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This FBI file section collects July 1947 Bureau memoranda, teletypes, citizen letters and newspaper clippings about reported flying discs. They cover recovered objects at Twin Falls, Idaho, Shreveport, Louisiana, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, and Laurel, Maryland, many judged to be pranks, plus a Grafton, Wisconsin priest's circular saw blade the Milwaukee office called a hoax. A Dallas teletype reports a disc recovered near Roswell resembling a high altitude weather balloon with radar reflector. Kenneth Arnold's own account of his sighting is also included.
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# U. S. Planes Hunting Discs, Russ Tells of 'Atom Saucers' ## FBI Probes Story of Soviet Ship Officer LOS ANGELES, July 6—(Special) Federal agents today investigated a letter to the Examiner describing Russian supersonic atom-powered planes resembling the "flying saucers." A top flight atomic scientist to whom the Examiner referred the letter said it was "not all nonense," and suggested the matter be turned over to the FBI. The letter writer said he got information from an officer board a Russian tanker recently Los Angeles harbor. ## ILLED EVEN WORMS The Russian, he said, also described experiments with controlled radioactive clouds in the arctic, where birds, animals and ven worms were killed. The planes, as described by the Russian to the writer, are only 8 inches thick, with a kidney-shaped outline and no propellors. The pilot lies on his stomach and is artificially cooled against the boat developed by air friction. "The outer surface is highly polished," the Russian said. Both upper and lower surfaces are convex, like a giant lens. The lifting force is an entirely different principle found about 10 years ago among unpublished papers of a Russian chemist. "Energy is required only for climbing, but no energy is needed for support when the airplane goes along the earth's gravitational contour lines." The Russian first asked where he could sell 18 polar bear pelts which he received "for very dangerous work." The writer of the strange letter said he met the Russian officer in Wilmington and, because he wanted to hear about Russia, invited him to dinner. He said he had been assigned to go over the route of the radioactive cloud near Lake Bakal (or Baykal) and pick up dead animals. ## ALL LIFE DESTROYED "They loaded a few small ships with all kinds of animals and directed the cloud over them," the writer said. "During this experiment, a violent storm blew the cloud far north into the tundra, but before it dissipated it destroyed all life on its way. "The cloud may be controlled from land, from a plane or from a robot-piloted leader.' As I understand it, the control is based on electro-magnetic waves and the cloud has two components: The carrier and the killer." ENCLOSURE RECORDED 32 JUL 16 Milwaukee Sentrier Milwaukee , Wis July 7, 1947 600CT1-1947
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. 79 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.