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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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• • Olo911 F£0Wt BUIIU!J 01- lliVt :;T1GA,IJII . .' U, S. 0£1>ARTMENT OF IUSTICE :; / . CIMMUHIGATIONS SECTIOH ?(let r. ~ . ..••• 'Mr. TrlMl7 •···· •• Mr, .at;o> •••• ••• •• AUG jJ (947 Mr, (kraoo ... • •• TE~E Mr, llarloo -•• •··· Mr. Mohr ...••. •·· M r, Pmnlnlftlffl .••• Mr, Quinn Tamm...• )11r, N..-.uo l\llM• Gand, FBI PORTLAND 8- 5- 47 8- 50 PM HHS -LJH'RECToR AND SACS SEATTLE AND SAN FRANCISCO u R GENT ll FLYINC 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 r;f )1 WILLIAM L. DAVIDSON AND LT . FRANK M. BROWN OF FOURTH AAF HEADQUARTERS, SAN FRANCISCO WERE IN PORTLAND JULY TWENTYSEVEN LAST AND INTERVIEWED DIC~NKIN , AN EXPERIENCED PILOT, UHO HAD REPORTED JUNE FOURTEEN LAST SEEING A FORMATION OF TEN FLYING DISCS OVER BAKERS - FIELD , CALIF . ACCORDING TO RICHARDS THEY HAD ALSO INTERVIEWED FOLLOWING FOUR EXPERIENCED PILOTS UHO WERE AMONG FIRST WHO REPORTED SEEING DISCS - KENNETrti"1\1tNOLD , BUSINESS MAN, BOISE , IDAHO , CAPTAIN E. J..,__fil1ITH AND CO- PILOT RALP~ EVENS, UNITED AIRLINES , AND DAVE /. --.TOHNSON , AVIATION EDITOR , IDAHO STATESMAN . TO ASCERTAIN THE ,/ J/ A. RECORDED f V :J 0 PURPOSE OF TH NTERVEWS RICHARDS CONTACTED MAJOR ~R1rl-~t,}TtttN< ..9INDEXED - --:1:1~ .id - - .1,·.1/OF WRIGHT FIELD , OH I O BY PHONE AT ALBUQUERQUE, ~,'""A~t)f,1 HIM I 1 1 \ ~ Gr'\INED THE IMPRESSION THAT THE AAF INSTIT~LU"~THIS I ' STIGATION TO WASH OUT THE Dt~~ REPORTS , SINCE THEY ARE'fEFINITELY NOT OF AAF ORIGIN . ON.. FRIDAY, iv~ FIRST , THE PLANE IN WHICH AAF INVESTIGATORS CAPTAIN DAVIDSON AND LT . · BROWN WERE RIDING, CRASHED AT KELSO, WASH . AND BOTH
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