FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 7

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a remnant of one of the incendiary bal
loons the hopeful Japanese dispatched
across the Pac:rfic during the war in an
effort to start forest fires.
Even pictures taken o[ supposed snu
cers failed to impress the experts. There
was the case of a man in Phoenix,
.r\rizona, who spotted a flat gray oh
ject spiralling up and down 111 the sky
at a speed thnt he estimated at between
four and five hundred miles an hour.
Ile snapped two pictures of it with his
Brownie. Prints were rushed to Project
Saucer, and Dr. Irving Langmuir, the
ph} sicist and a obel Prize winner, was
asked to study them. The distingm..,hed
scientist learned that a thunderstorm
had occurred just before the picturc
taking, and concluded that he w:is look
ing at a couple of rather poor ~hots
of a piece of paper being buffeted hy
the wind.
A S time went on and the skies, appar
.fl. ently, continued to teem with fly
ing saucers, the generals in the Penta
gon, warming to their rnc;k, decided to
enlarge the scope of the invcstig:ition.
Commanders of all Air F orce in~talla
rions in the country were ordered to
as,ign Intelligence officers to look into
sightings reported in their areas. The
officers were instructed to <;0licit the as
sistance of municipal police officials, who
might he familiar with the pcrc;onalities
of the saucer ob5ervers. The F.B.I. was
al'-0 called upon for assistance, and as
signed agents to help interview people
who reported that they had seen discs.
The agents uc;cd a stand:1rd question
naire, drawn up by Air Force Intelli
gence, which called for such informa
tion as the saucer's size, speed, color,
and maneuvers. The information wa'l
usually transmitted to ,vright Field,
but some stories were so obviously
false and some "evidence" so obvious
ly trifling that the F.B.I. men didn't
even bother to fill out the question
naire. In Seattle, for instance, an
alarmed woman called the police to in
form them that a flarnin~ d,~c had land
ed on her roof. The object turned out
to be a hollow, drum-~hape<l affair
made of pl} wood, with "USSR" crude
Iv dauhed on it in paint. \n F.B.I. man
found that a turpentine-c;oaked cloth
had c1used the flame. A pr:ictical jnkc.,
he decided. . \ farmer near Danforth,
lllinois, reported that a s.-iuc r had
crash-landed in one of hi fields and
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