FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 1

flying D_isc 'Bigger Than Automobile' Photographed (
~y Youth Who Is Amazed Because No One Else Saw ItBy GEORGF. J1J.:B1,;H1' few seconds Jater dicln·t look any-
The flying disc "was lots hig~er thing like saucers."
than an automobile." and 1.3-year- Looked t,ike Football
loJd Ril Turrenline. of 410 \Vest The bov st.uck to his football
Fom·teenth Street. docsn·t under- comparison, explaining that the
stanrl whv almost everybody in object was sort~f rounded. more
Xorfolk didn't see it. oval than disc-like, and that though
In fact. when h<' came to the it wobbled in its not·theastward
Ledger-Dispatch with a photograph flight i~ was _traveling very rapidly,
he had taken of the object. Ile about 600 miles an hour.
wanted to know why the newspa· He guessed that the altitude of
!pers hadn't alreact,· taken1a pie- the thing was about :i,000 feet,
of 1t. "l thought vour nhoto• just below the clouds. In color it
,1 ere fast," he t91c1· a re- was "gray, almost black," and
looked like a "bumed crisp." or
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•NORFOLK BOY .-\XO PHO'l'O OF DISC-Bill 'l'nrr('ntiu c, 1;;, (1·i1thO
tells L <'dger-DlSJlllt<'h reporter Gco1·gr H<'rh('t·t (left) of t h(' "lud , .1"
circum~tances which ('nabl ed him to takl' thl' photogra ph :it fa r
right of a fl)'ing disc. Ho\\ ever, th e boy said th<' objl'l't pictured h l'l'c
looked and 1110,•('d morP lik<' a football, lreiog round r d nucl oval, 1·athrr
tha n di,r -llke. Bill t ook this picture from th e po1'('h or his h onw at
4 10 West )<'oul'leent h Sh l'H hrtw<'e11 1J o'c-lock and noo n 'l'u t•sda~·.
(Editoi·'s ' iot <': ..\!though the maybe a rock or stone. The edges • 1 " 1•ti\ ti I t l/ 0 1 r0
,Lcdger-Oi,pate h has had m:rny re- Iglittered, he said, and seemed to be u si ug an ° d cnme,·a, ' " 8 mt er srt at 1 OI 1 a second. He
()orts of ril ing di,c~ and sau<·c,·s in !trailing dust. Neither it nor the said thr "flying foothnll" i,hown here was follo\\rd br two smali t·
rccl'ut da, s, 110 otlier person re- two which follo\\ed made any ones, all moving at abou t 600 miles an hou1• and h<' gnr,secl lhl') , n e
po1·tcd s1·ein•,~ thr ob,kct which Tur- sound. about 3,000 fee t h igh, Just orlo..!v the clouds. 'f'hl' plwtograph r1•11ro1l ••
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rentlnc photog1·apl1ecl.) Bill ~aid he wasn·t yery sur- ed hen • i~ an P11lal·ge111ent mad!' b~· Photo Craffs mP11. Jn the fo1 ·1
However, Bill, said he had done pl'is~~I when _he saw th~ ·obj~ct, g a·ouncl or young 'l'111·rentine's 11kt m·r is the 1ion·h t·ail of hiq home.
some fast moving himself shortly 1but almost killed myself getting
shots of it with his camera, set at enlargement made by Photo Crafts-
before :i.o~n Tuesday, '1' Irnn I1e J/100th of a second men. •
stood on his front porch and saw . • . . . . . . .
the Jarll'.e gra~· object, "i·ock!ng He called his 18-year-old sister, Ph?to expe1 ts of th~s _f11 m :11 e
and spinning like a football" and ,Josephme, lo co1:ne,and Jook, ~ut ~onv1~_ced that the bo, _did a ~!ne
coming from the southwest. apparently she d1dn t bellen him. .10~ wi th th~ old cameia he . \as
\ h •• 1 , r b II" d using. Havmg closelv exammed
He had iust returned from Sum- • s t. c f ) mg oot a passe the negative th f v said the only
me1· school clas~es at }.1aury, he ov~r, Bill said he took three shots flaw was in the kind of film which
said, and with all the talk about of it. but ,~hen he hurriedly t~•vel- perhaps didn't bring out enough
"flving saucers," had gone ouL oped, th e film,_ aft~r leggln~ it t? detail. 'l'hev poi nted out, however,
wi h his t·.amcra to see if he could Olne~ Road fo1 ~ vial of develope1. that this i:vasn't really a flaw, in
se anythmg. • only one ?e~ative came out well view of the fact that Bill's pheto-
I don't see ·whv they call lhem enough foi I eproductlon. graph, with the cornparison af-
fl ng saucers:· he said. "The hig I He showed a reporter a contact 1£orde'd by the front porch rail and
o. I took a picture of and_ the two pnnt ~e _ha~ ~ade hlms<;"lf. __and the tre<'s, w~s certainly the best
little one~ that c-ame behmcl It a the pictu1e 1ep1oduced heie ts an one tl:tken smce the mysterious
! disc~ wet'P fit•i;t l"l'l)OrtNl