FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 1

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~ toward~ Hloliill and"'a,kppei,.,ed,
she said. It was flying high and
appeared Illuminated, according to
Mrs. Hoffman.
"It looked like a small meat plat
'Saucer·' Stories s,
Disk Found Is ter," Mrs. Hoffman asserted.
.,-, , ,..:.. / Glenn Rowden of Detroit claimed
_,.,.,, he saw a "saucer," about 50 inches
Tries to Call FBiMan in diameter, over Billy Mitchell field
Priest Hears a 'Ban~,,.,..._ at 10:05 p.m. when he alighted from
Father Bra.sky said he did not an airplane. He said it was in sight
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Discovers a C j r CU} a r bother to show the disk to any of his for 90 seconds.
parishioners Sunday. He tried to William Humphrey, who Ii v es
Blade With T e e t h,· telephone an FBI agent whom he with his wife in a qUO!l.!let hut at
knows. but was unable to reach him 3148 s. 20th st., telephoned police
Other Dl.sks 'Seen' Sunday, he added. Asked whether at 9 p.m. Sunday that ...,..._ , -~,.
it could have been the work of a Humphrey had seen a slightly illu-
practical1• d joker, Father1 d Brasky re- minated disk which appeared to fa!JPicture 011 Picture Page "Co Id b 't know"
P 1e : u e. on • to earth near Pulaski high school.he "what is it?" which Father The di.sk, apparently of steel, had Mrs. Humphrey said Monday that
eph Bra.sky said he found early a one and three-eighth inch' hole in her husband tried unsuccessfully, to
thnday on the lawn of St. Joseph's e center. Through it ran a few photograph the disk.
wires. To each end of the cluster
Catholic church in Grafton may be of wires was attached what looked Changed Colors, He Says
p ust another gadget to add to Fa-, like a small condenser about three Erwin Rottman, 1328 N. 19th i · /
ther Bra.sky's already sizable col- inches long. The condcnserlike ob- claimed he saw three of them flyi I
lection. jects were wrapped in black tape through the air In a northweste y
which still was sticky. The disk was direction at 6 p.m. Sunday. ThThose who saw it Sunday said d h d. t
greasy an so m e w a t tr y. turned from orange to gold to silv r
"what is It?" was a circular saw Stamped on it was: "Approved, bet~e disappearing, be said.
blade with a few wires attached. Dunlap." Reports came also from Janes
Father Bruky, who said he knew .of Father Brasky declined to part ville, where Mr. and Mrs. Alva Sie
no sawmills in the area, would not with the disk. He showed a num8e1• vert and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Roth
claim it,was a "flying saucer" when of items in his trinket collection. reporte.d seeing a flying disk about
he called newspapermen to his All of them had something to do 11:35 p.m. Saturday. The Roths
home. with fishing, Father Brasky's favor- were leaving the Sievert home when
·'It may or may not be one of those ite sport. They included his "bass Sievert saw it, according to Roth.
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flying disks that have been report- bottles," beer bottles with the head It appeared to be several thousand
ail over the country," he said. of a fish - and a fish pole from feet up and about 10 miles away,
I t's just call it a 'what is it?'" Manila which folds up into a cane. Roth said. ·He described It as vague-
{eanwhile, in Milwaukee and When opened, it extends to lZ feet. Jy resembling the moon and as hav
er points In Wisconsin, sev. "I use it in reaching folks w.'!',....•.,..egular motion in a counter
sons reported seeing the "fl'y~'.'l"in"."g~~c~a!!'n''t be touched with a 10 foot pole," clockwise, elongated orbit. It ap-
saucers." Father Brasky's disk, Father Bra.sky quipped. peared to Roth to be moving faster
however, was the only case here in Others Report "Saucers" than an airplane. He said it was
which the "landing" of a "saucer" yellow on Its face. but when it
was reported. Father Bra.sky also passed out turned it looked sliver.
11d copies of h is recent publication, Roth said that the four of them
Hears "Ba.ng," Fi s Disk "Fish Tales." viewed the disk for 10 minutes.
Father Bra.sky gave the follow- "I'm going to revise this thing,"
ing account of how he found the ob- he exp a1ned. ve got some newI • "I' Stopped in Sky, Claim
ject. a steel plate 19 inches in di-I and better tales to put in it." "It fluttered around, faded out
a.meter about an eighth of an inch There were other reports around and came back again. and once,·
thick ~nd with saw teeth. Milwaukee and Wisconsin of "fly- just stopped and bung there fo
"I usually get up about 5 a.m. on ing saucers." Mrs. Anthony Hoff- about two minutes," Roth said. "Tb ,
Sundays. I was at the front door man, 3410 W. Layton av., said she last time we saw it, it had a ve
of my house about to take my dog and her husband saw one at Turn to page 3, col. s j
out for a ;alk, when I heard a p.m. Su n d a y flying toward B~i~ll~y,,__
'bang!' like a big firecrac~er.. I Mitchell field from t~e northwest.
stepped outside and found this ..,-=,--n It neared the field,1t veered 1
on the church lawn.
"Although the grass was still wet IENCLOSUR
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frl the night rain, the disk was
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too ot to pick up. 1 noticed the
gl ball had been knocked off one
of e lightning rods on the church,
so suppose it struck that in land
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