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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# Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : DIRECTOR, FEI DATE: August 27, 1947 FROM : SAC, SAN FRANCISCO SUBJECT: PASPORTS OF FLYING DISCO ATTENTION: ASSISTANT DIRECTOR D... LADD Colonel Barker, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California, telephonically advised special agent of the San Francisco Office at 10:40 am on August 27, 1947, that a personal letter had been received by his organization from city editor of the Seattle Times, which stated in effect that because there were so many stories going around relative to flying discs and related matters, and that his staff of reporters had been attempting to get reliable information concerning such stories, he was writing to inquire whether any governmental agency was going to make an official statement relative to the situation pertaining to the flying discs; that also asked whether it would be permissible for his reporters to interview relative to the situation. 67C Colonel stated that the above-mentioned letter was answered personally by General on August 25, 1947, and advised sir. that as far as the Army Air Force was concerned, they had no information which would definitely clear up the situation; that as far as interviewing persons, they could feel free to interview whosoever be desired, in that there was no censorship at the present time; that in the interest of economy, the Fourth Air Force headquarters would not run out every lead or report of flying discs, but that if well-founded and apparently reliable information were received, that such information would be given attention. A copy of this Letter is being forwarded to the Seattle Field Division for any action deemed advisable. 62-2939 D k/jo 2 cc Seattle ATM AIL OR JAIL DELIVERY 1 6 2 - 8 3 8 9 4 = 9 9 SEP 1987
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.