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.
“United Press”8 pages
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
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.