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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…
ALASKA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SIGNAL CORPS Seattle 4, Washington 19 August 1947

Subjects Matters of National Interest

Commanding General Fourth Air Force San Francisco, California

The attached letter has been received from the NCOIC of the Alaska Communication System station at Bethel, Alaska. It is submitted for your information.

For the Commanding Officers:

1 Incl Cy ltr fr NCOIC at Bethel to Hq. ACS, Seattle

/ a/ Svond C. Hansen

SVEND C. HARSEE

Captain, Signal Corps

Acting Executive

333. 5/1209-I

1st Ind

NQ FOURTH AIR FORCE, Parilton Field, California, 23 August 1947.

10: Special Agent In Charge, FBI, U. S. Department of Justice, Room 422, Federal Office Building, San Francisco, California.

Forwarded for your information.

DONALD L. SPRINGER

Lt. Colonel, GSC

AS of S, 4-2

Cases discussed

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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.