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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.
I• New Jersey residents said they I "thought" they saw flying disks over Palisades PaM and ~ear:by Bergenfield Sunday night. 1 Skeptical scientists recalled the mysterious "rockets" seen over Swe. den last year. Eighty per cent of the "ghost rockets'' proved to be meteors, and Swedish officials said the others could be discounted as pure imagination. Scientists asserted that the ob jects in order to be seen clearly at 10,000 feet-the level at which most of the saucers have been reported would have to be 20 feet in diameter, I would require a large mass of metal, would be more conspicuous at night and would be seen by a far greater !ber of persons. r. J. S. Nassau, director of the Mn" & Swu,y •"'"j'' al th Case Institute ot Techn gy at Cleveland, said he was incl ed toI"think the reports urc fanci s." Capt. Tom Brown, army air force spokesman at Washington, said the art was trying to run the reports to arth. ' e1re not dismissing the possl bil y that there's something to it," . he aid, "and we're not dismissingIIthe possibility that it's all a hoax."
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