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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. 34 …charts of this area, although Arnold has never consulted aeronautical charts of the type the Army…
  • p. 35 Incident 4AF 1208 X Flying through the air I would never say a word about it…
  • p. 40 …URIE and his two boys maintained that they had never before seen one of the disos…
  • p. 52 …Brown and Captain Davidson, however, they were never contacted. He further stated that he and Press…
  • p. 53 …informed that never returned, and that they were unable to locate at any of the telephone…
  • p. 61 …I never asked nor noted any notoriety for just accidentally being in the right spot at…
  • p. 62 …I watched those of the first hand as I had never before observed them. Trying to…
  • p. 66 …I will never be without one, but I can still cherish it every day. This is…
This is a copy of the same letter I sent to Colon General . Wright Fuld Bayton Ole

July 29, 1927

JIN MATL

Benson, Illinois

Dear Mr.

I am enclosing the material you requested together with photo reps, and also a sketch of your life history.

COPY

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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.