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This is the first part of an FBI file on flying discs, made up of internal memoranda, teletypes, letters from the public and news clippings from July and August 1947. Field offices report sightings and several objects that were recovered, including a disc found at Black River Falls, Wisconsin, and a North Hollywood device that Army G-2 called a hoax. Other items cover a Norfolk boy's photograph and the Tacoma plane crash tied to Dahl and Crisman. Director Hoover forwarded several letters to the War Department.
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THIS MEMORANDUM is respectfully addressed to certain scientists of distinction to important aeronautical and military authorities, to a number of public officials and to a few publications. The writer has little expectation that anything of import will be accomplished by this gesture. The more fact that the data horoin were obtained by so-called supernormal means is probably sufficient to insure its disregard by nearly all the persons addressed; neverthorough it seems a public duty to make it available. (The present writer has several university degrees and was formerly a university department head). A very serious situation may develop at any time with regard to the "flying saucers." If one of those should be attacked, the attacking plane will almost certainly be destroyed. In the public mind this might create near panic and international suspicion. The principal data concerning these craft is now at hand and must be offered, no matter how fantastic and unintelligible it may seem to minds not previously instructed in thinking of this type. 1. Part of the disks carry crews, others are undor remote control. 2. Their mission is peaceful. The visitors contemplate sottling on this plane 3. These visitors are human-like but much larger in size. 4. They are NOT excarnate earth people, but come from their own world. 5. They do NOT come from any "planet" as we use the word, but from an otheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us. 6. The bodies of the visitors, and the craft also, automatically "materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter. (Cp. "apports.") 7. The disks possess a type of radiant energy, or a ray, which will easily disintegrate any attacking ship. They reenter the otheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without trace. 8. The region from which they come is NOT the "astral plane", but corres- ponds to the Lokas or Talas. Students of esoteric matters will understand these terms. INDEXED. 9. They probably cannot be reached by radio, but probably can be by radar, if a signal system can be devised for that apparatus. We give information and warning, and can do no more. Let the newcomers be treated with every kindness. Unless the disks are withdrawn, a situation necessons with which our culture and science are incapable of dealing. A heavy responsibility rests upon the few in authority who are able to understand this matter. Addendum: The lokas are oval shape, fluted length oval with a heat-resisting metal or alloy not yet known the front edge contains the controls; the middle portion 1 laboratory; the rear contains armament, which consists essentially of a powerful rad energy apparatus, perhaps a ray apparatus.
FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 69 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.