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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.

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TO DATE: August 1 , 1947
FROM
SUBJECT: ms . ARTHUR D0UGLasa,\tm)ERS0N.
INFORHANT
There is attached hereto a letter recei ved.from the captioned
. individual postmarked July 12 , 1947 , concerning 11 flying saucers . 11
There is also attached a letter- of acknowledgement to .:rs·. ·t
Anderson together with a letter to the War Depa.rt 1ent for ap~roval.
It is reco:1, ,ended th...1.t the letter to the Wi:>.r Department- be In~
forwarded to the Liaison Section for transmittal to that agency. ~ • ~.
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