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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.

  • p. 10 …Letter to Military Intelligence Division, USA, McChord Field, Wash. from dated 8/8/47, with enclosure…
  • p. 16 …The fourth article is a metallic box which is the remains of an electronic filter condenser…
  • p. 29 …Decker added that the objects resembled a belly tank and that they were noiseless. The objects…
  • p. 30 …BRUMNETT ADDED THAT HE WATCHED THE OBJECTS FROM FIVE TO EIGHT SECONDS AT WHICH TIME THEY…
Incident

4AF 1208 X

Flying through the air I would never say a word about it", due to the fact that he has been ridiculed by the press to such an extent that he is practically a moron in the eyes of the majority of the population of the United States.

1 Incl: Exhibit "A"

FRANK M. BROWN, S/A, CIC 4th AF

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