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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 'Sa\lIC€f Z Tales LawS &/ Eyesight Cla+ Buzz in State Reports of Flying Saucers Ii By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Disk Fou'ha'by a Priest AAocI.t•• Pr... Scl'.ce ""ltor New York, No Yo-The. l1ying I I Is Gr°cular Saw,. Others Mucera may be explained by eer- taJn law. of eyaiJ'ht. I Seen by M10lwaukeeans All objecta appear r 0 u n d or nearly ~ at any diatance close to I .F,.om pace I, column 3 the limit of how far .. peraon can aee. : noticeable tall. When it dtaap- It the object. are leen by re- Many deacriptioN of m 0 v ... ments ot the (lyIng pueer. fjt with the common maneuvetl of airplanes, .1 D g I}' or In group.. . Some ot the maneuverinc report.. ed, whiCh took aaueer. out of alght and back into light again, reaem.. bles what can be .•een w h i J. watching distant airplanes. Whether planes are' &'\llded. pl· lotI... or jet, they aU would look . the aame at creat d1ltancu. flected light. u in moat Caael rea peared enUrely. 't JuJt popped out" ported, they are almoa-t certain to . Jane.vUle poUee reported .. tele· be round, and it the reflectlons phone call from .. Dick Thompson, are lunU,ht then the Ilzea report· who ••Id he .aw f1ylnl dl." about od are tb",. which would be ex- Mirages, Traveler Says,peeted from diata.nt ll&'ht rellee- , 12:15 •.m. Sunday. tiona. Philadelphia, Pa. -(AJ)- Dr. Aure4 i t O.hkoeh, Mra. L. A. Davia re- DucTiptiona of virtually al.1 the Aczel, editor at a Hungarian lan- rted that lhe and her bUiband had laucera u round and flat fit ex.. &'\lage newspaper, expreued beUef .1 hted one of the my.terloUl diaka actty with the tricks that eyes that the flying laueen were mi- • lzzin, over the cJt)' at ':45 p.m. play. Thi. trickines. varie. with racea-possibly circularly dl.tort .. dilterencel In weather and Ucbt- ed reflectionl ot real &1rplanea Sunday. lng.· many mUe. away. A world..wtde She .aId they were driving on a This writer baa .een flytnc laue- traveler, Dr. Aezell&td: town road lix mUes west of Osh. ers over Lon, lsla,n4 .ound, not "'Yeara ago I have ,ften .1mDar ,kosh,' beaded ,ut toward the eity. only this year but In previous: things on the Egyptian d8lert and when they tint lighted the object ,ear.. 'rhey were round, bricht on the BUlzta (Hungartan plain). Mtlying very tast and very hIgh." and movIn" fut. But they were At aea I have alia leen mlr., t ", 01 At fir.l. .he .ald, it looked 11ke an no my.tery becauae the y were ..hlps known to be a,reat d1l nee airplane and then loomed larger and light reflected from the bodies of, away. Jarger unUl Jt "a.ppeared u biC AI airplanes that .00 n Identified "In July and AU(U8t, and • e .. ,~ lun.'" them.elvCI by chanlln, courle timel even tn June, atmolp ric Stop' Oar, Di.k Vani.he. and Cotning near .noulh..to be conditiON are elpecially ad"pta.. • een diltinctly. ble to the creation of mlr.iea."Her hWlband atopped the car 101--____-=__________________..::.___ that they could eet a eetter look at -- the dlak, which ..ppeared round and .lIvery, but by the time they got out of the car the object bad d1l- appeared, .he .. Id. At Green Bay, Eugene 1A Plant reported that be and hill 12 year old lon, Duane, bad nen a rapidly mov- !tnl' .nver ball or di.k about ':30 Ip..m. W~dnuda!._ ~~!~~ .. ~~r~~r:~ ~ nll proen on ~ne WAW'I"D __ 5'11:' Viol the city. Le Plant .aid he I&W the object .nhouetted apinat a dark cloud to the north and that be .~' h~on watched It Jor three or to r ml utea while It moved away to t no hW6lt Le Plant ...id be eo no 81t1mate the altitude Or d Ian ,but that It "daflnltely waa not an airplane." ' I .. ~_. ~-_ -- -- --- --- ) •
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