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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.
• • tr. S. Planes Hunting DisCS;- .Russ T~lls of ~tom Saucers'Ir $ }?BJ Pr obes Story of Soviet Ship Officer \LOS ANGELES, July 6-(Spe clal)-Federal agents today In vestigated a Jetter to the Exami• ner describing Russian supersonic atom-powered planes resembling the "flying saucers." A top flight atomic scientist to whom the Examiner referred the letter said It was " not all non•I i.en, e," and suggested the matter be turned over to the FBI. The letter writer !laid he gotI the Information from an officer aboard a Russian tanker recently Los Angeles harbor. LLED EVEN WOR:\IS ,;he Ru~slan, he said, also de· scribed experiments with con trolled radioactive clouds In the Arctic, where birds, animals and t\·en worms were kllled. The plane11, as described by the Rus~lan to the w riter, are only 18 Inches thick, With a kidney !haped outline and no propellors. The pilot lle11 on hl11 stomach ftnd Is 11.rtt!lclally cooled agal! t the beat developed by air ! c tlon. "The outer 11urface I'! hight ollshed,'' the Russian sal Both upper and lower surfa ces re convex, like a gia n t lens, he lilting force ls an entirely diffe rent principle found about 10 years ago among unpublls hed papers of a Russian chemist. "Ener gy Is required only for t'llmblng, but no energy Is need ed f or support when the air plane goes along the earth's gra,•ltational contour lines." The writer of t he si ange let• er said he met the R ssla n of• ICl'r in Wilmington a n because .e wan ted to hear abo Russia, wiled him to dinner. ~te ftawilan first !lsked where he could sen 18 polG'oear=t,elts which he received " for very dan gerou 11 work." He s aid he had been assigned to go over the route of the radio active cloud nea r Lake Baka! (or Baykal) a nd pick up dead animals. ALL LIFE DESTROYED "They loaded a few 11ma ll s hips wit h a ll kinds of anima ls a nd directed t hf' cloud over the m," the writer said. "During t his experime nt, a viole nt s torm blew the cloud f ar nor t h Into the tundra, but before It dissipated It destroyed all life on Its way. "The cloud may be cont rolled f rom la nd, from a pla ne or f rom a robot-piloted 'leader.' '! I unders ta nd It, the control based on electro-magnetic ave~ and the cloud has t wo m1Jonents : T he carrier and t he killer.'' • l 'ENCLO E._ ,.~ h J ~. ~wl,tECORDd F J.~ 32 J 16 ~, .J 60 OCT l
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