FBI Case File 62-HQ-83894: Flying Disc Reports and Public Correspondence, July 1947

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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. Nease
Miss Gandy

M e About Saucers

## Priest Finds 'Whirring' Disc In Yard and Holds It for FBI

Chicago, July 6 (UP).-A Catho- FBI office said he hadn't heard

lic priest at Grafton, Wis., said
lic priest tonight that a round, metal disc,
ious lying aucers had crastred which might be one of the mysterported
into his psh yard and that he
is holding it for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.

yet about the disc but that an off-
The cial report might be at his office. flying dises have been re- The flying dises have been re-
"seen" by persons in 30
States, but Brasky's disc was the
first one that actually had been
found-if that is what was found.
His report came a few hours
after a military plane made an
unsuccessful speed dash in an at
tempt to track down one of the
discs and the Army and scientists
sought to ascertain whether coas
to-coast reports about the discs
zooming through the sky were fact
or fancy.

The Rev. Joseph Brasky of St. Joseph's Church at Grafton, 45 miles north of Milwaukee, said he heard swishing and whirring noise this morning. A second later, he said, he heard a thud and a mild explosion.

He investigated and found a
sheet metal disc about 18 inches in
diameter, resembling a circular
saw blade.

## Priest Finds 'Whirring' Disc In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

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Army planes scoured the north- west Pacific skies for them without success today and one "eyewitness" warm, even reported having seen one of pounds the discs take off in Arizona. A of an St. Louis railroad man exhibited some paper "dises" he said he had seen floating over St. Louis.

"The object still was
weighed about four or five
and was about one eighth
inch thick," he said.

There was a hole about one inch in diameter in the middle of the disc, he said, and in the open- ing were "gadgets and some wires."

The priest said he did his discovery were important if The priest said he did not know
whether it might be an elab-ly
rate practical joke. He had notified the FBI of his find. rate practical joke. He said he
H. K. Johnson of the Milwaukee

The flying saucers which have
been reported skimming through
America's skies at speeds up to
radar. 1200 miles have eluded the usual- keen eye of radar.

Capt. Tom Brown of the Army Tom Brown
Air Forces public relations st

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# Priest Findshir
In Yard and Holds i

# Priest Findshir
In Yard and Holds i (cont.)

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missile
of 1200mm

"There's been too toh said
about guided mew," he
said.

Howard W. Blakeslee, Associ- whole business may be an optical

said the Army Airways Communi- In the wake or unese new eye-ated Press science editor, said the

cations Service had reported late yesterday that so far its radar scopes throughout the country have been unable to pick up any strange objects in flight.

fitness accounts came a new series of comments, and explanations, but illusion. most of them were tinged with a slight tendency to laugh off the whole thing.

And in the Pacific Northwest-ally
where most of the fly-happy plat-
ters have been reported-the Army
has radar equipment which can pierce fog and darkness and pick has radar equipment which can
up objects in the sky 200 miles
away.

"At any distance which is close to the limit of how far a person can see," he wrote, "all objects appear round or nearly so. This law of sight covers both small

# Priest Findshir
In Yard and Holds i (cont.)

Even so, Brown acknowledged that the Air Forces had decided "there's something to this" and had been checking it for 10 days.

Dr. Winfred Overholser, nation- known psychiatrist and super-
intendent of St. Elizabeths Hos- pital here, said it "has some of the of St. Elizabeths Hos-
earmarks of being national hys- teria." teria."

things seen nearby and large ones
at great distances.

"Everytime someone comes up
with a sea-serpent story," said Dr. Overholser, "others with vivid
imaginations are sure they have
seen the same thing.

"The critical faculty in man, the one he received, is still not
very well developed. Scratch the
surface and you find the same mass
hysteria which predominated dur-
ing the witchcraft scare." Some
persons are quite ready to see
things and follow beliefs."

"The one outstanding fact about virtually all the saucers is that? they had no structure they seemed merely round and flat. That description fits exactly with the tricks that eyes play. This trickiness varies with differences in weather and lighting."

# Priest Findshir
In Yard and Holds i (cont.)

"And we still haven't the slight-last
idea what they could est be," he
added.

And a new wrinkle-the report- ed landing of a fleet of eight skim- ming platters-was reported from Idaho in full view of 10 persons. A. Dishman, Idaho housewife, said she and others in her party had seen the saucers land on a moun- tainside near St. Maries, Idaho.

However, Nova Hart, St. Louis mechanic who was trained during service in the war to spot all types of aircraft, yesterday offered a minute description of one of the flying patterns which he claimed he saw flying at an altitude of about 300 feet.

Dr. Overholser said that when he made his rounds of the mental patients yesterday at St. Eliza- beths not a one commented on the flying saucers story.

She said they came into view at an extreme speed, suddenly slowed, and then "fluttered like leaves to the ground."

# Priest Findshir
In Yard and Holds i (cont.)

Reporter Sees One

"I think they may be a little

skeptical," he added.

However, Dr. Overholser said he

wasn't trying to dismiss the matter as a joke "because there are so nany strange things going on to- day that one can be sure."

"The mysterious part was that we couldn't see them after they landed," she said. "We could se them flutter down into the timbe yet we couldn't see that they did anything to the trees."

Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky, noted aircraft designer, told he Post by telephone from New York that until he sees a flying saucer he "wouldn't like to pass judg- ment."

He described it as circular with a ribbed framework and silver gray in color. He said it appeared to have a motor with a propeller attached in the center and that it kept turning like an airplane do- ing a slow roll.

He conceded, too, that they might be guided missiles let loose as part of an experiment, but

She said she hoped to hike into the timber tomorrow and search for the objects which she said were saucer-shaped but resembled wash- tubs more than disks and were "about the size of a five-room house."

# Priest Findshir
In Yard and Holds i (cont.)

Although many explanations
have been offered, none has been
paper quoted an unnamed nuclea convincing. A Los Angeles news
physicist as saying the silvery disc
resulted from experiments in the
"transmutation of atomic energy."

This report was rapidly herded into the hoax column by David) Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and several

prominent atomic scientists.

## Starr Expects Word

Louis E. Starr, national com-
mander of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, announced Saturday at Co-
lumbus, Ohio, that he was expect-
ing "momentarily" information
from Washington which would ex-
plain the dashing discs. But the
message never arrived.

He agreed with Dr. Overholser that much if not all of the story may be because of hysteria.

"After all," he said, "we are more or less an hysterical Nation." Major de Seversky said it was pos- sible that the persons who claim to have seen the aerial discs have instead glimpsed the exhaust of jet-propelled planes.

Locally, Hazen Kennedy of 2615 4th st. ne. reported he had seen one passing over the Northeast section of the city at about 8:40 p. m

This would be the first one re-
ported over the District, although
others have been reported over
nearby Maryland.

# Priest Findshir
In Yard and Holds i (cont.)

## Starr Expects Word (cont.)

Kennedy, who has 125 hours flying time as a student pilot in the Army Air Forces to his credit, said he believed the saucer he had seen was traveling at "well added: over" 1000 miles an hour at an altitude of between 1200 and 1500 feet.

"The best way I can describe It," said Kennedy, "was that it looked like an orange lamp bulb without the socket. It was going faster than any jet plane I've ever seen."

"Whatever these people have seen it hasn't been anything re- sulting from experiments by the Ariny Air Forces. As for as I'm concerned there's nothing to it at all. The whole thing is un- foftunate

"I don't think the Government would fire them so promiscuously. They would test them in one spot, in an isolated area, like they did the atomic bomb."

In Hagerstown, Md., Mrs. Ma

Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, who
as Deputy Chief of Air Staff for
Research and Development would
know if the saucers involved
periments with guided missiles,
commented:

elyn Ganoe, 30, said she had sech five of the discs, racing in 2-12 ormation at "terrific speed," from her backporch. "They sounded like a faraway train," she said.

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Dear Mr. B. J. :
ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION
KEEP ENVELOPE ATTACHED

It is my opinion about those "flying discs" reported seen over Kentucky, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Colorado, South Carolina and Eastern Canada that some Europe - an Country is using them by filling them up with germs or highly explosives, and after a couple thousand miles they drop their contents and disappear.

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Ovelse something might happen
to us in the United States.

From a friend

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CONFIDENTIAL
BY SPECIAL MESSENGER

ta:

August 5, 1947

Director of Intelligence
War Department General Staff
The Pentagon
Washington 25, D. C.

Attention: Colonel L. R. Forney, Chief, Security Group

From: John Edgar Hoover - Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

ubject: FRED R. REIBOLD

There are attached hereto copies of a letter received from the above-captioned individual, together with copies of a newspaper clipping enclosure, concerning "flying discs."

Mr. Reibold's letter has been acknowledged and he has been advised that copies of his letter have been furnished to you for your consideration.

10/31/78
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington D. C.
Gentleman:
On July 1st 1947, 10:30 P.M.
Kerthune Sniffer my mother in law
and I witnessed a flaming object
which dropped in street in front
of our house at 2315 Kimball Ave
Cornola Nbr.
Upon examination, the object
was solid and had form of round
circular disc, approximately the
size of a silver dollar and
"1/4" thick, burning with extreme
heat.
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The World Herald Newspaper
was notified and reporter was
sent out.
In the mean time, a boy kicked

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the object over and is fell into
pieces.
When the reporter arrived he
scooped up the fragments and
said he would have them analysed.
You attention is directed to
attached analysis.
There were just people who
actually saw the object and
can testify to the extreme heat
or which it was burning
We did not claim it was
one of the so called "flying sauce"
or any such phenomena but we
believed some kind of a reasonable
explanation because of this object
had dropped on a roof top it
would have certainly set fire.
We can definitely say it is

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was not tobacco ashes as
inferred by Dr. Kenny.
It burned with such extreme
heat as to scorch paper on and
near paper where it left
possibly this could have
been a late Fourth of July
firework or something similar
but as any rate we are calling
us to your attention as the
answer the "learned" Dr Kenny
gave as being pipe ashes so full
of ridicule an entirely unsatisfactory,

Yours sincerely
FRED R. REIGOLD
Fred R. Reibold
2315 Rimstone Ave
Conoha Mississippi
3

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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 num, carbonate, sulphate and un- burnt carbon, he said.

"This is the same analysis you would get from ordinary pipe to- bacco," Dr. Kenny said.

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flying

Daucer -

the evening of July 4 - about 1039 pm - only
it was in the air at the same level. as
two obvious partions of light in the
Search light beams from the air field
fiear Lake St. Clair. I was sitting on my
pearch at the time. a few trucks could could
Stwith proper equipment create the
FLYING pame illusion. There were two clearly
utlined beams. The saucer - one • partly faded out to that leve

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third beam faded out from the ground
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to the ocean. Recently I mentioned the
distressed ship in the Pacific as not
being due entry to natural phenomena.
58 JUL 22 1947
and recorded that ship, the bomb

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Mr. J. Edgar Hoover
washington, &.c.

Personal attention.

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Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Director
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U.S. Dept. of Justice Bldg.
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ANONYMOUS OU KEEP ENVELOPE ATTACHED

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July 11, 1947.

SAUCERS
"Flying

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?

G.I.R. -5

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.

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : MR. D. M. LADD
FROM : H. B. FLETCHER
SUBJECT: <empty>

# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

DATE: July 7, 1947

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Mr. Tolson
Mr. E. A. Tamm
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Carson
Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurnea
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Hendon
Mr. Pennington
Mr. Quinn Tamm
Tele. Room
Mr. Nease
Miss Holmes
Miss Candy
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At 10:45 a.m., 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.

SAUCERS
Flying

# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

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. The news item in the 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.

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For Yoakum, July 12, 1947.
RECEIVED
JUL 15 1947

Gentlemen:
I do send to you
something new from
Texas,
Flying of fire ar-
rived around the 2d -
cestime and the prev.
pile are afred of lit
and around the ciert,
not far away from
Yoakum full down so-
me kind light from
airplanes
Anyway got in
that hands enemy
or Nazi mob and
want round the
Texas,

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2

They did start in
Texas City demach
the factory

In the Private part
of Noakum Airport
dust & road casting
Station are such alrea
my like that, We do
not know how are
them. Now got new
aerosplas here just
hangars and Broad
casting Tower with
light on roling towers
and light are like
needles to our
eyes
and got the light to
around the whole air-
port and from the
light to running

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and with the Old
arbishops residence.
and with the Cate.
drale priests.
The Alamo Broad
casting is operate with
are now sich are blind by two mess german old and the men
from the electric and thy tolk with us
and theer are two men
ting and fosing them and we can more and they are fi togethe
The Arbishop is bad
man and unmoral,
At work is dan word, my working i all nothing.

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The Cathedrals
Board are men or
presents german and
They all art working
for Germany
See such fresh people
we got in Texas and
name the Alamo place
that is saint to To
as people, fighting
against the Mexicans
Santa Ana.

And I am ending with
watels ;
Remember Alamo
and Texas City.

Mrs. Anna Benys
Mr. Joe Benys

MRS. ANNA BENYS
MR. JOE BENYS

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# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

## eet Home Boy
Οι Winner In
13
say Contest

he second time in the past
of months a Sweet Home
has brought honor to his
unity by winning literary
holastic acclaim,

st to achieve himself was
in Anthony Matusek, Yoa-
High School graduate who
a scholarship to A, and M.
ge. Now word reaches us
Dennis Brenek, eleven-year-
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed.
ek of Sweet Home has been
eded a prize of a $25 Savings
1 in the KTRH Farm Essay
est.

ennis won sixth place with his
y on the subject "How Radio
Best Serve the Farm and
Farm Home." In commenting
this essay, George Roesner,
H Farm and Ranch Director
d: "Your essay contained
y excellant ideas which TWO
et to use in future farm pro-
S."

nning contests is nothing to Dennis, who, in 1946, won istered pig with an essay ed in the Sears-Roebuck con- Again, in February 1947, he ed a calf in the Hallettsville Club Show, and out of 12 s awarded he took fifth

s. Brenek is Sweet Home's
mistress.

## Growing
mateurs' Display
cellent Form

# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

## Growing
mateurs' Display
cellent Form (cont.)

akum softball teams showed
of good playing in the games
ed at the Bulldog Stadium
week.

e teams, organized by var-
merchants and concerns in
1, are composed of members
amateur standing who have
some previous experience with
1-lot or school ball playing.
vever, some of the players
e shown such expert ball-
dling and sportsmanship that
hard to believe they are not
essionals out of place. The
chants who organized these
as are certainly deing their
e toward providing recreation
lities for the young people of
community, and are to be
plimented on their fine work.
er merchants or concerns who
h to organize a team may
n all the particulars from
ph McMaster at the Firestone
re on Lott Street, or from
R. C. McClendon at Lack's
ociate Store on West Grand.
boys or men wishing to play
one of the teams may make
lication at the Firestone Store,
k's, Rohan's Service Station,
Hamilton's Jewelry Store, de-
ding on the player's choice of
eam to play with. There is
plenty of room for good
vers, so anyone interested is
ed to contact one of these
ns.

# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

## Growing
mateurs' Display
cellent Form (cont.)

Only one game is definitely
eduled for next week, and that
Monday night, when The Fire
ne Store will tangle with the
zales Dr. Peppers. Tuesday
y, but their opponent has not ht ht Lack's Associate Store will
n named yet. Also, on Thurs-ed
night the Firestone team will
in play a game, but no team
been stated to oppose them
On Friday night of this week,
ame will be played, but the
ns who will participate have
been listed yet.

hese games will start about

H. Davis, field representa- F San Antonio Social Secu- ffice, will be in Yoakum at ty Hall at 8:30 a.m., Wed- , July 23, 1947, for the

each Light. Everyone is in- 1 to come and cheer for his No admission will be charg-

## CURITY MAN
BE HERE

The flying dise mystery has the
nation in a dither with reports
coming from all sections on the
strange objects. Mrs. Haak's ex-
fur-planation is as reasonable as any
yet put forth, and may be the
solution to the "phenomenon,"

# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

## FIRST ITS FLYING DISKS-NOW
ITS "FIRE BALLS" PEOPLE SEE

A lot of Texans are disk-gust- ed with the flying saucers, but others are just plain disk-turbed: Flying balls of fire circled a wide area around Palestine, and some negroes, believing the end of the world was near, began praying. A white man grabbed a rifle and shot at the myster- ious objects.

Sheriff Paul Stanford of An-
derson County described them as
orange basketballs of fire.

# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

## Revealing Flying
Disk Data May
Bring Prosecution

Anyone willfully communicat-
ing information bearing on the
defense or security of the nation

even in time of peace is subject to a fine of $10,000 and imprisonment of 10 years, accord- ing to Assistant United States District Attorney Joseph .W Cash. If the present mystery of fly- ing disks are connected with ra- dar or guided missile experiments, the law might apply, he said.

The law applies whether the information is released accident- ally, through gross negligence," or with intent to injure the U- nited States or aid some foreign nation," according to the act.

The Atomic Energy Act of 1946
provides even stricter penalties
for revealing information, Mr.
Cash said. Public Law 585 of the
Seventy-Ninth Congress provides
death or life imprisonment, after
due process of law, for disclosing
atomic information with intent to
injure the United States.

For accidental disclosures a
fine of up to $20,000 and im-
prisonment up to 20 years are
provided, Mr. Cash pointed out.

# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

## Gas Truck Hits
Local Station

A gasoline trailer truck of the
Texas Consolidated Transport Co.
an into a heavy pipe upright in
front of Rohan's Service Station
Monday, doing some damage to
the station and more to the
truck.

The truck was coming from
town, along West Grand, and
turned into the station. As the
driver cut the cab back to swing
the trailer into position, the cab
skidded into the steel pipe roof
support on the right of the truck,
bending it considerably. The
per and a smashed truck itself suffered a fender. A bent
gasoline pump directly behind the
upright was not damaged by the
crash.

# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

## Lions To Make
Farmer Award

The Lions Club has announced
that at its regular noon meeting
Tuesday, July 15th, it will pre-into
sent to Lee Pargmann of Route
5, the plaque for the Outstanding
Farmer for the Middle Guadalupe
Basin Soil Conservation District.

The plaque is given each year
to the farmer from each
vation district who has contribut-
most to the soil conservation
projects in the particular district.
The award is sponsored by a num-
ber of organizations, among them
the Lions Clubs of the various
towns. Sinee the Lions do play an
active part in sponsoring this a
ward, the local club is given the
privilege of presenting the plaque
to Mr. Pargmann,

Representatives of the Soil Con-dise
servation Service will be present
congratulatory and to make short
explanatory speeches on the giv-flying
ing of the annual award,

# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

## Lions To Make
Farmer Award (cont.)

It was the first time the aerial cbjects were reported in that a- rea. Residents of the Brushy Creek community, 15 miles north- east of Palestine, called Sheriff Stanford about 8:30 last night, saying 12 balls were flying in a straight line over the community. Then, they reported, the balls formed a circle which began mov- ing toward Palestine.

By 9 p. m. hundreds of Pales- tine spectators reported seeing as many as three balls in the sky at once, moving in a circle. Sher- iff Stanford discounted any sug- gestion that the balls originated from a spotlight.

Bud Everett, druggist, chased
them for a better view. He said
they finally disappeared about 11
p. m.

Mrs. Horace Valentine said she saw two perfectly round balls that "nearly scared me to death" when they appeared over her home. She said they seemed to be playing with each other, the way they jumped around.

Her husband and Lee Chavers. shot a box of .22 rifle bullets without any effect on the objects. Mrs. Valentine said neighbor-

# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

## Lions To Make
Farmer Award (cont.)

ing negro families thought the world was coming to an end, and began praying as the balls of fire gamboled overhead.

Mrs. Lorens Shrader, Big
Springs reported she saw a fiery
red ball streaking overhead last
night.

Mrs. Marian Reed, farm wife,
found what she believed was part
of a flying disk. It landed in her
back yard while she was hanging
out the clothes yesterday after-
noon. She admitted she was
frightened. She described it as a
round piece of tinfoil eight inch-
es wide, scorched or burned a-
round the edges. Both sides were
shiny, but one side was marked
with black, stenciled lines a quar
ter-inch apart. She said the tin-
foil dropped straight down from
the sky.

She lifted it with a stick, put it in a tin can, and drove five miles to Gunter, 20 miles south- west of Sherman, Scores crowded about to see it.

At Melissa, Collin County, Mrs. Marie Killian and Mrs. Kay Craft reported seeing a strange object at 8:40 p. m. yesterday.

Charles Calhoun, and his fath-
er, W. J. Calhoun, prominent
Grayson County farmers, said
they saw a disk yesterday near
Sherman.

# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

## Lions To Make
Farmer Award (cont.)

purpose of receiving claims and
discussing Old Age and Survivors
Insurance with all who wish to
contact him.
Davis will not be able to
nish information concerning Old
Age Assistance pensions.

# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

## Cuero Residents
See Flying Disc

bum-first Cuero has finally produced its flying disc,

It was reported by Mrs. F. W. Haak of 410 Stockdale street, and both she and her husband saw it. However, Mrs. Haak's flying dise is no particular mystery to her. She thinks she knows just what caused it.

It was simply a reflection from an airplane, she said.

Sitting on the porch with her
husband about 4 p:m. Sunday,
Mrs. Haak said she heard a
strange noise from the sky, and
looked up. Soon an airplane came
view, high in the clouds. It
was very small, but plainly dis-
cernable as a plane, she said. It
was coming from the east.

Soon it turned north, and just
after that a perfect dise was vis-
conser-ible some distance from where
plane disappeared into the the
clouds.

The dise appeared bright and
very silvery. It appeared to be
smaller in size than an ordinary
steering wheel of a car, Mrs.
Haak reported. It seemed to be
floating" across the heavens.
She called her husband's at-
tention to it. They both saw it.
After about five seconds the
was gone. The plane and the
sound disappeared. Mrs. Haak is convinced disappeared. the
saucer was reflected from
the airplane. This theory also has
been advanced by others.

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## BY THE WAY

- By W. M. -

John L. Lewis calls the
new labor law a "slave law"
The big trusts had undoubt-
edly the same idea about the
anti-trust laws when first
introduced. And what are ths
trusts compared to the harm
the unions can do with their
strikes?

# YOAKUM
HERALD - TIMES (cont.)

## BY THE WAY (cont.)

If the new labor laws
are "slave laws", SO are
the anti-trust laws and any
other laws for the protec-
tion of people against a-
buses by any group. So far
the people were utterly
helpless against the labor
power.

Such labor dictators as
Lewis, Petrillo, others, have
a far greater power to harm
this country than the British
king ever had. This is just
as untolerable today as it
was then.

* a *

Last Sunday was, for the people." How can Wall

British, a national Day of
Prayer. The king with Prime
Minister Attlee and other
government leaders went to
St. Paul's Cathedral to pray
with the nation for help in
these ominous times.

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Not so long ago England
went through the most
desperate struggle in her
whole history. The peace
is not yet established and
even a greater menace
threatens the people of
England and elsewhere to
whom freedom means SO
much. In a great danger
brave people turn to God.

# YOAKUM
HERALD - TIMES (cont.)

## BY THE WAY (cont.)

Here, too many do not
fully realize today's danger.
We suffered comparatively
little and the Red threat
seems to be distant. But
that does not minimize
We need to face the menace
with the same seriousness
the British people with their
leaders manifested last
day. For, we cannot escape City Zene.
it.

**

It cannot be said anymore
that the stories of the "fly-
ing disks" is mere fiction.
One disk was found by a
Pelly man, near Houston. On
it was a warning about its
military secret and that the
Army Air Force at Spokane,
Washington be notified at
once.

So the mysterious disks
are not messengers from
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 our armed
forces are experimenting.
What propels them? How
far can they fly? What is
their purpose? That is a
mighty secret.

# YOAKUM
HERALD - TIMES (cont.)

## BY THE WAY (cont.)

It is a French paper in
Paris that claims that Ame-
rica has a far more destruc-
tive bomb than any ever in-
vented before. In one blow it
could destroy all of Paris
or Moscow. This is also con-
firmed by Robert M. Hut-
chins of the University of
Chicago, familiar with what
goes on here. We can thank
only the good Providence
that this immense power is in
our hands.

2

Writes John Fisher in his
book "Why They Behave
Like Russians": "Officially
religion is still regarded as
a deplorable superstition,
and church-goers can never
hope to gain admittance to
the Communist Party."

**

# YOAKUM
HERALD - TIMES (cont.)

## HOW CAN

Norman Thomas
debate about Russia.
mas questions gave

"I seriously ques
ested in world domina
ing to rehabilitate the
says Wallace, just w

What happened
Hungary, and what t
country, should be b
what the Reds say, I
"And, once agai

Yet what do you find in
this country? -Even cer-
tain church leaders have
only praise for the very
rule which excludes a
Christian, but they con-
demn their fellow Chris-
tians, instead of the Reds.

ference between the
of Hitler Germany,
in government struc

What Hitler stc
simple, and far more
age. But when Russia
the same.

As to Russian tac
they don't differ grea
When independence is
and maintained in Gree
ing to Wallace's reasor

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to suit the purpose. E
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SECTION TWO

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ACTARER A 1946

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TO : D. M. Ladd
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DATE:7-10-47

G. I. R. -5

Mr. Tolson
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# 'Saucer' Stories
Disk Found Is

toward the south 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.

60 OCT 1-1947 223

Priest Hears a 'Bang,"
Discovers a Circular
Blade With Teeth;
Other Disks 'Seen'

Father Brasky said he did not bother to show the disk to any of his parishioners Sunday. He tried to telephone an FBI agent whom he knows, but was unable to reach him Sunday, he added. Asked whether it could have been the work of a practical joker, Father Brasky re- plied: "Could be. I don't know."

Picture on Picture Page The "what is it?" which Father Joseph Brasky said he found early Sunday on the lawn of St. Joseph's Catholic church in Grafton may be just another gadget to add to Fa- ther Brasky's already sizable col- lection.

Those who saw it Sunday said

# 'Saucer' Stories
Disk Found Is (cont.)

The disk, apparently of steel, had a one and three-eighth inch hole in the center. Through it ran a few wires. To each end of the cluster of wires was attached what looked like a small condenser about three inches long. The condenserlike ob- jects were wrapped in black tape which still was sticky. The disk was greasy and somewhat dirty. Stamped on it was: "Approved, Dunlap."

"what is it?" was a circular saw blade with a few wires attached. Father Brasky, who said he knew of no sawmills in the area, would not claim it was a "flying saucer" when he called newspapermen to his home.

"It may or may not be one of those flying disks that have been report- e all over the country," he said. "Let's just call it a 'what is it?"" Meanwhile, in Milwaukee and other points in Wisconsin, several persons reported seeing the "flying saucers." Father Brasky's disk, however, was the only case here in which the "landing" of a "saucer" was reported.

# 'Saucer' Stories
Disk Found Is (cont.)

## Tries to Call FBI Man

Father Brasky gave the follow- ing account of how he found the ob- ject, a steel plate 19 inches in di- ameter, about an eighth of an inch thick and with saw teeth.

There were other reports around Milwaukee and Wisconsin of "fly- ing saucers." Mrs. Anthony Hoff- man, 3410 W. Layton av., said she and her husband saw one at 8:25 p.m. Sunday flying toward Billy Mitchell field from the northwest. When it neared the field, it veered

## Hears "Bang," Finds Disk

Father Brasky declined to part with the disk. He showed a number of items in his trinket collection. All of them had something to do with fishing, Father Brasky's favor- ite sport. They included his "bass bottles," beer bottles with the head of a fish- and a fish pole from Manila which folds up into a cane. When opened, it extends to 12 feet. "I use it in reaching folks who can't be touched with a 10 foot pole." Father Brasky quipped..

"I usually get up about 5 a.m. on Sundays. I was at the front door of my house, about to take my dog out for a walk, when I heard a 'bang!' like a big firecracker. I stepped outside and found this disk on the church lawn.

# 'Saucer' Stories
Disk Found Is (cont.)

## Others Report "Saucers"

Father Brasky also passed out
copies of his recent publication,
"Fish Tales."

Glenn Rowden of Detroit claimed he saw a "saucer," about 50 inches in diameter, over Billy Mitchell field at 10:05 p.m. when he alighted from an airplane. He said it was in sight for 90 seconds.

"I'm going to revise this thing," he explained. "I've got some new and better tales to put in it."

William Humphrey, who lives with his wife in a quonset hut at 3148 S. 20th st., telephoned police. at 9 p.m. Sunday that he and Mrs. Humphrey had seen a slightly illu- minated disk which appeared to fall to earth near Pulaski high school. Mrs. Humphrey said Monday that her husband tried unsuccessfully, to photograph the disk.

# 'Saucer' Stories
Disk Found Is (cont.)

## Changed Colors, He Says

claimed he saw three of them flying Erwin Rottman, 1328 N. 19th st., direction at 6 p.m. Sunday. They through the air in a northwesterly turned from orange to gold to silver before disappearing, he said.

Reports came also from Janes- ville, where Mr. and Mrs. Alva Sie- vert and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Roth reported seeing a flying disk about 11:35 p.m. Saturday. The Roths were leaving the Sievert home when Sievert saw it, according to Roth. It appeared to be several thousand feet up and about 10 miles away, Roth said. He described it as vague- ly resembling the moon and as hav- regular motion in a counter- clockwise, elongated orbit. It ap- peared to Roth to be moving faster than an airplane. He said it was yellow on its face, but when it turned it looked silver.

Roth said that the four of them viewed the disk for 10 minutes.

[page 47]
## 'Saucer' Tales
Buzz in State

## Laws of Eyesight Clarify.
Reports of Flying Saucers

By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Editor

## Disk Found by a Priest
Is Circular Saw; Others
Seen by Milwaukeeans

New York, N. Y.-The flying saucers may be explained by cer- tain laws of eyesight.

# 'Saucer' Stories
Disk Found Is (cont.)

## From page 1, column 3

She said they were driving on a
town road six miles west of Osh-ers
kosh, headed east toward the city,
when they first sighted the object
"flying very fast and very high."

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.

# 'Saucer' Stories
Disk Found Is (cont.)

## 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.

All objects appear round or nearly so at any distance close to the limit of how far a person can see.

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 coul not estimate the altitude or dis tance, but that it "definitely was not an airplane."

# 'Saucer' Stories
Disk Found Is (cont.)

## Stops Car, Disk Vanishes (cont.)

Many descriptions of move- ments of the flying saucers fit with the common maneuvers of airplanes, singly or in groups. Some of the maneuvering report- ed, which took saucers out of sight and back into sight again, resem- bles what can be seen while. watching distant airplanes.

If the objects are seen by re- flected light, as in most cases re- ported, they are almost certain to be round, and if the reflections 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.

At first, she said, it looked like an airplane and then loomed larger and larger until it "appeared as big as the sun."

Whether planes are guided, pi- lotless or jet, they all would look the same at great distances.

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32 JUL 16

# Sharp-Eyed Sight Disks, but Only a Saw Blade Is Found

The top photograph shows a person in uniform kneeling and working on what appears to be an airplane engine.

The bottom photograph shows four people, three women and one young man, standing together.

JUL 16 17

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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

# Seen in 36 States;
Jet Fighters
Alerted •

SAN FRANCISCO, July 6-(P) -Military aircraft hunted the skies over Pacific Coast states today for sight of the mysterious "ying saucers" that for 12 days have puzzled the entire country."

Early reports of results were
negative.

Five P-51s of the Oregon Na-
tional Guard cruised over the
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
other five. All carried photo-
graphic equipment.

Col. G. R. Dodson, command- ing, described their flight as a "routine patrol," but said they had been instructed to watch for the flying discs.

At Manhattan Beach, Calif., A. W McKelvey took a Mustang fighter plane up above Van Nuys For two hours he cruised at 35 008 feet, but "didn't see a thing.

Gen. Carl Spaatz, commandant of the Army Air Forces, was on a Pacific Northwest fishing trip. He denied knowing anything about the flying discs or of plans to use AAF planes to look for them.

# Seen in 36 States;
Jet Fighters
Alerted • (cont.)

## 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.

A cautious attitude marked
both official and scientific com-
ments, but Capt. Tom Brown of
the Air Forces Public Relations
staff in Washington acknowl
edged the Air Forces had decided
"there's something to this" and
had been checking up on it for
10 days.

# Seen in 36 States;
Jet Fighters
Alerted • (cont.)

## 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

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-
erday. The institute quickly de-
ied 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.

# Seen in 36 States;
Jet Fighters
Alerted • (cont.)

## 'PROPELLER IN CENTER'

Nova Hart, St. Louis mechanic who was trained during service in the war to spot all types of aircraft, said he saw one of the trang objects near Pattonville esterday. 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.

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 in 36 States;
Jet Fighters
Alerted • (cont.)

## 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 from east of the Mississippi. Since then they have been reported seen In widely separated sections of the country-in 33 states in all.

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# Planes Chasing Disks
Find Only Empty Sky

Jokesters Add
Some Comedy
to Air Mystery

## East St. Louis Objects

radio announcement that disks were flying over Lewiston, Idaho, Sunday sent hundreds into their yards for a look. Weatherman Louis Krezak said the objects were mov- ing eastward with the prevailing wind and probably were weed seeds. Three air transport pilots agreed.

# Planes Chasing Disks
Find Only Empty Sky (cont.)

## Searchlights on Clouds

A Birmingham radio station was deluged with more than 400 calls in A Birmingham radio station was

Army pilots were ready Monday
for another air search for the mys-
terious "flying saucers" now
ed seen in 39 states and parts of
Canada as practical jokesters added
to the confusion.

# Planes Chasing Disks
Find Only Empty Sky (cont.)

## Prove to Be Washers;
Chicago Woman Spots
One With Legs000

one hour by persons who said they saw fluorescent balls circling over the city and clearly outlined against 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.,
over the cause of a spectacular glow
in the sky and a roar shortly before
report-electrical power went off. Mrs. W.
C. Smith said she heard a noise "like

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- 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.

# Planes Chasing Disks
Find Only Empty Sky (cont.)

## Illusions Or Jokes

A number of "disks" whirled over rooftops in East St. Louis, Ill., Sun- day. J. T. Hartley, a locomotive en- Aineer, gathered some of them up and found they were made of pressed white paper, 11 inches in diameter and with a two inch hole in the center. Railroad workers said they looked like locomotive packing washers.

There was growing belief that the concentrated aerial search would show the saucers to be optical illu- sions or the work of practical joke- sters magnified by aroused imagi- nations.

# Planes Chasing Disks
Find Only Empty Sky (cont.)

## 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."

a 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 reported damaged and no one could explain

what a crop dusting plane was do- ing in the air at dawn on 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.

# Planes Chasing Disks
Find Only Empty Sky (cont.)

## 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 was standing on my porch and I th ught for sure it was coming right dp vn and slap me in the face," she sa 1. leorge Kuger of Denver said he sara flying disk with an America 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 a "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. Y who said she and her husband saw an object "about the size of an ordinary saucer" flying above her back yard at 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

# Planes Chasing Disks
Find Only Empty Sky (cont.)

## Saw One With Legs (cont.)

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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 number of persons.

Dr. J. S. Nassau, director of the Warner & Swasey observatory 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- bilty that there's something to it," he said, "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'

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# U.S. Planes Hunting Discs;
Russ Tells of 'Atom Saucers' (cont.)

## 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 I aboard a Russian tanker recently in Los Angeles harbor.

# U.S. Planes Hunting Discs;
Russ Tells of 'Atom Saucers' (cont.)

## KILLED 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
the heat developed by air fric-
tion.

"The outer surface is highly olished," the Russian said Both upper and lower surfaces are convex, like a giant lens. The lifting force is an entirely 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 he wanted to hear about Russia, nvited him to dinner.

The Russian first asked where he could sell 18 polar 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.

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# Quirks of Eyesight May
Explain Disc Mystery

## By HOWARD BLAKESLEE

# Quirks of Eyesight May
Explain Disc Mystery (cont.)

## AP Science Editor

NEW YORK, July 6-(AP)-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 to the limit of how far a person can see, all objects appear round or nearly so. This law of sight covers both small things seen nearby and large ones at great distances.

photograph of the oval object. taken by Yeoman Frank Ryman north of Seattle, Wash. The Long Island oval came closer and turned into an airplane.

Regardless of shape, the ob- ject near the limit of sight looks round. If the thing is silhouetted against a bright sky, as some of the flying saucers have been re- ported, then it is more likely to reveal its true shape.

Planes at great distances tend to look round when light is re- flected from their sides. Many descriptions of movements of the flying saucers fit with the com- mon maneuvers of airplanes, singly or in groups.

# Quirks of Eyesight May
Explain Disc Mystery (cont.)

## HAVE NO STRUCTURE'

ff the thing is seen by reflected light, as in most cases reported, it is almost certain to be round, and if the reflections are sunlight, then the sizes reported are those which would be expected from distant light reflections.

They fit also with what birds look like, flying at a considerable distance. However the bird llu- sion is not very common. Some of the maneuvering reported, which took saucers out of sight and back into sight again re- sembles what can be seen while watching distance airplanes.

## SPEED MYSTERY

The one outstanding fact about virtually all the saucers is that they had no structure they seemed merely round and flat. That description fits exactly with the tricks that eyes play. This trickiness varies with differences in weather and lighting.

This writer has seen flying saucers over Long Island Sound near his home, not only this year but in previous years. They were round, bright and moving fast.

There is no explanation for ré- ported speeds of 1,000 or more miles an hour. Meteors, although they go much faster than that, do not explain it because the saucers mostly appear in daytime and there are not enough day- light meteors.

# 'Saucers' Fly Here;
Grafton Disc Joke

What was reported as a "flying disc" 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 "disc" End points to the lightning rod on the church (arrow), which he said was struck by the disc. Sentinel Photo by Ernest Anheuser.

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.

# 'Saucers' Fly Here;
Grafton Disc Joke (cont.)

## WIRES AND TUBES

It, was a large circular saw about 16 inches in diameter-and still hot when Father Brasky picked it from the lawn.

There were wires and two tubes attached to it. The tubes were an inch in diameter and three inches long.

One theory was that pranksters or belated Fourth of July cele brants had attached explosives to 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-1 lines, Inc., he saw a flying saucer bobbing up and down over the from the plane. airfield just after he had alighted after he had alighted

Other passengers with him also saw it, he said. He gave the name of J. W. Rowden of Detroit. 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.

# 'Saucers' Fly Here;
Grafton Disc Joke (cont.)

## 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 across Lake Michigan at 8:20 last night, about a mile from shore, and

## "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.

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

# Office Memorandum

# • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : DIRECTOR, FBI
FROM : <signature> SAC, MILWAUKEE
SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS OR SAUCERS

DATE: July 8, 1947

MISCELLANEOUS
TELEPHONE CALL FROM MR. FLETCHER
AT THE BUREAU AT 8:30 AM, 7/7/47

# • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

ATTENTION: MR. H. B FLETCHER

Capris ph

Attached are newspaper clippings from the Milwaukee Sentinel and Milwaukee Journal of July 7, 1947.

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 JOSEPH 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.

# • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

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 position if a story had gone out over the wire services. 62-83894-13 Cut 12 RECORDED

# • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

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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 con tacted the Milwaukee FBI Office or any Agent concerning his find my opinion, this is just another hoax story, since a photograph Father BRASKY 3thority. Father BRASKY with the saw indicates no basis for any investigation by 20 62-0 Enclosures

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[page 66]
STANDARD FORM NO. 64

# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : D.M.LADD <signature>
FROM : K.C.Howe
SUBJECT: Flying Disc

# Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

DATE: July 11, 1947

Mr. Tolson
Mr. E. A. Tamm
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Carson
Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurnea
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Pennington
Mr. Quinn Tamm
Tele. Room
Mr. Nease
Miss Holmes
Miss Candy
<empty>

At 10:45 PM on the evening of July 11, 1947, Clerk Piercy of the Mr. Harbo Washington Field Office called and stated that at the instruction Mr. Hennrich he wanted to pass on to the Bureau information he had just re- ceived from one Alvin B. Parker, 200 6th Street, Laurel, Maryland, to the effect that a "flying disc" 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 G-2 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.

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

# Office Memorandum

# UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO

TO : MR. E. A. TAMM
FROM : D. M. LADD
SUBJECT: <empty>

DATE: July 11, 1947

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.m., 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.

Mr. Tolson
Mr. E. A. Tamm
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Carson
Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurnea
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Hendon
Mr. Pennington
Mr. Quinn Tamm
Tele. Room
Mr. Nease
Miss Holmes
Miss Gandy

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT •

TO : MR. LADD <signature>
FROM : F. P. GRIFFEE <signature>
SUBJECT: FLYING DISC S

# UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

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DATE: July 12, 1947

Mr. Tolson
Mr. E. A. Tamm
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Carson
Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurnea
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Hendon
Mr. Pennington
Mr. Quinn Tamm
Tele. Room
Mr. Nease
Miss Holmes
Miss Gandy
<signature>

Reference is made to Mr. Howe's memorandum to you dated July 11, in the above-captioned matter.

At 11:55 P.M., July 11, I took a phone call from Sergeant Lonis of the Laurel, Maryland, Police Department. Sergeant 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 the Bureau was sending anyone out to look at it. I told him that 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.

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FLYING DISC, INFORMATION CONCERNING. MAJOR CURTAN, HEADQUARTERS EIGHTH AIR FORCE, TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED THIS OFFICE THAT AN OBJECT PURPORTING 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 SON BORNE OUT THIS BELIEF. DISC AND BALLOON BEING TRANSPORTED TO WRIGHT FIELD BY SPECIAL PLANE FOR EXAMINATIO INFORMATION PROVIDED THIS OFFICE BECAUSE OF NATIONAL INTEREST IN CASE FX 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.

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DIRECTOR FBI VERY URGENT Miss C FLYING DISCS, MISCELLANEOUS. F. HARISTON, FIFTEEN FIFTY FOUR AS AVENUE, SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA ADVISES HE OBSERVED A CIRCULAR DISC AT SIX FIVE PM THIS DATE COMING FROM NW DIRECTION. DISC LANDED IN FIFTEEN 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 FROM SIDES. FIRE WENT OUT ON LANDING AND SMOKE ISSUED FEW SECONDS AFTER FIRE WENT OUT. DISC PICKED UP AND NOT HOT. HAIRSTON NOTIFIED G-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 -

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July 10, 1947

RECORDED 62 - 83894 - 20
EX-53

Mr. L. C. A. Hoersch
349 Central Avenue
Jersey City, New Jersey

Dear Mr. Hoersch:

Your letter dated July 6, 1947, has been received and I do want to thank you for making this information available to me. Your interest is appreciated.

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover
Director

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Mr. Nichols
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Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurnea
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Pennington
Mr. Quinn Tamm
Tele. Room
Mr. Nease
Miss Candy

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
MAILED 11
JUL 11 1947 P.M.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

58 AUG 6 1947
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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/ . T. Norris
1734 Thome Ave
Chicago-

TRUE COPY

[page 79]
STANDARD FORM NO. 64

# Office Memorandum

# • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : D. M. Ladd
FROM : H. B. Fletcher
SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS

of

DATE:
July 11, 1947

II

# • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

Mr. Tolson
Mr. E. A. Tamm
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Olavin
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Carson
Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurnea
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Hendon
Mr. Pennington
Mr. Quinn Tamm
Tele. Room
Mr. Nease
Miss Holmes
Miss Gandy

SAC Bannister of the Butte Office called at noon today and stated that a Mrs. Fred Easterbrook, 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:

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# • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

A disc 30" 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 diameter 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 disc 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.

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EX 43
Dear Mr. Norris
recorded
62-83894-22

INDEXED The information contained therein has been carefully reviewed and is being made I wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter postmarked July 7, 1947. a matter of permanent record in the files of this Bureau. Your interest in writing as you did is indeed appreciated.

In the future should you have information which you feel might be of interest to this Bureau you might find it convenient to contact the Special Agent in Charge of our Chicago office, which is located at 1900 Bankers Building, Chicago 3, Illinois.

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover
Director

CC-> Chicago (With Incoming. There is 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 sufficiently important to refer to Army authorities.)

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# July 18, 1947 (cont.)

mr. Tolson
Mr. E. A. Tazew
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Olavin
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Ryan
Mr. Curnea
Mr. harte
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Pennington
Mr. Quinn Tamm
Tele. Room
Mr. Meave
Miss Candy

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
MAILED 10
JUL 18 1947 P.M.
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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

# Office Memorandum

•

# UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : MR. LADD <signature>
FROM : Roy E. Wood
SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS (DISCS)
INFORMATION CONCERNING

DATE: July 10, 1947
Mr. Salomon

<signature>

Mr. Tolson [x]
Mr. E. A. Tamm [x]
Mr. Clegg [x]
Mr. Glavin [x]
Mr. Ladd [x]
Mr. Nichols [x]
Mr. Rosen [x]
Mr. Tracy [x]
Mr. Carson [x]
Mr. Egan [x]
Mr. Gurnea [x]
Mr. Harbo [x]
Mr. Hendon [x]
Mr. Pennington [x]
Mr. Quinn Tamm [x]
Tele. Room [x]
Mr. Nease [x]
Miss Holmes [x]
Miss Candy [x]

At 5:45 AM this date, SAC Hood telephonically contacted the Bureau and advised at approximately 11:30 PM, July 9, 1947, the office in Los Angeles had received information from the Resident Agent at Burbank, California, that a "flying disc" 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 city 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.

# UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

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 first issues. 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 morning (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 disc 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.

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

# Office Memorandum

# UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : Director, FBI
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пром : SAC, Los Angeles

DATE: July 17, 1947

SUBJECT: RECOVERY OF "FLYING DISC"
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA,
JULY 9, 1947

# UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

On the evening of July 9, 1947, a report was received at the Los Angeles Office that a so-called "flying disc" 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. A 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.

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# Office Memorandum · UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

JUL 16 1947
TELETYPE
7-16-47 10 15 AM

FBI SEATTLE
DIRECTOR
URGENT

RE FLYING DISKS. MRS. T. L. KREMMER, TWO SIX NAUGHT EIGHT DASH WING, THIRD AVE., WEST, SEATTLE, REPORTED FLYING DISK HAD LANDED ON VER ROOF ABOUT NINE FORTY TWO PM LAST NIGHT, THAT IT WAS BURNING AT TIME AND IMMEDIATELY EXTINGUISHED. SHE ALSO ADVISED ONI, AND DISK FELL SHORT DISTANCE FROM THEIR OFFICES. AGENTS IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED TO SCENE AND RECOVERED DISK TAKEN ONI OFFICES AND EXAMINED BY NAVY BOMB AND ELECTRONICS EXPERTS AND AGENTS. DISK DESCRIBED AS ABOUT TWENTY EIGHT INCH 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 HAD PRINTED LETTERS IN WHITE PAINT AS FOLLOWS QUOTE U S S R UNQUOTE, ALSO QUOTE E Y R UNQUOTE, WHICH WOULD APPEAR TO BE RYE PRINTED BACKWARD AND A HAMMER AND SICKLE. MOUNTED ON PIECES OF BAKELITE IN THE CENTER OF THE INSIDE OF THE DISK WERE TWO RADIO TUBES, WHICH WERE WIRED UP AND ALSO SO MOUNTED WAS ABOUT A QUART TYPE CYLINDRICAL SHAPED OIL CAN TO WHICH WAS FITTED A SHORT PIECE OF RUBBER TUBING RUNNING FROM CAN TO ENTRANCE TO A PIECE OF ONE INCH PIPE ABOUT FOURTEEN INCHES LONG. THE PIPE EXTENDED THROUGH THE DISK AND AT THE OUTER END OF THE PIPE WAS ABOUT A SIX INCH PIECE OF CLOTH, WHICH WAS WOUND ABOUT AND STUCK INTO THE END OF THE PIPE. THE ENDS OF THIS CLOTH WERE CHARRED FROM BURNING. THE CLOTH WAS SATURATED WITH SOME SUBSTANCE

RECORDED 62-83894-26
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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

# Office Memorandum

•

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : DIRECTOR, FBI
FROM : SAC, NEW HAVEN
SUBJECT: "FLYING SAUCERS"
EDWIN M. BAILEY, JR.
STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, INFORMANT
ATOMIC ENERGY ACT

DATE: July 18, 1947
Wharvey
P.g. Fletofer

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 Stamford, 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.

# Office Memorandum (cont.)

Mr. BAILEY 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 immediately 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 it

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DILLED

[page 105]
Letter to the DIRECTOR, FBI
Re: "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 informed by Mr. PERKIN that his company is making a large powerful telescope to be used in searching the strato- sphere for atom bombs.

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Mr. Tolson
MR. A. Tama
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Mr. Clegg
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Mr. Glavin
COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
Mr. Ladd.
Mr. Nichols.
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Mr. Tracy
Mr. Egan.
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DIRECTOR

# Office Memorandum (cont.)

7. Суу ками METAL FRAGMENTS OBSERVED AT WEST RINDGE, N.H., JULY SEVEN, FORTYSEVEN, SECURITY MATTER-X., DEAN JOHN BUNKER, SECURITY OFFICER, M.I.T., CAMBRIDGE, MASS., ADVISED THAT TODAY HE WAS IN CONTACT WITH ONE CHARLES NA MASKER, 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 WHITEHEAD, ROUTE TWO NAUGHT TWO, WEST RINDGE, N.H., LITTLE CURLS OF SMOKE, WHICH ON INSPECTION DISCLOSED SMALL BURNED 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 RODDY DEPT WAS CALLED. FIRES WERE APPARNTLY CAUSED BY METALLIC FRAGMENTATIONS WHICH WERE TURNED OVER TO PROFESSOR RENTGES, OF MIT, BY A MR. PARKE DAPPEL, 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. E PROFESSOR L.H. EWALD. AN OUTGORDED INDEXEF TALLURGIST AT MIT, STATED THAT THEY ARE POSSIBLY THE AND FROM A JET TURBO PLANE. AT PRESENT EX-64 62-83894-28 P TIME HE IS IN PROCESS OF ANALYZING TWO OF THESE PIECES. THESE G SCIENTISTS IN ROUGHLY RECONSTRUCTIN THE METALLIC OBJECT STATE APPROXIMATELY FOURTEEN INCHES IN DIAMETER, THREE 58 AUG 13 1947 1 COPIES DESTROYED A-----END PAGE ONE-----270 NOV 18 1964

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SIXTEENTHS OF AN INCH THICK, AND MACHINE TOOLED, AND SOME FRAGMENTS INDICATED THEY WERE BURNED AND ALTERVENES APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO TERRIFIC HEAT. THESE SCIENTISTS ARE TREATING THIS MATTER AS CLASSIFIED INFORMATION. MR.1 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 MIT RESEARCH AVAILABLE IF SIGNIFICANT. OPINIONS OF SCIENTISTS AS SET FORTH ABOVE SUGGEST POSSBLE MILITARY INTEREST. MILITARY AUTHORITIES AT BOSTON HAVE NOT BEEN NOTIFIED.

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| Mrs. John   | Maurice Clark   |
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| Dear Mrs.   | Clark:          |

Your letter dated July 17, 1947, together with enclosures, has been received and I want to thank you for submitting the letter you mentioned to me.

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover
Director

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Mr. Glavin
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurnea
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Mohr
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Miss Candy

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MRS. JOHN MAURICE CLARK
THREE CORNERED POND
R. F. D. 6
AUGUSTA, MAINE

Mr. J. Edgar Hoover,
F.B.I.
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Hoover:
<signature>

Mr. Tolson
Mr. E. A. Tamm
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurnea
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Pennington
Mr. Quinn Tamm
Mr. Nease

The enclosed came to my husband yesterday. After reading it aloud to the family, as a good example of crack-pot-ism, advertising or what have you, he threw Mis Gand 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.

Winifred GClark

Sincerely yours,
Winifred G. Clark
<signature>
Mrs. J.M. Clark
July 17, 1947
Home address: 41 Wright St. Westport, Conn.
Dr. John M. Clark

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[page 114]
July 11, 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?

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.

62.83894-29

ENCLOSURE

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3

July 10, 1947

Mr. Woodson C. Cope
Cliffside Hall
San Marcos, Texas

Dear Mr. Cope:

I wish to acknowledge receipt of your Western Union telegram dated July 7, 1947. Your interest in making this information available to me is greatly appreciated.

Inasmuch as the contents of your telegram appear to be of interest to the War Department only, I have taken the liberty of making the information furnished by you available to that Department.

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover
Director

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Darlington, South Carolina

Dear Mr. Watts:

I wish to acknowledge receipt of your Western Union telegram dated July 6, 1947. Tour interest in bringing this information to my attention is greatly appreciated.

Inasmuch as the contents of your telegram appear to be of interest to the War Department only, I have taken the liberty of turning this information over to that Department.

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover
Director

cc-Savannah
NOTE: The telegram referred to "flying discs,

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FLYING DISCS SIGHTED BY FRED CHRISMAN AND HAROLD A. DAHL, TACOMA, WASHINGTON, SM X. REURTEL INSTANT DATE. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT 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 BUILDING 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 CONTARXX CONTRARY BY THE BUREAU.

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has agreed to cooperate in the investigation of flying discs. The Air Forces have (B) FLYING DISCS -- The Bureau, at the request of the Army Air Forces Intelligence, 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 creating a mass hysteria.

7-30-47
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Series 1947

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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.

Any information you develop in connection with these discs should be promptly brought to the attention of the Army through your usual liaison channels.

5252 58 AUG 181947

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AFTER FIVE DAYS RETURN TO
6512 Mission St
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Mr J Edgar Hoover
F.B.I.
Washington, D.C.

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## Air Conditioning - Gas Furnaces
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Flying Saucers

Dear Sir,.

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flying saucers
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these flying saucers. I got a brain-
storm, Maybe there is someone that is
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be sent up by Remote Control. and
could be used against us.

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SNDARD FORM NO. 64

# Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : D. M. LADD
FROM : E. G. Fitch
SUBJECT: FLYING DISKS

DATE: 7/10/47

Mr. Tolson [x]
Mr. E. A. Tann [x]
Mr. Clegg [x]
Mr. Glayn [x]
Mr. Ladd [x]
Mr. Nicko <signature>
Mr. Rose [x]
Mr. Tracy [x]
Mr. Carson [x]
Mr. Egan [x]
Mr. Burnea [x]
Mr. Harbo [x]
Mr. Hendon [x]
Mr. Pennington [x]
Mr. Quinn Tann [x]
Tele. Room [x]
Mr. Kease [x]
Miss Beahm [x]
Miss Gandy [x]

At request of Brigadier General George F. Schulgen, Chief of the Requirements Intelligence Branch of Army Air Corps Intelligence,

# Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

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 about them. According to General Schulgen, the Air Corps Intelligence are lizing 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 phenomenon and with view that they might be a foreign body mechanically devised and controlled.

General Schulgen also indicated to Mr. Reynolds that all Air Corps tallations have been alerted to run out each reported sighting to obtain all ible 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 oroughly interrogated by General Schulgen and scientists, as well as a psy- chologist, and the pilot was adamante in his claim that he saw a flying disk.

# Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

General Schulgen advised Mr. Reynolds that the possibility exists that the first reported sightings of the so-called flying disks were fallacious and prompted by individuals seeking personal publicity, or were 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 might have been by individuals of Communist sympathies with the view to ' causing hysteria and fear of a secret Russian weapon.

# Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

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 various Air Corps installations will be available in his office. He advised that to complete the picture he desired the assistance 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. General Schulgen indicated to Mr. Reynolds that if the Bureau would cooperate with him in this matter, he would offer all the facilities of his office as to results obtained in the effort to identify and run down this matter. 62-83894-33

Mr. Reynolds advised General Schulgen his request would be made known to the Bureau and an answer made available to him as soon as possible.

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[page 127]
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
<signature>

[page 128]
0

July 30, 1947

Mr. George J. Pluskat
907 Seneca Avenue
Brooklyn 27, New York

Dear Mr. Pluskat:
RECORDED 62-83894-35
I desire to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated July 14, 1947, and to express my appreciation to you for bringing this matter to my attention.

The information set forth in your letter has been carefully reviewed and is being maintained in this Bureau as a matter of record.

Sincerely yours,

[page 129]
907 Sen Ave.,
Brookly 7, N947
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 isn't necessary. Yet, although everybodys tongue was wagging from the East and to the West coast, I couldn't resist putting my oar in.

Flying Saucers in the Sky.Heading for the Milky Way Funny?I dont know.

# Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

## Dear Sir; (cont.)

We read and read and read. "Sky Disc Derby Open to All"-"Calls "Saucers "Trick of Vision"-"Believe it or not, 27 States see those flying saucers"-"Who saw the Saucers?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 fight the en- emy out in the open and away from home if possible.The Federal Agents (the unsung heroes) fight the enemy under cover and in their home grounds. So.Here I am. These so-called saucers may be kites, but according to reports, these things didn't flutter or float, they sailed and kites don't sail, the stranges part is, they all sailed in the same direction, from West to East.

# Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

## Dear Sir; (cont.)

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 does it lead to3An enemy.A little while back, it was mentioned somewhere that Russia had or has a contraption for their next war,em- itting sound (like a silent whistle for dogs) what it'sixxto do, th their enemy,I 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 thair 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 an confused mind. The se 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, called kites.These things resembling description as near as possible to the real thing. Why couldn't these things have been directed ba ck home again like a homing pigeon?

[page 130]
MEMORANDUM FOR D. M. LADD

7/23/47

## RECOMMENDATION

There is attached a Bureau Bulletin to the Field for their assistance in handling this matter.

Attachment

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[page 131]
STANDARD FORM NO. 64

# Office Memorandum

# UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : D. M. LADD <signature>
FROM : E. G. Fitch <signature>
SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS

DATE: 7/24/47

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 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 discs recovered. For instance in the Ia. case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination."

Mr. Tolson <empty>
Mr. E. A. Tamm <empty>
Mr. Clegg <empty>
Mr. Coffey <empty>
Mr. Glavin <empty>
Mr. Ladd <empty>
Mr. Nichols <empty>
Mr. Rosen <empty>
Mr. Tracy <empty>
Mr. Mohr <empty>
Mr. Carson <empty>
Mr. Hendon <empty>
Mr. Mumford <empty>
Mr. Jones <empty>
Mr. Quinn Tamm <empty>
Tele. Room <empty>
Mr. Nease <empty>
Miss Beahm <empty>
Miss Candy <empty>
<empty>

# UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

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 discs recovered be made available for the examination 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. General Schulgen indicated to Mr. Reynolds that there has been a decrease in the reported sightings of the discs 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 discs were in fact seen and to determine their origin.

# UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

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 Schulgen that the Bureau Field Offices maintain close liaison with the Intelligence Divisions of the various Armies as well as close liaison with the Intelligence Division of the War Department. General Schulgen indicated that he would be satisfied to receive information through this means. RECORDS 162-83894-

[page 132]
STANDARD FORM NO. 64

# UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT •

TO : DIRECTOR, FBI
FROM : <signature> SAC, EL PASO
<signature> SUBJECT: Mrs. GWYNNE M. MERCHANT, Informant
FLYING OBJECTS IN AIR

DATE: July 22, 1947

<signature> SUBJECT: Mrs. GWYNNE M. MERCHANT, Informant
FLYING OBJECTS IN AIR <signature>

Discs

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.

# UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

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 Commission, 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.

Fily

On July 15, Mrs. MERCHANT came to the Santa Fe resident agency and advised that she had written to WALTER WINCHELL, 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.

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

Office Memorandum. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : D.M.LADD
FROM : K.C.Howe
SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS
Miscellaneous

# UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

DATE: July 7, 1947
9:50 PM

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Mr. Tolson
Mr. E. A. Tamm
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Carson
Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurnea
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Pennington
Mr. Quinn Tamm
Tele. Room
Mr. Nease
Miss Holmes
Miss Candy
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SAC Weeks called from New Orleans on the matter discussed in the Mr: Pennington attached teletype. He wanted to know what policy the Bureau was following Tele. Room in connection with reports concerning these "flying discs" which were being received.

I told Mr. Weeks that, unless advised to the contrary, he should, in the particular case at hand, allow G-2 to handle and not take any jurisdiction for the FBI. He was told the Bureau would be interested in being kept a dvised 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, would fall on us. Mr. Weeks said he would so handle unless I called him back immediately with instructions for specific action.

As you will recall, I called you concerning the foregoing.

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# CONFIDENTIAL

COPY

DECLASSIFIED

NND 90986

Authority:

UNIDENT HABLE OBJECTS
Williams Field, Chandler
Arizona

7 July 1947

# CONFIDENTIAL (cont.)

MEMORANDUM FOR THE OFFICER IN CHARGE:

1. On 1 July 1947, Lt William G. McGinty, USN, 195803, P-80 Student, Williams Field, Chandler, Arizona, was interviewed by this Agent, and stated in substance: That on 30 June 1947, at about 0910, MST, he was flying at 25,000 feet over Grand Canyon, Arizona, in a P-80 type aircraft. He stated that he was heading south towards Williams 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. In conclusion, he stated that the objects would have probably hit the ground approximately twenty-five miles south of the South Rim of Grand Canyon, Arizona.

AGENT'S NOTES: Lt McGinty gave his permanent address as: N.A.M.T.C., Point Hugu, Port Hueneme, Calif.

# CONFIDENTIAL (cont.)

2. On 1 July 1947, Captain Malcolm G. Armstrong, 0-734168, Instructor, Single Engine, Williams Field, Chandler, Arizona, was interviewed by this Agent and stated in substance: That his brother 1st Lt E. B. Armstrong, stationed at Hq, 10th AAF, Brooks AAF, Texas had related to him that he saw a formation of unexplainable objects 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 Hq, 10th AAF, Brooks Field, Texas for further information.

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Fletcher

Lynn C. Aldrich, Special Agent, CIC AAF, FDTRC F INDEXED 162-83894-38× B

THIS IS A TRUE COPY
/s/ John K. Orr,
JOHN K. ORR, Major, A.C.

15 NOV 5 19470

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Date : August 1, 1947
PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL
<signature>
26/31/77

To : Director of Intelligence
War Department General Staff
The Pentagon
Washington 25, D. C.

Attention: Colonel L. R. Forney, Chief, Security Group

From : John Edgar Hoover, Director -- Federal Bureau of Investigation

Subject : MRS. ARTHUR DOUGLASS ANDERSON

There are attached hereto copies of a letter received from 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 your con- sideration.

Mr. Tolson
Mr. E. A. Tamm
Mr. Cierrg
Mr. Glavin
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Carson
Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurnea
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Hendon
Mr. Pennington
Mr. Quinn Tamm
Mr. Nease
Miss Gandy

Attachment
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John Seljan
M/D 84/17
RECORDED
& INDEXED
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62-83897-39
F 13
35 AUG 7 1947
APC
58 AUG 13 1947

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This is a document with handwritten and stamped text, appearing to be from a historical archive. Key entities include:

*   **Handwritten Signatures:** Multiple signatures are present, one with a date of "3/15/48".
*   **Stamps:** Various stamps are visible, including "INDEXED" and some unreadable text.
*   **Typewritten Text:** Some areas contain typewritten text, mostly illegible due to the document's condition and the way it was photographed (some text is reversed).
*   **Hole Punches:** The document has two hole punches at the top, suggesting it was once filed.

# CONFIDENTIAL (cont.)

Mr. Tolson

Mr. R. A. Tanim

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

CARBON
2140

8-5-47

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. J. SMITH AND CO-PILOT RALPH STEVENS, UNITED AIRLINES, AND DAVE JOHNSON, AVIATION EDITOR, IDAHO STATESMAN. TO ASCERTAIN THE PURPOSE OF TH TЯENTERVEWS RICHARDS CONTACTED MAJOR GENERAL TUINING OF WRICHT FIELD, OHIO BY PHONE AT ALBUQUERQUE, NM, AND FROM HIM GAINED THE IMPRESSION THAT THE AAF INSTITUTED THIS INVESTIGATION TO WASH OUT THE DISC REPORTS, SINCE THEY ARE DEFINITELY NOT OF AAF ORIGIN. ON FRIDAY, AUGUST FIRST, THE PLANE IN WHICH AAF INVESTICATORS CAPTAIN DAVIDSON AND LT. BROWN WERE RIDING, CRASHED AT KELSO, WASII. AND BOTH

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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.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
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AUG 6 1947
<signature>
TELETYPE

Fletcher

Mr. Tolson.
Mr. M. A. Tamm.
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Mr. Glavi....
Mr. Ladd.
Mr. Nichols.
Mr. Roson
Mr. Trasy
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Mr. Gemon
Mr. Marko
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Pennington.....
Mr. Quinn Tamm.
Mr. Nease.
Miss Gandy

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-

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

# Office Memorandum

# . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : D. M. IADD <signature>
FROM : E. G. Fitch <signature>
SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS

DATE: August 6, 1947

# . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

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
Mr. E. A. Tamm
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Carson
Mr. Egari
Mr. Gurnea
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Pennington
Mr. Quinn Tamm
Tele. Room
Mr. Nease
Miss Holmes
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.

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[page 147]
Rrt J. Sroka

469 N. Washington Ave.

Waukesha, Wis.

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Gentlemen; <signature>

# . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

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 лес minutes to reach the place but we saw nothing. After ten minutes of cruis ing around the area it became too dark to see so we went back to town.

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L-26

Invoice of Contents from
DERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, D. C.

Date: 9-10-47
Case References: Flying Saucer
Consigned to:
Mrs. J. H. Mixon
Route 1, Box 30
Estill, South Carolina

List of Contents

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MAILED 7 SEP 13 1947 P.M.

REGISTERED
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Mr. Conrad, 7142 <empty>
Mr. Downing, 7632 <empty>
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Mr. Baughman, 7121 <empty>

SPECTALONSTRUOTSISGATION Room, place date of shipment and registry number; Shipping Room, show date of shipPARTMEн06 HBUCE1 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.

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RECORDED te:

Date: 6-2-1947
August 5, 1947

To:
Director of Intelligence
War Department General Staff
The Pentagon
Washington 25, D. C.

Attention: Colonel L. R. Forney, Chief, Security Group

From: John Edgar Hoover - Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Subject: ROBERT J. SROKA

CONFIDENTIAL
BY SPECIAL MESSENGER
<signature>

BY SPECIAL MESSENGER coLALAL Zor 8/31/77

There are attached hereto copies of a letter received from the above-captioned individual concerning "flying discs."

سعد

Mr. Sroka's letter has been acknowledged and he has been advised that copies of his letter have been furnished to you for your consideration.

Attachment

Mr. Tolson
Mr. E. A. Tamm
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Carson
Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurnea
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Hendon
Mr. Pennington
Mr. Quinn Tamm
Mr. Nease
Miss Gandy

WVC:mjp:rb

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
MATHEW F. BROWN
RECEIVED INVITATION
AUG - 7 1947 P M
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
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AUG 4 1947
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TELETYPE

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DIRECTOR URGENT

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FLYING DISC REPORTED AT HACKENSACK, NJ AUGUST THREE, NINETEEN FORTY SEVEN MISC. INFORMATION RECEIVED THAT CHARLES CASELLA, JR. AGENTY

XX 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

YDS, IN AIR, REVOLVING SLOWLY, MOVING RAPIDLY, AND

NEITHER A KITE NOR A BALLOON.

CASELLA TELEPHONED INFORMATION TO HACK-

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[page 157]
SANDARD D FORM NO. 64

# Office Memorandum

# UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

| ΤΟ :     | Director, FBI   |
|-|-|
| FROM :   | SAC, Norfolk    |
| SUBJECT: | FLYING DISCS    |

DATE: August 8, 1947

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# UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

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 not received any remuneration for the use of this negative.

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# UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (cont.)

He informed that he was sitting on the front porch of his apartment which is located on the third floor at 410 West 14th Street, Norfolk, Virginia, around noontime on July 8, 1947. He had read numerous newspaper articles pertaining to flying discs 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 a large, black object moving rapidly through space proceeding from the southwest to a northeast direction. He said the black object was followed by two smaller objects which also proceeded in the 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 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. He said that when he first observed the objects they were at s a great distance from him that it was not necessary that he raised 3894-45 his head in order to see them from his porch on the third floor of the apartment building. He immediately turned around to obtain

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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 discs 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.

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From Norfolk Ledger-Dispatc

Date 7-9-47

# Flying Disc 'Bigger Than Automobile' Photographed By Youth Who Is Amazed Because No One Else Saw It

# Flying Disc 'Bigger Than Automobile' Photographed By Youth Who Is Amazed Because No One Else Saw It (cont.)

## By GEORGE HEBERT

The flying disc "was lots bigger than an automobile," and 15-year- old Bil Turrentine, of 410 West Fourteenth Street, doesn't under- stand why almost everybody in Norfolk didn't see it.

In fact, when he came to the Ledger-Dispatch with a photograph he had taken of the object, he wanted to know why the newspa- pers hadn't already taken a pic- ture of it. "I thought your photo- graphers were fast," he told a re- porter.

few seconds later didn't look any-1
thing like saucers."
Looked Like Football

The boy stuck to his football comparison, explaining that the object was sort of rounded, more oval than disc-like, and that though it wobbled in its northeastward flight it was traveling very rapidly, about 600 miles an hour.

He guessed that the altitude of the thing was about 5,000 feet, just below the clouds. In color it was "gray, almost black," and looked like a "burned crisp," or

(Editor's Note: Although the maybe a rock or stone. The edges using an old camera, with the shutter set at 1/100th of a second. He

# Flying Disc 'Bigger Than Automobile' Photographed By Youth Who Is Amazed Because No One Else Saw It (cont.)

## By GEORGE HEBERT (cont.)

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 disc. However, the boy said the object pictured here looked and moved more like a football, being rounded and oval, rather than disc-like. Bill took this picture from the porch of his home at 410 West Fourteenth Street between 11 o'clock and noon Tuesday, set at 1/100th of a second. He said the "flying football" shown here was followed by two small r ones, all moving at about 600 miles an hour and he guessed they wee about 5,000 feet high, just below the clouds. The photograph reprodu ed here is an enlargement made by Photo Craftsmen. In the for ground of young Turrentine's picture is the porch rail of his home.

# Flying Disc 'Bigger Than Automobile' Photographed By Youth Who Is Amazed Because No One Else Saw It (cont.)

## By GEORGE HEBERT (cont.)

Ledger-Dispatch has had many re- ports of flying discs and saucers in ports of flying discs and saucers in recent days, no other person re- ported seeing the object which Tur- sound. rentine photographed.)

However, Bill said he had done some fast moving himself shortly before 20on Tuesday, before 20on Tuesday, when he stood on his front porch and saw and spinning like a football" and the large gray object, "rocking coming from the southwest.

He had just returned from Sum- mer school classes at Maury, he mer said, He had just returned from Sum- school and with classes all the talk about
"flying saucers," had gone out
with had gone his camera to see if he could
se anything.

I don't see why they call them enough for reproduction.

# Flying Disc 'Bigger Than Automobile' Photographed By Youth Who Is Amazed Because No One Else Saw It (cont.)

## By GEORGE HEBERT (cont.)

glittered, he said, and seemed to be trailing dust. Neither it nor the trailing dust. Neither it nor the two which followed made any

Bill said he wasn't very sur- prised when he saw the object, shots of it with his camera, set at but "almost killed myself" getting but "almost killed myself" getting 1/100th of a second.

He called his 18-year-old sister, Josephine, to come and look, but apparently she didn't believe him.

As the "flying football" passed
over, Bill said he took three shots of it, but when he hurriedly (vel-flaw
oped the film, after legging it to
Olney Road for a vial of developer,
only one negative came out well

flying saucers," he said. "The big one I took a picture of and the two little ones that came behind it a

He showed a reporter a contact print he had made himself, and the picture reproduced here is an

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The Flying Roll
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THE ROUND ROBIN
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(For your Information)

- A MEMORANDUM OF IMPORTANCE

# Flying Disc 'Bigger Than Automobile' Photographed By Youth Who Is Amazed Because No One Else Saw It (cont.)

## By GEORGE HEBERT (cont.)

THIS MEMORANDUM is rospectfully addressed to cortain scientists of distinction, to important aeronautical and military authorities, to a numbor of public officials; and to a few publications.

The writer has little expectation that anything of import will be accomplished by this gesture. The mere fact that the data herein were obtained by so-called supernormal means is probably sufficient to insure its disregard by nearly all the persons addressed; nevertheless it seems a public duty to make it available. (The present writer has several university 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 unintelligible it may seem to minds not previously instructed in thinking of this type.

# Flying Disc 'Bigger Than Automobile' Photographed By Youth Who Is Amazed Because No One Else Saw It (cont.)

## By GEORGE HEBERT (cont.)

1. Part of the disks carry crews, others 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 etheric 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 vibratory rate of our dense matter. (Cp. "apports.")

# Flying Disc 'Bigger Than Automobile' Photographed By Youth Who Is Amazed Because No One Else Saw It (cont.)

## By GEORGE HEBERT (cont.)

N

7. The disks possess a type of radiant energy, or a ray, which will easily . disintegrate any attacking ship. They reenter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without brace.

8. The region from which they come is NOT the "astral plane", but corres - ponds to the Lokas or Talas. Students of esoteric matters will understand these terms. INDEXED

9. They probably cannot be reached by radio, but probably can be by radar, if a signal system can be devised for that apparatus.

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We give information and. warning, and can do no more. Let the newcomer's be treated with every kindness. Unless the disks are w a Bituation threatens with which our culture and science are incapable of dealing. A heavy responsibil- ity rests upon the few in authority who are able to understand this matter.

N.Meade Layne

3615 Alexia Place
San Diego, California.

Addendum: The Lokas are oval shape, fluted lengthwise of the oval with a heat-resisting metal or alloy not yet known to us; the front edge, contains the controls; the middle portion is a

laboratory; the rear contains armament, energy apparatus, perhaps a ray amaretu

consists essentially of a powerful radia

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# · Office Memorandum • UNITED GOVERNMENT

TO : DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: August 12, 1947

FROM SAC, MILWAUKEE

SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS
SABOTAGE

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 discs. One report was received July 7, 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.

# · Office Memorandum • UNITED GOVERNMENT (cont.)

The second report was received by this office at 1:20 p.m. July 11, 1947, from Lieutenant Colonel HARRY W. SCHAEFER, who is in charge of the Civil Air Patrol of Wisconsin, an auxiliary of the Army Air Forces. On that occasion Colonel SCHAEFER, calling from Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 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.m. The disc 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 SCHAEFER's opinion that contraption might possibly have been made by some juvenile. Colonel SCHAEFER stated that he desired to return the contraption to Milwaukee and eventually turn it over to the Army Air Forces, but that the finder, SIG HANSON, apparently wanted to get some publicity on his find and wanted it returned to him.

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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 discs.

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August 5, 1947

Mr. Fred R. Reibold
2315 Hime baugh Avenue.
Omaha, Nebraska

Flying discs

Dear Mr. Reibold:

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,

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# COMPI

## DECLASSIFIED

Authority:

NND 90986

UNIDENTIFIABLE OBJECTS,
WILLIAMS FIELD, CHANDLER,
ARIZONA.

14 July 1947

# COMPI (cont.)

## MEMORANDUM FOR THE OFFICER IN CHARGE:

On July 1947, this Agent obtained pictures of unidentifiable objects, (Exhibits 1 and 2) from the managing editor of the Arizona Republic newspaper. The pictures were taken by Mr. William Rhoads, 4333 N. 14th St., Phoenix, Arizona, at sunset, on 7 July 1947. 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 unidentifiable objects, enlarged approximately 20 times. No further reports have been received by this office of objects seen by military personnel.

Lynn. C. Aldrich, Special Agent, EIC - AAF, FDTRC

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CONFIDENTIC

HEADQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE

Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, A-2
Intelligence
Hamilton Field, California

4AFDA
333.5 ID

4 August 1947

SUBJECT:

Investigation of "Flying Discs"

TO

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 Incls:
1. MOIC Sorensen 7 Jul 47.
2. Newspaper clipping dtd
5 Jul 47.

WILLIAM R. GRAHAM
Major, Air Corps
Deputy AC of S, A-2

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
AUG 7 1947
SAN FRANCISCO
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HEADQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE
Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, A-2
Intelligence
Hamilton Field, California

4AFDA
333.5 ID

4 August 1947

SUBJECT: Investigation of "Flying Discs"

TO: Special Agent in Charge, FBI, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Suite 426, 111 Sutter Street, San Francisco 4, California.

Attached MOIC is forwarded for your information.

William & haham

1 Incl:
MOIC Aldrich, 14 Jul 47.

WILLIAM R. GRAHAM
Major, Air Corps
Deputy AC of S, A-2

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HEADQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE
Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, A-2
Intelligence
Hamilton Field, California

4AFDA
333.5 ID

4 August 1947

SUBJECT: Investigation of "Flying Discs"

TO:

Special Agent in Charge, U. S. Department of Justice, Suite 426, 111 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California.

Forwarded herewith is information copy of statement and newspaper clipping re subject.

2 Incls:
1. Statement of RANKIN, dtd 30 Jul 47.
2. Newspaper clipping, dtd 3 Jul 47.

WILLIAM R. GRAHAM
Major, Air Corps
Deputy AC of S, A-2

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
AUG 7 1947
SAN FRANCISCO CORNELL
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[page 177]
From the Oregon Journal -> continued.

# COMPI (cont.)

## MORE SEEN LATER.

Several late flights of objects over Portland were reported Friday afternoon. B. A. Evans, 3435 SW Macadam avenue, said he saw three fly east across the Williamette river near the Ross Island bridge about 2 p.m. The objects did not appear high, he said, and were traveling so fast that, appearing in the woat, they were out of sight in the east in two to four seconds. He said they resembled metallic disks glinting in the sunlight. Later, ho said, he and neighbors saw a single disk-like object flying north far away and very high.

At 4:30 p.m., Mrs. Lawrence J. Hayward, 6124 NE 21st Avenue, reported sighting a disk "like a new dine flipping around" in the air over the Sandy district. She said it seemed to be moving slowly.

# COMPI (cont.)

## PAPER RECOVERED.

Thomas . Dwyer, 1232 NE 59th Avenue, said he sighted two white or silver objects flying southeast high over Portland a few minutes before 5 p.m. He reported another, headed northeast, over his home at 5:30 p.m. C. J. Bagne, Tigard, reported that four disks flow past Mount Jefferson at about 11 a.m. while he was driving near Redmond.

Sherman Cook, 2000 NE 65th avenue, recovered from Rose City golf course a piece of paper he said had fallen from a great height in the sky. Time of its fall coincided with some of the reports of flying disks. The paper, of low quality, measured 23 x 36 inches.

SILVERED DISKS, DROPPED BY PLANE.

EUGENE, July 5-(AP)- A Eugene railroad cashier said Friday he saw silvered disks being dropped out of a light airplane flying over this city. E. F. Smith, Rt 2, Eugene, an assistant cashier for the Southern Pacific Railroad, said he was driving on a Eugeno street when --

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CONFIDENTIA

FROM THE OREGON JOURNAL-5 July 1947, Portland, Ore.

AIRLINES CREW CONFIRMS REPORTS OF FLYING DISKS: FIVE SPOTTED.

Circumstantial reports of flying disks in the sky Friday came from the crew of a United Airlines plane over Boise, Idaho, and a coast guards- man near Seattle, as well as from Portland area police and citizens.

3. J. Smith, captain of the airliner, told United Press that he sighted five "somethings" which were "thin and smooth on the bottom and rough appearing on top." The objects appeared against the sunset shortly after the plane took off at 8:04 p.m., he said.

"We saw them clearly," he reported. "We followed them in a north- westerly direction for about 45 miles. Finally the objects disappeared. We were unable to tell whether they out sped us or disintegrated.

# COMPI (cont.)

## NOT AIRCRAFT.

"We can't say whether they were saucer-like, oval or anything else," the captain said, "but whatever they were, they were not another aircraft, nor were they smoke or clouds."

In Seattle, Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman, 27, reported to United Press that he snapped a picture from the front porch of his home which showed a "white saucer" flying over the north end of Lake Washington.

Aome News Pictures, New York City, said a 7x9 inch print of the photo- graph showed two tiny dots, one of which was a flaw in the print. Don Metcalfe, 19, Oaks Amusement park employe, reported that he saw several objects "like spinning disks" in the sky Friday. He said several pienickers, including a woman pilot noticed them.

In Vancouver, Wash., Sheriff's Deputies John Sullivan, Clarence McKay and Fred Krives heard the Portland police radio broadcast and ran out of the sheriff's office to look at the sky. Over Portland, three to five miles away, Sullivan said, they saw 20 to 30 objects "like a flight of geese! They heard a low humming sound.

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CONFIDENTIAL,

PORTLAND, OREGON
30,July 1947

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on 30 July 1947 richard Rankin, 83 N. &. Simpson Street, Portland, Oregon was interd owed by this agent and stated in substance as follows:

# COMPI (cont.)

## OTHERS DOUBTFUL. (cont.)

My name is Richard Bankin. I ah7 years old and have flown since I was nineteen years old. I first soloed in an air craft in 1919. I have flown over all the western parts of the United States many times and have mapped all of the western part of the United States during the years before the late war for the US Forest Service. I an familiar with almost every part of the western United States. During a great part of my life I have done stunt flying for air shows and various other types of aeronautical exhibitions. My brother was "Tox"Rankin who was quite well known in both civilian and Military flying circles for many years before his death and during the late war ran thousands of Flying Cadets through primary training schools owned and oper ated by him. To date I have accomplished 7000 hours in the air as pilot of both civilian and Military aircraft. I am well acquainted with most articles that one would see in the air and I feel that I am well qualified to say when I see articles flying through the air, although I would not attempt to say that I am infallable and state that I could definitely identify every object that might be flying through the air. The following is an account of what I saw on 1 June 1947 from the yard of my home at 1806 South "" St, Bakersfield, California.

# COMPI (cont.)

## OTHERS DOUBTFUL. (cont.)

At approximately 1200 noon on the 1 of June I was lying in the front yard of my home. There was a lad mowing the lawn at the time. I looked up into the sky and saw ten articles flying from the South to th North at what I wuld judge to be 8500 ft. The objects were flying ab approximately what I would judge to be 350 miles per hour. As I have stat od before, I have done quite a lot of map work for the US Forest Service. I distinctly remember that at the time I saw the articles I mentioned it to the lad who was mowing the lavm at the time. I told the lad that the objects were in all probability some sort of Army or Navy test planes from the nearby test centers on the deserts of Southern Califomia, Having quite a lmowledge of aircraft in general I attempted to explain to the lad mowing the lawn that the objects were probably on some sort of training mission for either the Arny or Navy. At that time I did not give the slightest thought to anything but that the objects were some sort of test hip for the Government Services. The obiects resembled the pictures that I have soon of the XF5U-1, the so called "ying Flapjack at that the Navy is testing. After the objects disappeared I proceeded into the house and had my noon meal. At approximately 1415 I went back into the yard to sit and lie in the shade. At this time the objects re- appeared going from Both to South, although this time there were only seven of the articles. When I first saw the original ton objects they were flying in a "y" formation with one objet seemingly starggling in the rear of the formation. When the objects apporaed the second time they were still in the "y formation although there was only seven of the objects at this time. I remember this time that I told the lad, tho was still wo riding on the lam, that pobably three of the objects had poceeded back to their base on a diff erent course, I actually thought that this was the case, that the other three objects had probably gone back to their base on the other side of the mountains from Bakersfield. A week or so later when I read of eth Amold claiming that he had seen articles flying through the air over the discade Mountains in

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FROM "THE OREGONIAN Thursday, July 3, 1947

AUG 7 1947

PILOT RECALLS SEEING DISCS.

SAN FRANCISCO
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Dick Rankin Tells of Odd Aircraft:

More reports of flying flapjacks" turned up Wednesday, one from no loss than Dick Rankin, brother of the late Tex Rankin, and himself an experienced pilot of more than 7000 hours' flying time.

Rankin, who is recovering from an old back injury received in an automobile accident, came to Portland over the weekend to spend the summer. He saw the "silver saucers" over Bakersfield, Cal., June 23, while lying on the lawn sun bathing, he told The Oregonian.

"I hesitated to say mich about them," Rankin said, "until I noticed all the hullabaloo in the papers. I puzzled over their strange shape for a while and finally concluded that they were the navy's now XPSU-1 flying flapjacks, which are thin and round, with twin propellers and stubby tail."

ONLY ONE XF5U-1 BUILT.

The navy and the manufacturer have announced officially that only one such machine was built and that it never left Connecticut.

# COMPI (cont.)

## OTHERS DOUBTFUL. (cont.)

"These planes were flying high, maybe 9000 feet, and fairly fast, about 300 or 400 miles an hour. I first counted ten of them in formation, going north. About 2:15 P.. they returned on the reverse course, headed south, but there were only seven in the formation.

"They were not weaving or bobbing in formation; 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 pictures of the navy's flying flapjack," Rankin said.

Rankin, who plans to spend the summer here at 834 N. E. Simpson St., is now able to resume a little flying for fun, but not commercially, he said. He now operates a string of auto courts, spending his winters at Palm Springs.

TWO DESCRIPTIONS CHECK.

Rankin's description of the mysterious aerial objects agrees with that of Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho, business man, who first reported them over the State of Washington, except that Arnold clocked them at an estima- ted 1200 miles an hour.

Other reports Game Wednesday from Astoria. Jack Hayes, patient in St. Mary's hospital there, said he saw two of the discs Monday flying south- west at a rapid speed and that they vanished behind the hills.

# COMPI (cont.)

## OTHERS DOUBTFUL. (cont.)

Mrs. Eerl Seado, Fort Stevens, said she saw a dise traveling north over Fort Stevens Tuesday noon, and that other observers saw the same object. The army at Fort Stevens and the coast guard at nearby Point Adams did not see the dises.

The report of a Centralia, Wash., man Wednesday coincided in matter of time with the original report made by Arnold. Sidney B. Callagher of Contra- lia said he saw nine aluminum-hued objects flying north at 3 P.M. June 24. He was working 11 miles southwest of Mineral, Wash., at the time.

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Washington I realised that the articles that I saw were probably the same thing. I was still reluctant to mention this to anyone thinking that they would prob ably say that I was crazy. After some time I mentioned the ind dent to the editor of the Oregonian", a Portland, Oregon newspaper. At this time I was in Portland for the remainder of the smer. The results d the conversation with the editor of the paper is put forth in the accompanying newspaper article.

I fully realize that is is a broad statement in view of the fact that there has been a much publicity and put forth in various news papers of the country, I am of sound mind in every respect and I am firmly convinced that the articles I sar are actually some sort of flying machines although I cannot say from where they came or to there thay were going. I say what I have said with no idea of publicity or personal gain.

SIGNED

Richmond Rankin
Portland, Oregon
30 July 1947

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# COMPI (cont.)

## OTHERS DOUBTFUL. (cont.)

FROM THE OREGON JOURNAL 5 July 1947, Portland, Ore.

"PROWL CARS SPOT DISKS IN SKY HERE"

Whatever they are, there are some disk-like objects flying around in the sky.

Or else eight Portland area policemen and deputy sheriffs who sighted the objects Friday, numerous private citizens, the crew of a United Air Lines plane over Boise, Idaho, and a coastguardsman who claims to have photographed one near Seattle, are all wrong.

In Portland the alert was sounded over police radio at 1:06 p.m. Friday, after the East Side station received a score of calls that the disks wore overhead. Within seconds, two prowl cars reported spotting the mys tery craft.

FLASHES SEEN, NOISE LACKING.

# COMPI (cont.)

## OTHERS DOUBTFUL. (cont.)

First to report in were Patrolmen Walter Lissy and Robert Ellis in Car No. 82, who stopped near Oaks Park. Both World War II veterans and civilian pilots, they sighted three of the objects within 30 seconds trav- eling at great height and speed over the park. They reported they heard no engine noises but saw flashes. The objects seemed erratio and changed direction of flight. The patrolmen agreed that without knowledge of the size of the objects it would be impossible to judge their speed or altitude.

Patrolman Earl Patterson in cer No. 13 stopped at SE 82d avenue and Foster road to look eastward from there the disks were reported. Telephone calls located them coming 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 be aluminum or eggshell white and didn't flash or reflect light, he said.

OBJECTS UNIDENTIFIED.

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# COMPI (cont.)

## UNEXPLAINED FLYING DISCS
7 July 1947

5. This agent interviewed W. A. Lissy and D. W. Ellis, both Patrolman, Portland City Police Department and both possess private pilots licenses. Both officers advised that upon hearing the radio alert, they saw three flat round disos, having a white color to them. These discs were, according to these officers, flying at a terrific speed in a Southerly direction away from Portland, They described them as flying in a straight line formation, the last disc fluttering very rapidly in a side way arc. They further advised the discs were equally spaced and kept in formation. Both officers estimated the disos altitude at 40,000 feet. They saw no evidence of any motivating powers and vapor trails or smoke trails. Both officers stated these discs 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 afflicted with halluci- nations. The weather in the Portland area at this time was clear with little or no cloud formations being visable from the ground. Ground temperature at this time was 82 degrees Fahrenheit.

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UNEXPLAINED FLYING DISCS
7 July 1947

MEMORANDUM FOR THE OFFICER IN CHARGE:

1. At 1305, 4 July 1947, a radio alert was issued via the Portland City Police Radio, advising all cars and listeners that some fast flying objoots were in the air over Portland and vicinity. Upon contacting the radio dispatcher, this agent was advised that Kenneth A. McDowell, Patrol- man, Portland City Police Department, residing at 916 S. E. Bush Street, Portland, Oregon, on duty at Precinct #1, Portland City Police, Southeast Morrison at 10th Avenue, had called in advising the dispatcher of the flying objects.

# COMPI (cont.)

## UNEXPLAINED FLYING DISCS
7 July 1947 (cont.)

2. This agent interviewed Officer MoDowell who stated at approximately 1305, 4 July 1947, he was on duty at Precinot #1, and was in the parking lot back of the Police Station, feeding the pidgeons. At this time the pidgeons became very excited over something and fluttered in the air all at once. Officer McDowell stated in looking around to see what had disturbed them, he saw five large dises in the air to the East of Portland two dises flying South and three flying in an Easterly direction. Officer McDowell 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 was unable to give an estimate of the speed or altitude of these dises as they were out of sight before any detailed observation could be made. Officer McDowell ad- vised he notified the Police Radio who immediately broadcast an alert. Officer McDowell advised he saw no indication of any motivating force or heard any sound coming from these disos and could give no description other than round.

# COMPI (cont.)

## UNEXPLAINED FLYING DISCS
7 July 1947 (cont.)

3. This agent interviewed Sergeant Claude Cross, Oregon State Police Officer on duty at District Number 1 Station, Milwaukie, Oregon. Cross stated upon hearing the radio alert he went outside and upon looking in an Easterly direction he saw three disos following each other at an undetermined altitude and at a terrific speed, traveling in a Northwesterly direction. Cross advised he noticed a whitish brown glint to these objects as the sun reflected from them. Cross was unable to give any other description nor could he judge the objects speed or altitude. No sound was made by the objects.

# COMPI (cont.)

## UNEXPLAINED FLYING DISCS
7 July 1947 (cont.)

49> This agent interviewed Earl E. Patterson, Patrolman, Portland City Police Department, and residing at 124 Southeast 13th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, Patterson advises he was a former Air Corps pilot during the war. He stated that the time the radio alert sounded, he was at Southeast 82nd and Foster Road, Portland, and upon getting out of his car he saw one dise flying in a Southwesterly direction over Portland. Patterson advised this dise was alumi- num in color, left no vapor trail or smoke trail and was traveling at a terri- fie speed, faster than he has ever seen any flying object before. Patterson further advised, although not knowing the exact size of the object it is diffi- cult to determine the altitude, he estimates its altitude at 30,000 feet.

Patterson further advised the flying disq was definitely some type of air- Ovation difficult. He heard no sound emitted by the fly obser craft but he could not give any further description as its s

Keith A. Sorensen, S/A CIC, Sixth Army

SAN FRANCISCO

ROUTED TO

CONFIDENTIA

**Exhibit 3:** A dark, elongated object is pictured against a blurred background.

**Exhibit 11:** A dark, tear-drop shaped object with a lighter interior is shown against a speckled background.

The bottom of the page has handwritten text that appears to read "EXHIBIT # 1 & 2" and another "CONFIDENTIAL" stamp.