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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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  • 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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