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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. 128 …The inf'ormnti~A aet forth in your letter has been car tully reviewed and is…
  • p. 170 …with the above two cases, but will tully investigate a.11 future reports concerning flying discs…
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FLYING DISCS . SECURI TY MATTER DASH X. ONE RED AlTIELD , ~O~PI.LOT AND PRESENTLY AIRPORT MANAGER , MYRTLE CREEK , OREGON , REPORTS
SEEING A MYSTERIOUS OBJECT ON TWO OCASIONS THE EVENING OF AUGUST SI XTH
WHILE FLYING AT ABOUT FI VE THOUSAND FEET ABOVE MYRTLE CREEK . HA1TIELD TO
BE I NTERVIEWED .
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