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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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• • -~~~::;~---- - - STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO MR.LADD~ July 10, 12~zl11on ~ llr, E. A, tam 11r, Clegg -- FROM Roy E. Wood V : : o~vln llr , N a llr, Ro n llr. Tr /v'; SUBJECT: q .YJNG SAUCERS ( DISCS) y : : ~anon.___ INFORMA TI ON CONCERUNG Irr. Ournca.___~J • l::: l:n0~·-n-- llr. Pennington llr, Quinn Tami-- Tele . Roo•--===-~, At 5:45 AM this date, SAC Hood telephonically contacted the : ;/·~•H~j~==== Bureau and advised at approximately 11:30 PM, July 9, 194?, the office._.';:.~~•~•-u in Los Angeles had received infonnation from the Resident Agent at Bur,- California, that a "flying disc" had landed in or near Burbank and ha been seen to burst into .thme when it landed. Further, that it had been the cause of a fire in some woods, t his fire eithe!' in Burbank or possibly in the cit.-. limits of Los Angeles, which Mr. Hood could not be certain. The fire chief at Burbank had called the resident agent at Burbank and told him he w:>uld hold the disc for him. Coincident with the information received from Burbank, the Los Angeles Office received c~lls from the newspapers requesting information. The newspape:-e stating they had called the Army Air Force Intelligence who had stated "we are not interested". According to Mr. Hood, this comment had aroused the newspapers and they stated they intendt,d to publish this quotation and belabor same in their firs'tissues. Mr. Hood stated that he had refrained f r om making any statement to the press other than to admi.t possession of '4n object and that it was being turned over to military authorities in the morning (this AM), it being Mr. Hood's opinion that he did not want any quotes in the press and certainly not one to the effect that we were not interested. As described to him, Mr. Hood stated that the object was an aluminum disc about 2 1 in diameter weighing about ten pounds, painted with al uminum paint and having some sort of a radio tube in the center of the disc. This object was in possession of the resident agent at Burbank and would be turned over to military authoritig~ (G- 2) in Los Angeles this morning. '1 ~ RECORDED &?.J. - J / -I -~vMr. Hood's purpose in ca~li ng was to pl ace tne Bureau on notice regarding the above described object and any further information would be transmitted to the Bureau at once. Act ion: None indicated. HE'!f:da ~ DATE:
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