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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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• I 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. J- --.-----\.,- osu RECORDED /! / 11 rl ,. 1 "/ ~ 6 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. I
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