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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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Ltr. CO, AAF, Wash. DC Subject: Flying Saucers wrapped with ordinary thin enameled copper wire. These coils indicate that they were skillfully made at one time but were crudely rewrapped by one not familiar with the art of making a coil. These coils also have no connection with any AMC project. 4. The fourth article is a metallic box which is the remains of an electronic filter condenser made by the Polynet Manufacturing Company of New York, N. Y. This article also has no connection with any AMC project. d. The fifth article is the remains of a metallic magnetic ring that could not be identified as any part of any device used at this command. 4. This information and attached photograph may be transmitted to the FBI to inform various agencies throughout the United States as to what action to take in the event other similar specimens are found. FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL: 1 Photo 8-1/2x11 "Flying Sancer" 1 Colonel, Air Corps Deputy Commanding General Intelligence (T-2) REGRADED UNCLASSIFIED ON NOV 06 1978 BY DEP CDR US/NSCOM FOI/PO AUTH Para 1-633 DOD 5200
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.