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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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Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 65-477 TO : Director, FBI FROM : SAC, Butte SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS SIGNED BY 67C TAGOIA, WASHINGTON SECURITY MATTER - X Re Seattle tels August 7, 1947, and August 12, 1947, in the above captioned matter. viewed at the Boise Resident Agency, Boise, Idaho, by SA August 19, 1947. Mr. Baldwin advised that he received a letter from the Editor, Evenston, Illinois, dated June 26, 1947, in which Mr. Baldwin advised that he was interested in publishing an article in his magazine concerning the flying discs seen by Mr. Baldwin near Mount Rainier on June 24, 1947, which letter is being enclosed to the Bureau. Mr. Baldwin stated that he did not give much thought to the letter until he wrote him again and informed him that Mr. Baldwin had sent him fragments of a flying disc and that he would like him to go to Tacoma, Washington, and contact the Bureau to find out if there was any truth in their story about the disc fragments. He stated that he did not answer the letter, but inquired of several friends for their opinion in the matter, and that they all told him if he desired to pay his expenses to go to Tacoma, Washington, and look into this matter, that they did not see where he had anything to lose. He informed that he gave a talk at the Boise Ad Club on July 25, 1947, about the flying discs he had seen, and also of the request contained in the letter to go to Tacoma to investigate additional information regarding the finding of disc fragments by advised that following his talk, he was approached by a person who said he knew both and that they were very reliable individuals. He stated that after thinking it over, he called by telephone and at which time he informed that he would contact and investigate the matter regarding the disc fragments, if would send him $200.00 expense money. He also advised that he received $200.00 expense money from via Western Union the next morning. He informed that he left for Tacoma, Washington, via his personal plane on July 30, 1947. Upon arriving at Fendleton, Oregon, he told his story to CAA Inspector from Portland, Oregon, who advised him to go ahead with his investigation. He stated that he landed at Berry's Airport in Tacoma and obtained in room at the Winthrop Hotel. He informed that he then called 341SEV telephone to make arrangements to talk to him regarding the disc arrangements. He advised that insisted on coming to the hotel room immediately. Upon arriving at Mr. hotel room, stated that he wanted to forget about the discs as too many things had been happening to him, and advised Mr. to return home and forget about the discs. Mr. stated that he informed that he wanted to obtain all COPIES DISTRIC ED 270 NOV 18 1964 INTERNET SECURITY rivl 67c
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.