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This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section, compiled in 1947, collects newspaper clippings, memoranda, teletypes and letters about the summer's flying disc reports. It includes a July 1947 memo on a Grafton, Wisconsin priest's reported disc, which the Milwaukee office learned was a circular saw with wires, possibly a prank. Other items cover a disc found at Black River Falls, reports from Texas and Oregon, a San Diego memorandum on visitors, and Hoover's acknowledgments forwarding information to the War Department.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
• • •STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERN:ENT' . TO , MR. D. II. LAD, DATE: July?, 1942. Tolson .,---- Ill' , E, .I., Tam. FROM H. B. FLETC~ I ~ :::8½:~vnllr, Lad llr, N1c llr, Ro SUBJECT: llr. Tra =--- - ii:: ~_:on.___ llr. ourn:=••===== /4 V :::: ll:rnt::---- At 10:45 a.m., July?, 1947, I talked to SAC Johnson of the :::~~,=--Tele. Roo•·-=== Milwaukee Office concerning the United Press item appeari~ in the Ill' , lieU.:--- Washington Post for Mond~, July 7, with reference to a flying disc or flying sau allegedly reported to the Milwaukee Office by =~f'+Reverend Josep asky of st. Joseph's Church, Grafton, Wisconsin. SAC Johnson advised that the Associated Press and the Unittod Press between the hours 1:00 and 6:00 a.m. tod~ had made inquiry 01£ him as to whether anything had been reported to the Milwaukee Offic e, He declined to comment. He stated as a matter of fact the priest haa not made aey contact with him, and he learned from the Associated Press that the priest was intoxicated and as far as the Associated Press was concerned they were not releasing the story because all that· was involved was a circular saw. Mr. Johnson stated the Milwaukee Sentinel apparently sent the report out and that they handled United Press service. He stated a photograph of the priest was in this morning's paper holding a circular saw which apparently covers the body of the priest from arm pit to arm pit. Attached to the saw are several wires and two small tubes described as about three inches long and one inch in diameter. The news i tern in the Milwaukee Sentinel indicates it was believed some prankster had thrO\'fn it into the yard, perhaps with a firecracker attached. Mr. Johnson stated the Milwaukee Sentinel had stated the priest would make a report of this matter today to the Milwaukee Office. I instructed SAC Johnson in the event the priest made a report to furnish details of the report immediately, but in view of the nature of the information in his possession, no inquiry should be conducted at the present. HBF:cmw •
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 185 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.