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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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EADVONTERY FOUGHT AIR FORCE Office of the Assistant Officer of Staff. 2. Hamilton Field, California TITLE Flying Discs. FILE No. D333.5 ID (4AF-1208-1) INVESTIGATION MADE AT Palm Springs, Calif., Boise, Idaho, and Hamilton Field, California. CONTROLLING OFFICE Air Defense Command PERIOD COVERED From 10 Jul 47 to 18 Jul 47 CASE CLASSIFICATION Incident STATUS OF CASE Pending REASON FOR INVESTIGATION: Investigation initiated at the request of Headquarters Air Defense Command reference letter Headquarters Air Defense Command, dated 7 July 47, File D333.5 ID, subject: Investigation of Flying Discs. SYNOPSIS: Flying discs first reported in this area 24 June 1947 near Mt. Rainier, Wash., by (Incl 1, Exhibit A) 66 Unidentified object reported 2 July 1947 at approximately 1277 near Boise, Idaho. Idaho Daily Statesman. (Incl 2, Exhibit B) 66 Unidentified objects reported by United Air Lines Pilot, 4 July 1947, eight minutes out of Boise, Idaho. (Incl 3 MOIC, Incl 7 News Clippings dated 5 July 1947) Record check of law enforcement agencies, public utilities, and local residences revealed no record of activity in Palm Springs. (Incl 4) 66 Unidentified objects reported 8 July 1917 at 1245, traveling northeast over Hamilton Field by (Incl 5, Exhibit I) Unidentified objects reported over Grand Canyon, Arizona, 0910 MST by USF (Incl 6) and in vicinity of Lake Mead by Hq Tenth Air Force, Brooks Field, Texas. (Incl 6). Extent of publicity in local area indicated by press clippings. (Incl 7) DISTRIBUTION COPIES APPROVED: AAF 2 ADC 1 4AF Files 1
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.