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FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 1

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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.

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Other pA!lsengrrs with him also
saw It, he said. He gave the name
'Saucers' Fly Here; of J. W. R'r!den of D•dlt. 1'1!-
11plte~ So Ing. the 11&ucer was
going at great speed, and waa out
of sight In a few seconds, he
said. Rowden I.a stoppln& at tbeGrafton Oise Joke Pl:tr.a Hotel.
Dli-lC'S HAO TULS
Erwin Rottmrn, 132S ~- 19th
St., said he saw three of them
with tall- flying nol'thwe•t t~
~outhea~t. as he ~tood at N. 18th
a nd W. Vliet Sts. They turned
from golrl to another color and
thtn to ,liver, he said.
Frank Phifer, stopping at the
Maryland Hotel, said he ,aw
three ballii of rlre t:hoot 1 rol!~
Lakt' Michigan 11.t 8:20 last
arlt a mile I rom 1bor1,
"gol g at terrlfl m
Janesvllle at a "t f'rrlflc i.11o-.•d.''
They viewed It ror 20 minute!!. It
was yellow-golden, and seemed to
turn al times to a silvery color.
they stated. An oval flight pattern
was followed. Then, they said,
t.Alls appeared on the disc and
shortly aCterwards It dlsappenred.
John Bo~ch, 4.377 S. Adams St..
Milwaukee, a machinist, Insisted
he saw two flashing saucer-
11haped objects pass over Billy
tchell Field shortly artl'r mid-
ght yesterday. They were ~se
ough so he could cieflnltely ~ ate
ey were not shoot,lng stars, o-:
a rplanes, he said, Bosch's h me
ls near the airport.
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T re were wires and two tube!I \ airfield just arter he had alighted ~
auache,1 to It. The tubu were an from the RlaD
Inch In diameter and three Inches
long.
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