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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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July 11, 1947.
- Dear Sir:
Have you seen one of the mysterious "Saucers"?
What did it look like?
Do you think these strange, celestial manifesta
tions are harbingers of a better day?
G. I. R.Do you believe it means that a new and revolutionaryI
advance is coming?
Will it make your life brighter, happier, more
useful?
We believe one of these startling discs is on its
way to you. Then the secret will be out.
The Combined and Amalgamated Committee
of Sky-Scanners, Disc Decipherers and
New-Product Introducers.

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