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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. 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
I established my own fire control supply known as the Great Eastern Fire Control Supply. I have been working as an independent fire control engineer since, and I have, distribuite, call and install all types of automatic and manual fire fighting equipment in the rural areas, western states.

My flying experience started as a boy in Minot, North Dakota, where I took my first flying lesson from who was originally from Minot, North Dakota. After completing the lesson, I continued my flying and did not fly any great concessions until 1917. I was given my pilot certificate by a senior GM in Portland, Oregon, and for the last three years have owned my own airplane covering my entire territory with some and flying from forty to one hundred hours per month since. Due to the fact that I use an airplane entirely in my work, in January of this year I purchased a new, civilian airplane, which is an airplane designed for high altitude and short rough field usage.

In the type of flying I do, it takes a great deal of practice and judgment to be able to land in most any conditions and get out of the injuring your airplane; the runways are very limited and the altitudes vary high in some of the fields and places I have to go in any case. In fact, I have landed in 623 cow premises in Montana recently, and in over a thousand hours a flat tire has been my greatest mischap.

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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.