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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.
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ByHOWARDBLAK~
AP Science Editor
NEW YORK. July O-{.lP)-{:ertain laws of humari eye,
sight will explain much of what has been described about
t.heflying saucers reported from nearly all parts of the
l1nlted Stat...
At any distance which t. dOse photo,iraph of the oval object
t.o.. ,the llmtt ot how tar a person taken by Yeoman Frank Ryman
.can "ee. all object. appear round north ot SeatUe. Wuh. The Long
or Dear(y '0. This iaw of .Ight IIland oval came cloetr and
eovers both .mall things HeD turned Into an airplane:.
nearby and larae onu at anat Plane. at great dlatances tend
distances. to look rouncl when light t. zoe ..
Regarelles. of .hape, the ob-- fleeted from their aidea. Many
Ject near the Umlt of .Ight looks descriptions of movementJ of the
'round. .It the thing " .1lhouetted flying a&ucer. tlt with the com·
agatnst a bright Iky. U lome of mon maneuver. of alrplanu,
the flying Mucen have been rea .Ingly or tn groups.
ported, then It tl more Ukely to They fit allo with .,hat birds
:tev aI Ita true .hape. . look like, fiylng at a con'ld.~ble
E "NO STBUCl'UBE' distance. However the bird Uu-
IloD III Dot very common. me
! the. th\ng , .. teen by retleeted of the maneuvering npo ted,
lIiht... In most C8JJea reported, which took laucerl out of ght
It 11 almolt certain to be ,round. and back Into light again rea
and If the reflections are lunUght. aemble. what can be .een while
then the .Iul reported are thOle watchln, dlatance airplanea.
which 'Would be expected from
dl,tant IIght'refieCtlon,. SPEED IIIYSTERl'
The one oUtstanding fact about Tbere lJ ~o explanatlon for rea
virtually aU. the aaucerl .. that ported .peedl of 1.000 or more
they had no atructure - they mllea an hour. Meteorl. although
.eemed merely round and flat. they go much taster than that,
That deAcrlpUon fitl exactly with do not explain it becaule the
the trick. that eyes play. This laucer. mOIUy appear In daytime
tricklne.. varlea with differences and there are DOt enough daya
In weather and UghUng. lIi'ht meteors.
This wrtter haa leen fly1ng Ice crystals forming little round
saucers over Long Island Sound cloucla have been luggested. But
near his home. not only thtl year these taU to fit In moat cue. bea
but In prevJoul yean. They were caule the tce cryltal. form at
round, bright and movln, fAIt. altitudes· which are bJgher than
, most of the laucen reported.
NothIng publIshed In Iclence orNOT A IIIYSTERY
But they were no mystery be· atomic .tudles gives the slightest
cause they Were light reflected clue to flying .'ueerl unless the
from the bodl .. of airplanel that obJectl are aircraft.
soon Identified them.elve. by One .elentl,t today .ald that at
Ch~lnG' courae and coming near lea.t a Jot of laueerl are ex·
eno h to be leen dllUnctly. pll.lned by the force at lu.ggutlan
at week this writer .leo .aw which uuael a peragn to lay tol
one val flying form which for himself: I "'''etO .. i' l
a moment looked exactly Uke the "Ob, 1M'. I .~ It too." ~, ... 1.>,
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