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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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Mr.J.Edgar Hoover.Chief,of the F.B.I. Washington,D.C. ## Dear Sir; Please forgive me for taking up your time,with this item.It really necessary.Yot,although everybodys tongue was wagging from the East and to the West coast,I couldn't resist putting my oar in. Flying Sailors in the Sky. Heading for the Milky Way. Funny? I dont know. Please, dont remind me that this id a military problem.Soldiers fight the army out in the open and away from home if possible.The Federal Agents(the unheroes)fight the enemy under cover and in their home grounds.So.Here I am. We read and read."Sky Disc Derby Open to All"-"Calls "Saucers"Tr of Vision"-"Believe it or not,27 States see those flying saucers"-"Who saw the Saucers?40 States in the Game"-"Celestial Dishes sought between the Raindrop Find 'Disk'is weather kite"-"Disks called chunks of Mirage"-"Report new Red Planes resemble'Flying Saucers'".-Air-liner crew reports seeing 9 flying disl or 12 minutes".That's the way it went on,for days and days. These so-called saucers may be kites,but according to reports,these thing didn't flutter or float,they sailed and kites don't sail,the stranges part i they all sailed in the same direction,from West to East. Rewards were offered,no collectors.Planes chased them,none captured.They h no land,no finders.So.As long as the Military,Scientist and Civilians deny,be responsible for this.Were dood it lead to?An enemy.A little while back,it was mentioned somewhere that Russia had or has a contraption for their next war,notting sound(like a silent whistle for dogs)what it'skxto do,th their enemy,I don't know.If a country was experimenting such a weapon,the brave people of U.S.were not scared.They only informed the so-called enemy how successful the train were. It could be an optical illusion,or;supposing some unwelcomed persons,plant few well chosen words,here and there and left the rest to an confused mind. these innocent people reporting the phenomena. What confuses me is,that when we became too curious and determined to find out what they really are,those things disappeared and we found substitutes,causes. These things resembling description as near as possible to the real thing couldn't these things have been directed back home again like a homing pl To make sport of this thing, is bad taste. It sort of reminds me of the boy tried WOLF. When the wolf really came. Twas sad. He, was a nice boy. There should be law, against such jokes or experiments in the state. They should be condemned, should be tried for treason, even; if the so-called joke seems to his POOH POOH business is no joke. I had in mind that the floods were I had in mind that the floods were responsible for these disks(mirages)the washing waters of the Mississippi,Missouri,Platte,Columbia and Ohio Rivers. The sun going from East to West,plus the Catskill in the Easterly North,The Blue Ridge in the East and the Rocky Mountains in the West.Refections,or whatever there,went from West to East.Hence the Disks?I hope
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.