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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L. R. Brummett. Sid Decker. Flying Discs. Internal Security August Fourteen Nineteen Fortyseven Seattle Post Intelligence Published Article to Effect that L. R. Brummett, Box Two Five Four Redmond, Wash, and Sidney Decker Box Two Nine Six Redmond, Washington had sighted two discs at approximately nine am August Thirteen Nineteen Fortyseven. Upon interview Decker stated that two very bright objects traveling at an extreme rate of speed were noticed by him as he was standing near the Redmond Post Office. Decker described the objects as having no wings, no tail, and both ends were tapered. Decker added that the objects resembled a belly tank and that they were noiseless. The objects were very bright and traveling in a northeasterly direction over Redmond, Washington, one bit behind and a little above the other, maintaining equal rates of speed for approximately eight seconds at which time they disappeared from view. Decker added that they were higher than a plane generally travels. Brummett advised that he noticed the objects and called Deckers attention to them and also pointed them out to a Mrs Mamie English. Brummett stated that he saw two objects flying at a forty-five degree angle northeasterly over Redmond and EASTERLY OVER REDMOND AND RECORDED ! 62 - 83 894 - EX-42 34 SEP 23 1947
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.