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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 02

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 79 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 37 …Sheriff Paul Stanford of Anderson County described them as orange basketballs of fire. ## Revealing Flying Disk…

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District Attorney Joseph W Cash. If the present registry of flying disks are com with radar or guided miss experiments, the law might apply, we said.

The law applies whether the information is released accidentally, "through gross negligence," or "with intent to injure the United States or aid some foreign nation," according to the act.

The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 provides even stricter penalties for revealing information, Mr. Cash said. Public Law 585 of the Seventy-Ninth Congress provides death or life imprisonment, after due process of law, for disclosing atomic information with intent to injure the United States.

For accidental disclosures a fine of up to 20,000 and imprisonment up to 20 years are provided, Mr. Cash pointed out.

## Gas Truck Hits Local Station

A gasoline trailer truck of the Texas Consolidated Transport Co. ran into a heavy pipe upright in front of Rohan's Service Station Monday, doing some damage to the station and more to the truck.

The truck was coming from town, along West Grand, and turned into the station. As the deliverer cut the cab back to swing the trailer into position, the cab skidbed into the steel pipe, roof support on the right of the truck, bending it considerably. The truck itself suffered a bent bumper and a smashed tender. A gasoline pump directly behind the upright was not damaged by the crash.

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Mrs. Valentine said neig ing negro families thought world was coming to an and began praying as the of fire gamboled overhead.

Mrs. Lorens Shrader. Springs reported she saw red ball streaking overhead night.

Mrs. Marian Reed, farm found what she believed was of a flying disk. It landed in back yard while she was ho out the clothes yesterday noon. She admitted she frightened. She described it round piece of tinfoil eight es wide, scorched or burns round the edges. Both sides shiny, but one side was m with black, stenciled lines a ter-inch apart. She said the foil dropped straight down the sky.

She lifted it with a stick it in a tin can, and drove miles to Gunter. 20 miles west of Sherman. Scores or about to see it.

At Melissa, Collin County Marie Killian and Mrs. Kay reported seeing a strange at 8:40 p. m. yesterday.

Charles Calboun, and his er. W. J. Calboun, pron Grayson County farmers they saw a diak yesterda Sherman.

# Cuero Residen See Flying Dis.

Cuero has finally produced first flying disc.

It was reported by Mrs Haak of 410 Stockdale str both she and her husband

However, Mrs. Haak's disc is no particular mys her. She thinks she kno what cause it.

It was simply a reflection an airplane, she said.

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Cases discussed

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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.