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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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being;i:• H~~,.,..........,..._ • UNITED STA.IS GOVERNMENT TO Mr , 1·01aon FROM K,.C.Ho )- ::: ~i~ Twr:n 11r. 0 1av1n-- ::: :ifc~·~cr~s ::::-_-_ SUBJEC?-FLYING DISCS Mr. Rosen -- Mr, Tracy==== Mr. carsonMiscellaneous : :~~-a===Mr , Harl>O--===. SAC Weeks called from New Orleans on the matter discussed in the:: ~:::;tngton_ Mr, Qui nn Talll!I attached teletype. He wanted to know what policy the Bureau was following ~~•No:~~11--== in connection ~1th reports concerning these "flying discs" 'Which were received. I told Mr. Weeks . that, unless advised to the contrary, he should, particular case at hand, allow G-2 to handle tn d not take any juri. sdiction fort he FBI. He was ttold the Bureau W>uld be interested in being kept advised of develop- ' ments, and in copies of the photographs he said C-r-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, 10 uld .f'all on us. Mr. Weeks said he would so handle unless r called him back immediately lfith instructions for \ t11pecific action. As you will recall, I called~ u concerning t he foregoing. JCCHth ~'t., ~ ~
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