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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.

  • p. 12 …Father BRASKY has never contacted the Milwaukee FBI Office or any Agent concerning his find. In…
  • p. 40 …It is a never way to their distress, when someomed all, when some thing will happen…
  • p. 56 …But the message never arrived. The Air Forces said that Gen. Carl Spaatz, Air Forces chief…
  • p. 73 …aeronautical charts of this area, although has never consulted aeronautical charts of the type the Army…
  • p. 74 C Incident 4AF 1209 I flying through the air I would never say a word about…
  • p. 76 …I never asked nor wanted any notoriety for just accidently being in the right spot at…
  • p. 78 …lens and from now on I will never be without one but, to continue further with…
  • p. 79 …John Doe on the street corner or Pete Andrews on the ranch has never heard about…
Dear St. Bd. :

ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION

KEEP ENVELOPE ATTACHED

It is my opinion about those "flying discs" reported seen over Kentucky, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Colorado, South Carolina and Eastern Canada that some Europe- an country is using them by filling them up with germs or highly explosive, and after a couple thousand miles they drop their contents and disappear.

63 JUL 18 1947 suggest that you keep

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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.