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This is section 1 of FBI headquarters file 62-HQ-83894 on flying discs, compiled in July and August 1947. It collects press clippings, including a report of a disc found by a priest in Grafton, Wisconsin, that a Milwaukee memo treats as a prank involving a circular saw. It also holds a Milwaukee report on a disc found near Black River Falls, a Portland teletype about a pilot's sighting over Myrtle Creek, Oregon, citizen letters, and Hoover's correspondence forwarding material to the War Department.
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I• Letter to the DIRECTOR, FBI July 1s. 1947 Res ~LYING SAUCERS" EDWIN M. BAILEY, JR., STAMFORD, CONNECT! CUT, INFORMANT ATOMIC ENERGY ACT· would be noticed that allot the above-mentioned cities form a direot orbit or oirole around the earth and would be D¥)re or less in line o.f' any path in Vlhich the saucers could be circling. Mr. BAILEY t'mtther 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 compa.DY is making a large power.f'ul telescope to be WJed in searching the strato sphere ta: atom bombs•
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