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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.
“Los Angeles Times”1 page
;~:bJft;;MMemorfndum • UNITED STA' S GOVE~NMENT Director, FBI DATE : July 17, 1947 SAC, Los Angeles~M J SUBJ ECT: RECOVERY OF 11 FLilNG DISC"- -- .,.OORTH HOLLYV.00D, CALIFORNIA, JULY 9, 1947 A On the evening of July 9, 1947, a report was received at the Los Angeles Office that a so-called "flying disc" had landed in the vicinity .of Radford and Magnolia Streets in North Hollywood, California, the contraption being briefly described as approximately 30 inches in diameter, all metal, disc shaped, and having a radio antenna . It was reported to have burst into flames upon landing. At the time of the report the disc was being held at the Valley Fire Department in Van Nuys, California. SA RICHARD D. AUERBACH went to the fire department immediately at which time it was found that a number of people had gathered including news paper reporters and photographers who were taking pictures of the disc . Battalion Fire Chief WALLACE E. NEWCOMB advised Agent that at approximately 10:30 P. M., an unknown woman called on the telephone and excitedly reported that the disc had dropped into her garden where it began to flame, her residence being located at 11858 Magnolia Boulevard, North Hollywood. A fire department truck was sent there and put out the flaming object with the fire hose, after which the object was taken to the fire station. SA AUERBACH thereafter arranged to transport the disc to the office. The device is briefly described as consisting of two convex steel discs approximately 2 feet in diameter, fused together at the outer edge and fastened together in the center by a hollow cylindrical connection. A vertical galvanized iron fin was screwed to the top of the disc, and a short length of pipe closed at one end ran from the outer circumference into the interior of the contraption. What appeared to be a radio tube was installed in the center of the top side. The contraption had a total weight of appr0ximately 20 pounds. At the Bureau Office a series of photographs were taken of the device from various positions, and a set of these photographs are being forwarded herewith for the Bureau' s inspection and information. The "flying di~c" ~hereafter turned over to Major COURTNEY VI. 11 7 HEMPSTEAD, A.C . , G-2, F;1>-ject w definitely a hoax. and under no circumstances could have flown under its own power.
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