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This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section collects 1947 records on flying disc reports, including field office memoranda from Butte, Seattle, Salt Lake City and San Francisco on sightings in Washington, Montana, Utah and Idaho. Several were attributed to burnt paper or weather balloons, and Wright Field judged debris from a Danford, Illinois farm a hoax unconnected to Project Mogul. After the Army Air Forces described FBI work as chasing "ash can covers, toilet seats and whatnot," the Bureau discontinued its flying disc investigations and referred reports to the Air Forces.
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Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO DIRECTOR, FBI FROM : SAC, SEATTLE DATE: September 13, 1947 SUBJECT: FLYING DISC SIGHTED July 29, 1947, near CANYON FERRY, MONTANA. BY SECURITY MATTER - X 67C Enclosed herewith for information of Bureau and Butte Division are copies of the following received September 2, 1947, from Air Force, S-2, McChord Field, Washington: Letter to Military Intelligence Division, USA, McChord Field, Wash. from dated 8/8/47, with enclosure of "Report on a 'Flying Saucer'." ELB:hg 100-18945 Enclosures - 2 cc: Butte
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. 77 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.