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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 04

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 77 pages · text by OCR

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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  • p. 2 …FLYING DISCS SIGHTED MAY 5, 1947 BETWEEN ELLENSBURG AND SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 22112 Montana State Prison, Doer…
  • p. 6 …NICHOLS, Seattle, Washington, August 12, 1947 SECURITY MATTER X The newspaper, Seattle Post Intelligencer, carried an…
  • p. 7 …Other witnesses who had seen the object at this time were a Seattle, and their version…
  • p. 10 …SAC, SEATTLE DATE: September 13, 1947 SUBJECT: FLYING DISC SIGHTED July 29, 1947, near CANYON FERRY…
  • p. 29 …Internal Security August Fourteen Nineteen Fortyseven Seattle Post Intelligence Published Article to Effect that L. R…
  • p. 48 …NEWSPAPER SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER CARRIED ARTICLE ON AUGUST TWELVE OF REPORT OF FLYING DISCS SEEN BY…
  • p. 49 …FLYING DISCS SIGNED BY 67C TAGOIA, WASHINGTON SECURITY MATTER - X Re Seattle tels August 7, 1947…
  • p. 51 …He stated he flew to Seattle and got and that Lieutenant BROWN and Captain DAVIDSON had…
  • p. 54 …JEJ:FPNc Encs. (REGISTERED) AIR MAIL SPECIAL DELIVERY cc - Seattle
Mono to the Security Officer, OCAMA, Tinker Field, dtd 7/20/47, File 3724-1.

stated that there were no protrusions on this object and as it went by he listened for a sound of noise, and at one time thought he distinguished a swishing sound like the rushing of air. This swishing sound occurred a few seconds after this object had passed him. Everred this sound was not very loud and did not last very long, and it is very possible that the sound could have been his imagination or expectation, as he was not sure of the sound. Related that he called his wife to see this object but it had disappeared before she could focus her eyes on it. Subject stated that the object appeared to diminish in size and speed as it moved away, and it was moving in a direction of 350° to the north. Subject/ stated that the object appeared to be frosty white in color at all times.

advised that he has held a pilot's certificate since 1934 and has been flying since 1929. He advised that he would be glad to answer any further inquiries and will cooperate in every way possible. stated he was sure this object was not a meteor and in his opinion it must be radically built and powered, probably atomic.

KALMAN D. SIMON C.I. U.S. Army

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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.