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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## O Date: August 5, 1947 To: Director of Intelligence War Department General Staff The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. Attention: Colonel L. R. Forney, Chief, Security Group From: John Edgar Heover - Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: 67c There are attached hereto copies of a letter received from the above-captioned individual, together with copies of a newspaper clipping enclosure, concerning "flying discs." letter has been acknowledged and he has been advised that copies of his letter have been furnished to you for your consideration. COMMERCIAL HOURS SECTION MANDATORY 11 AUGV6:mj1847 P.M. RDIDD 62-83894 - 4 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 1359 10-26-74 50916in
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.