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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.

  • p. 56 …dlsappenred. John Bo~ch, 4.377 S. Adams St.. Milwaukee, a machinist, Insisted he saw two…
  • p. 125 …I.:hologist, and the pilot wa.e adamant,_. in hie claim the.t he saw a…
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Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO DATE: July 11, 194?
~ 11r. Tolson
llr . E. A. 'lam
FROM K.C.Howe Clegg _!Ir. _
Mr . Olav1n
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At 10s45 PM on the evening of July n, 1947, Clerk Pierc-y of the :: ~::a
Washington Field Office called and stated that at t,he im,ttruction Mr. : : ~ ~ ffiilton_Mr. Quinn Tanm
Hennrich he wanted t o pass.-9Jl to the Bureau information he had just re-- ~~•Ne:~~m--==
ceived from one Alvin B.,A"arker, 200 6th Street, Laurel, Maryland, to t he ~l:: ~"';•
effect that a "flyinf disc" had just landed in Parker's yard "and the ___::-_-_-_
machinery is still buzzing." Piercy s~ted Parker was apparently so excited he had
a difficult time even getting his name out, and no further detai l could be obtained
from him.
At l0t50 PM I passed the above information on to Captain West, duty officer
at 0-2 wio indicat~d he htd also received the same data from another source, md
110uld pass our i nformation along to appropriate army qu.-ters.
Sid Robe!"ts of the AP called at about 10: 55 PM and asked whether t he
Bure~ had received any report on a nnying disc" i n Laurel Maryland. After
checking with Mr. Nichols I told him we had, !"eceived s uch a report and had passed
it on to army authorities.
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