FBI UFO file, part 2

The Black Vault · 80 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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Twin Falls saucer hoax 1947

Cases discussed

The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
Kenneth Arnold, Boise, told of nine discs over the Cascades; Arnold's statement on Mt. Rainier
Roswell Incident 1947
object purporting to be a flying disc recovered near Roswell, New Mexico
Muroc Army Air Field disc sightings 1947
At Muroc Army Air Field a P-80 jet fighter stood ready
The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave 1947
saucers reported by observers in 36 states since June 25

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