Documents / FOIA release
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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JUL 15 8 44 AM '47 TAIL ROOM WASHINGTON Yorkton , RECEIVED July 12, 1947, I do send to you something new from Texas, flying of fire cur- led around the Pa- lestire and the press pie are afraid of it. And erroneate Criers, not far away from brokens for down or some kind of christ from anyway got in that island, enamely or Mari mob and want ruined the Texas. No account of the mental condition of the patients RECORDED INDEXED 54 34 JUL 17 1947
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. 79 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.