FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 1

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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( FLYI ~G DI SC REPORTED AT HACKENSACK, NJ AUGUST THREE, NIN
SEVEN , MISC . INFORMATION RECEIVED THAT CHARLES CASELLA,
~ AGE TWENTY, TWO EIGHT SEVEN EUCLID AVENUE, HACKENSACK AND WI LL I AM
TRUEX , US ARMY, FT . DIX, NJ ON LATE AFTERNOON AUGUST THIRD LAST SI GHTED
FROM GROUND OBJ ECT DESCRI BED AS FLYI-NG DISC . CASELLA CLAIMED I T WAS