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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 02

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 79 pages · text by 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.

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“United Press”8 pages

p. 1 …He stated the press is aware of this incident. He stated that the disc had been…
p. 7 …He stated the press was also calling concerning this matter. I instructed him to make no…
p. 12 …For the Bureau's information, United Press and Associated Press telephoned me at my residence about…
p. 19 …Louis Objects Prove to Be Washers; Chicago Woman Spots One With Legs ## By the United Press…
p. 38 …SAC Johnson advised that the Associated Press and the United Press between the hours 1:00…
p. 72 …Idaho Daily Statesman. (Incl 2, Exhibit B) 66 Unidentified objects reported by United Air Lines Pilot…
p. 74 …that he has been ridiculed by the press to such an extent that he is practically…
p. 79 …any report I gave to the United and Associated Press and over the radio on two…

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Cases discussed

The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
Kenneth Arnold... nine of the discs... over the Cascade Mountains; Arnold's own statement
Roswell Incident 1947
object purporting to be a flying disc was recovered near Roswell, New Mexico
Twin Falls saucer hoax 1947
Twin Falls, Idaho... disc 30 1/2" in diameter... 'Inspected TS'
The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave 1947
reported every day since by observers in 36 states

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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.