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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.
• /'I • Office Men. ,(~ndum · UNITED .OES GOVERNMEN~ TO PI.ON SUBJIlCT: \) m. D. II. LADf! '. H. B. FLETCHER /1"~ f !.t / . , '>1 ." ....'S.......... DATil: July 7, At 10:45 a.II:., July 7, 1947, I talked to SAC Johnson of the J.l11waukee W,'ce concerning the United Press item appeari~ 1n the 194Z. To .... ..,..- :: ~i A. '",---,---= .... Ol&~~.. .... "'"1Ir. )fle • .... ao . IIr.Tr . .... CU'.~~~..... ICIJl ...........Mr. IlU'bo Mr. "'DISOb ......Dn~ ~i.'!'~ ==.......... ........ IWashington Post for )£onday, July 7, with reference to a flying disc or f~ng eauc ,allegedly reported to the JC11waukee Office b:y , Reverend J:::PJo:::::ra:~::: ::::p:~: :::::::t::af~::: :::C:::i:~t~ed :1::'9'1,' Press between the hours 1:00 and 6:00 a.lI. today had made inquiry o~· bim as to whether anything had been reported to the Milwaukee Officel He declined to comment. He stated as a matter of fact the priest haa not made al\Y contact with him, and he learned from the Associated Press that the priest was intoxicated and as far as the Associated Press was ';i . concerned they were not releasing the story because all that· was involved was a circular saw. lIr. Johnson stated the w'lwaukee Sentinel apparently sent the report out and that they handled United Press service. He stated a photograph of the priest was in this morning's paper holding a circular S81i' which apparently covers the body of the priest froJ:] arm pit to arm pit • . . . Attached to the saw are several wires and two small tubes described as '. about three inches long and one inch in diameter. The news item in the ". Milwaukee Sentinel indicates it was believed some prankster had thr01l'n it ,," into the yard, perhaps with a firecracker attached. Mr. Johnson stated the \ ","'. Milwaukee Sentinel had stated the priest would make a report of this matter , today to the JC11waukee Office. I instructed SAC Johnson in the event the priest made a report to furnish detaUs of the report immediately, but in view of the nature of the information in his possession, no inquiry should be conducted at the present • :,~ .... '~-::4;\':_" ""'"1>:_ ... -..,.., --:: .....:.. _.~A-.~_:.... ~~ .....~ .... ":,...-_·-'....-··~;o·~:-:'~~:"r:..-..;,":-'~,:~.-::.-"".:-!::-. .... ,r.: -.,:. _ .............. ~ . :.,--- .. -.
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