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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 . ,.,.·4'. ..... ~ ...,. •,.J ~~aukesha, Wis. Attn. Federal Bureau of Investigation Gentlemen; J> j;l ~v Recently I have hea rd and read about reports of disc-shaped aircraft, or whatever t hey are, i n our western regions. They reminded me of a nearly forgotten jncident in G~rmany, after the war. I report this to you because feel this m~y 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 alone, some ba ck roads when I sighted a strange looking object in the sky from eight t o ten miles to our front and approx imatly 5,000 feet high. I immediatly stopped the jeep for a better look. fhe object rapidly came toward us, descending slowly. About a mile awa y i t stopped it's horizontal motion but continued a slow oscillating descent, similar to a descending parachute . Then suddenly it dropped in a spiral motion. Irr.mediatly I drove over to where it had dropped. It took almost five~ minutes to reach the pl a ce but we saw ..r.ittll -,rp ~nothing. After ten minutes of cruis-~ ing around the a rea it became t rod.ark to see so we went back to town. because I am not sure my companions saw thisAit happened so quickly it could easily have been missed, but I described what I had seen so vividly that they were as excited as I was. My ,~--t impression was that it was a cloud, ~(jj ,- \ a I ,I f b ut it was traveling a t right ang~o lh.e..-wind ~ Y, 1 t - --f ~ The local of this incident was a~ro~t.J118.tly }:?$) ..m.j,les north-west of Habberbishopshiem. If necessary, I wiil swear~ o e authenticity ot this and to thei.13hape of the object. i!,1,o)./'fl p;2_;/~ t ) Robert J .d roka '\t : --,-
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