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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 Mem • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO MR. LADD DATE: July 12, 19Jf.7Tolaon
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Reference is made to Mr. Howe's memorandum to you : :~~,=--
dated July 11, in the above-captioned matter. ~·.\}~:: =··--At 11:55 P.M., July ll, I took a phone call from ,~
Sergeant Lonis of the Laurel, Maryland, Police Department. Serge~
Lonis said that he had examined the 11 flying disc.11 He said that it
had been made from a Gulf Oil sign and the top of a garbage can and
had been painted with aluminum paint. It had been recently painted
because the paint was still wet. Attached to it were a dry cell
battery, a flashlight bulb, sor.ie v.ii.res and a buzzer. He asked if
the Bureau was sending anyone out to look at it. I told him that
we vrere not, that we had referred the matter to the Army, and
suggested that he call them.
I subsequently telephoned Captain Calvert, the Duty
Officer at G-2, and passed on to him the infonn.ation f'urnished by
Sergeant Lonis.
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