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This FBI file, released by The Black Vault, collects July 1947 Bureau memoranda, teletypes and newspaper clippings about flying disc reports. The memos record a disc found in a Twin Falls, Idaho back yard, a hexagonal object recovered near Roswell that Eighth Air Force said looked like a weather balloon with a radar reflector, and hoax discs at Laurel, Maryland, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, and Shreveport, Louisiana. It also contains Father Brasky's circular saw disc from Grafton, Wisconsin, and Kenneth Arnold's statement about his sighting.
·,. "o •o Trle. to CaD FBI Man· in diameter, over 8my Mitchell field Priest Hears a 'Bans&",'*-,. .t 10:06 p.m. when he alia-hted from - - Father Br'uky aid h. d.id not an airplane. He aaid it waa in Itcht Discovers a C ire u 1a r bother to .how the disk to any of bill tor 90 seconds. parishioner-. Sunday. He tried to WUliam Humphrey, who 11 v •• Bl d W'th T t h telephone an FBI agent whom he witb hi. wife In a quo.l\let hut at a e 1 e e ; know., but wao unable to reach him 3U8 S. 20th ot,telephoned police Other Dl'sks 'Seen' Sunday. he added. A.ked whether at 8 p.m. Sunday that bl!" n'6 1I.i". it could have been the work of • Humphrey b...d teen, .. IU,b.tly mu .. \ practical joker, Father Bralky ra- minated diak which· appeared to f.lI Pictllre on Pu:t"re Page plied: "Could be. 1 don't know," to earth near Pulaaki bl,h .,choot. t e "what .. it 1" which Father The di.k; apparently of .teel, bad Mra. Humphrey .ald Monda)" that J ph. Bruky uid he found early a. one' and three~eilhth inch'bble 1n Iber buaband tried UDI\lcceufullx to ndav on the lawn of St. Joseph's the center. Throu&,b jt ran'. few I pboto&raph the diak. . , wire.. To each end of the cJuater ·Catholic church In Gratton may be of wires wu attached what looked \. . t"Ohanced Colora. He"", I ljUlt another pd..et to add to Fa. j Uke a Imall conden.er about three'.1 ICrivln- Rottman, 13.21 N, 11th i'tber Br..ky'. already Imble col.. inches long. The conden.erUke ob.. claimed he law three ot them flyi l.cUon. JecUJ were wrapped In black tape throuab the air in a northwute y \ ) which Itill was lUcky. The dilk wu: direction at 8 p.m. Sunday. Tb I ThOH who ..w It San day ·..Id ,reaay and .0 m • w h • t . dirty. turned from oran..e to .-old to Inv "what is Jt?" WAI a circular laW Stamped on it wu: "Approved, bef8re dilappearinc, b._ aald, ola.de with a fe.... wiret attached, Dunlap." Report. came also from Jane,. Father Bnl.lky, wbo _Id h. knew 1¥ Father Braaky deeHned to palt 'Ville, where Mr. and Mra. Alva Sie.. no lawmUJ. in the area, would Ilot with the disk. He .howed & num8et v.rt and Mr. and Mra. Howard Roth claJrn it... WN & Hflyiri, ... ucer" when of items in his trinket collection. reporte.d I.ein, I tlyin, dtlk .bout he caned new.papermen ,to hi., All at them had aomething to do 11:~ p.rn. Saturday. The Rothl 'bome. with fJlhlnl", Father Bruky·. f.vor .. werele.vinl" the SIevert borne when HIt mayor may not be one of thole Jte lport. They included hll ·'b... Sievert' .aw It. accordln&, to Roth. f flying dlsk.t that have been report.. bottle.... beer bottle. with the head It .ppeared to be .evera} thoul&nd l~aJ1 over the oountrY." he laid. of a fllb - and a n.h pole trom feet 'lIIt and about 10 mil•• away. I" t', jUlt call It a 'what 11 It 1" .. ManUa which fold. up into a cane. Roth sa.id.· He deacrib,ed it ., ~ague .. , Meanwhile, In M.Uwaukee .nd When opened, it extenIU to 12 f:;:t. 1), ruembUng the mo~n .nd u hav.. ! her point. In Wi.conlln aev.cr..al '.1 U.e It in reaching folkl w egular motion tn a-counter. " rlonl reported Iteinc tb~ "f)yjn, can't be touched with a 10 foot pole:: clockwise, elon,ated orbit. It ap.. , .aueen." Father Braaky'l dl.k. i Fa\her Bruky quipped.' peared to Roth to be mavin, f..ter ihowenr, ....u the only ca.e here in Otken a.port ....saueen" '. than an airplane. He laId it W&8 !which the "landln," of .....ueer'· 'yellow on ita fac., -but wben It wu reported. ~ Father Braalty al.o pUled out turned it looked .nver, copies ot b h recent· pubHcation, Roth aald that the four of tbem Hearl "Ban,," Find' Di.k "Fish Tale.... viewed the d.iak for 10 minutel. Father Bruky ,ave ~he foUow.\ "I'm COln& to revile thll thine," lin.. account of bow be found the ob.. be explained. "I've ',ot acm. Dew .stopped' lD.Sk¥. Dalm 'eel a .teel plate 19 incboa In dl.. and better tal .. to put in iL" . "It fluttered around, faded out ameter, about an el ..hth ot an inch There ",ere other reporta around and eame back acain. and once ~ ·,tblck and with lAW teeth. Milwaukee and Wlaeonaln of "fJy· ju.t .topped and hung there f "I UluaJJy ,et up aboLft 5 a.m. on in, .aueer.... Mr•. Anthony Hoff...bout two minutel," Roth I&id. "T.h ! Sunday•. t wu at the front dear man, auo W. Layton 'av.. laid _I~! Jut time we .aw It. it bad a ve 1 l ot my bouse, about to bke my dog and her hUlband ...w one at .ll:21) TN'"" to pare 3, col. 5 . J' out for a walk, 'when 1 heard a p.m. Sun day flying toward BUll' 'b.n,t' like • bl.. firecracker, J Mitchell field from the nortbwelt.! ,lopped oulJllde and lound thil d1Ak 1 wru,n It ....,ed tho Ileld,.t vNrod FII!CL05UHf I on the church lawn. ~______________ "Althou,h the ,ra.. wu .tiIl wetf ~ . Wi! f' '1 'Ir1: the nll'ht rain, the dl.k wu . i 1-·~ '1 ;J.i· '~ 1 · too ot to pick up. 1 noticed the , ,,:o1llJll.,. ~., ~l.;;, '" . gl ball had been knocked ofl one U'ECO " : .~~ 1,. t ( ,of e 1I,htnln, rodl on the church, .t I If)-.1.0 IlOppooelt _truck that In land- "/' ;;,1;, l:L 16 :!'.'j.J li!!J .. -:..
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