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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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“The Wash”7 pages

p. 17 …Walter Johnson (right) of Spokane, Wash., and her children pose and tell how they saw the…
p. 19 …Wash., after a vacation near St. Maries, Idaho, and after reading newspaper reports of the flying…
p. 22 …the photograph of the oval object taken by Yeoman Frank Ryman north of Seattle, Wash. The…
p. 56 …search for the objects which she said were saucer-shaped but resembled wash-tubs more than…
p. 59 …A Spokane, Wash., woman insisted the objects she saw were of such size that together they…
p. 72 EADVONTERY FOUGHT AIR FORCE Office of the Assistant Officer of Staff. 2. Hamilton Field, California TITLE…
p. 76 …Chehalis, Washington, airport with the intention of going to Yakima, Wash. My trip was delayed for…

FEDERAL DOCUMENT INVESTIGATION

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

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.