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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 S. O. TO : DIRECTOR, FBI FROM : SAC, SAN FRANCISCO DATE: August 28, 1947 SUBJECT: REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS 67c ATTENTION: ASSISTANT DIRECTOR D. M. LADD On August 27, 1947, Lt. Colonel A-2, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California, advised that the Area Intelligence Requirements Division Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, A-2 Headquarters, requested that one of Phoenix, Arizona, be completely interviewed in connection with a report that he had seen on July 7, 1947, what he believed were flying discs. It is supposed to have taken several pictures of the discs with a 620 Box Camera. A previous report of this reported sighting of flying discs was forwarded the Bureau on August 8, 1947. Colonel has advised that an intelligence agent of A-2 stationed at Long Beach, California, would arrive in Phoenix, Arizona, on or about September 2, 1947, and would be instructed to contact the Phoenix Field Division Office. In accordance with Bureau Bulletin No. 42, Series 1947, it is felt that an agent from the Phoenix Field Division should interview Phoenix, if he has not already been interviewed. Colonel Indicated that Mr. should, if possible, sit in on this interview. A copy of the report from A-2 dated August 4, 1947, along with three photographic prints of the pictures allegedly taken by Mr. is being enclosed for the Phoenix Field Division. WWR/jo 62-2938 2 cc Phoenix (Encl.) (AMSD) AIRMAIL SPECIAL DELIVERY RECORDED 110 & 32 14 AEG 24 1037 EX-5G 2c=R-344
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.