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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. 50 …ready to chase the disks. Lower, Mrs. Walter Johnson (rlght) of Spokane, Wash., and her chil…
  • p. 51 …Five P-51s of the Oregon Na• tlonal Guard cruised over the Cascade Mountains oC Washing…
  • p. 52 …Wash., after a vacation near St. Maries, Idaho, and after reading newspaper reports of the flying…
  • p. 55 …all objects appear round north of Seattle, Wash. The Long or nearly so. This law of…
  • p. 119 …NTERVIEWED UNLESS TO THE CJ(Ul,.IPRUmt CONTRARY BY HOLD PLS OK FBI WASH DC GAR
  • p. 143 …INED THE IMPRESSION THAT THE AAF INSTIT~LU"~THIS I ' STIGATION TO WASH OUT THE Dt…
  • p. 163 …Neaae___ Mi• s Gandy__ WASH FRUU SFRAN S2 ~-9-47 2-50 PM KC /4REC TOR…
  • p. 167 …BOBBI TT END 5- 18 PM OK FBI WASH DC GAR V
August 5, 1947
Mr. Fred . ibold
231; Himebaugll Avenue
Omaha, tJebraska
Dear Vr. Reibold: 0J_;l,d (..~ d/<.~
I wish to acknowledge receipt r your letter post
marked July 10, 1947, together with its enclosure.
Inasmuch as the information which you furnished is
of interest to the ar Department I liave taken the liberty of
furnishing it to that agency for their consideration.
Sincerely yours,-
John Edgar Hoover
Director
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