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.
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMMUNICATIONS SECTION JUL 18 1947 TELETYPE WASHINGTON FROM BOSTON. 3 18 10-53P DIRECTOR METAL FRAGMENTS OBSERVED AT WEST RINDGE, N.H., JULY SEVEN, FORTYSEVEN, SECURITY MATTER-X. SECURITY OFFICER, M.I.T., CAMBRIDGE, MASS., ADVISED THAT TODAY HE WAS IN CONTACT WITH ONE ON WEST RINDGE, N.H., A RETIRED OF THE NEW ENGLAND TEL. AND TEL. CO. ADVISED THAT AT APPROXIMATE THREE PM ON JULY SEVEN LAST SEVERAL PEOPLE SITTING ON A PORCH OBSERVED ON THE LAWN OF ROUTE WEST RINDGE, N.H., LITTLE OUT OF SMOKE, WHICH ON INSPECTION DISCLOSED SMALL BURNED SPOTS ABOUT O AND ONE HALF INCHES IN DIAMETER ON THE GREEN LAWN. ALSO IN THE LONG DRY GRASS ON BOTH SIDES OF ROAD IN A CIRCLE APPROXIMATELY TWO HUNDRED FEET IN DIAMETER SEVERAL LITTLE BLAZES HAD STARTED AND THE FIRE DEPT. WAS CALLED. FIRES WERE APPARNTLY CAUSED BY METALLIC FRAGMENTATION WHICH WERE TURNED OVER TO OF MIT, BY A OF THE TELEPHONE COMPANY. HAS ADVISED THAT THEIR GENERAL APPEARANCE ARE SIMILAR TO THE LINING OF V DASH TWO DOMBS, WHICH HE HAD OBSERVED AT NEW MEXICO. PROFESSOR AN OUTRECORDED STATIST AT MIT, STATEN THAT THEY ARE POSSIBLY THE LINING FROM A JET TURBO PLANE. AT PRESENT TIME IS IN PROCESS OF ANALYZING TWO OR THREE PAGES. THESE SCIENTISTS IN ROUGHLY RECONSTRUCTING THE METALLIC OBJECT STATE IT WAS APPROXIMATELY FOURTEEN INCHES IN DIAMETER, THREE COPIES DESTROYED. 58 AUG 13 1947 A----END PAGE ONE----270 NOV 18 1964
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.