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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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SPECIAL DELIVERY
SUBJECT: REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS
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Enclosed is a copy of a letter dated August 28, 1947,
from Lt. Col. of A-2, HarJilton Field, Calif., I C.
with an attachment referring to the a~ flying object lJ 7by Capt~ and his co-pUot,~, near Bethel,
Alaska. .
Photostatic copies of this letter and attachment are
being forna.rded to tl&; Anchorage Field Office. In accordance
with Bureau Bulletin #42, dated July 30, 1947, Anchorage is........
requested to interview Captain ~and his co-pilot,~ L 7....,; preferably separately, in order to dltain all details of 0 C.
their reported sighting of a flying object on August 4, 1947.
The San Francisco Field Office should be furnished h'O copies
of the results of these interviews for distributioo to the Sixth
Army Intelligence.
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