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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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  • 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…
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