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, FBI DATE: September 4, 1947 FROM : SAC, San Francisco SUBJECT: REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS AIRMAIL SPECIAL DELIVERY Enclosed is a copy of a letter dated August 28, 1947, from Lt. Col. of A-2, Hamilton Field, Calif., with an attachment referring to the sighting of a flying object by Captain and his co-pilot, near Bethel, Alaska. Photostatic copies of this letter and attachment are being forwarded to the Anchorage Field Office. In accordance with Bureau Bulletin #42, dated July 30, 1947, Anchorage is requested to interview Captain and his co-pilot, preferably separately, in order to obtain all details of their reported sighting of a flying object on August 4, 1947. The San Francisco Field Office should be furnished two copies of the results of these interviews for distribution to the Sixth Army Intelligence. DWK:MR 62-2938 Encls. cc Anchorage (Encls.) AMSD RECORDED & INDEXED 62-83894-97
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.