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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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T. H. Burkow INSPECTOR rof POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF THE CHIEF INSPECTOR OFFICE OF INSPECTOR Chicago 7, Illinois September 19, 1947. LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS: Alloged violation of Section 2350, P. L. & R., by the Arc Foundation; sale of information or flying discs. Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D. C. Gentlemen; ## b7c The subject involved in case of above description is formerly of Lake Forest, Illinois, who may also have given a Chicago address at various times. Can you advise whether you have a record of this man and if so, will you please forward a copy of same to me. Sincerely yours, T. N. Barker Post Office Inspector. thus RECORDS INDEX 62-83 8911-120 the H.R.H.
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.