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FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 1

Department of War · 185 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 24 …Roo•·-=== Milwaukee Office concerning the United Press item appeari~ in the Ill' , lieU.:--- Washington Post for…
  • p. 52 …h L ne It egs By the United Press Army pilots were ready Monday for another…
  • p. 59 …The Associated Press called me shortly after the United Press representative did, and on being advised…
  • p. 67 …Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERN MENT•~~o , ~- E. A, T.--.=----~ DATE : July 11, FROM D. M…
  • p. 79 …64 • ' Office M emorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERN MENT•TO D. l'.. Ladd ! D ATE:r.O…
  • p. 85 …64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO MR.LADD~ July 10, 12~zl11on ~ llr, E. A…
  • p. 141 …THE TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE AND THROUGH THEI THE UNITED PRESS PUT OUT A STORY THE PLANE…
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·.ti1ying Saucer' Just
Someone's Pipe Drearn'
The "flying saucer" that fell Inear 2319 Himebaugh Avenue
' Monday evening was nothing
but "ashes from somebody's pipe
dream." /
So says Dr. C. L. Kenny, head
of the chemistry department at
the Creighton College of Den
tistry. He had two students an
alyze the ashes. They found so
dium, Potassium, iron, alumi
n..im, carbonate, suiphate and I.Ill•
bul'~_carbon, he said.
' ~nis is the same analysa ;vou
would get from ordinary pJpe to-
bacco,'' Dr. Kenny said. .
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