming from the southwest. apparently she didn't believe him. iob with the old camera he was He had just returned from Sum- As the "flying football" passed using. Having closely examined mer school classes at Maury, he over, Bill said he took three shots the negative, they said the only said, and with all the talk about of it, but when he hurriedly evel- flaw was in the kind of film, which the film, after legging with his camera to see if he could Oney Road for a vial of developer. perhaps didn't bring out enough detail. They pointed out, however, only one negative came out well that this wasn't really a flaw, in 83894- 49 view of the fact that Bill's pheto- enough for reproduction. I dont see why they call them with the comparison saucers." he said. "The big He showed a reporter a contact forded by the trent omen rail and Itook a picture of and the two print he had made himself, ENCLOSURE the trees, was certainly the best little ones that came behind it a the picture reproduced here is an one taken 1 dises since the mysterious were first reported

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The Stying, Roll, 3615 Alexia Place San Diego 4, Calf. THE ROUND ROBIN FLYING ROLL San Diago, California. July 8, 1947 - (For your Information) - A MIMORANDUM OF IMPORTANCE - THIS MEVORANDUM is respectfully addressed to certain scientists of distinction, to important aeronautical and military authorities, to a numbor of public officials; and to a few publications• The writer has little expoctation that anything of import will be accomplished by this gesture. The more fact that the data herein were obtained by so-called supernormal means is probably sufficient to insure its disregard by nearly all the persons addrossed; nevertheless it soems a public duty to make it available. (The present writer has several univorsity degrees and was formerly a university depart- ment head). A very serious situation may develop at any time with regard to the "flying saucers." If one of these should be attacked, the attacking plane will almost cer- tainly be destroyed. In the public mind this might create near panic and internat- ional suspicion. The principal data concerning these craft is now at hand and must be offered, no matter how fantastic and unintelligiblo it may seem to minds not previously instructed in thinking of this type. 1. Part of the disks carry crews, othors are under remote control. 2. Their mission is peaceful. The visitors contemplate settling on this planet. 3. These visitors are human-like but much larger in size. 4. They are NOT excarnate earth people, but come from their own world. 5. They do NOT come from any "planet" as we use the word, but from an otheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us. 6. The bodies of the visitors, and the craft also, automatically "materialize" on entering the vibratery rate of our denso matter: (Op. "apports.") 7.. The disks possess a type of radiant energy, or a ray, which will easily disintegrate any attacking ship. They reenter the otheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without trace. 8. The region from which they come is NOT the "astral plane", but corres - ponds to the Lokas or Talas. Students of osoteric matters will understand T these terms. 9. They probably cannot be reached by radio, but probably can be by radar, if a signal system can be devised for that ‹ apparatus 162-83894-46 We give information and. warning, and can do no more. Let the newcomers be treated with every kindness. Unless the disks are withdra?, a eftaation threatens with which our culture and science are incapable of saling. A heavy responsibil- ity rests upon the fow in authority who are able to understand this matter. N. Meade Layne 3615 Alexia Place Addendum: The Lokas are oval shape, fluted lengthwise of the San Diego, California. ovel with a heat-resisting metal or alloy not yet known to us; laboratory; the rear contains armament the front-edge, contains the controls; the middle portion ja fists essentia of a powerful rad energy apparatus, perhaps a ray amar.

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FBT LABORATORY DIVISION 1. 31 9 37 AM '47 MR. 10 RECEIVED-HARBO luL. 28 1 59 PM • RECEWED = BI DERT-OF JUSFICE RECEIVED luL 31 9 09 AM 39) ER#NICAL - ABORATOR S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE

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CоM-4а F.B.I, TELETYPE KT DECODED COPY: Mr. Tolson Mr. E. A. Tamm Mr. Clegg Mr. Coffey Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Carson Mr. Egan, Mr. Hendon Mr. Pennington Mr. Quinn Tamm, Mr. Nesse Miss Gandy. WASH FROM SFRAN S2 8-9-47 2-50 PM KC 53 DIRECTOR FBI AND SACS, SEATTLE AND PORTLAND URGENT Ф FLYING DISKS, SECURITY MATTER-X. LT. COL. DONALD C. SPRINGER OF G2, SAN FRANCISCO, ADVISED TODAY HE HAS NO FURTHER INFORMATION AND THAT OUR SEATTLE OFFICE IS IN POSSESSION OF ALL INFORMATION KNOWN BY HIM AND IS HANDLING THE MATTER TAÇOMA, WASHINGTON. 62-0 KIMBALL RECORDED 94-47 RECEIVED 8-9-47 SACS SEATTLE PORTLAND ADVISED 8: 15EX, 45 sT AUG 1.MG 5-R7 If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's coding systems.

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : D. M. Ladd DATE: August 1, 1947 FROM : J. P. Coyne SUBJECT: MRS. ARTHUR DOUGLASS ANDERSON INFORMANT There is attached hereto a letter received from the captioned individual postmarked July 12, 1947, concerning "flying saucers." There is also attached a letter of acknowledgement to Mrs. Anderson together with a letter to the War Department for approval. It is recommended that the letter to the War Department: be forwarded to the Liaison Section for transmittal to that agency. / Допе з Attachments Landled WVC:mjp separately 50 SEP 3 0 194) INDEXED G1. R -925 RECORDED 62-83894- 1 AUG 12 1947

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1947 AUG 8 1947 AUG $ 1947 RECEIVED UG 8 II 24 AM ' INTERNAL SECURITY F. B. I: -OT. OF

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FEUERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U,S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE GOMMUNIGATIONS SEGTION AUG 11 1947 TELETYPE Polson Chess: Gla vis Me. Ladd Mr. Nichols Me. Roson . Tracy Mr. Lgan Mr. Gursea Mr. Harbo.- Ne. Mohr Mira Pennington Mr. Quinn Tamm. Mr. Noase.--- Misu Gandy. FBI PORTLAND 8-11-47 1-17 PM PST KAM DIRECTOR URGENT FLYING DISCS. SECURITY MATTER DASH X. ONE RED HATFIELD, FORDER NAVY PILOT AND PRESENTLY AIRPORT MANAGER, MYRTLE CREEK, OREGON, REPORTS SEEING A MYSTERIOUS OBJECT ON TWO OCASIONS THE EVENING OF AUGUST SIXTH WHILE FLYING AT ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND FEET ABOVE MYRTLE CREEK. HATFIELD TO BE INTERVIEWED. BOBBITT END 5-18 PM OK FBI WASH DC GAR V. 50 0CT 1 1947 283 RECORDED INDEXED EX.60 G. L. R. =, 62.P3894-49 36 AUG 18.1947 5, RY

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 • Office Memorandum • UNITED: GOVERNMENT TO : DIRECTOR, FBI FROM gIAC, MILWAUKES SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS SABOTAGE DATE: August 12, 1947 Reference is made to Bureau Bulletin No. 42, Series 1947, dated July 30, 1947, Section (B), which advises that all reports concerning flying discs should be investigated by field offices. Prior to the receipt of these instructions, two instances were called to the attention of this office concerning flying dises. One report was received July ?, 1947, the details of which are set forth in Milwaukee letter to the Bureau dated July 8, 1947, entitled, "Flying Discs or Saucers, Miscellaneous, Telephone Call from Mr. Fletcher at the Bureau at 8:30 a.m., 7-7-47." No investigation was conducted concerning this report. The second report was received by this office at 1:20 p.n. July 11, 1947, from Lieutenant Colonel HARRY W. SCHAW'ER, who is in charge of the Civil Air Patrol of Wisconsin, an auxiliary of the Army Air Forces. On that occasion Colonel SCHAFFER, calling from telephonically advised this office that an object in the shape of a disc, nineteen inches in diameter had been found July 10, 1947, by one SIG HANSON, city electrician on the Jackson County fairgrounds, near Black River Falls, Wisconsin, about 3:30 p-n. The dise might be made of a substance such as cardboard covered by a silver airplane dope material. The contraption has a small wooden tail like a rudder in the back and inside of the disc is what appears to be an RCA photo-electric cell or tube. Also inside the disc is a little electric motor with a shaft running to the center of the disc. At one end of the shaft is a very small propeller. In Colonel SCHATER's opinion that contraption might possibly have been made by some juvenile. Colonel SCHAFFER stated that he desired to return the contraption to Milweukee and eventually turn it over to the Arny Air Forces, but that the finder, SIG HANSON, apparently wanted to get some publicity on his find and wanted it returned to him. 630CT 3 COPIES DESTROYED 270 NOV 18 1964 This information was telephonically called to the attention of Assistant Director D. M. LADD of the Bureau on July 11, 1947. Subsequently, SAC E. K. JOHNSON telephoned Colonel FRED SIEBERT in charge of Counter Intelligence, Fifth Army, Chicago AC of S G-2 Headquarters Fifth Army, Bast Hyde Park Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, who stated he would contact Colonel SCHAFFER of Black River Falls, Wisconsin. No further investigation was conducted in this matter. 1-314 #CORDE: 15 78 natters gi94-50 1947 2 INDEXET AUG 14 1947 14

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Director 8-12-47 The above constitutes the only two instances in which this office was contacted concerning flying discs. Unless contrary instructions are received from the Bureau, this office does not contemplate taking any further action in connection with the above two cases, but will fully investigate all future reports concerning flying dises. JGF/đdc 98-0 -2-

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neton August 5, 1947 Mr. Fred R. Reibold 2315 Himebaugh Avenue Omaha, Nebraska Dear Mr. Reibold: • Heyci Luch I wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter post- marked July 10, 1947, together with its enclosure. Inasmuch as the information which you furnished is of interest to the War Department I have taken the liberty of furnishing it to that agency for their consideration. Sincerely yours, COMMUNICATIONS SECTION MAILED 5 AUG 1947 R.M WVC mjp:rb 62-83894 JRKESHIGATION 10A 38 C OF JORTICE John Edgar Hoover Director RECORDID B8-8 INDEXED 62-83894 5/ 13) 56 AUG 16 AUG 6 12 28 PM 247 ADING

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FBI COPY CONFIDRHTIAL DECLASSIFIED Authority: NND 90986 UN IDENTIFIABLE OBJECTS, WEEZOAAS FIRED, CHANDLER, ARIZONA• 1h July 1947 MEMORANDUM FOR THE OFFICER IN CHARGE: on 8 July 1947, this Agent obtained pictures of unidentifiable objects, (Exhibits l and 2) from the managing editor of the Arizona Republic newspaper. The pictures were taken by Mr. William Roads, 4333 N. lith St., Phoenix, Arizona, at sunset, on 7 July 1917• The Subject objects flew at unconceivable speeds, making three circles in the vicinity of Mr. Rhoads' home. The pictures were taken with a box camera, size 620. The photograph (Exhibit 1) was taken as the object passed in front of Mr. Rhoads, and Exhibit 2 as the object turned towards Mr. Rhoads. The height of the object was estimated at 1000 feet. AGENT'S NOTES: See Exhibits 1 and 2, photographs of unidentiflable objects, enlarged approxinately 20 times. No further reports have been received by this office of objects seen by military personnel. Lynn. C. Aldrich, Special Agent, SIC - AAR, PDTRG CONFIDENT IA L copy FEDERAL BUREAU U. S. DE AUG 8 1947 SAN FRANCISCO ROUTED TO GA TRUN S.I0K

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CONFIDEN HO HEADQUARTERS FOURTE AIR FORCE Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, h-2 Intelligence Hamilton Piold, California 4AFDA 333.5 ID 4 August 1947 SUBJECT: Investigation of "Plying Discs" 701 Special Agent in Charge, FBI, U. S. Dept of Justice, Suite 426, 111 Sutter Street, San Francisco 4, California. Inclosed herewith is information copy of MOIC and newspaper clipping re subject. 2 Inals: 1. MOIC Sorensen 7 Jul 47. 2. Newspaper olipping td 5 Jul 47. WILLIAM R. GRAHAM Major, Air Corps Deputy AC of S, A-2 EDERAL BUREAU OF INVES EGGION U.S. DEI ISHCE AUG 7 1947 SAN FRANGISI ROUTED TO TEIDENTIA DUVILAL

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CONFIDEN I Best Possible Image HIBADQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE Office of the Assistant Chiof of Staff, A-2 Intelligence Hamilton Field, California 4AFDA 333.5 ID SUBJECT: TO: 4 August 1947 Investigation of "Flying Dises" Special Agent in Chargo, PBI, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Suite 426, 111 Sutter Street, San Prancisco 4, California. Attached MIC is forwarded for your information. Willam Athe nahan WILLIAM R. GRAHAM 1 Incl: MOIC Aldrich, 14 Jul 47. Major, Air Corps Deputy AC of S, A-2 EDERAL B U.S. DE AUG SAN FRANCH OUTED TE 8 1947 CONFIDENTIA

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INTONE ONFIDENTIAL HEADQUARTERS POURTH AIR PORCE Offico of the Assistant Chief of Staff, A-2 Intelligence Hamilton Meld, California 4AFDA 333.5 ID SUBJECT: 4 August 1947 70: Investigation of "Plying Disos" Special Agent in Chargo, U. S. Department of Justico, Suite 426, 111 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California» Forwarded herewith is information copy of statement and newspaper clipping re subjeot. 2 Inciss 1. Statement of RANKIN, dtd 30 Jul 47. 2• Newspaper olipping, ded 3 Jul 47. WILLIAM R. GRAHAM Major, Air Corps Deputy AC of S, A-2 EDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U.S. DE TMENT! *STICE AUG 7 1947 SAN FRANCISCO ROUTED TO CONFIDENTIAL

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CONFIDENTIAI From the Oregon Journal - continued. MORE SEEN LATER. Several late flights of objects over Portland were repotted Friday afternoon. B. A. Evans, 5453 SW Macadan avenuo, said ho sew three fly east aoross the Willanette river neur the Ross Island bridge about 2 p.n. The objects did not appear high, he said, and were traveling so fast appearing in the woat, they were out of sight in the sast in two to four seconds. No said they resembled netellio disks glinting in the sunlight. Tater, ho anil, ho and neighbors saw a singlo disk-like object flying north far away and very high. At 4130 peme, Mrs. Lawrence J. Fayward, 6124 NE 2ist Avenue, reported sighting a diak "like a new dine flipping around" in the air over the Sandy distriot. She said It seemed to he moving slowly. PAPER RECOVERED. Thomas 1. Dwyer, 1232 ME 59th Avenue, said ho sigated two white or silver objoats flying southeast high over Portland a fow minutes before 5 p.m. He roported another, honded northeast, over hie home at 5130 p.m. C. J. Bagne, Tigard, reported that four disks flow past Mount Jefferson at about 11 a.i. while he was driving near Redmond. low quality, mensured 23} x 36 inches. STLVERED DISKS, DROPPED BY PLANE. BUGBIE, Jily 5 -(AP) - A Fugene railroad oashier suid Friday he saw silvered diska being dropped out of a light airplane flying over this eity. 5. F. Smith, Rt 2, Eugene, an assistant osshier for the Southern Paoifie Reilroad, said ho was driving on a lugeno street when -

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CONFIDENTT AVILVUIVILI FROM THE OREGON JOURNAL - 5 July 1947, Portland, Ore. AIRLINES CREW CONPIRMS REPORTS OF FLYING DISKS: PIVE SPOTTED. Cirounstantial reports of flying disks in the sky Priday came from the crew of a United Airlines plane over boise, Ideho, and a coast guards- man neer Seattle, as well as from Portland area police and eitizens. 5. J. Smith, captain of the airliner, told United Press that he sighted five "somethings" which were "thin and snooth on the bottom and rough appearing on top." The objects appeared against the sunset shortly arter the plene tools off at 8104 pame, he said. "We saw them clearly," he reported. "Wo followed them in a north- westerly direction for about 45 miles. Finally the objects di seppeared. Ne were unable to tell wether they outsped us or disintegrated. HOT AIRCRAFT. "He can't say whether they were sauser-like, oval or anything else," the captain said, "but whatever they were, they were not another aircraft, nor were they sroke or cioude." In Seattlo, Coast Guardanan Frank Ayman, 27, reported to United Press that he snapped a ploture fron the front porch of his home which showed a "white saucer" flying over the north end of lake Washington. Aome Haws Plotures, New York City, said a 7x9 luch print of the photo- graph showed two tiny dots, one of which was a flaw in the print. Don Netcalfo, 19, Oaks Amusement park enploye, reported that he saw several objests "Iike spinning diaks" in the sky Friduy. do said several pionickers, inoluding a woman pilot noticed tham. In Vancouver, Wash», Sheriff's Deputier John Sullival, Clarence Mekay and Fred Krives heard the Portlend polioe radio broadoast and ran out of the shorift's office to look at the sky. Over Portland, three to five miles amy, Sullivan said, they saw 20 to 30 objeots "like a Plight of geese" They heard a low humming sound. OTHERS DOUBTFUL. Col. G. R. Dodson, commander of the Oregon national guard, made an Inspection of this area fron the air after the diska were reported here. He said he saw nothing "auspieious." Only nown ailitary airplanes in the air at the time of the reports were 23 B-29 bombers near Astoria, Despite all the reports, at least two persona remined unconvinced of the existence of the disks. Al P. Sanford, Holgate moorege, gave his opinion that the objects were cottonwood blossoms. to borate to paper of sor potara nonse telephoned the Journal Le said he saw objects in the sky about a minute after on airplane passed over his house. To him the objects lookad like bite of aluninun foil, perhapa oigarette wrappers. CONFIDENTIAL

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CONFIDENTIAL PORTLAND, OHICON CA 30, July 1917 ------1-01- on 30 July 1947 lir ichard Hanicin, 83h 1, 5- Stapson Streets Portiand, crogon was inter oved by this agent and stated in substance as followss Ay nano is Richari Bankin. I anh? yearg old and have fam since I was ninetoon yoars old, I first soloed in an air craft in 1919. I lave flow over all the woster parts of the united, states many tims and have mappod all of the western part of the united states during the years before the lata war for the 13 Forest Servico, I an fandliar with almost evory part of the wostern United states, During a groat part of my life I have done stunt flying for air shows and various other typos of aeromutical mnibitions. Ly brother was "to"Hancin who was quite well nom in both civilian and ilitar ying cirgles for myy yours batoro his death ani dwing the late war ran chousands of Flying Cadets through primary traizing schools amed and oper abed by him, to date I have accompLahed 7000 hours in the air as pilot of both civilian and Military airoraft. I in woll acquainted with nost armicLes that one would so in the air and I feel that I a well qualified to say went seo articlos ilying through the ais, although I would not attongt to say that I an infallable and stabe that I could definitely stencily ever objeat that night be flying through the air. The following is an account of what 1 saw on ili June 19k7 fran the yard of ny hone at 1005 South "I" 3t, Fakeratiold, Calif cnia. At approximately 1200 noon on the ll of June I was lying in the front yard of ry hans, There was a lad wowing the lain at the time, I looled up into the aly and sew ten articios lying tran the South to th lorth at what I vuld judge to be 8500 Ct. The objects wer flying ab approxinately what I would judge to bo 350 miles por hois. Ao I have atatod boforo, I have clone quito a lot of may work for tho US Forest service. I distinatly ramanber tha at the bine I sar the arbicles I montioned it to the lad no was noning the Jan at the tine. I told the lad that the objects wore in all probability some sart of Arry on lavy teat planes from the nearby test centers on the deserts of Southem Califomia, laving quite a Inowledge of aircrart in general I attempted to explain to the lad noring the lam that the objeats were probably on some sort of training mission for either the Amy or lavy » At that time I did not give the slightest thought to anything but that the objecta were some sort of test hip for tha Govorment servicas. The ollecte the so a liod "PAying appeared going fron lath to south, although this time there were only seven of the articles, then I first saw the otiginal ton objacts they were ying in a "" tomation with one obgot seeningly atarseling in the rear ai tho formation, thon the objects apporaed tin second tine they wore still in the "V fanatomn although there vas only soven d' the objecta at this tame. I renember a this time that I told the lad, to ma still to riding on the lamm, that pobably three of the objeats had poceaded buois to thair base on a dife. erent course, I aotually thought that thi was the case, that the other-three objects hid probably gone back to their basa on the other side of the mountains Tom loneratiold, A wook or so later when I zead of la parat amosa claspir that ha had soon articles flying through the air over be. liscale Mountains in AUG 7 1947 SAN FRANCISCA CONFIDENTIA TIE TO

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COPY DERAL BUREAU CE INVESTRIALTON U.S. DEP MIBICA AUG 7 1947 SAN FRANCISCO OUTED TO TORNI FILE 012 - FROM THE OREGONIAX" - Thursloy, July S, 1947 PILOT RECALLS SERING DISCS. Dick Renkin Tells Of Odd Arorafte Nore reports of "flying flapjacles" turned up Rednesday, one fron no loss then Dick innien, brother of the late Tex Raniein, end himself an experieneed pilot of more than 7000 hourat flying tina. Rankin, who is recovering fron an old baok injury received in an autonobile adoident, came to Portland over the weelend to spend the summer. Je saw the "silver anucers" over Bakersfield, Cal., June 23, while lying on the lawn sun bathing, he told The Oregonian. "I heaitatad so any mich about them, "until I notioed •11 the hullabaloo la the papera. I pursled over thalf' atrange shape for a while and finally conoluded that they were the nary's now XPSUe) flying flapjaoks, which are thin and round, with twin propallers and sbabby tail." ONLY ONE XPSU-1 BUILI. The navy and the manufaturer have announced offlotally that only one such machine was built and that it never left Connectiout. "These planes were flying high, maybe 9000 foet, and feiply fast, about 300 or 400 miles an hour. I firat counted ten of them in formation, going north. About 2:15 P.l, they retured on the reverse course, headed but there were only seven in the formation. southe they vere not weaving or bobbing in formations I couldn't make out the number or location of their propellers and couldn't distinguish any wings or tail. They appeared almost round. They looked like plotures of the navy's flying flapjack," Rankin said. Rankin, who plans to spend the sunner here at 854 N. la Simpson St», ia now able to resume a little flying for fun, but not commereially, he said. He now oporatos a string of auto courts, spending his winters at Palm Springs. INO DESCRIPTIONS CHECK. Rankin'a description of the mysterious serial objects agrees with that of Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho, business man, who first reported them over the Stato of mashington, except that Arnold clocked then at an estima- ted 1200 miles an hour. Other reports came Wednesday from Astoria, Jaok Hayes, patient in St. Very's hospital there, said he sew two of the dices Monday flying south- west at a rapid speed and that they vanished behind the hills. Mrs. Berl Seado, Fort Stevens, said she new. a dino treveling north Fort Stevens Tuesday noon, and that other observers saw the same objeot. The army at Fort Stevens and the coast guard at nearby Point Adams did not see the disos. The report of a Centralia, Wash», men Wednesday colnoided in matter of time with the original report made by Arnold. Sidney B, Callagher of Contre- 1la said he saw nine aluminun-hued objects Plying north at 3 P.M. June 24. He was working 11 miles southwest of Mineral, Kash», at the time. TITT TATAT CONFIDENIIAL COPY

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ONFIDENTIAL washington I roalised that the articles that I saw were probably the sane thing. I was still reluctent to mention this to anyone thinking that they would prob- ably say that I mas crazy, After son time I mentioned the ind dent to the in Portland for the remainder of the simmer. get tor in a mone entatade ortin, noon no mortalia de the convoration. with the editor of the paper is put forth in the accompanying newspapez article, I fully realise that this is a broad statement in view of the fact that there h a been much publicity landa put forth in various news papers of the country. I and wound minf in every reupect and I an Araly convinced that the articles I sur are actually some sort of flying machines although. I camot, auy fron where they tano or to there thay ware going. I say what I lave mid with no ides of publicity or personal gain. SIGNED orlandy Orego 30 July 1947 CONFIDENTI

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TONEIDENT FBI FROM TIE OREGON JOURNAL - 5 July 1947, Portland, Ore. "PROVL CARS SPOT DISKS IN SKY HERE" Whatever they aro, there are some disk-like objeots flying around in the sky. Or else eight Portland area policenen and deputy sheriffs who sighted the objects Pridey, numerous private citizens, the crew of a United Mr linos plane over Boise, Ideho, and a coastguardsmen who claims to have photographed one near Seattle, are all wrong. In Portland the alert was sounded over police radio at 1106 p.m. Pridey, after the Last Side ssation received a score of calls that the disks wore overheat. Within seoonds, two prowl cars reported spotting the mys- tery craft. PLASHES SEEN, NOISE LACKING. Mrst to report in were Patrolmen lialter Lasay and Robert Bills in Car 10. 82, who stopped naur Cakes Park. Both World Har II veterans and civilian pilots, they sigated three of the objects within 80 seconds tray- eling at great height and speed over the park. They reported they heard no engine noisos but saw flashos. The objects seemed erratio and changed direction of flight. The patrolmen agreed that without Inowledge of the size of the objeots it would be impossible to judge their speed or altitude. Patrolman Earl Patterson in cer No. 13 stopped at SE 82d avenue and Poster road to look eastward fron where the disks were reported. Telephone calls located tham soning out of the sun. He saw nothing, but a few seconds later observed one coming out of the west and heading southwest. The craft seemed to 3o aluminua or gEshall white and din't flash or reflect light, he said. OBJECTS UNIDENTIFIED. A former aircorps veteran, he said the objeot was unlike any plane he'd ever seen, He thought it appeared radio-controlled because the disk could change direction at a 90-degree angle without diffioulty. Members of the harbor patrol at the foot of IN Irving street stepped out when they heard the all-car alert. Capt. K. A. Preha, Harbor Pilot, A. T. Austed and Patrolman K. C. Hoff all saw the objoots and said they appesred to be going south high over the Globe milla at terrifio speed. Capt. Prehn said the flashes kept them from ascertaining whether there were 25352 three or six. "The disks would oscillate and sometimes we would see a full disk, then a half-moon shape, then nothing at all," he reported. The objeets looked more like a shiny chronium hub cap off a car which wobbled, disappeared and reappeared." There was a plene in the sky at the time, but all were emphatia that the disks were not planes. FEDERAL BUREAU UF INVESTIGATION U. S. DEP. HTMENT C MISLICE AUG 7 1947 CONFIDENTI SAN FRANGISCE JA I ROUTED TO

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BONDUN UNEXPLAINED FLYING DISCS 7 July 1947 This agent interviewed W. A. Lisay and D. N• Ellis, both Patrolman, Portland City Polio Department and both possess private pilots licenses• Both officers advised that upon hearing the redio alert, they saw three flat round disos, having a white color to them. These dises were, according to these offioors, flying at a terrifio speed in a Southerly direction away from Portland, They desoribed them as flying in a straight line formation, last diso fluttering very rapidly in a side wey arc. They further advised the disos were equally spaced and kopt in formation. Both officers estimated the disos altitudo at 40,000 feet• They saw no evidence of any motivating powers and vapor trails or snoke trails. Both offloers stated these digos were traveling so fast, they were out of sight before any detailed observa- tion could be made, or any sound could be heard. AGENT'S NOTE: All informants mentioned herein are known to this agent as very dependable and trustworthy officers, not being afflioted with halluci- nations. The woather in the Portland area at this time was clear with little or no oloud formations being visable from the ground. Ground temperature at this time was 82 degrees Fahrenheit• Keith A, Sorensen, S/A CIC, Sixth Army • CONFIDENTIAL

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CONFIDEN JUN. IL UNEXPLAINED PLYING DISCS 7 July 1947 MEMORANDUM FOR TRE OFFICER IN CHARGE: At 1305, 4 July 1947, a radio alert was issued via the Portland City Police Radio, advising all oars and listeners that some fast Flying objoots were in the air over Portland and vicinity. Upon contacting the Portland, Oregon, on duty at Prucinot #I, Portland City Polico, Southeast Norrison at l0th Avenue, had ollod in advising the dispatcher of the flying objeots. 2. This agent intervlowed Offloer MoDowoll who stated at approximately 1305, 4 July 1947, he was on duty at Precinot fl, and was in the parking lot back of the Polio Station, feeding the pidgeons. At this time the pidgeons boome very excited over something and fluttered in the nir all at once. Officer MeDowell stated in looking around to see what had disturbed them, saw five large dises in the air to the Fast of Portland two discs flying South and three flying in an Easterly diraction. Offleer MeDowell stated he could determine no color to the dises, but advised they were dipping in an up and down oscillating motion and were traveling at a great speed. He sna unable to eive an estimate of the speed or altitude of these disas as they were out of sight before any detailed observation could be made. Offloor MoDowell ad- vised he notified the Police Radio who immediately broadost an slert. Officer MeDowell advised ho saw no indication of any motivating force or heard any sound coming from these disos and could give no description other than round. *• This agent interviewed Sergeant Claude Cross, Oregon State Police Officer on duty at District lunber 1 Station, Milwaukle, Oregon. stated upon hearing the radio niert he vent outside and upon looking in an Easterly direction he saw three disos following esch other at an undetermined altitude and at a terrifie speed, traveling in a Northwesterly direction. Cross adrised he noticed a whitish brow glint to these objects as the sun refleoted from them. Gross was unable to give any other description nor could he judge the objeots speed or altitude. No sound was made by the objeats. This agent interviewed Farl E. Patterson, Patrolman, Portland City Polico Department, and residing at 124 Southeast 13th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, Patterson advises ho wa a former Air Corp pilot during the war. Le stated that the time the radio alert sounded, ho was at Southeast 82nd and Poster Road, Portland, and upon getting out of his car he sew one dise flying in a Southwesterly direction over Portland. Patterson advised this diso was alumi- num in color, left no vapor trail or smoke trail and was traveling at a terri- fle apeed, faster than he has ever seen any flying objeet before. Patterson further advised, although not knowing the exaot size of the objeet it is diffi- oult to determine the altitudo, he estimates its altitude at 30,000 feet. REATH Pattorson further advised the flying disa was definitely some type.of air- Keith A. Sorensen, S/A CIC, Sixth Army CONFIDENTIA SAN FRANCISCO ROUTED TO

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