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FBI UFO file, part 2

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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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'GraFtoiit>isc Joke
.~\ hat W&a reported ••• "flying dtacw·whleh .truck • church In
Or."'o,ll early yeaterday turned out to be a circular law with
two Imall tube. and inn.1 wires attAchfid to It.· Father JOleph
Brasky, paltor of St. Joseph" Church, Oratton, holdl the iNdlsc"
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od polntll to the IIKhtnlnr rod on the church (arrow), Which
hI'! ..Id "'al .truck by the dlae. "ntlatl Pbolo " ~1I ..t AIlhIUHf.
The myatery ot "the "'flying I ne theory Wall that prankste Ior belated Fourth ot July eel·
.. S(,I," .tr~n,e luminous object. brants had attached txploeives
'~en .peedlng acroll Ute Iky In the ,aw, and .ent it, Iklmmlng
'n&ny .tatea. turned. to Wilcon-! through tI1e air.
i .• ye.terday when .everal per. Father Braaky .ald he heard a
.an. reported them at Milwaukee. :w!~h:.~ :O~:~e~n~ ~e:~z:~n!.t:;:
.n" JanelvlUe. with a thud and an explosion.
MYstery W&I added to my.tery, An eXCited ruldellt telephoned
vhen Father JOleph Bruky, pas-: to Billy Jrlltchell Field, and ...Id
I)r of It., Joseph'. Church at he law 15 flying saucer., In jU
,~rafton. Wis., reponed a missne. formation, heading north over
.urtled through the air early ye.-,' Granville, at 10:05 p. m. He hung
\'rday, knocked the ball oft the' up betore hi. name could be pro-
Ilurch lightning r04, and landed: cured.
,n the front lawn. ........-.... ;.. A. pusenger abOard & New
I Other panengerl with him I.1so
! saw It, he said. He gave the name
of J. W. RO~den of D"'d1t! M·
IplteCitt1 6Qb Ing,- the ..ucer was
going at great .peed, and was out
of light in a few seconds, he
laid. Rowden 11: .toppln& at the
Plaza Hotel. .
:DISCS IIAD TAILS
'Erwin Rottman, 1328 ~. 19th
·St., said he law three ot them,
Iwith tails,· tlying northwest to
southeast, &8 he Itood at N. 18th
and W. Vliet St!. They turned i
trom gold to another color and I
then to Illver, he laid. IFrank Phifer, ltopplng- at the .
Maryland Hotel, laid be a&w
three ba.. US. of fire Ihoo.t 1.rou I,Lake Michigan at 8:20 lut Ight, ,
I adt .. milo trom Ihor ancI
~'COI ~ ~~~~1lic ~peed." - - .
W at be delcrlbed &I aD iIlu"
mlnated laucer was leen 1ut
night by William Humphrey, 31'8
S. 20th St.. he Mid. It WLI Ilg-
zagging directly over the Hell
Co_ plant. .&Id Humphrey, and
teemed to land In a wooded area
nearby.
REPORTED IN J."'Nl!:SVILLE
Four Janesville reSident. re-
ported they had seen a fiylng disc
Saturday night. They are :Mr.,
and Jrlra. Al Sievert and )fro and:
Mra. Howard Roth.
They .aw the disc nylng tn a
northweaterly direction f r~ m
Janelvllle at a "~rrlf1c 8}lf!ed."
They viewed it for 20 minutes. It
was yelJow-golden, and leemed to
turn at Umes to • Illvery color,
they Itated. An oval f11ght pattern
was followed. ·.Then. they aid,
tails appeared on the dilC aDd
Ihortly a.fterwards It disappeared.
John Bosch, 4377 S. Adami St. •
Milwaukee, a machinist, instated
he saw two flashing aaucer-
shaped objects pass over BUly
~ tChell Field Ihortly after mid-
ght yesterday. They were oae
e ough.o he could definitely ~atet ey were not Ihootlng stars, or
rplanes, he said. BOICh'1 h me
1. near the airport. '.
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\'1 RII:8 AND TUBES York-Detroit-Milwaukee p I a n e,
. Ich landed at B1IIy Mltchen . ,
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wao a larie circular law- Field at 10:0~ p. m., told emplOy.. r :a.ECORDlllD!
• ~ k, t 18 Inche. In 4lameter-and In the oftlce of Northwut A1~- ~ --III hot when Fathn- BrukY! IInel. Inc., be law a fIYln" saucer t~ I~(I-
CK d 1t from the .awn.· " bobbing up and down over the -7
T re were wires and two tubes, alr~:tj~Bt utCl1e~ad aIJ~ e ~
j Lta('hed to It. The tube. were a~ I .ltO ~a l-+-- l
ncb 10 diameter and three Inche. ... ...
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