Documents / FOIA release
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.
“Cooper”3 pages
WASHINGTON 1 FROM NEWARK 8-4-47 5-36 PM EDST JFG DIRECTOR U R G E N T FLYING DISC REPORTED AT HACKENSACK, NJ AUGUST THREE, NINETEEN PORTV SEVEN , MISC. INFORMATION RECEIVED THAT FT. DIX, NJ ON LATE AFTERNOON AUGUST THIRD LAST SIGHTED FROM GROUND OBJECT DESCRIBED AS FLYING DISC. CLAIMED IT WAS 674 TWO HUNDRED YDS, IN AIR, REVOLVING SLOWLY, MOVING RAPIDLY, AND NEITHER A KITE NOR A BALLOON. TELEPHONED INFORMATION TO HACK-ENSACK PD. INQUIRY BEING MADE, BUREAU WILL BE KEPT ADVISED. MC KEE END 3E7301941 NK R 1 WA RECORDED 162-73894-47 29 MUG 11 1941 EX-46
FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 69 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.