Documents / FOIA release
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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TO : Director, FBI DATE: September 20, 1947 FROM : SAG, Chicago -SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS Informant 67C Reference is made to your letter dated August 11, 1947 in the above captioned matter. , McHenry County, Woodstock, Illinois, advised that he had received no reports of flying discs in the community of Lily Lake, Illinois. He further stated that he had no record or knowledge of of Lily Lake. , Lily Lake, Illinois, advised that he was personally acquainted with whom he described as a successful writer of mystery stories. He said he had no information to the effect that SHAVER was mentally unsound and he believed him to be a substantial citizen. advised she had sold property to her on two occasions and was well acquainted with her and his wife. She knew of no derogatory information concerning him. was interviewed at Lily Lake, Illinois and advised that he was the featured writer of mystery stories for a magazine, which magazine is edited by Chicago, Illinois. At the outset stated that PALLEN had told him the FBI would contact him regarding flying discs. indicated that the telegram received by the War Department, referred to in referenced letter, was probably sent by one of his readers, unknown to him. He said that he wrote mystery stories based on his firm conviction that under the earth are various caverns formerly inhabited by a super race, who have since fled to other planets. This region of caverns he calls Lemuria. He stated he believes there is valuable machinery and other resources in these caverns. He therefore explained flying discs, which he calls "space ships", as the mode of travel of the Lemurians coming from other planets to reclaim the valuable machinery. He indicated that his theories had aroused a wide following among readers of the magazine. exhibited an article from an edition of the "Chicago Times" for Sunday, August 5, 1947. The article stated that on June 24, 1947, on Murray Island, off the Washington Coast, there had occurred a mysterious explosion which was believed to have been caused by a guided missile or rocket. It further stated that the date of the explosion was the same date on which one KLNNECHHAROLD, a private pilot, sighted the first flying disc at Boise, Idaho. 510CT1947 COPIES DESTROYED 270 NOV 18 1964 SEP 24 1974 RECORDED & INDEXED
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. 77 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.