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 ; FROM ; Director, FBI = Attention; Assistant Director D. M. LADD DATE: July 28, 1947 SAC, San Francisco There is transmitted herewith for the information of the Bureau 67C a report received from Lieutenant A-2, Hamilton Field, California, containing the results of an investigation by his office concerning the reported sighting of flying discs. FLYING DISCS In addition to containing the detailed descriptions of what was allegedly seen by several persons, the Bureau's attention is particularly called to the first memorandum setting forth the notes of Agent CIC, Fourth Air Force, concerning an interview he had with Mr. Box 387, Boise, Idaho, who reported that on July 12, 1947 he had seen nine strange objects flying over the Cascade Mountain Range of Washington State. It will be noted that CIC Agent reports that Mr. is very outspoken and somewhat bitter in his opinions of the leaders of the United States Army Air Forces and the FBI for not having made an investigation of this matter sooner." The thought has occurred to me that the Bureau might desire to have an agent of the Butte Office contact Mr. and explain to him our lack of jurisdiction in such matters. EMK:emb Enclosure their own 10-83894-95
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.