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FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 collects press clippings, public letters, and internal memos concerning "flying disc" and "flying saucer" reports across the United States in July 1947. Reports include Rev. Joseph Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin, who told the United Press he found an 18-inch metal disc with "gadgets and some wires" in his churchyard and was holding it for the FBI. Civilian Fred R. Reibold wrote to the Bureau describing a flaming circular object that fell in the street in Cornola, Nebraska on July 1, 1947; Director Hoover forwarded that letter to the War Department's Director of Intelligence on August 5, 1947.