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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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!• •, J"irplnnes flyi":: so close to t!IB :r'",ntair tops, flyi n!; directly south to
5(Hlthen.st dO'/m the ho:,;'o hnc1.: of r. T;lOuntdn ranGe. I would "st.i"!/lte their
E'levAtion could hAve "l.ri"J n tl:ou,""d fe~t on'3 \Va:' nranother w) or down,
but th0:~ ,jore prett.~~ "luch on tl~r:' ht"'lr17,on to T:1e ':'!~Iich would inrlic!'\te they'
'lore H"""r th'9 S!"'"'l'!P elcv'!t:inn ns I ~·:a.5.
r"-B~' flei" Blee "'O"y ti,,'''s I h"vp observed (,"01;-, to fly in n. rather
d1a':.on,,1 chnin-lik" linn as \ f the;' werA linked tOGether. Thoy seemed to
hold e derini te Jirection but rather swerved in and out of the hir,h mountein
peaks. Their ~peed st the tjme die! not im~ress r'I~ ;,nrticu18rl~", because I
knew t!lnt our nrl'1Y And Air forc~s h~d plnnes thnt \"~nt very fast.
:,/h.. t kept botherin.~ no os I ,,:"tclled them flip And flesh in the sun
rir:ht along their pAt,h ""'5 t', .. f"ct. th"t I couldn't meke out en:; teil on ,J-them, and I em sure th.,t .ny pilot would justify more then a second look at
such e. plAne.
r observed the", n"He "lninly, ~nC-1; but, I choulrl judse their spen
vloulc hflVP been 8S wid0. P5 ~·L0 rurt1:f'r~st enginas on onch side of the
fuselar,0 of tho DC-1.
!hu "Ore I observed th'sa obj.'ct., the I"or" upset 1 becpme, as I am
eccustoned end rA,·,tHer ,·.Hh nost a 11 Objects flyinf, whether I em close to
thp. [,roul'\·."ys whore I ('oule: open m.~' window end observe them
\dt~\ n (,:ol"~-"letcly unnb~1-rt1ctA(l v~_ew. C-'-~thoui ":un r::lBsses)
t,;v/'n t),{lU/:h two n3nutcG Sec;"::; 1 ike" v-cry ~hort ti"!f.1J t·o nnp. on the
rr<'unc!, in the rlr in t,·;" minutes tim" " pilot crn obs"rve e r;reet many
thtnr." encl Anythinr; within hie sic-,ht or vision orob.bly AS mAny as fifty or
sixty titrei.
I continued l'Iy seorch fol' tho MAri"e plAn<' for anothar fifteen or
twcnt~· ",ilOute3 ""~,I •. hHe ,"(l"r~;,irlj' f",' tid., ,""rine plrne, "hot I had just
()bsr.rv0d k'~ri, [oine throu:}l roy·rr:ind. 1 'HlC8n(~ More disturbod, so af'ter
te)~inr; " 11 3t 1001: ,,10 Tieton ""senciT' 1 headed for YAkima.
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