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[PAGE 1] aji4 Siqy Guypuey ui aeg asp LOVE IleQ Jojsuell +539 LO 115d ISSELZ#VdI0S ACMISAG SERIALS 1452 La oP [PAGE 2] Mr Tolson es A Yamn Clegg Coffey Glaviz NicHolg pbard Rosen Sal racy Mm About Saucers Carson aig ra Py Egan Ss Piiest Finds ‘Whirring’ Dise ys Peminsve In Yard and Holds It for FBI Quinn Chicago July W.P.—A_Catho- FBI_office said_he hadn’t_heard ris at an offi- lie priest at Grafton Wis said lfonight tha round tMetat~ttse he avi je one Ort er Sea ap egapepeltonk beamae ster ported “seen” by persons in 30 States but Brasky's dise was the al est that actually had been tee found—if that is what wen found peak of Sti His report came few hours Dreads Baten ag iter a military plane made an ghiles nofth of Milwaukee said he Unsuccessful speed dash in an ate noise this rea seen A pa oy sought to ascertait whether coas)- bargs sen heard a thud and @isocoast reports about the discs ee erate Bares ee oe through the sky were fact pink or fancy sheet metal disc about 18 inches in come planes scoured the Se diameter resembling cirenlPt west Pacific skies for them without aire pg RS nm Storess today and one “eyewitness” lwel hed pee res or five Si ee reported having seen one of al A welg Pp S\the discs take off in Arizona A Ni jand was about one eighth of anjs Louis railroad man exhibited a ene about one Sere fk we ccc gh pooh agate €lseen floating over St Louis ‘inch in diameter in the middle a the dise he said and in the open- The flying saucers which have i rar were gadgets and some|been reported skimming through wires.” aT The priest said he did not Ino et te oon UR his discovery were important Tae e's be on we eee whether it might be an elab- oat be ye ar aaa Ae mate practical joke He said he a be ek Ree Oh iy Sad notified the FBL_o Forces public relations st Johnson of the Milwaukee See SAUCERS Page Col a ee ae aa 4DA WASHHINGTON posit Page [PAGE 4] #GFRS—From Pag Priest Finds‘ I Yard and Holfs lsaid the Army Airways Communi- jeations Service had reported Jate yesterday that so far its radar scopes throughout the country jhave been unable to pick up any strange objects in flight And in the Pacific Northwest— where most of the fly-happy plat- ‘ters have been reportéd—the Army has radar equipment which can pierce fog and darkness and pick up objects in the sky 200 miles away Even so Brown acknowledged that the Air Forces had decided “there's something to this” and had been checking it for 10 days “And we still haven't the slight- est idea what they could be,” he added And a new wrinkle—the report- ed landing of a fleet of eight skim- ming platters—was reported from Idaho in ful view of 10 persons A Dishman Idaho housewife said she and others in her party had seen the saucers land on a moun- tainside near St Maries Idaho he said they came into view at argextreme speed suddenly slowed afd then “fluttered like leaves to tye ground.” “The mysterious part was th we couldn't see them after th landed,” she said them flutter down Into the timb yet we couldn't see that they did ‘anything to the trees.” She said she hoped to hike into the timber tomorrow and search for the objects which she said were saucer-shaped but resembled wash- tubs mofe than disks and were “about the size of a five-room house.” Locally Hazen Kennedy of 2615 4th st ne reported he had seen one passing over the Northeast section of the city at about 8:40 Pp ported over the District although others have been reported over nearby Maryland Kennedy who has 125 hours flying time as a student pilot in the Army Air Forces to his credit said he believed the saucer he had seen was traveling at “well over” 1000 miles an hour at an altitude of between 1200 and 1500 feet “The best way I can describe it,” said Kennedy “was that it looked like an orange lamp bulb without the socket It was going faster than any jet plane I've ever seen.” gin Hagerstown Md Mrs Ma Ganoe 30 said she had sec of the dises racing in 2-1 rmation at “terrific speed,” fro backporch “They sounded Iii a faraway train,” she said “We could sep This would be the first one re- jin the wake or wese ‘iness came a new serie comments and explanations but most of them were tinged with a slight tendency to laugh off the whole thing Dr Winfred Overholser nation ally known psychiatrist and super- intendent of St Elizabeths Hos- pital here said it “has some of the earmarks of being national hys- teria.” “Everytime someone comes up with a sea-serpent story,” said Dr Overholser “others with vivid imaginations are sure they hav@ seen the same thing “The critical faculty In man the last one he received is still not ivery well developed Scratch the surface and you find the same mass hysteria which predominated dur- ling the witchcraft scare Some persons are quite ready to sec things and follow beliefs.” Dr Overholser said that when he made his rounds of the mental patients yesterday at St Eliza- heths not a one commented on the flying saucers stony think they may be a little skeptical,” he added However Dr Overholser said he wésn't trying to dismiss the matter ag a joke “because there are so ny strange things going on to- that one can’i be sure.” Mgi Alexander de Seve nofd aircraft designer told ny he said Howard Blakeslee “Agsock- erties Press science editor said the ‘whole business may be an optical’ ‘illusion a he “At any distance which is close to ‘the limit of how far a person lean see,” he wrote “all objects appear cound or nearly so Th’s law of sight covers both smal thifes seen nearby and large fs at great distances i “The one outstanding fact about virtually all the saucers is that they had no structure they seemed merely round and flat That description fits exactly with the tricks that eyes play This trickiness varies with differences in weather and lighting.” However Nova Hart St Louls mechanic who was trained during service in the war to spot all types of aircraft yesterday offered a minute description of one of the flying patterns which he claimed he saw flying at an altitude of about 300 feet Reporter Sees One He described it as circular with a ribbed framework and silver gray in color He said it appeared to have a motor with a propeller attached in the center and that it kept turning like an airplane do- ing a slow roll “Although many explanations have been offered none has been Po§t by telephone from New York c€nvincing A Los Angeles news th ment.” He agreed with Dri Overholser that much if not all of the story may be because of hysteria “After all,” he said “we are more or less an hysterical Nation Major de SeversKy said it was pos- sible that the persons who claim to have seen the aerial discs have instead glimpsed the exhaust of jet-propelled plants He conceded too,‘ that they might be guided missiles let loose as part of an experiment but added don’t think the Government would fire them so promiscuously They would test them in one spot in an isolated area like they did the atomic bomb.” Maj Gen Curtis LeMay who as Deputy Chief of Air Staff for esearch and Development would ‘know if the saucers involved ex- periments with guided missiles commented “Whatever these people have seen it hasn't been anything re sulting from experiments by the Ariny Air Forces As for as I'm concerned there's nothing to it ooalt The whole is raayMcor w|fP until he sees a flying saucer p§per quoted an unnamed nucleay he “wouldn't like to pass judg- ysicist as saying the silvery disc ulted from experiments in thf “fransmutation of atomie energy.” i This report was rapidly herded jinto the hoax column by David Lilienthal chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and several rominent atomic scientists Starr Expects Word Louis FE Starr national com- mander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars announced Saturday at Co- lumbus Ohio that he was expect- ing “momentarily” information from Washington which would ex- plain the dashing discs But the message never arrived The Air Forces said that Gen Carl Spaatz Air Forces chief was in the Pacific Northwest where most of the saucers have been re- ported but added that his trip there was planned ‘two months ‘ago long before the saucers scare General Spaatz is expected back in Washington late tomorrow Muroe Army Air Field in Call- fornia hada P-80 jet fighter stands’ ing by and the National Guard if @regon had prepared six regu fighters to give chase should saucers be reported nearby [PAGE 5] UNITED STAT [PAGE 6] Ape ee vie wg oe Canad Zp Strid Bl’ tg op id [PAGE 8] MISCELLANEOUS [PAGE 9] RECEIVE TELET ype UNi FB DES i RECEIVED LIAISON SEC TION [PAGE 10] Ee yy me BY SPECIAL MESSENGER August 1947 Director of Intelligence War Department General Staff The Pentagon Washington 25 Attention Colonel Forney Chief Security Group John Edgar Hoover Director Federal Bureau of Investigation FRED REIBOLD There are attached hereto copies of a letter received from the above-captioned individual together with copies of a newspaper gtipping enclosure concerning flying discs Mr Reibold's letter has been acknowledged and-he has been advised that gopies of his letter have been furnished to you for your consideration [PAGE 11] Ltdliciep lon rai Oe ee Fa vee HG ae LIEZ £02 fMM PALA Penn rately dig Bt rae of Gat hos eth IIS Yhinete the AO GALL pee hi Ml S35 ay Lite DRXED Yo Sh Ae~Z [PAGE 15] ne’s Pipe Dr “flyin Saucer” that 2319 Himebaugh Avenue Monday eve was ee Pipe but “ashes from Somebody's dream,” So says Dr Kenny of ber chemistry de ie [PAGE 16] fier joke lar wa0 atltiing ab athe threes Si Ditches ns ete es a Che tte eotly [PAGE 19] fy JUL IBS 79 at eet [PAGE 20] July 11 1947 Dear Sirs Have you seen one of the mysterious Saucers What did it look like Do you think these strange celestial manifesta- tions are harbingers of a better day Do you believe it means that a new and revolutionary advance is coming Will it make your life brighter happier more useful We believe one of these startling discs is on its way to you Then the secret will be out The Combined and Amalgamated Committee of Sky-Scanners Dise Decipherers and New-Product Introducers [PAGE 23] [PAGE 24] STANDARD FORM NO 64 a bod Office Memorandum onirep states GOVERNMENT bY To MR D.M wang DATE July 194 FROM FLETCHER SUBJECT ie At 10:45 aeme July 1947 I talked to SAC Johnson of the Milwaukee Office concerning the United Press item appearing in the Washington Post for Monday July with reference to a flying disc or flying oa icasky of reported to the Milwaukee Office by Sf abate dal tab bata Reverend JoseplkBrasky of St Joseph's Church Grafton Wisconsin SAC Johnson advised that the Associated Press and the Unitéed Press between the hours 1:00 and 6:00 asm today had made inquiry of him as to whether anything had been reported to the Milwaukee Offices He declined to comment He stated as a matter of fact the priest had- not made any 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 item in the Milwaukee Sentinel indicates it was believed some prankster had thrown 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 Er Bt HEF cmw os i 58 JUL 2,94 [PAGE 25] dhe Hd?@S tp MLSAP 30 “1d30 S"r 40444 [PAGE 26] ROOM yp SuINGTO [PAGE 34] J-TIMES CENTS PER COPY No 91 2et Home Boy Winner In isay Contest he second time in the past of menths a Sweet Home has bronght hener to his nity ‘by winning literary holastie acelaim ‘st to achieve himself was du Anthony Matusek Yoa- High Sehool graduate who a schelarship to A and ‘we Now word reaches ns Dennis Brenek eleven-year- son of Mr and Mrs Ed ek of Sweet Home has been ided-a prize of-a $25 Savings lin the KTRH Farm Essay ést amis won sixth place with bis on the subject ‘‘How Radio Best Serve the Farm and Farm Home.’ In commenting this éssay George Roesner tH Farm and Ranch Director di “Your essay contained vy @xeellant ideas whieh we et te use in future farm pro- ‘mning contests is nothing to Dennis who in 1946 won istered pig with ap essay ed in the Sears-Roebuek con- Again in February 1947 he od a calf in the Hallettsville Cluh Show and out of 12 awarded he took fifth Brenek is Sweet Home's nistress Growing ateurs’ Display cellent Form akum softball teams showed of good playing in the gomes ‘dat the Bulldez Stadiuni week teams organized by var- méschanis und concerns in Are compose of members amatenr standing who have some previons experience with I-lok or seheol ball playing vever some of the players shown such expert ball dling and sportsmanship that hard to believe they are nol ‘essionals ont ef place The chants Who organized these ng ue certainly deine their toward providing recreation lilies for the young people of eommunhity aud are to be iplithented on their fine work er mérehants or concerns who to orgemize a team may all the particulars from ph MeMaster af the Firestone te on Lott Street or from MeClendon at Lack’s oviate Store on West Grand boys or men wishing to play one of the teams may make ‘heation at the Firestone Store k's Rehan’s Service Station Hamilton’s Jewelry Store de- ding on the playor's choice of eam to play with There is plenty of room fer good vers 80 anyone interested is ed to contact one of these nS nly one game is definitely eduled for next week and that Monday night when The Fire ue Store will tangle with the wales Dr Peppers ‘Tuesday bt Lack's Associate Store will bug their opponent has not named yet Also on Thurs- eight the Firestone team will dn play a game but no tearm been stated to oppese them On Friday night of this week fame will bs plawed but ‘the ns who will participate have heen listed yet hese games will start about each aight Eyervyone is in- to eome and cheer tor his No admission will he charg- CURITY MAN BE HERE 26 aes Hl Davis field representa- San Antonio Social Seen- ttiee will be in Yoakum at ty Hall at-$:30 aam Wed- July 23 1947 for the FIRST ITS FLYING DISKS NOW ITS “FIRE BALLS” PEOPLE SEE A lot ef Texans are disk gust- ad with the flying saucers but ethers are just plain disk-turbed Flying halls of fire circled a wide area around Palestine and some nerroes believing the end of the world was near begau praying A white man grabbed a rifle and shot at the myster- ious objects Sheriff Panl Stanford of An- derson ‘County deseribed them as orange basketballs of fire Revealing Flying Disk Data May Bring Prosecution Anyone willfully communieat- ing ulormation bearing on the defense er seewrite of the nation even im time of peace is subjeet to a fine of $10,000 and imprisonment of 10 years aceord- ing to Assistant United States District Attorney Joseph Cash If the present mystery of fly- ing disks are connected with ra- dar or guide missile experiments the law might apply he said The law applies whether the information is released aecident- ally ‘‘through gross negligence,’’ or ‘with intent to injure the nited States or aid aome foreign nation,’’ aceording to the act The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 provides even stricter penalties for revealing information Mr lash said Publie Law 585 of the Seventy-Ninth Congress préeides death or life imprisonment after dug process of law for disclosing atomic information with intent to injure the United States For aceidental disclosures a tite of up to $20,000 and iin- prisonment up to 20 years are provided Mx Cash pointed out ie Gas Truck Hits Local Station A ptatainer fraifer truck of the Texas Consolidated Transport Co ran into a heavy pipe upright in troni of Rohan’s Service Station Monday dome some damage to the station and more to the truck The trek was ceming from town along West Grand and turned into the station As the driver ent the cab back te swing the trailer inte position the cab skidded ‘into the steel pipe root support on the right of the track bending it considerably The truck itself suffered a bent bum- per and a smashed fender A gasoline pump diréctly behind the upright was net damaged by the erash Lions To Make Farmer Award The Lions Club has announced that at its regular noon meeting Tuesday July 15th it will pre- sent to Lee Pargmann of Ronte the plaque for the Ontstanding Farmer for the Middle Guadalupe Basin Soil Conservation District The plaque is given each veax to the farmer from eaeh conser- vation distriet who has eontribut- ed most to the soil conservation projects in the particular district The award is spongored by a nuni- ber of organizations among thom the Lions Clubs of the various towns Sinee the Lions do play an active part in sponsorme this ward the loeal club is given the privilege of presenting the plaque to Mr Pargmann Representatives of the Soil Con- servation Service will be present to make short congratulatory and explanatory speeches on the giv- ing of the annual award purpose of receiving claims and discussing Old Age and Survivors Instance with all who wish to contaet him Davis will not be able to tur nish information concerning Old home Sho Age Assistance pensions I was the first time the aerial objects were reported in that rea Residents of the Brushy Creek community 15 miles north- east of Palestine called Sheriff Stanford about 8:30 last night saying 12° balls were flying in a straight line over the community Then they reported the halls formed a eircle which began moy- ing toward Palestine By hundreds of Pales- tine spectators reported seeing as many as three balls in the sky at once moving in a eirele Sher- iff Stanford discounted any sug- gestion that the balls originated from a spotlight Bud Everett druggist chased them for a hetter view He said they finally disappeared abont abi Mrs Horace Valentina said she saw two perfectly round that “nearly seared me to when they over ‘hee Mey seomiad be playing with each other way they jumped around Her husband and Lee Chavers shot a box of 22 rifle ballets without any effect on the objects Mrs Valentine said neighhor- ing neero families thought the world was coming to an end and began praying as the balls of fire gamboled overhead Mrs Lorens Shrader Big Springs reported she saw a fiery ved ball streaking overhead Jast night Mrs Marian Reed faim wife found what she believed was part of a flying disk Tt landed in her back yard while she was hanging ouf the clothes yester after- noon She admitted she was frightened She deseribed it ag a round piece of tinfoil -inek- es wide scorched or burned Be round the edges Both sides were shiny but one side was marked with black stenciled lines anar- ter-ineh apart said oy tin- foil dvopped straight down front the sky She lifted it with a stick iit it in a tin can and drove five miles to Gunter 20 miles south- west of Sherman Scores erowdéd about to see it At Melissa Collin County Mrs Marie Killian and Mis Kay Craft reported seeing a strange object at 8:40 yesterday Chavles Calhoun and his fath- er Calhoun prominsiit Grayson County farmers said they saw a disk yesterday Bote Sherman Cuero Residents See Flying Disc Cuero has Jean prodidéd id first flying dise It was reported by Mrs Haak of 410 Stockdale street and both she and her husband saw it However Mrs Haak’s flynig dise is ne particular mystery her She thinks she Knows just what caused it It was simply a reflection fhort an airplane she said Sitting on the porch with har husband abont pm Sunday Mrs Haak said she heard a strange noise from the sky and leoked up Seon an airplane came into view high in the clouds was very small but pleinly dis- cernable as a plane she Said ft was comimg from the east Soon it turned north and just after that a perfeet dise Was vis- ible some distance from where the plane disappeared into the clouds The dise appeared bri anid very silvery Tt appei to Be smaller in sizé than ordinary steering wheel of a car Mrs Haak reperted Tt seemed ta be ‘floating across the heavans She ealled her husband’s at- tention to it They both saw it After about five seconds the dise was gone The plane and the sound disappeared Mrs Haak is convineed tha flying saucer was reflected from the airplane Tins theory also lias been advanced by others The flying dise mystery has the nation in a dither with reports coming from all sections on the strange objects Mrs Haak’s ex- planation is as reasonable as any yet put forth and may be the solution to the ‘‘pheuomenon,”’ [PAGE 35] SCE TWO Yoakum Ve SDF TET ETI IE BY THE WAY By mM CN DS SSS OLS DOD John Lewis calls the new labor law a “slave law” The big trusts had undoubt- Se Somtoidated Oct 25 1943 Baby ne ane dee bees bine Sdbseription Rave —$9.50 anti-trust laws when first Published every Tuesday and Fri- introduced And what are ths BS Dati ia ey nisrning $10-812 Lott St trusts compared to the harm Soskiis Texas a th a Gevesug- davach he unions can do with their strikes Counties anterc as secund-class matter at the Post Off:ce Dee Texas mder the Act of March 1897 WHEN ADVERTISING CIRCU- LATION COUNTS TRY THE HERALD- caer YOAKUM Owned Ly WMALEG PUBLISHING CS JOSEPH MALEC Editor-Manager Laigest guaranteed circulation of ‘ny publication in this section seraid Est and DeWitt En a If the aew labor laws are “slave jaws” so are the anti-trust laws and aay other laws for the protec- tien of people against POLITICAL buses by any group So far the people were utterly ANNOUNCEMENTS helpless against the labor For Senator 18th Dist i power JOHN BELL MORRIS ROBERTS Ba Such labor Lewis Petrillo others have a far greater power to harm this country than the British King ever had This is just las untolerable today as it WE SPECIALIZE Whisktes Wines dictators as HOW CaN Norman Thomas debate about Russia mas questions gave seriously ques ested in world ‘domina ing to rehabilitate the says Wallace just What happened Hungary and what country should be what the Reds say i “And once Bea ference ketween the of Hitler Germany in government strue What Hitler stc simple and far mort age But when Russia the same As to Russian tac they don’t differ greai When independence is and maintained in Gree ing to Wallace’s reasor But since the Ree mocracy it’s very simy to suit the purpose Es Moscow’s fifth column was then pa Last Sunday was for the British a national Day ‘ot Prayer The king with Prime Minister Aitiee and other government leaders went to St Paul’s 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same’ seriousness mitted threugh Pioneer the British people with their the Cheyrolet dealer in tt leaders manifested last Sun- day For we cannot escape it whieh is located in our’Sa ity Zene ‘The winner's prize of We »Advance-Design Chevrolet Tt cannot be aid anymore will be presented to Mn that the stories of the “fly- bs Chevrolet Motor Divisi ins disks” is meze fiction Mote than “e000 Ch trucks were entered fro One disk was found by a)iion ge the ‘natien iid Pelly man near Houston On road publie interest ah it was a warning about its|dudéd more than 50-1919 still in operation may of Army Air Force at Spokane Were manufactured only notified at ‘months after the winning The large nember of jtrucks entered in the séare Jerap wes thevquality wane bility of Chevrolet trices Washington be once BA So the mysterious disks are not messengers from Mars or some other star Nor are they missiles which Red Russia is al- ready showering upon us Phey are our own secrets with which our armed forces are experimenting What propels them How far can they fly What is their purpose —That is a mighty secret Ey It isa French paper in could destroy all of Paris or Moscow This is also con- firmed by Robert Hut- ching of the University of goes on here We can thank only the good Providence that this immense power is in our hands a FE OH Writes John Fisher in his Russians” ‘Officially religion is still regarded as a deplorable superstition and church-goers can never hope to gain admittance to the Communist Party.” Fon Yet what do yeu find in this country?*—E'ven cer- tain church leaders have only praise for the very rele which excludes a Christian but they con- demn their fellow Chris- tians instead of the Reds [PAGE 36] MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS This Paper Is Connected With NCWGC Washington News Headquarters by Direct Leased Wire Has International News Service Daily Wires Its Ow Special Service Religious News Service Inter-Catholic Press Agency Lumen Service of ‘ina Fides Service Religious News Photos International Illustrated News NCWC Picture Service Photo Features ALAMO REGISTE Name Registered in the Patent Office [PAGE 37] Speaking at Castelgandolfo his summer home Pius XII asserted that the world today has men who ignore not only the Church but the “very rudiments of religion itself men who-see no evil in evil deeds and lust and would spurn “the primary norms of morals and jus- tice;” “there are cynics who would deride holy things and weak men who would permit these offenses TO Passes joc” Despite this turmoil His Holi- ness said “there are great rays of hope and fields white with har- vest for those who labor to bring Christ to the world.” He stressed the oath of the Jesuits which en- ables them to bring spirit pre- pared and prompt to obey in all things the true Spouse of Christ our holy Mother Church.” In another audience held for the Most Rev Emmanuel Suarez O.P and the Dominicans who elected [PAGE 38] DEF COMM Tu wu17 47/46 EXTRA COLLECT a WASHDC SAN MARCOX TEX JULY 1947 714P CHECK FILES IN INVENTORS COUNCIL FOR DRAWING OF MULTI-APRING CATAPULT THIS INVENTION SENT BY ME TO WAR DEPARTMENT IN 1945 POSSIBLE LEAKAGE OF INFORVATION HAS RESULTED MY DEVICE OR VARIATION THERE FROM COULD CONCIEVABLY CATAPULT A DISC AND IN SILENCE FOR SEVERAL MILES 2ROORDED WOODSON COPE CLIFFSIDE HALL a Wa 941P 1945 [PAGE 40] ETAMOYRD FORM NO 64 Office snp Medeor UNITED es GOVERNMENT TO FROM SUBJECT RECORDED INDEXED A pur [PAGE 42] SYMBOLS ee he filing time Ww Jia MiG at of orig Tix receip STAN ay letters is STANDARD TIM Doin a NDA 47 JUL Gop Es “WU [PAGE 44] fice Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FROM SUBJECT Informant There is being attached hereto a received from the above individual in furnished concerning a disc ax Ln1iS ACTION that this that this hat that War Departme order vne un they mz Attachment DATE 7-10-h7 Western Union telegram information been acknowledg de ch telegram has containe [PAGE 46] Wiewes toward ateecough and Gis@ppeared i me St bi she said It was flying high and eS auCer Ortes appeared illuminated according to Mrs Hoffman “It looked like a smal meat plat- Le Ss oun ter,” Mrs Hoffman asserted perme Glenn Rowden of Detroit claimed ale he saw a “saucer,” about 50 inches Tries to Call FBI Man” in diameter over Billy Mitchel field i riest Hears a Bang af at 10:05 p.m when he alighted from Father Brasky said he did not an airplane He said it was in sight bother to show the disk to any of his Discovers a ircul ar parishioners Sunday He tried to in scone BI With th telephone an FBI agent whom he Humphrey who baie ade i ee With his wife in a quonset hut at Knows but was unable to reach him 3443 20th st telephoned police Sunday he added Asked whether her Disks ‘Seen at p.m Sunday that hewadAMdss Ot it could have been the work of a Humphrey had seen a slightly illu- fee practical joker Father Brasky re- i Picture on Picture Page plied “Could be I don’t know.” #inated disk which appeared to fall frre “what is it?” which Father)” The aisk apparently of steel had Men Bue AE Sbigh reheat Jpseph Brasky said he found early a one and three-eighth inch*hdle in i nday on the lawn of St Joseph’s Catholic church in Grafton may He of wires was attached what looked Changed Color He Says Just another gadget to add to Fa- like a small condenser about three Erwin Rottman 1328 19th ther Brasky’s already sizable col-;|inches long The condenserlike ob- ai pi Pe i Nias claimed he saw three of them flyi lection Jects were wrapped in black tape through the air in a northweste ly Those who saw it Sunday saia||Which still a Ge a fetes direction at pm Sunday Th “what is it?” was a circular saw pape ry turned from orange to gold to silvar a Stamped on it was Approved befére disappearing he aid blade with a few wires attached Dunlap.” Rentrts ce ae vhs ag Father Brasky who said he knew of Father Brasky declined to part aitln ees medic th ae me no sawmills in the area would not with the disk He showed a number vert and pee and Mrs Howara Roth ‘claim it was a “flying saucer” when of items in his trinket collection reported sect Hi ey disk dhout ‘he called newspapermen to his All of them had something to do or pm Saturday yin etna ‘home with fishing Father Brasky’s favor- ware leaving the Sievert home when “It may or may not be one of those ite sport They included his “bass Sievert saw it according to Roth flying disks that have been Teport- bottles,” beer bottles with the head appeared tohe Setar thousand all over the country,” he said of a fish—and a fish pole from feet up and about 10 miles away “Wet's just call it a ‘what is it?” Manila which folds up into a cane Roth said.’He described it-as vague- eanwhile in Milwaukee and When Opened it extends to 12 feet ly resembling the moon and as hav- er points in Wisconsin sey use it in reaching folks i hg Reto Ja io ersons reported Seeing the “flying can’t be touched with a 10 foot pole,” ance oiteia ik roe neo cred cg ae Father Brasky quipped peared to Roth to be moving faster lowever was the only case he Others Report “Saucers” than an airplane He said it was yellow on its face but when it which the “landing” of a “saucer” turned it looked silver the center Through it ran a few Patent tried uiikcessat aly wires To each end of the cluster i was reported Father Brasky also passed out Hears “Bang,” Finds Disk copies of his recent publication Roth said that the four of them “Fish Tales.” isk Father Brasky gave the follow- “I’m going to revise this thing,” wigwed tive te toe aniaitee ing account of how he found the ob- he explained ‘T’ve got some new Stopped in Sky Claim ject a steel plate 19 inches in di-and better tales to put in it.” “It fluttered around faded out ameter about an eighth of an inch There were other reports around and came back again and once i thick and with saw teeth Milwaukee and Wisconsin of “fly- just stopped and hung there fo usually get up about a.m on ing saucers.” Mrs Anthony Hoff- about two minutes,” Roth said Sundays I was at the front door man 3410 Layton av said she last time we saw it it had a ve of my house about to take my dog||and her husband saw one at S35 out for a walk when I heard a p.m Sunday flying toward Bi ly Po Turn to age col ‘bang!’ like a big firecracker I}|Mitchell field from the northwest stepped outside and found this Ojsi When it neared the field it veered on the church lawn “Although the grass was still wet from the night rain the disk was too jhot to pick up I noticed the Za glasf ball had been knocked off one RECOT DED of the lightning rods on the church 23 SO suppose it struck that in land Ss ing.” [PAGE 47] ‘Saucer’ Tales Buzz in State ‘Disk Found by a Priest Is Circular Saw Others Seen by Milwaukeeans From page column noticeable tail When it disap- peared ‘entirely it just popped out.” Janesville police reported a tele- phone call from a Dick Thompson who said he saw flying disks about 12:15 a.m Sunday Oshkosh Mrs A Davis re- ted that she and her husband had sighted one of the mysterious disks izzing over the city at 6:45 p.m Sunday She said they were driving on a town road six miles west of Osh- kosh headed east toward the city when they first sighted the object “flying very fast and very high.” At first she said it looked like an airplane and then loomed larger and larger until it “appeared as big as the sun.” Stops Car Disk Vanishes Her husband stopped the car so that they could get a getter look at the disk which appeared round and silvery but by the time they got out of the car the object had dis- appeared she said At Green Bay Eugene Le Plant reported that he and his 12 year old son Duane had seen a rapidly mov- ing silver ball or disk about 6:30 p.m Wednesday while working in his garden on the western edge of the city Le Plant said he saw the object silhouetted against a dark cloud to the north and that he a son watched it for three or fo’ mibutes while it moved away to nothwest Le Plant said he co nothestimate the altitude or tance but that it “definitely was not an airplane.” Laws-ef Eyesight Clarify Reports of Flying Saucers By HOWARD BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Editor New York The flying saucers may be explained by cer- tain laws of eyesight All objects appear round or nearly so at any distance close to the limit of how far a person can see If the objects are seen by re- flected light as in most cases re- ported they are almost certain to be round and if the reflections are sunlight then the sizes report- ed are those which would be ex- pected from distant light reflec- tions Descriptions of virtually all the saucers as round and flat fit ex- actly with the tricks that eyes play This trickiness varies with differences in weather and light- ing This writer has seen flying sauc- ers over Long Island sound not only this year but in previous years They were round bright and moving fast But they were no mystery because they were light reflected from the bodies of airplanes that soon identified themselves by changing course and coming near enough to be seen distinctly Many descriptions of move- ments of the flying saucers fit with the common maneuvers of airplanes singly or in groups Some of the maneuvering report- ed which took saucers out of sight and back into sight again resem- bles what can be seen while watching distant airplanes Whether planes are guided pi- lotless or jet they all would look the same at great distances Mirages Traveler Says Philadelphia Pa Dr Aurel Aczel editor of a Hungarian lan- guage newspaper expressed belief that the flying saucers were mi- rages—possibly circularly distort- ed reflections of real airplanes many miles away A world-wide traveler Dr Aczel said “Years ago I have seen similar things on the Egyptian desert and on the Buszta Hungarian plain At sea I have also seen mirages of ships known to be a great distance away “In July and August and sqme- times even in June atmosphgric conditions are especially adapta- ble to the creation of mirages.” [PAGE 49] Skarp-Eyed Sight Disks but-Only a Saw Blade fs-Found [PAGE 50] Who what where why are flying disks The year's biggest mystery produced these Sunday photos while reports came from everywhere and everyone that the saucers were everywhere Top left a moviefamera is fitted to a P-51 fighter plane at Portland Ore as Oregon national guard planes are made ready to chase the disks Lower Mrs Walter Johnson right of Spokane Wash and her chil- dren pose and tell how they saw the saucers land on a mountainside in Idaho and Sappear Right is Father Joseph Brasky of St Joseph’s Catholic church at Grafton Wis with the disk he reported struck his church early Sunday It turned out that the disk was a prankster made projectile featuring a Dunlop cir- cular saw blade Note that something apparently took a glass ball off one of the lightning rods A whole lot of Milwauk is reported that they saw the saucers traveling past Sunday night —AP Wirephotos and Journal Staff [PAGE 51] Seer in 36 States Jet Fighters Alerted SAN FRANCISCO July 6—UP Military aircraft hunted the Skges over Pacific Coast states tqday for sight of the mysterious “Pying saucers” that for 12 days ve puzzled the entire country Early reports of results were negative Fiye P-5ls of the Oregon Na- tional Guard cruised over the Cascade Mountains of Washing- ton—the area where the strange objects first were reported sight- in constant radio contact with the other five All carried photo- graphic equipment Col Dodson command ing described their flight as a “routine patrol,” but said they had been instructed to watch for the flying discs Manhattan Beach Calif A McKelvey took a Mustan fighter plane up above Van Nuys ¥q@r two hours he cruised at 35 feet but “didn’t see a thing Gen Carl Spaatz commandan of the Army Air Forces was on a Pacific Northwest fishing trip He denied knowing anything about the flying discs or of plans to use AAF planes to look for them JET FIGHTER SET “I've been out of touch with things for four or five days,” he said Louis Starr national com- mander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars yesterday in Co- lumbus said he understood Spaatz had a “group out right now” looking for discs At Muroc Army Air Field in California a P-80 jet fighter stood ready to take off the moment any flying saucers are sighted in that Plant area A cautious attitude marked both official and scientific com ments but Capt Tom Brown if the Air Forces Public Relatio Sit in Washington ackno edged the Air Forces had decided “thpre’s something to this” and ha@ been checking up on it for 10 days fig “loose formation” at ed A sixth circled over Portland oval ranged from about 300 to 1,200 SEEN IN 36 STATES se io First sighted June 25 and Sreeted generally with scornful laughs the objects have been re- ported every day since by observ- ers in 36 states Most of the ob- jects were reported seen July A few were reported yesterday Such competent observers as airline pilots said they had seen the totally unexplained discs or Saucers larger than aircraft and high speed cae os David Lilienthal chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission ‘Said they had nothing to do with atomic experiments and Army and Navy officials also entered positive disclaimers Newspaper stories quoting an unidentified California Institute of Technology scientist as saying the phenomena might have some- thing’ to do with experiments in “transmutation of atomic energy” used a brief sensation late yes- rday The institute quickly de- ied the report Reports generally agreed that the flying objects were round or Estimates of their speed miles an hour They were de- scribed as flying with an undu- lating motion at heights of 10,000 feet and less Some described them as glowing or luminous ‘PROPELLER IN CENTER’ Nova Hart St Louis mechanic who was trained during service in the war to spot all types of aircraft said he saw one of the trang objects near Pattonville esterday It was flying at 300 et he said He described it as circular with a mibbed framework and silver gray in color Hart said it ap- Peared to,have a motor with a opeller attached in the center an ept turning like an air- iow roll First piiblished reports of the anossem® occurred” June 25 rnold Boise Ida businessman pilot told of seeing nine of the dises flying in form tion at 1,200 miles an ‘hour ove the Cascade Mountains in Wash ington Ps te SEEN BY 200 Arnold’s account was taken lightly Various explanations were offered—“reflections,” “per- sistent vision,” “snow blindness.” Soon afterward other individ- uals—in New Mexico Missouri California and other states—re- ported they also had seen the flying objects Then on Independence Day 200 persohs “in one group and:.60 in another saw them in Idaho Hun- dreds of others in Oregon Wash- ington and other western sjates reported seeing them July also brought firs re- ports of the flying discs om east of the Mississippi nce then they have been reported seen widely separated sections of the country—in 33 states in all ‘Must Be Insane’ LONDON July 6—()—Don’'t mention those flying saucers on ‘this side of the Atlantic unless you’re prepared for an argument about your sanity Maybe they have been seen by sober citizens over a vast area of the United States but Europe won't believe in them until some- body lassoes one and has it photo- graphed by Frank Sinatra the British ambassador and five Supreme Court justices “America’s reply te the Loch Ness monster,” chortled today’s nday dispatch referring to ritain’s hoariest tall story—the erpent that is “seen” romping jn cotland’s Loch Ness every time the tourist trade needs a shot An the arm is RECORDED MILWAUKEE SENTINEL MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN [PAGE 52] Planes Chasing Disks Find Only Empty Sky —emteet'adio announcement tHE arse Jokesters Add were flying over Lewiston Idaho Sunday sent hundreds into their yards for a look Weatherman Louis Some Comedy Krezak said the objects were mov- ing eastward with the prevailing wind and probably were ‘veed seeds to Air Mystery Three air reer pilots agreed wo Searchlights on Clouds A Birmingham radio station was East St Louis Objec deluged with more than 400 call in Prove to Be Washers one hour by persons who said they saw fluorescent balls circling oper hicago Woman Spots the city and clearly outlined against near-by mountains A carnival at ne With Legs Alabaster Ala was playing search lights on cloud wisps By the United Press argument raged at Lodi Calif Army pilots were ready Monday oyer the cause of a spectacular glow for another air search for the mys- the sky and a roar shortly before terious “flying saucers” now report- Alectrical power went off Mrs ed seen in 39 states and parts of#C Smith said she heard a noise “like Canada as practical jokesters added ie to the confusion ——E—————EE—————S es Equipped with telescopic cam- Give Em Room eras 11 army planes searched the Pacific northwest Sunday without Newport News Va.—Peninsula finding any trace of the flying disks airport here is taking no chances which had been reported over scores with flying saucers Pilots report- of communities the preceding two ing Monday to take out planes days At Sioux Falls a na- found this notice on the bulletin tional guard plane already in the air board “Two thousand feet ver- was ordered to investigate a silvery tical and horizontal clearance re- disk with a short tail which Gregory quired between aircraft operat- Zimmer said he saw shoot across ing from this field and any fly- the heavens The pilot found noth- ing saucers.” ing but empty sky The army “camera patrol” over the Cascade mountains Sunday in- four motored bomber” just before cluded eight P-51 pursuit ships andy the lights went off at dawn Erving three A-26 bombers Newcomb of the Pacific Gas Elec- tric Co offered the explanation that Illusions Or Jokes a low flying crop dusting plane’ There was growing belief that the probably had struck a power lin concentrated aerial search would ‘and burned out a transforme show the saucers to be optical illu- However no planes were reporte sions or the work of practical joke- damaged and no one could explain sters magnified by aroused imagi- nations A number of “disks” whirled over rooftops in East St Louis Ill Sun- day J.T Hartley a locomotive en- ineer gathered some of them up found they were made of plessed white paper 11 inches in ILLES ditmeter and with a two inch hole in the center Railroad workers said they looked like locomotive packing washers wo wifit trop dusting plane was do- ing in the air at dawrroneGunday It was the first time any noise had ‘been attributed to flying saucers Watts jr Darlington attorney said he saw an army pur- suit plane chasing a V-formation of flying saucers at 250 miles an hour 3,000 feet high However no pilot reported such a chase Saw One With Legs Meantime authorities were plagued with reports that bordered on the fantastic An excited Chi- cago woman reported that she had seen a flying saucer with legs wes standing on my porch and I th ught for sure it was coming right Hy and slap me in the face,” sq ‘eorge Kuger of Denver said a flying disk with an America fldg on it Francis Howell Tempe Ariz claimed he saw a saucer two feet in diameter disappear behind a row of trees near his home When he rushed to inspect it he said the flat thin aluminumlike disk took off at a “high rate of speed” toward Phoenix nine miles away Mrs Walter Johnson returned to Spokane Wash after a vacation near St Maries Idaho and after reading newspaper reports of the flying saucers said she and several others had seen speeding shiny ob- jects “as big as a four or five room house” disappear into the forest covéred mountains he first of the saucers over New Y@rk State was reported by Mrs Kgnneth Wohley of Rochester Yj who said she and her husband saw an object “about the size of Bn ordinary saucer” flying above Her back yard at 8:30 p.m Sunday [PAGE 53] New Jersey residents said they “thought” they saw flying disks over Palisades PafkSiidhear-by Bergenfield Sunday night Skeptical scientists recalled the mysterious “rockets” seen over Swe den last year Eighty per cent of the “ghost rockets’ proved to be meteors and Swedish officials said the others could be discounted as pure imagination Scientists asserted that the ob- jects in order to be seen clearly at 10,000 feet—the level at which most of the saucers have been reported— would have to be 20 feet in diameter would require a large mass of metal would be more conspicuous at night and would be seen by a far greater nymber of persons Nassau director of the rner Swasey observajory at tha Case Institute of Technojogy at Cleveland said he was inclined to “think the reports are fanciés.” Capt Tom Brown army air force spokesman at Washington said the army was trying to run the reports to Barth ‘We're not dismissing the possi- bil®y that there’s something to it,” he Raid “and we're not dismissing the possibility that it’s all a hoax.” [PAGE 54] Planes Russ Tells of ‘Atom Sauc FBI eae “og of Soviet Ship Offic er LOS ANGELES July 6—(Spe- cial)—Federal agents today in- vestigated a letter to the Exami- ‘ner describing Russian supersonic atom-powered planes resembling ‘the “flying saucers.” A top flight atomic scientist to whom the Examiner referred the letter said it was “not all non- sense,” and suggested the matter “be turned over to the FBI “The letter writer said he got the information from an officer aboard a Russian tanker recently rt tos Angeles harbor EVEN WORMS Phe Russian he said also de- scribed experiments with con- trolled radioactive clouds in the Aretic where birds animals and even worms were killed The planes as described by the Russian to the writer are only 18 inches thick with a kidney- shaped outline and no propellors ‘The pilot Hes on his stomach jand is artificially cooled against the heat developed by air frjc- ‘tion “The outer surface is high slished,” the Russian sai th upper and lower surfaces convex like a giant lens he lifting force is an entirely different principle found about 10 years ago among unpublished papers of a Russian chemist “Energy Is required only for climbing but no energy is need- ed for support when the air- plane goes along the earth’s gravitational contour lines.” the killer.” he-Reesian first asked where he could sell 18 pold¥ peal™pelts which he received “for very dan- gerous work.” He said he had been assigned to go over the route of the radio- active cloud near Lake Bakal or Baykal and pick up dead animals ALL LIFE DESTROYED “They loaded a few small ships with all kinds of animals and directed the cloud over them,” the writer said “During this experiment a violent storm blew the cloud far north into the tundra but before it dissipated it destroyed all life on its way “The cloud may be controlled from land from a plane or from a rebot-piloted ‘leader.’ I understand it the contro based on electro-magnetic aves and the cloud has two mponents The carrier and RECORDED Lf unting Discs [PAGE 55] Quirks of Eyesight May Explain Disc Mystery By HOWARD AP Science Editor NEW YORK July 6—()—Certain laws of human eye- sight will explain much of what has been described about the flying saucers reported from nearly all parts of the United States At any distance which is close to the limit of how far a person can sée all objects appear round or nearly so This law of sight covers both small things seen nearby and large ones at great distances Regardless of shape the ob- ject near the limit of sight looks round If the thing js silhouetted against a bright sky as some of the flying saucers have been re- ported then it is more likely to revgal its true shape ‘NO STRUCTURE’ the thing is seen by reflected light as in most cases reported it is almost certain to be round and if the reflections are sunlight then the sizes reported are those which would be expected from distant light reflections The one outstanding fact about virtually all the saucers is that they had no structure they seemed merely round and flat That description fits exactly with the tricks that eyes play This trickiness varies with differences in weather and lighting This writer has seen flying saucers over Long Island Sound near his home not only this year but in previous years They were round bright and moving fast NOT A MYSTERY But they were no mystery be- cause they were light reflected from the bodies of airplanes that soon identified themselves by charging course and coming near enowgh to be seen distinctly week this writer also saw one Joval flying form which for a moment looked exactly like the BLAKESLEE photograph of the oval object taken by Yeoman Frank Ryman north of Seattle Wash The Long Island oval came closer and turned into an airplane Planes at great distances tend to look round when light is re- flected from their sides Many descriptions of movements of the flying saucers fit with the com- mon maneuvers of airplanes singly or in groups They fit also with what birds look like flying at a considerable distance However the bird Pilu- sion is not very common of the maneuvering repofted which took saucers out of dight and back into sight again re- sembles what can be seen while watching distance airplanes SPEED MYSTERY There is no explanation for re- ported speeds of 1,000 or more miles an hour Meteors although they go much faster than that do not explain it because the saucers mostly appear in daytime and there are not enough day- light meteors Ice crystals forming little round clouds have been suggested But these fail to fit in most cases be- cause the ice crystals form at altitudes which are higher than most of the saucers reported Nothing published in science or atomic studies gives the slightest clue to flying sfucers unless the objects are aircraft One scientist today said that at least a lot of saucers are ex- plained by the force of suggestion which causes a person to say to himself “es “Oh gee I see it too.” RECOS DED [PAGE 56] ‘Saucers Fly Here Grafton Disc Joke What was reported as a “flying Grafton early yesterday turned two small tubes and several wires attached to it disc” which struck a church in out to be a circular saw with Father Joseph Brasky pastor of St Joseph's Church Grafton holds the “disc” nd points to the lightning rod sald was struck by the dise ie mystery of the “flying dises,” strange luminous objects seen speeding across the sky in many states turned to Wiscon- sin yesterday when several per- sons reported them at Milwaukee and Janesville Mystery was added to mystery when Father Joseph Brasky pas- tor of St Joseph's Church at Grafton Wis reported a missile jhurtled through the alr early yes- terday knocked the ball off the lehurch lightning rod and landed on the front lawn WIRES AND TUBES It was a large circular saw— labogt 16 incttes in diameter—and jst hot when Father’ Brasky pick4d it from the lawn THere were wires and two tubes on the church arrow which Sentinel Photo by Ernest Anheuser One theory was that prankste or belated Fourth of July caf prants had attached explosives the saw and sent it through the air Father Brasky sald he heard a swishing ndise and a sizzling at a followed a second later with a thud and an explosion An excited resident telephoned to Billy Mitchell Field and said lhe saw 15 flying saucers in formation heading north over Granville at 10:05 He hung up before his name could be pro- cured A passenger aboard a New York-Detroit-Milwaukee plane PWhich landed at Billy Mitchell Field at 10:05 told employes in the office of Northwest Air- lines Inc he saw a flying saucer bobbing up and down over the airfield just after he had alighted skimming lattached to it The tubes were an ‘inch in diameter and three inches long fronpthe plane Other passengers with him also saw it he said He gave the name of Royden of Detrettnt- epic Beebing the saucer was going at great speed and was out of sight in a few seconds he said Rowden is stopping at the Plaza Hotel DISCS HAD TAILS Erwin Rottman 1328 19th St said he saw three of them with tails flying northwest to southeast as he stood at 18th and Vilet Sts They turned from gold to another color and then to silver he said Frank Phifer stopping at the Maryland Hotel said he three balls of fire shoot ross Lake Michigan at 8:20 last Bight abdit a mile from shore and saw “golgg at terrific speed Ns What he described as an iliu- minated seen last saucer Was night by William Humphrey 3148 20th St he said It was ih zagging directly over the Heil Co plant said Humphrey and seemed to land in a wooded area nearby REPORTED IN JANESVILLE Four Janesville residents re- ported they had seen flying disc Saturday night They are Mr and Mrs Al Sievert and Mr and Mrs Howard Roth They saw the disc flying in a northwesterly direction from Janesville at “terrific speed.” They viewed it for 20 minutes It lwas yellow-golden and seemed to turn at times to a silvery color they stated An eval flight pattern was followed ‘Then they said tails appeared on the disc and shortly afterwards it disappeared John Bosch 4377 Adams St Milwaukee machinist insisted ne saw two flashing saucer- shaped objects pass over Billy Mitchell Field shortly after mid- ght yesterday They were jose ough so he could definitely spate they were not shooting stars mor alrplanes he said Bosch’s hgme is near the airport [PAGE 59] ng STANDARD FORM No 64 Office Memora dum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO DIRECTOR FBI DATE July 1947 From PAC MILWAUKEE yo SUBJECT:"RLYING DISCS OR SAUCEI ATTENTION MR HJGFIETCHRR DX TELEPHONE CALL FROM MR FLETCHER AT THE BUREAU AT 8:30 AM 7/7/47 Attached are newspaper clippings from the MYlfraukee Py Sentinel and Milwaukee Journal of July 1947 ha For the Bureau's information United Press and Associated Press telephoned me at my residence about three or four times between 1:00 A.M and 2:30 AcMe compas The United Press representative informed me that Father JOSEPHABRASKY had stated on interview by a Milwaukee Sentinel reporter ohe’BILL WEEKS Phonetic that he Father BRASKY was going to call the FBI concerning the contraption which apparently was identical with one of the flying discs recently publicized throughout the country The United Press representative desired to know if we had any statement to make on the miter I informed him that I had no official comment other than No Comment Since I have contacted the United Press representative on various occasions I asked him what the actual details were and he stated he did not know except that the interview of the priest reflected that a circular saw had been found with some devices attached to it The Associated Press called me shortly after the United Press representative did and on being advised that I had no comment to make concerning the story I asked the Associated Press representa- tive what the actual facts were and he informed me that as far as the Associated Press was concerned the facts were that a circular saw had been found and a story had been obtained from a priest who had been drinking quite heavily The Associated Press representative informed me that apparently the United Press desired to get a statement from me denying or affirming that the FBI was investigating the matter I informed the Associated Press representative that apparently someone was suffering under a misinterpretation of any comment I had made and possibly some reporter was in ane Ga BF if_a story had gone out over a services od gone out oven ti Services OF Te I then Pe stort the gnited representa ve who apparently in the meantime had beén Galle ly the Associated Press in an effort to straighten out the United Press No reference was made to the FBI in the Milwaukee Sentinel article appearing July 1947 but the Milwaukee Journal article which is attached referred to an alleged statement by Father BRASKY that he attempted to get in “Ay touch with an FBI Agent whom he knows Father BRASKY has never con tacted the Milwaukee FBI Office or any Agent concerning his find my opinion this is just another hoax story since a ue Boe ay Peas with the saw indicates no basis El iat “Ph fea 62-0 inelosures GM if iP [PAGE 60] SUILSHE 30° 2e3T a Spe OLVuUORT PRON i JAlOaY [PAGE 61] UNITED Se sates [PAGE 62] HOTEL WOODSTOCK WOODSTOCK ILLINOIS [PAGE 63] Ch GL pny ee ie Lh ath Iye cs OME oe kar or te Lo Ree ly Je fee AGO A wr wo ee Lory We ea BLP ob Geree 20t We whorl be carers tro wd An Wer ae Shee ae [PAGE 64] SIONIN74 ‘WOO0LSG0OM ABIOLSAGAOOM BALOH i9rassid Q3iv907 a Hi00G 9E9 3NOHd bon [PAGE 66] GOVERNMENT DATE July 11 1947 iV FROM KeC,.Howe SUBJECT Gnying Dise ne At 10:45 PM on the evening of July 11 1947 Clerk Piercy of the Washington Field Office called and stated that at the instbuction Mr Hennrich he wanted to pass to the Bureau information he had just re ceived from one Alvin Bw Eaker 200 6th Street Laurel Maryland tothe effect that a flying disc had just landed in Parker's yard and the machinery is still buzzinge”™ Piercy stated Parker was apparently so excited he had a difficult time even getting his name out and no further detail could be obtained from him BabREGRSERERRREOE At 10250 PM I passed the above information on to Captain West duty officer at who indicated he had also received the same data from another source md would pass our information along to appropriate army quarters Sid Roberts of the AP called at about 10:55 PM and asked whether the Bure@u had received any report on a flying disc in Laurel Maryland After checking with Mr Nichols I told him we had received such a report and had passed it on to army authorities aHCORD Fe Af of TNDEXED [PAGE 67] STANDARD FORM NO 64 Office Memo AndU UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO MR A TAMM DATE FROM LADD i SUBJECT SAC Johnson of the Milwaukee Office called to advise he had just received a telephone call from Colonel Harry Schafer Reserve Officer with the Civilian Air Patrol Black River Falls Wisconsin Colonel Schafer reported that at 3:30 pems July 10 one Sig Hanson City Engineer at Black River Falls Wisconsin had found a large 17 disc which appeared to have been possibly made out of cardboard painted with silver airplane dope In the center was a tube and a small motor with a propellor attached to the side Colonel Schafer expressed the opinion that this disc would not be able to fly by itself He advised it would be taken to the Air Corps Headquarters Colonel Schafer advised however that Hanson did not want to release the disc without FBI approval I instructed Mr Johnson to advise the Air Corps officer to get in touch with Colonel Schafer and tell him he saw no reason for the Bureau to attempt to secure the release of the material since it was not in our custody and we had no control He stated the press was also calling concerning this matter I instructed him to make no comment to the press DML cmw 62 CORDmp “ee 37 JUL 19 igat EX-56 [PAGE 68] SSYANDARD FORM NO 64 Office Memarar dum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DATE July 12 19 fe SUBJECT SN SREESESESERSER Reference is made to Mr Howe's memorandum to you dated July 11 in the above-captioned matter At 11:55 P.Me July 11 I took a phone call from Wj Sergeant Lonis of the Laurel Maryland Police Department Sergearnt Lonis said that he had examined the flying discs He said that it had been made from a Gulf Oil sign and the top of a garbage can and had been painted with aluminum paint It had been recently painted because the paint was still wet Attached to it were a dry cell battery a flashlight bulb some wires and a buzzer He asked if the Bureau was sending anyone out to look at it I told him that we were not that we had referred the matter to the Army and suggested that he call them I subsequently telephoned Captain Calvert the Duty Officer at and passed on to him the information furnished by Sergeant Lonise [PAGE 69] 4OLSO ids tea ip WH59 FI worigas NOSIVIT aa wea gahi39au una wee Oe g3niao4 [PAGE 70] [PAGE 71] tCCEIVED TELETYPE UNIT eopy aed STICE 223 ua a pe SHLSAL 36 Lea's i uOLVuaey VONE Ty HY eh Cl [PAGE 73] IHL NYT 40 ey ie WORD UN epg NOStyIy OFAIOgy [PAGE 74] FRY ¢nJo ‘CQMMUNIGATIONS SECTION MAILED 74 te JUL 111947 py FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE July 10 1947 ZO a HOCVvSCR Ss AUCH [PAGE 75] ee al A APE PP LLL OEP [PAGE 76] The MacReynolds Asbury ark New Jersev Ve/r pat ons Bareere Crete Pol wes A043 Yo ay amy aaa fe ote eee ole Verse CLP hey [PAGE 77] rete be if ga 2/i393y SINOT ‘yp [PAGE 79] STANDARD FORM NO 64 Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO OD Ladd is DATE FROM He Be Fletcher i July 11 1947 sunyrer eernid Discs FESSNESSERESSEESS SAC Bannister of the Butte Office called at noon today and stated that a Mrs Fred¥sasterbrook 215 7th Avenue East Twin Falls Idaho at 2:5 a.m Mountain Time today heard a noise in the back of her home She thought a collision had occurred and investimted and found in the back yard of the home next door an object described as follows A disc 305 in diameter circular in shape it is dished like a saucer and actually there is a saucer within a saucer in the manner of cymbals On one surface there is attached a plastic dome described as about 14 in diamber and affixed by bolts in a rather rough manners The bolts can best be described as similar to stove bolts On the other surface is another dome of metal which is gold in color on one side and on the inside is silver in color which looks like tin Through the plastic dome can be ob- served three tubes similar to radio tubes and there is some wiring The disc generally is 10 thick and at the point where the domes are located about in thickness There is an object on it similar to electric coil which has some type of an arm on it and bears the words Inspected TS Some of the wiring has been burned off and it looks as though something might be missing Mr Bannister stated that if this were the work of some prankster he went to quite a bit of trouble He stated the press is aware of this incident He stated that the dise had been picked up and was now at the Police Department Twin Falls Idaho He was instructed to notify the local Army authorities of the existence of this disc [PAGE 80] oO a oO Re a oO fos va yOIASAe so ‘1430 Tad NOHLO3S NOSIVIT O3M3938 [PAGE 81] July 18 19h ir Ge norris 173k Thome Averme Chicago Illinois Ps pExeR I wish to acknowledce receipt of your letter postmarked July 1947 iN ho information contained therein has been carefhlly reviewed and is being made matter of permanent record in the files of this Burcau Your interest in writing aq you did ts indeed appreciated In the future should you have information which you feel might be of interest to thia Bureau yor might find it convenient to contact the Special Agent in Charge of our Chicago Office which is located st 1900 Bankers’ Puliding Chicago Illinois Sincerely yours John Edgar lioover Director 4th-‘ncoming There is no identifiable information in the Bureau's files concerning the writer of this letter Despite the fact that this letter refera to flying diges it is not belt eved that the 4nformation furnished is sufficiently important to refer to Amy authorities ce Chicago COMMUNI CATi NS SEGTIOn Al 18° 10n7 hy ATEDE RAL BUREA Je DEPARTMENT EEPEERSHE ASESEGER [PAGE 83] fot ps ops ay ane [PAGE 85] STANDARD FORM No 64 Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO MR LADD duly 10 194 as wl ea a FROM Roy Es- Wood et SUBJECT FLYING SAUCERS DISCS fe INFORMATION CONCERNING Sy At 5245 AM this date SAC Hood telephonically contacted the Bureau and advised at approximately 11:30 PM July 1947 the office Sonar in Los Angeles had received information from the Resident Agent at Burbémky7\-_& California that a flying disc had landed in or near Burbank and had seen to burst into flame when it landed Further that it had been the cause RSSSERESERERERES of a fire in some woods this fire either in Burbank or possibly in the city limits of Los Angeles which Mr Hood could not be certain The fire chief at Burbank had called the resident agent at Burbank and told him he wuld hold the disc for hin Coincident with the information received from Burbank the Los Angeles Office received calls from the newspapers requesting information The newspapers stating they had called the Army Air Force Intelligence who had stated we are not interested According to Mr Hood this comment had aroused the newspapers and they stated they intended to publish this quotation and belabor same in their firstissues Mr Hood stated that he had refrained from making any statement to the press other than to admit possession of an object and that it was being turned over to military authorities in the morning this AM it being Mr Hood's opinion that he did not want any quotes in the press and certainly not one to the effect that we were not interested As described to him Mr Hood stated that the object was an aluminum disc about in diameter weighing about ten pounds painted with aluminum paint and having some sort of a radio tube in the center of the disc This object in possession of the resident agent at Burbank and would be turned over to military authorities in Los Angeles this morning Mr Hood's purpose in calling was to place the Bureau on notice regarding the above described object and any further information would be transmitted to the Bureau at oncee A Wy Action None indicated tr iH a [PAGE 86] LS DEPT OF JUSTIL jy OW 32 AH Evep.7 Qe UP tag WS Tie 75MM ty ECEIVE yl i228 PM NICAL ABORATOR Bi DEPT OF JUSTICE [PAGE 89] SIDE VIEW [PAGE 91] BOTTOM VIEW [PAGE 93] TOP VIEW [PAGE 94] ee STANDARD FORM NO 64 is Office Meno idun UNITED ae GOVERNMENT Director FBI DATE July 17 1947 SAC Los Angeles RECOVERY OF FLYING DISC NORTH HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA JULY 1947 On the evening of July 1947 a report was received at the Los Angeles Office that a so-called flying disc had landed in the vicinity of Radford and Magnolia Streets in North Hollywood California the contraption being briefly described as approximately 30 inches in diameter all metal disc shaped and having a radio antenna It was reported to have burst into flames upon landing At the time of the report the disc was being held at the Valley Fire Department in Van Nuys California SA RICHARD AUERBACH went to the fire department immediately at which time it was found that a number of people had gathered including news- paper reporters and photographers who were taking pictures of the disc Battalion Fire Chief WALLACE NEWCOMB advised Agent that at approximately 10:30 P.M an unknown woman called on the telephone and excitedly reported that the dise had dropped into her garden where it began to flame her residence being located at 11858 Magnolia Boulevard North Hollywood A fire department truck was sent there and put out the flaming object with the fire hose after which the object was taken to the fire station SA AUERBACH thereafter arranged to transport the disc to the office The device is briefly described as consisting of two convex steel discs approximately feet in diameter fused together at the outer edge and fastened together in the center by a hollow cylindrical connection A vertical galvanized iron fin was screwed to the top of the disc and a short length of pipe closed at one end ran from the outer circumference into the interior of the contraption What appeared to be a radio tube was installed in the center of the top side The contraption had a total weight of approximately 20 pounds At the Bureau Office a series of photographs were taken of the device from various positions and a set of these photographs are being forwarded herewith for the Bureau's inspection and information The flying disc was ‘thereafter turned over to Major COURTNEY HEMPSTEAD A.C Fort MacApthur San Pedro California who subsequent ly reported that theyobject’ was definitely a hoax and under no circumstances could have flown under its/own power RECORDED INDRXEp Reef yi tHe DESTROYED iP 70 NOV 18 1964 [PAGE 96] Director FBI July 17 1947 Re RECOVERY OF FLYING DISC NORTH HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA JULY 1947 On the following day July 10 1947 one FRANK V.ABROWN 6552 Teesdale Avenue North Hollywood reported that on this morning he was at the North Hollywood Service Station eating at which time there was considerable talk about the flying dise having been found in the vicinity A number of what appeared to be young high school students were present and were having ocuite a laugh about the excitement caused by the finding of the disc BROWN stated that he received a definite impression that these young students either had themselves or knew of someone who had been working for the past two weeks making this flying disc BROWN was unable to furnish the names of any of these young men but identified one of them who was making the statements as being employed in a Chevron Service Station at the corner of Victory Boulevard and Whitsett Street He described the youngster as about sixteen years of age The above information was also furnished to the Office at San Pedro California MMB MGM 100-9099 ENC [PAGE 97] Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO Director FBI DATE July sf/xea7 WAP enor SAC Butte Ca SUBJECT FLYING DISCS Mr DAVE/JOHNS ON of the ‘Tdaho Daily Statesman Boise Idaho tele- phonically contacted the Butte Office and asked if the FBI was checking on the flying discs reported to have been seen by many citizens He advised that so many had reported having seen them that it undoubtedly was not a figment of the imagination He said that these discs had been seen on July 1947 in the vicinity of Trail Creek near Sun Valle Idaho by reputable citizens The writer informed Mr JOHNSON that this office was not making an investigation and inquired as to whether he had contacted Army and Navy officials He said that he was inquiring of these agencies zi WGB:LB ATR MAIL RECORD» INDEXE ne EX-46 901 SiAUG5 1947 [PAGE 100] BILSM HiSs ‘HOLVuORS VINE Ne Wd SS ALG JIC Li Wd 82 pS MP aiisar ao id30 SN aA2u GS ¥J-Q3AI3 92 [PAGE 103] STANDARD FORM NO 64 Office Memor ndum UNITED Mes GOVERNMENT DIRECTOR FBI DATE July 18 1947 OM SAC NEW HAVEN SUBJECT Posy ma SAUCERS EDWIN Ma-BAILEY JR STAMFORD CONNECTICUT INFORMANT ATOMIC ENERGY ACT For the information of the Bureau this is to advise that on July 1947 EDWIN BAILEY Jre Home Court Stamford Connecticut appeared at the Stamford Resident Agent's office and furnished the following information:- Mr BAILEY prefaced his remarks by stating that he is a scientist by occupation and is currently employed at the American Cyanamid Research Laboratories on West Main Street in Stamford Connecticut in the Physics Divisione Mr BAILRY further indicated that during the war he was employed at MIT Cambridge Massachusetts in the Radiation Laboratory which Labora- tory is connected with the Manhattan Projecte BAILEY advised that he is thirty years of age and is a graduate of the University of Arizona Mre BAILEY stated that the topic of “flying saucers” had caused considerable comment and concern to the present day scientists and indicated that he him- self had a personal theory concerning the flying saucers Prior to advancing his own theory BAILEY remarked that immediately after the conclu- sion of World War II a friend of his RENATOPFECHETTI allegedly observed the flying saucers from an observatory in Milan and Bologna Italy He stated that apparently at that time the flying saucers” had caused a little comment in Italy but that after some little publicity they immediately died out as public interest Mr BAILEY stated that it is quite possible that actually the “flying saucers could be radio controlled germ bombs or atom bombs which are circling the orbit of the earth and which could be controlled by radio and directed to land on any designated target at the specific desire of the agency or country operating the bombs He stated that one of the items of interest which he personally has observed is the fact that the saucers have been observed in Mexico City New Orleans Philadelphia New York Boston Halifax Newfoundland Paris Milan Bologna and Yugoslavia as well as Albania By placing a string around the globe of the earth ad A Bn 10/7 COPIES-DESTROYED 270 NOV 18 1904 [PAGE 104] ATOM pom Jur 23 RECEIVED U.S DEPT OF JUSTIC Ady 903 AM yi ‘ATE RNAL SECuUR ry an a ee [PAGE 105] Letter to the DIRECTOR FBI duly 18 1947 Re FLYING SAUCERS EDWIN BAILEY JR STAMFORD CONNECTICUT INFORMANT ATOMIC ENERGY ACT would be noticed that all of the above-mentioned cities form a direct orbit or circle around the earth and would be more or less in line of any path in which the saucers could be circling Mr BAILEY further stated that he had recently talked with RICHARD PERKIN one of the owners of Perkin-Elmer Company in Glenbrook Connecticut and had been informed by Mre PERKIN that his company is making a large powerful telescope to be used in searching the strato- sphere fa atom bombs [PAGE 106] COMMUNICA GNSS Séat TREETYPE [PAGE 107] VEN Gia pm ISON SECTION ue 48 PH 43 PM 77 HNIC A 8BORATAA PT OF JUSTICE DEPT of JUSTICE [PAGE 109] fOR DEPT OF JUST [PAGE 110] July 23 1947 xq Mra John Maurtee-Clari 41 Wright Streeé ft oat a escport Connecess cus sed July 19475 ser wi Gi nolosure haa been received and I want co shank you for submitting che letter you mencioned to mé@e Sincerely yours John Edgar Hoover Director Tolson a A Ta Clegg Glavit Lad Bich Egan ae BHMUgptb [PAGE 112] ir Glavin Jer ae “ith Rosen fr Tracy Mr Edgar Hoover pee ean Mr Gurne es ot Washington D.C Mr Harbo Mr Mohr Dear Mr Hoover Mr Pennington The enclosed came to my husband yesterday.” After reading it aloud to the family as a good example of crack-pot-ism advertising or what have you he threw ey it into the wastebasket I retrieved it thinking it might better go into your wastebasket than ours examined by your department en route thither as of possible value I presume several thousand have been mailed and you may reveive numberless duplicates I will risk thet Mr Clark as an economist at Columbia University receives many strange missives This is as strange a one as has come for some time and very appropriate to the moment Ir Nease Sincerely yours Mrs J.Mj¢Tark Pad A DinL July 17 1947 Home address 41 Wright St Westport Quinn Tamm [PAGE 113] nysnr 49 dad AV vi i LJ QeAS AIG SAM y9}iS3 AWAIIO3 [PAGE 114] July 11 1947 Dear Sir Have you seen one of the mysterious Saucers What did it look like Do you think these strange celestial manifesta- tions are harbingers of a better day Do you believe it means that a new and revolutionary advance is coming Will it make your life brighter happier more useful We believe one of these startling dises is on its way to you Then the secret will be out The Combined and Amalgamated Committee of Sky-Scanners Dise Decipherers and New-Product Introducers [PAGE 115] duly 10 19h7 ir Yoodson Cope Cliffside fall San Marcos Texas Dear Hr Copes I wish to acknowledge receipt of your Western Union telegram dated July 1947 ‘Your interest in making this information available to me is greatly appreciated Inasmach as the contents of your telegram eppear to be of interest to the War Department only I have taken the liberty of making the information furnished by you available to that Department Sincerely yours John Edgar Hoover Director San Antonio NOTE The telegram referred to flying discs Oj ORDED fy fy IND Ee Ry EX.64 COMMUNICATIONS SECTION Tolson MAILED a eh we JUL 141947 PM FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE [PAGE 117] duly 10 1947 Mr Us/Watts Jr Darlingtén South Carolina I wish to acknowledge receipt of you Weatern Union telegram dated July 1947 ‘Your interest in bringing this information to ny attention is greatly eppreciated Tnaveeth as the contents of your telegram appear tobe of interest to the Yar Department only I have taken the ifberty of turning this information over to that Departzent Sincerely yours dohn Eagar Hoover Director Savannah NOTE The telegram referred to flying discs,® NS Ss COMMUNICATIONS SECTION A SIT WA 23/7 br i he DF INVESTIGATION i SLs STiCE i [PAGE 119] FBI SEATTLE 8-14-47 5-15 PM FB DIRECTOR ROUTINE CAM FLYING DISCS SIGHTED BY FRED*CHRISMAN AND HAROLD APMDAHL TACOMA Cy WASHINGTON SM REURTEL INSTANT DATE PLEASE BE ADVISED ria UP DAHL DID NOT ADMIT TO SMITH THAT HIS STORY WAS A HOAX BUT ONLY STATED THAT IF QUESTIONED BY AUTHORITIES HE WAS GOING TO SAY IT WAS A HOAX BECAUSE HE DID NOT WANT ANY FURTHER TROUBLE OVER THE MATTER COMPLETE REPORT NOW EN ROUTE TO BUREAU ANSD WHICH INDICATES PROBABLY CHRISMAN OR DAHL MADE THE ANONYMOUS PHONE CALL IN THE HOPE OF BULDING UP THEIR STORY THROUGH PUBLICITY TO A POINT WHERE THEY COULD MAKE A PROFITABLE DEAL WITH YRANTASY MAGAZINE CHICAGO ILLINOIS DAKL AND CHRISMAN WILL NOT BE REINTERVIEWED UNLESS ADVISED TO THE G@N4WREX CONTRARY BY THE BUREAU 2ECOR i -ECORD A AND HOLD PLS pe if 9-16 PM OK FBI WASH DC GAR G.I «fC ia oe we [PAGE 121] FLYING DISCS The Bureau at the request of the has agreed to cooperate in the investigation of flying ao Pye Intelligence confidentially advised that it is possible to release three as ae Forces have numbers attached together by a wire nae than tn one these discs would od#in tremendous elites end sone earth in an arc ‘he Army Air Force that the reporte Sightings might hav the purpose of sreating a mass hyster 7-30-47 BUREAU BULLETIN NO 42 Series 1917 You should investigate each instance which is brought to your attention of a sighting of a flying dise in order to ascertain whether or not is is a bona fide_sighting an imaginary one or a prank You should also bear in mind that individuals might report seeing flying discs for various reasons It is conceivable that an individual might be desirous of seeking personal publicity causing hysteriaz or playing a prank FILED The Bureau should be notified immediately by teletype of all reported sightings and the results of your inquiries In instances where the report appears to have merit the teletype should be followed by a letter to the Bureau containing in detail the results of your inquiries The Army Air Forces have assured the Bureau complete cooperating in these matters and in any instances where they fail tox make information available to you or make the recovered discs available for your examination it should promptly be brought to the attention of the Bureau COPY ORK Any information you develop in connection with these discs should be promptly brought to the attention of the Army through your usual liaison channels 73 AUR 10497 ee [PAGE 122] OL NYNLSY SAVG BAla UBidAV [PAGE 123] sr niffion st Daly City Sheet Metal Works Air Conditioning Gas Furnaces Sky Lights General Repairing ECoRDRn se 2qG [PAGE 125] This image contains all the information on the document Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO Me LAD i pate 7/10/47 FROM Fitch subject FLYING DISKS At request of Brigadier General George Schulgen Chief of the Requirements Intelligence Branch of Army Air Corps Intelligence Special Agent Reynolds discussed the above captioned matter with hin- on July 1947 General Schulgen indicated to Mr Reynolds that the Air Corps has taken the attitude that every effort must be undertaken in order to run down Pand ascertain whether or not the flying disks are a fact and if so to learn about them According to General Schulgen the Air Corps Intelligence are lizing all of their scientists in order to ascertain whether or not sucha nomenon could in fact occur He stated that this research is being conducted a the thought that the flying objects might be a celestial phenomenon and with view that they might be a foreign body mechanically devised and controlled General Schulgen also indicated to Mr Reynolds that all Air Corps allations have been alerted to run out each reported sighting to obtain all tole data to assist in this research project In passing General Schulgen ed that an Air Corps pilot who believed that he saw one of these objects was Proughly interrogated by General Sciulgen and scientists as well as a psy- whologist and the pilot was adamantfwe in his claim that he saw a flying disk General Schulgen advised Mr Reynolds thatthe possibility exists that the first reported sightings of the so-called flying disks were fallacious and prompted by individuals seeking personal publicity or were reported for political reasons He stated that if thi's was so subsequent sightings might be the result of amass hysteria He pointed out that the thought exists that the first reported sightings might have been by individuals of Communist sympathies with the view to causing hysteria and fear of a secret Russian weapon General Schaigen indicated to Mr Reynolds that he is desirous of having all the angles covered in this matter He stated that reports of his scientists and findings of the various Air Corps installations will be available in his office He advised that to complete the picture he desired the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in locating and questioning the individuals who first sighted the so-called flying disks in order to ascertain whether or not they are sincere in their statements that they saw these disks or whether their statements were prompted by pers nal desire for publicity or political reasons General Schulgen assured Mr Reynolds that there are no War Department or Navy Department research projects presently being conducted which could in any way be tied up with the flying disks General Schulgen indicated to Mr Reynolds that the Bureau would cooperate with him in this matter he would offer ail the facilities of hie office as to results pdhteise in the effort to identify a Yun down thi this matter Sy PA a SF Mr Reynolds advised General Schulgen tha his request would be made known to the Bureau and an answer made available to him as soon as possible [PAGE 126] dh WY TS top 2ONLSAP 40 “1430'S"N Te WHYL~QSAIZ93Y [PAGE 127] Memorandum for Mr Ladd Mr Reynolds also discussed this matter with Colonel Forney of MID Colonel Forney indicated that was his attitude that inasmuch as it has been established that the flying disks are not the result of any Army or Navy experi- ments the matter is of interest to the FBI He stated that he was of the opinion that the Bureau if at all possible should accede to General Schulgen's request tH ADDENDUM I would recommend that we advise the Army that the Bureau does not believe it should go into these investigations it being noted that a great bulk of those alleged discs reported found have been pranks It is not believed that the Bureau would accomplish anything by going into these investigations DML i [PAGE 128] July 30 1947 Mr George Pluskat 907 Seneca Avenue Brooklyn 27 New York Peetiet 72794 35 I desire to agknowledge receipt of your letter dated July 14 1947 end to express my appregiation to you for bringing this matter to my attention information set forth in your letter has been carefully reviewed maintained in this Bureau as a matter of record Tt anc vel Sincerely yours John Edgar Hoover Director Pluskat has been a previous correspondent with the Bu file*>62-0-34750 ny that the NOTE —No-record could be located in the Crime Records Section indicatio ——eorrespondent-might-be~s mental case COMMUNICATIONS OK 44 1947 P.M ARTMEN [PAGE 129] mat 907 Seng Avee BrooklyNW W9¥7 July 14th,1947 MreJ.Edgar HoovereChief,of the F.B.1 Washington,D.C Please forgive me for taking up your time,with this itemeit really isn't necessary.Yet,although everybodys tongue was wagging from the East and to the West coast,I couldn't resist putting my oar ine Dear Sir Phy Saucers in the Sky-eHeading for the Milky WayeFunny?I dont knowe i aaa We read and read and reade"“Sky Disc Derby Open to All"="Calls Saucers"Trick of Vision"="Believe it or not,27 States see those flying saucers"="Who saw the Saycers?40 States in the Game"-"Celestial Dishes sought between the Raindrops"- pind Disk'is weather kite"="Disks called chunks of Mirage"-"Report new Red Planes resemble'Flying Saucers’ -Air-liner crew reports seeing flying diske for 12 minutes".That's the way it went on,for days and dayse Please,dont remind me that this id a military problemeSoldiers fight the en- emy out in the open and away from home if possibleeThe Federal Agents(the unsung heroes)fight the ememy under cover and in their home groundseSoeHere I am These so-@alled saucers may be kites,but accortling to reports,these things didn't flutter or float,they sailed and kites don't sail,the stmanges part is they all sailed in the same direction,from West to Haste Rewards were offered,no collectors.Planes chased them,none capturedeThey had to land,no finderseSoeAs long as the Military,Scientist and Civilians deny being respomsible for this.Were doed it lead tofAn enemyeA little while back,it was mentioned somewhere that Russia had or has a contraption for their next war,em- itting sound(like a silent whistle for dogs)what it'skaxto do,th their enemy,1 don't knoweIf a country was experimenting such a weapon,the brave people of the UeSewere not scaredeThey only informed the so-called enemy how successful they shake were It could be an optical illusion,or;supposing some wnwelcomed persons,planted a few well chosen words,here and there and left the rest to am confused mind- These innocent people reporting the phenomena What confuses me is,that when we became too curious and determined to find out what they really are,those things disappeared and we found substigutes,called kiteseThese things resembling description as near as possible to the real thingd Why couldn't these things have been directed mck home again like a homisig pigeon To make sport of this thing,is md tasteeIt sort of reminds me of the boy that cried WOLF When wolf really caméeTwas sadeHe,was uisebey There sloalé ba 2aW,ageinst such jokes or expyring jp tha «vurgeThey should be a in iselsckeduvt;snould be ‘ded ge ikukded to the proper authoritiessThess less or rédiculeseWe can't take an st dang i the so-called joke seems this POOH POOH business.is no jokes At His age,Time is siows¥an,is I had in mind that the floo at ds were res rushin ponsible for sun lg ach Bast co ees eStPP4 iissourd Pla tte Columbia and nse reso Ridge inthe Eas¢ ana th 2Plus Catskill in the Easterl Verse’ she Rocky Mountains ng Steriy North,The Bly were went from West to EasteHence the Diskett hopgpen ye tseme to whatevc SSEr7yH ly Submitt This image contains all the information on the document [PAGE 130] MEMORANDUM FOR 7/23/47 There is attached a Bureau Bulletin to the Field for their assistance in handling this matter Attachment [PAGE 131] Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ey To OD IADD uy Ry pate 7/24/47 FROM Se Gy Fiteh A ai SUBJECT syria pisces” Reference is made to my memorandum to you in the above captioned matter dated July 10 1947 indicating that Brigadier General George Schulgen of the Army Air Corps Intelligence had requested that the Bureau cooperate with the Army Air Corps Intelligence in connection with the above captioned mtter The Director noted on the referenced memorandum I would do it but before agreeing to it we must insist upon full access to dises recovered For instance in the Ia case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examinstion This is to advise that Special Agent Reynolds has recontacted General Schulgen ani advised him in connection with the Director's notation General Schulgen indicated to lir Reynolds that he desired to assure Mr Hoover of complete cooperation in this matter am stated that he would issue instructions to the field directing that all cooperation be furnished to the FBI and that all dises recovered be made available for the examimtion by the FBI Agents General Schulgen pointed out to ir Reynolds that he will from time to tim make the results of the studies of his scientists available to the Bureau for the assistame of the FBI Field Offices Generel Schulgen indicated to lir Reynolds that there has been a decrease in the reported sightings of the dises which might be because of the fact that it has lost much its publicity value He indicated however that he believed it mecessary to follow this matter through to determine as mar as possible if discs were in fact seen and to determine their origin General Schulgen inquired of Mr Reynolds the method by which the Bureau would make the informtion obtained from the Bureau's inquiries known to the Air Corps in the Field as well as at the Wer Department level ir Reynolds pointed out to General Schulgen that the best procedure appeared to be through the regular established channels It was pointed out to Generel Schulgen that the Bureau Field Offices maintain close liaison with the Intelligence Divisions of the various Armies as well as close liaison with the intelligence Division of the War Department ral ee ti neh oa tae that he would be satisfied to receive information rote Beans lie SO te Gereral Schulgen indicated to Mr Reynolds that he believed that there was a possibility that this entire matter might have been started’ by subversive individuals for the purpose of creating a mass hysteria He suggested that the Bureau keep this in mind in any interviews comlucted regarding reported sigitings General Schulgen stated to Mr Reynolds that he would make available to the Bureau all informtion in the possession of the Air Corps regarding the sightings ya ch were first reported so that the Bureau could coniuct sone investigation re these individuals to ascertain their motives for reporting that they had of flying dises When General Schulgen mkes the information available regarding these individuals it will be promptly brought to Four attention Lo COPIES DESTROYED 270 NOV 18 1964 [PAGE 132] STANDARD FORM NO 64 “sy Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO DIRECTOR FBI DATE July 22 1947 FROM A‘s EL PASO SUBJECT yrs GHYNNE MOMERCHANT Informant hao FLYING OBJECTS IN AIR Mrs GWYNNE MERCHANT has come to the resident agency at Santa Fe New Mexico on several occasions to report that she has received information concerning flying objects passing through the air Some of the reports that she has received concern light objects seen at night which have allegedly been follow- ed by explosions She advised that one of such objects was reported by FRANK “BURTRAM Forest Ranger who works near Canjilon New Mexico She claims that others were seen near Park View and Tierra Amarilla New Mexico Mrs MERCHANT called attention to clippings from various newspapers concerning disc-like objects seen in New Mexico and other parts of the country ni Mrs MERCHANT claims to be a student of radio waves and ray forms and ‘contends that the above mentioned objects may be missiles similar to those appear— ing over Sweden some time ago Mrs MERCHANT has discussed the above with officials of the Atomic Energy Commission and has written the Secretary of War and other government officials concerning her theories Mr SIDNEY NEWBURGER Chief of Security and Intelligence for the A.E.C.,has advised that officials at Los Alamos consider Mrs MERCHANT unreliable and possibly not well balanced mentally She has mentioned to lagents of this office that she was ‘struck by lightning when a child On July 15 Mrs MERCHANT came to the Santa Fe resident agency and advised that she had written to WALTER WINCHELL promising him a story in connection with the flying discs The foregoing information is being submitted to the Bureau inasmuch as Mrs MERCHANT has written to several government officials and Mr WINCHELL 62-0-359h FTM GH [PAGE 133] 13S WY corso saa seh WY 49 Gy Ua WHE tp WW ie NOHLAS noswn Ganaoa8 [PAGE 134] STANDARD FORM NO 64 Office Memor dum UNITED ont GOVERNMENT TO D.M.LADD Sal DATE July 1947 iy 50 PM FROM Ke Ce vol an Yl suBjECT FLYING DISCS Miscellaneous Ye vrt SAC Weeks called from New Orleans on the matter discussed the attached teletype He wanted to know what policy the Bureau was following in connection with reports concerning these flying discs which were being received LS ZRESESESEEESEE EE I told Mr Weeks that unless advised to the contrary he should particular case at hand allow to handle md not take any jurisdiction forthe FBI He was ttold the Bureau would be interested in being kept advised of develop- ments and in copies of the photographs he said would make of the object found but that he should not allow himself to be jockeyed into a position where investigative responsibility if any were entailed wvuid fall on us Mr Weeks said he would so handle unless I called him back immediately with instructions for specific action As you will recall I called wou concerning the foregoing ECOp iG [PAGE 136] SABLE OBJECT Hield Chandler Authority MEMORANDUM FOR tt te O910 i i a tied al lat he head ng ith towards ted tl reactions Cc ol Ore prox Arms‘ ld not nore ion is brothe Armstr can be AAF Brooks 21d ‘exas for further re formate Ne clete er Lynn a A YY Fe JO ii [PAGE 137] August 19L7 PERSONAL AND whsltiet Director of Intelligence re War Department General Staff aye The Pentagon Washington 25 De Ce ‘Attention Colonel Re Forney Chief Security Group Fron John Edgar Hoover Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject MRS ARTHUR DoMaL aa Asoo There are attached hereto copies of a letter received fron the above-captioned individual concerni flying saucers rs Anderson's letter has been acknowledged and she has betn advised that copies of her letter have been furnished to you for your con- sideration [PAGE 140] UNIS WHYS LN WET gi 34 [PAGE 141] THE WRECKAGE WAS SCREENED BY AAF INTELLIGENCE FROM MCCHORD FIELD HE TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE AND THROUGH THEM THE UNITED PRESS PUT OUT A STORY THE PLANE WA A DISC WHICH HAD STRUCK A BOAT OWNED BY HAROLD DAHL AND FRED CRISMAN TACOMA WN RICHARDS ADVISED THAT TODAYS ISSUE OF THE OREGONIAN CARRIES A UP STORY STATING THAT DAHL DENIES SAYING THE METAL FRAGMENTS HE FURNISHED WERE FROM A DISC AND ANALYSIS OF THE FRAGMENTS SHOWS THEM TO BE FROM A TACOMA SLAG MILL NO AAF INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL AVAILABLE PORTLAND NO RECENT SUBSTANTIVE REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS IN THE PORTLAND AREA SEATTLE VERIFY AT MCCHORD FIELD Al AN FRANCISCO VERIFY HDQRTS SF SUBMITTING TELETYPE SUMMARIES TO THE BUREAU INVESTIGATION PORTLAND AND ACK O157AM OK [PAGE 142] IN DTS VWNYZ LN USAI393y [PAGE 143] ih U.S GEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Mr Clavie a COMMUNICATIONS SECTION ee Mr Rosom UG A947 Mr Traey bes Mr Gernon TELETYPE Mr Haxbo Mr Mohr i Mr Quinn Tamm Nease HHS i DIRECTOR AND SACS SEATTLE AND SAN FRANCISCO URGENT WN FBI PORTLAND 8-35-47 8-50 PM FLYING DISCS SM DASH RE TELEPHONE CALL FROM MR LADD ONE PM TODAY REQUESTING TELETYPE SUMMARY CONCERNING NEWSPAPER REPORTS OF RECENT REPORTED FLYING DISCS IN PORTLAND AREA AND A REPORTEI OF ARMY OFFICIALS IN PORTLAND CONCERNING FLYING DISCS LEAVERITT RICHARDS AVIATION EDITOR THE OREGONIAN ADVISED THAT A CAPTAIN WILLIAM Le DAVIDSON AND LT FRANK BROWN OF FOURTH AAF HEADQUARTERS SAN FRANCISCO WERE IN PORTLAND JULY TWENTYSEVEN LAST AND INTERVIEWED DICKARANKIN AN EXPERIENCED PILOT WHO HAD REPORTED JUNE FOURTEEN NE EN LAST SEEING A FORMATION OF TEN FLYING DISCS OVER BAKERS- IELD CALIF ACCORDING TO RICHARDS THEY HAD ALSO INTERVIEWED OLLOWING FOUR EXPERIENCED PILOTS WHO WERE AMONG FIRST WHO REPORTED EEING DISCS KENNETHMARNOLD BUSINESS MAN BOISE IDAHO CAPTAIN Es Je{SMITH AND CO-PILOT RALPHASTEVENS UNITED AIRLINES AND DAVE L0HNSON AVIATION EDITOR IDAHO STATESMAN 10 ASCERTAIN THE RECORD PURPOSE OF THENTER VEWS RICHARDS CONTACTED ae eran —puangne INDEXED OF WRIGHT FIELD OHIO BY PHONE AT ALBUOUEROUE Wh wwPegot x1m GAINED THE IMPRESSION THAT THE AAF nee THIS IMAESTIGATLON TO WASH OUT THE ee REPORTS SINCE THEY ARE “DEFINITELY NOT OF AAF ORIGIN reaps luau FIRST THE PLANE IN WHICH AAF INVESTIGATORS CAPTAIN DAVIDSON AND LT BROWN WERE RIDING CRASHED AT KELSO WASH AND BOTH [PAGE 145] Office Memor naum UNITED ite GOVERNMENT TO i IADD DATE August 1947 FROM Fitch SUBJECT Ary inc SAUCERS Special Agent S.W Reynolds of the Liaison Section contacted lieutenant Colonel Cc Martin Army Air Forces Intelligence inquiring about an article which appeared in the West Cast newspapers recently stating in substance that an airplane carrying recovered flying saucers crashed in route from Portland Oregon to Los Angeles California Colonel Martin advised Mr Reynolds that the only informtion that has been received by Headquarters of the Army Air Forces is that a CiIc Agent of the 4th Air Force& Headquarters Hamilton Field San Francisco was killed in an airplane crash The Headquarters of the Air Forces have been advised that he was ona top secret mission Colonel lartin indicated that he was under the impression that the CIC Agent was either on route to or from an interview with Mr Arnold who is om of the individuals who first saw om of the flying saucers REOORDE Colonel Martin stated that the Air FORRES Te no qaitiogal sairaes and will receive norm until the report is receive the Ath Air Foucey Colonel Martin suggested that the San Francisco Field Offife contact Colonel WA Springer Headquarters 4th Air Parcess Hamilton Field San Freie aoe who umloubtedly would be able to furnish the details regarding this matter which are at this time unknown by the Headquarters of the Air Forces Colonel lArtin pointed out to Mr Reynolds however that it was his belief that no flying saucers aa been recovered but that it was merely an attempt to reintervisw “an individua who previously had reported seeing one of the flying saucers [PAGE 147] a a ete ag 462 Washingtyn hrs “aukesha vie Attn Federal Bureau of Investigation Gentlemen Recently I have heard and read about reports of disc-shaped aircraft or whatever they are in our western regions They reminded me of a nearly forgotten incident in Germany after the war I report this to you because I feel this may be of international scope My buddy and I went on pass to see a friend of hise One evening the three of us were driving along some back roads when I sighted a strange looking object in the sky from eight to ten miles to our front and approx- imatly 5,000 feet high I immediatly stopped the jeep for a better look Phe object rapidly came toward us descénding slowly About a mile away it stopped it's horizontal motion bat continued a slow oscillating descent similar to a descending parachute Then suddenly it dropped in a spiral motion Inmediatly I drove over to where it had dropped It took almost ve ol minutes to reach the place but we saw nothing After ten minutes of cruis all ing around the area it became toodark to see so we went back to town because I am not sure my companions saw this,it happened so quickly it could easily have been missed but I described what I had seen so vividly that they were as excited as I was My fivet impression was that it was cloud as ut it was traveling at right ang Fgqsito $neowinds- The local of this incident was approxgye tly 12 miles north-west of Habberbishopshiem If necessary I will swear 40 the authenticity of this and to the shape of the object Deg Since Af fa Robert ai [PAGE 149] GF 220200 of Contents from ERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON Date 9.10.49 Case References lying Saucer Consigned tog wixon Route Box 30 Estill Sonth Carolina List of Contents Harbo 7641 Conrad 7142 VA Downing 7682 a Sizoo 7601 Baughman 7121 Powered Soap Stone COMMUNICATIONS SECT nEaisTeH MAILED N7725 vw SEP 13 1947 P.M WEJNAERU OT hosed Room place date of shipment and registry number Shipping Room show of sh BpmePatiMeNHOh ABTS this invoice then return it to person whose name is checked in column at Alter this checked name has been initialled invoice should be placed in administrative file 52 YS Dig [PAGE 150] Pow et tee erm omen wa A ait ac ans ate VOITS32 2hors mabe MA VRES I Py a eT 27 sMTAA Sey StS OP ET REESE CO [PAGE 151] August 1947 Hi ete aA Director of IntelYigence BY SPECYAL MESSENGER pr War Department General Staff The Pentagon Washington 25 PD GC Attention Colonel Forney Chief Security Group From John Edgar Hoover Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject ROBERT SROKA There are attached hereto copies of a letter received from the above-captioned individual concerning flying dises Mr Sroka's letter has been acknowledged and he has been advised that copies of his letter have been furnished to you for your consideration ONE kr Tolson ee ne See ms ee ar Eg A Tamm a NVCimjp:rb gg ge by ine TY ithe OL AGH RES IEICL a oo VY sf 1947 [PAGE 153] ko @AL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UMMPED STATES DEPARTMENT OF wna sd i To COMMUNICATIONS SECTION AUGUST 1947 Transmit the following message to ici SAC DETROIT URGENT® UNSUBS RAYMOND EDWARDYDANE MRS LAURA SANE INFORMANTS FLYING DISC MISO REURTEL AUGUST MATERIAL SHOULD NOT BE FORWARDED TO FBI LABORATORY FOR EXAMINATION BUT SHOULD BE TURNED OVER TO THE ARMY AIRFORCE INTELLIGENCE CAU VA INVES OAL DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMMUNIGATIONS SECTION AUGT 1947 270 NOV 18 1964 Se Abi fs ifia aes AMUSErt vGs [PAGE 154] Veet aUA [PAGE 155] WASHINGTON FROM NEWARK 4-47 5-36 PM EDST Ataecton ULR ESNet Deryine DISC REPORTED AT HACKENSACK NJ AUGUST THREE NINQEE br SEVEN MISC INFORMATION RECEIVED THAT CHARLES CASELLA JR xc a WEKE AGE TWENTY TWO EIGHT SEVEN EUCLID AVENUE HACKENSACK AND WILLIAM TRUEX US ARMY FT DIX NJ ON LATE AFTERNOON AUGUST THIRD LAST SIGHTED FROM GROUND OBJECT DESCRIBED AS FLYING DISC CASELLA CLAIMED IT WAS TWO HUNDRED SMM YDS IN AIRY REVOLVING SLOWLY MOVING RAPIDLY AN NEITHER A KITE NOR A BALLOpn CASELLA TELEPHONED INFORHATION TO HACK- ENSACK ee INQUIRY BE ca pe at AEN A gras phe END ony PLS a li ae iF “ati NK WA [PAGE 157] S#ANDARD FORM NO 64 Office Minded UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Director FBI DATE August 1947 SAC Norfolk susyect FLYING DISCS Re Bureau Bulletin No 42 dated July 30 1947 Series 1947 wherein information is set forth pertaining to flying discs There is enclosed with this letter a newspaper clipping from the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch dated July 1947 The photograph appearing on this clipping is alleged to represent a flying dise which wes observed by BILLY“fURRENTINE a Norfolk school boy who was successful in photographing the object with his small camera BILLY was interviewed on August 1947 by Special Agent A THOMAS CONNOR at which time BILLY informed that the original negative was given by him to a Mr BROWN of the Photo Craftsman Service who in turn furnished the negative to the International News Service BILLY advised that he has an agree ment with Mr BROW whereby the latter will share equally in any profits derived from the use of the negative by commercial firms or newspapers As of August 1947 BILLY has notreceived any remuneration for the use of this negative He informed that he was sitting on the front porch of his apartment which is located on the third floor at 410 West 14th Street Norfolk Virginia around noontime on July 1947 He had read numerous newspaper articles pertaining to flying discs and decided to sit on his front porch in the hopes of seeing one and attempting to photograph it On July 1947 BILLY observed a large black object moving rapidly through space proceeding from the southwest to a northeast direction He said the black object was followed by two smaller objects which also proceeded in the same direction BILLY explained that the objects were moving at a very fast speed which appeared to him to be much faster than the speed of an airplane and further that the objects appeared to be extremely high He said that they were much higher then the average plane travels in the City of Norfolk and appeared to be above the clouds and that a white mist followed each of the three objects BILLY was unable to state what the black objects repre- sented but admitted that they could have been large balloons He indicated that he has observed small toy balleons flying through the air but that definitely these were not the toy type balloons He said that when he first observed the objects they were At” Jsucho great distance from him that it was not necessary that reise” Kis his head in order to see them from his porch on the third Tleer of the apartment building He immediately bianca around kt obtain fa HaS ih yYED [PAGE 159] Letter to Director FBI Res FLYING DISCS August 1947 his camera and estimated it took him approximately twenty to thirty seconds at which time the discs were almost directly over his apart- ment and it was necessary that he stoop and look up almost perpen- dicular in order to obtain the photograph which accounts for the porch railing being shown in the newspaper clipping BILLY pointed out that the day on which he took the picture the weather was hazy and somewhat cloudy and there was a slight breeze blowing from the southwest in the general direction of the northeast which is the same direction traveled by the black image which he photographed Inasmuch as the Army authorities in the Tidewater Area of Virginia are cognizant of the above information no further investi- gation will be conducted by this office in this matter Enclosure TJCs:lab 62-182 [PAGE 160] Fiying Disc ‘Bigger Than Automobile’ Photographed Youth Who Is Amazed Because No One Else Saw It By hee HEBERT few seconds later didn’t look any The flying dise “was lots bigger thing like saucers than an automobile,” and 15-ye Looked Like Football old Bil Turrentine of 410 We The boy ‘stuck to his football Fourteenth Street doesn’t under-|comparison explaining’ that the stand why almost evenybody injobject was sortepf rounded more ik didn’t see it oval than disc- and that though In fact when he came to the|it wobbled in northea tward edger-Dispat ch with a photograph flight it was traveling very rapidly he had taken of the object he|about 600 miles an hour wanted to know why the newspa- He guessed that the altitudé of pers hadn't a taken sa the thing was about 5,000 feet ture of it yourf photo-|just below the clouds In color it graphers were fast,” he told a re-|was “gray ost ack,” and porter looked like a a risp,” or ig NORFOLK BOY AND PHOTO OF DISC—Bill Turrentine “15 vight tells Ledger-Dispatch reporter George Herbert left ofthe “lucky” circumstances which enabled him to take the photograph at far right of a flying disc However the boy said the object pictured here looked and moved more like a football being rounded and oval rather than dis¢-like Bill took this picture from the porch of his home at 410 West Fourteenth Street between 11 o’clock and noon Tuesday using an old camera with the shutter set at 1/100th of a second He Editor's Note Although the Maybe a rock or stone The edges Ledger-Dispatch has had many ‘re- glittered he said and seemed to be ig the “flying football” shown here was followed by two smalljr ports of flying dists and saucers in jtrailing dust Neither it nor the recent days no other person re-|two followed made any OMCs all moving at about 600 miles an hour and he guessed they wefe ported seeing the object which Tur- sound about 5,000 feet high just heloy the clouds The photograph reprodup- rentine photographed Bill said he wasn't very sur- here is an enlargement made by Photo Craftsmen In the foip- However Bill said he had done!prised when he saw the object ground of young Turrentine’s picture is the porch rail of his home some moving himself shortly but “almost killed myself” getting before xoon Tuesday when hel shots of it with his camera set at/enlargement made by Photo oe tod pokes fy ie eee es me 1/100th of a second jmen the lare biect rocking He called his 18-year-old sister Photo experts of this firm are nd Josephine to come and look but|convinced that ‘the boy did a fine parently” she didn’t believe him job with the old camera he was eq using Having closely examined the negative they said the only flaw was in the kind of film which iperhaps didn’t bring out enough and ing like a football” coming from the southwest He had jus turned from Sum jmer school classes at Maury,’ he can 2id and with the talk about put bday ae dapiieeae eye “flying saucers,” had gone ou joped CER IR ATE VEREIRE CM detail They pointed out however wih his to sea if he could Olney Road for a vial of developer hat this wasn’t really a flaw in only one negative came out well|/Ulat ths AS te ee se fan at ill's enough for reproduction view of the fact that Bill's pheto I don’t why 1ey call them ‘graph with the comparison af- fl¥ing sauce said “The big He showed a reporter a contact forded by the front porch rail and ole took a picture of and the two|print he had made himself and|the trees was certainly the best little ones that came behind it a the picture reproduced’ here is ANione taken since the ‘mysterious As the lying football” pass Bill said he took three shots wemeenares ‘discs were first renorted [PAGE 161] BOUND ROBIN mate THE FLYING ROLL San Dicgo California Jyly 1947 A MEMORANDUM OF IMPORTANCE THIS MEMORANDUM is respectfully addressed to certain scientists of distinction to important aeronautical and military authorities to a numbor of public officials and to a few publications The writer has little expectation that anything of import will be accomplished by this gesture The more fact that the data heroin wero obtained by so-called supernormal means is probably sufficient to insure its disregard by nearly all the persons addressed nevertheless it soems a pudlic duty to make it available The present writer has several university degrees and was formerly a university depart- ment head A very serious situation may develop at any time with regard to the-‘flying saucers If onc of these should be attacked the attacking plane will almost cor- tainly be destroyed In the public mind this mi ght create near panic and internat- ional suspicion The principag% data concerning these craft is now at hand and must be offered no matter how fantastic and unintelligible it may seem to minds not previously instructed in thinking of this tyne Part of the disks carry crews others are under remote control Their mission is peaceful The visitors contemplate settling on this planet These visitors are human-like but much larger in size They are NOT excarnate earth people but come from thoir ow world They do NOP come from any planet as we uso the word but from an otheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us The bodies of the visitors and the craft also automatically matcrialize on entering the vibratery sate of our dense matter Cp “apports The disks possess a type of radiant energy or a ray which will easily disintegrate any attacking ship They reenter the etheric at will and so simply disappear from our vision without trace The region from which they come is NOT the “astral plane but corres ponds to the Lokas or Talas Students of csoteric matters will understand these terms oe They probably cannot be regched by radio but can be by radar,if a signal system can be devised for that epane aay ye We give information and warning and can do no more tet\Giie newcomers ‘be eated with every kindness Unless the disks are withdraM a Sftnation iehonveaten Teen which our culture and science are incapable of ¥gsaling A heavy ccapeathe lity rests upon the few in authority who are able to understand=this matter N.Meade Layne Ps a 3615 ip Place San Diego California [PAGE 162] oguVH-daAI3 938 my we LE i.0'6 HOISIAIO agourucdy Mi a ah [PAGE 163] Tolson VA A Tamm Clegg as Coffey a bi ta Glavin Je Ladd bey F.B TELETYPE ey” etols_— Tracy OeCGon Egan Hendon____j Pennington Mr Quinn Tamm Nease Miss Gandy NASH FROM SFRAN 8-9-47 SEAT DIRECTOR FBI AND SACS FLYING DISKS SECURITY MATTER~X.- LT COL DONALD SPRINGER OF SAN FRANCISCO ADVISED TODAY HE HAS NO FURTHER INFORMATION AND THAT OUR SEATTLE OFFICE IS IN shpch he ae oe ALL INFORMATION KNOWN BY HIM AND IS HANDLING THE ER WASHINGTON» TLE AND PORTLAND URGENT KIMBALL Sagi “47 ee MG SEATTL E)_A APRTL AN ADVISED If the i soon contained in the above message is to be disseminated SA RECEIVED outside is suggested that it be suitably paraphrased in order to protec an coding systems [PAGE 165] STANDARD FORM NO 64 Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO aad 19 DATE August 197 FROM SUBJECT RECORDED py spEst [PAGE 167] FBI PORTLAND 8-11-47 t=-17 PM PST We yA fi ALRECTOR eR.t Bet aa La Ad FLYING DISCS SECURITY MATTER DASH ONE REDSHATFIELD FOR@(R NAVY PILOT AND PRESENTLY AIRPORT MANAGER MYRTLE CREEK OREGON REPORTS SEEING A MYSTERIOUS OBJECT ON TWO OCASIONS THE EVENING OF AUGUST SIXTH WHILE FLYING AT ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND FEET ABOVE MYRTLE CREEK HATFIELD TO BE INTERVIEWED BOBBITT END 5-18 PM OK FBI WASH DC GAR [PAGE 169] ecce STANDARD FORM NO 64 Office Memorandum ownirep GOVERNMENT To DIRECTOR FBI DATE August 12 1947 FROM oy3ShG MILWAUKEE SUBJECT YING DISCS SABOTAGE Reference is made to Bureau Bulletin No 42 Series 1947 dated July 30 1947 Section which advises that all reports concerning flying discs should be investigated by field offices Prior to the receipt of these instructions two instances were Called to the attention of this office concerning flying discs One report was received July 1947 the details of which are set forth in Milwaukee letter to the Bureau dated July 1947 entitled Flying Discs or Saucers Miscellaneous Telephone Call from Mr Fletcher at the Bureau at 8:30 a.m 7-7-47 No investigation was conducted concerning this report The second report was received by this office at 1:20 p.m July 11 1947 from Lieutenant Colonel HARRY SCHAEVEX who is in charge of the Civil Air Patrol of Wisconsin an auxiliary of the Army Air Forces On that occasion Colonel SCHAEFER calling fron Black River Falls Wisconsin telephonically advised this office that an object in the shape of a nineteen inches in diameter had been found July 10 1947 by one SI SON city electrician on the Jackson County fairgrounds near Black er Falls Wisconsin about 3:30 p.m The disc might be made of a substance swh as cardboard covered by a silver airplane dope material The contraption has a small wooden tail like a rudder in the back and inside of the disc is what appears to be an RCA photo-electric cell or tube Also inside the disc is a little electric motor with a shaft running to the center of the disc At one end of the shaft is a very small propeller In Colonel SCHAEIER's opinion that contraption might possibly have been made by some juvenile Golonel SCHAEFER stated that he desired to return the contraption to Milwaukee and eventually turn it over to the Army Air Forces but that the finder SIG HANSON apparently wanted to get some publicity on his find and wanted it returned to him This information was telephonically called to the attention of Assistant Director De LADD of the Bureau on July 11 1947 Subsequently SAC Ke JOHNSON telephoned Colonel FRED SIEBERT in charge of Counter Intelligence Fifth Army Chicago AC of Headquarters Fifth Army Mast Hyde Park Aveme Chicago Illinois who stated he would contact Colonel SCHAEFER of Black River Falls Wisconsin No further investigation was conducted in this matter NOV 18 1964 Uf [PAGE 170] Director 8-12-47 The above constitutes the only two instances in which this office was contacted concerning flying discs Unless contrary instructions are received from the Bureau this office does not contenplate taking any further action in connection with the above two cases but will fully investigate all future reports concerning flying discs JGF/ddc 98-0 [PAGE 171] August 1947 Mr Fred rppesiota 2315 Himebaugh Avenue Omaha Nebraska Dear Wr Reibold I wish to acknowledge receipt bf your letter post- marked July 10 1947 together with its enclosure Inasmuch as the information which you furnished is of interest to the War Department I have taken the liberty of furnishing it to that agency for their consideration Sincerely yours John Edgar Hoover Director WVCsmjpsrb REOORBED 62-83894 qe [PAGE 172] LAT ata OTE er ae Ea pS i QQ ON af fA ie copy rot co ae bal co as Taft em UNIDENTIFIABLE OW SCTS WILLIAMS FIELD CHANDLER ARIZONA’ July 19h7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE OFFICER IN CHARGE On July 1947 this Agent obtained pictures of unidentifiable objects Exhibits and from the managing editor of the Arizona Republic newspaper The pictures were taken by Mr William Rhoads 4333 ljth St Phoenix Arizona at sunset on July 197 The Subject objects flew at unconceivable speeds making three circles in the vicinity of Mr Rhoads home The pictures were taken with a box camera size 620 The photograph Exhibit was taken as the object passed in front of Mr Rhoads and Exhibit as the object turned towards Mr Rhoads The height of the object was estimated at 1000 feet AGENT'S NOTES See Exhibits and photographs of unidentifiable objects enlarged approximately 20 times No further reports have been received by this office of objects seen by military personnel Lynn Aldrich Special Agent BIC AAF FDTRC ‘ERAT a AL LSS AGata 40 uu PTA ow “SACe AUG 1947 co SAN FRANCIS to ty ua die ROUTED 10 a ae eis ee oS ee ee ‘eas [PAGE 173] HEADQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff 4-2 Intelligence Hamilton Field California 4APDA August 1947 333.5 ID SUBJECT Investigation of Flying Discs 70s Special Agent in Charge FBI Dept of Justice Suite 426 lll Sutter Street San Francisco California Incloged herewith is information copy of MOIC and newspaper clipping re subject WILLIAM GRAHAM Major Air Corps Deputy AC of Inclss MOIC Sorensen Jul 47 Newspaper clipping dtd Jul 47% Peis FEDERAL BOSLAL UF INVES TIGATIV OF uM “'SHce aug 1947 CS SAN FRANC'S er rp iaenraesienaeiaatonee ROUTED TO [PAGE 177] From the Oregoa’ Journal continued MORE SEEN LATER Several late flights of objects over Portland wore repotted Friday afvernoon A “vans 5455 SW Macadam avenue said he saw three fly east across the Williasette river near the Ross Island bridge about ee The objects did not appear high he said and were traveling so thay appearing in the woat they were out of sight in the east in two te four seconds said they resoubled metallic disks glinting in the sunlight Later ho oata he and neighbors saw a single diskelike object flying north far away aud very highe At 4:30 peme Mrs Lawrence Hayward 6124 NE 2ist Avenue reported sighting disk like a new dine flippin around” in the air over the Sandy district She said it seemed to be moving slowly PAPER RECOVERED Thomas i Dwyer 1232 NE 59th Avenue said he sighted two white or silver objects flying southeast high over Portland a few minutes before peme He reported another headed northeast over his home at a Ce Je Bagne Tigard reported thet four disks flew past Mount Jefferson at about 11 asm while he was driving near Redmond pas Sherman Cook 2000 65th aveme recovered from Nose City golf course piece of paper he said hed fallen from a great heicht in the skys Time of its fall coincided with some of the reports flying disks ‘The paper of low quality moasured 23 36 inches SILVERED DISKS DROPPED BY PLANE Aes a EUGENE July -{AP)=- A Mugene reilroed cashier suid Friday he saw ee silvered disks being dropped out of a light airplane flying over this city Ee Smith Rt Eugene an assistant cashier for the Southern Reilroad said he was driving on Eugeno street when Mes [PAGE 178] “greet PNT ST iN bass AIRLINES CREW CONFIRWS REPORTS OF FLYING DISKS FIVE SPOTTED Circumstantial reports of flying disks in the sky Friday came from the crew of a United Airlines plane over boise Idaho end a coast quards- man near Seattle as well as from Portland aree police and citizens Smith captain of the airliner told United Press that he sighted five “sonethings® which were thin and amooth on the bettom and rough appearing on top The objects eppeared against the sunset shortly after the plene took off et 32:04 poems he said “We saw them clearly,” he reported “We followed them in a north- westerly direction for about 45 miles Finally the objects disappeared We were unable to tell whether they outspéd us or disintegrated WOT AIRCRAFT We can't sny whether they were saucer-like oval or anything else the captain said “but whatever they were they were not anothor aircraft nor were they smoke or clouds.” Im Seattle Coast Guardswan Frank Ryman 27 reported to United Press that he snapped a pleture from the front poroh of his home ig showed a “white saucer flying over the north end of Lake Wa Some News Pictures New York City said a 7x9 inch erin of the photo- graph showed two tiny dots one of which was a flaw in the printe Don Metcalfe 19 Oaks Amusement park ewploye reported thet he saw several objects “like spinning disks in the sky Fridaye Hc said several ere inoluding a woman pilot noticed then In Vancouver Wash Sheriff's Deputier John Sullivan Clerence MeKay and Fred Krives heard the Portlend police radio broadcast and ran out of the sheriff's office to look at the sky Over Portland three to five miles away Sullivan said they saw 20 to 50 objects like a flight of geese They heard a low humming sound Gole Ge Re Dodson commander of the Oregon national cuard made an of this area from the air after the disks were reported here He said he saw nothing suspicious Only kmown allitary airplanes in the air at the time of the reports were 23 B-29 bombers near Astoria Despite all the reports at least two persons remained unconvinced of the existence of the disks Al Sanford Holgate moorage gave his opinion that the objects were cottonwood blossons Burl Nolleeh 64 of 6604 NH Surrage avenue telephoned the Journal to berate the newspapers for"“perpetuating a hoaxe” He said he saw objects in the esky about a minute after an airplane passed over his house To him the objects looked like bite of aluminum foil perhaps cigarette wrappers [PAGE 179] ee oh rn ieee le CAN FRANCISC poured yo i a are ll a rae i il tie Heh Fs ene ne “ilteas ie id he i pee FeeRE sas Sat i un July 1947 ue ich Portlami Gregon was interv owed Chard sanicing by this agent a be in Fe mete Te Laon eit Ts by PORTLAND ARGU 30 pay 197 [PAGE 180] RAL BUN AU GET Ves MORTON AUG 1947 Li crac “DAN PILOT RECALLS SSEINC DISCS ltéo Io os Dick Renkin Tells Of Odd Airorafts a More reports of “flying flapjacks turned up Wednesday from mo less than Dick Sanicin brother of the late Tex Rankin if an experienced pilot of more than 7000 hours flying time Rankin who is recovering from an old back injury received an automobile accident cane to Portland over the weekend to spend Bummer Se saw the silver saucers over Bakersfield Cal June 23 while lying on the lawn aun bathing he teld The Oregonian I hesitated so say mich atout them Rankin said “until I notiesd all the hullabaloo in the papers I pussled over their strange shape for a while and finelly conoluded that they were the nevy's now XPSt flapjacks which are thin and round with twin propellers and stubby ONLY ONE XPSU-1 BUILT PROM “THE OREGONIAN Thursday July 1947 ES ih fr The navy and the manufacturer have announced officially thet only one such machine was built and that it never left Connecticut These plares were flying hich maybe 9000 feet and about $00 or 400 miles an hour I first couted ten of them in aouth but there were only seven in the formation “They were not weaving or bobbing in formations I couldn't make out the number or location of their propellers and souldn'’s wings or tall They appeared almost round They looked like piotures of the navy*s flying flapjack Rankin said Rankin who plans to spend the summer here at 834 fs Ste is now able to resume a little flying for fun but not seid fie now operates a string of auto courts spending his winters at Other reports came Wednesday from Astorias Jack tayes patient Ste Mary's hospital there said he saw two of the disos weet at rapid speed and that they vanished behind the Mrs Eerl Seado Fort Stevens said she saws diso treveling north mia over Port Stevens Tuesday noon end thet other observers saw the same object The army at Port Stevens and the coast cusrd at nearby Point Adams did not see the dises The report of Centralia Wash man Wednesday coincided in matter of time with the original report made by Arnold Sidney Callagher of Contra- lia said he saw nine aluminum-hued objests north at He wae working 11 miles suuthwest of Mineral Gt the time CONFIDENIIAL COPY Ps Se Ee ed ZS [PAGE 181] eT os EL “LL Hs SEAL ATE ta NS Luk [PAGE 182] PROM THE OREGON JOURNAL July 1947 Portland Ore PROWL CARS SPOT DISKS IN SKY HERE Whatever they are there are some diskelike objects flying around in she skye eles eight Portland ares policemen end deputy sheriffs who sighted the objects Friday numerous private citizens the crew of a United Air Lines plane over Soise Idaho and a coastguardenan who clains to have photographed one near Seattle are all wrong In Portland the alert was sounded over police radio at 1:06 poems Friday efter the Dast Side station received a score of calls that the disks wore overhead Within seconds two prowl cars reported spotting the mys tery craft PLASHES SEEN NOISK LACKING Piret to report in were Pavrclmen Walter Lissy and Roberts Ellis in Car lio 82 who stopped near Owks Park Both World War II veterans and civilinn pilots they sigated three of the objects within 50 seconds trav- eling at great height and speed over the park They reported they heard no engine noises but saw flashes The objects seemed erratic and changed direction of flighte The patrolmen agreed that without knowledge of the Size of the objects it would be impossible to judge their speed or altitude Patrolman berl Patterson in car lo 15 stopped at SE 62d averme and Foster road to look eastward from there the disks were reported Telephone calls located thom coming out of the sun He saw nothing but a few seconds later observed one coming out of the west and heading southwest ‘The craft seemed to vo uluainua or oggshell white and didn't flash or reflect light he snide Ps a OBJECTS UNIDENTIFIED A former aircorps veteran he seid the objeot was unlike any plane he'd ever seen He thought it appeared radio-controlled because the disk could change direction at a 90-decree angle without difficultys Members of the harbor patrol at the foot of NW Irving street stepped out when they heard the all-car alert Capt A Prehn Harbor Pilot A Ts Austed and Patrolman Hoff all saw the objects and said they appeared to be going south high over the Globe mills at terrific speed Capte Prehn said the flashes kept them from ascertaining whether there were three or six The disks would oscillate and sometimes we would see a full disk then ea half-moon shape then nothing at all he reported The objects locked more like a shiny chromium hub cap off a car which wobbled disappeared and reappeared There was a plane in the sky at the that the diske were not planes EDERAL BUREAU Gr INVESTIGATION OF TMeENT SSUuCE AUG 1947 a matritTt SAN FRANCISCO nt a Se A aPHOGTED SO PSS AS a a it Ld peed tis [PAGE 183] i dk me CANMTbtT UNEXPLAINED FLYING DISCS July 1947 This agent interviewed A Lisay and Ellis both Patrolman Portland City Police Department and both possess private pilots licenses Both officers advised that upon hearing the redio alert they saw three flat round dises having a white color to them These discs were according to these officers flying at a terrific speed in a Southerly direction away from Portland They desoribed them as flying in straight line formation the last disc fluttering very rapidly in a side wey arc They further advised the disos were equally spaced and kept in formation Both officers estimated the disos altitude at 40,000 feet They saw no evidence of any motivating powers and vapor trails or sxoke trails Soth officers stated these discos wore traveling fast they were out of sight before any detailed observa- tion could be made or any sound could be heard AGENT’S NOTE All informants mentioned herein are know to this agent as very dependadle and trustworthy officers not being afflicted with halluci nationse The weather in the Portland area at this time was clear with little or no cloud formations being visable from the ground Ground temperature at this time was 82 degrees Fahrenheit Keith A Sorensen S/A CIC Sixth Army AE Ce [PAGE 184] STIADAT ae ae ae CD Se UNEXPLAINED FLYING DISCS daly 1947 MEMORANDUM FOR THE OFFICER IN CHARGEs le At 1505 July 1947 a radio alert was issued via the Portland City Police Radio advising all cars and listeners that some fast flying objocts were in the air over Portland and vicinity Upon contacting the radio dispatcher this agent was advised that Kenneth NoDowell Patrol- man Portland City Police Department residing at S16 Bush Street Portland Oregon on duty at Precinct Portland City Police pyres ti Morrison at 10th Avenue had called in advising the dispatcher of the objects This agent interviewed Officer MoDowoll who stated at approximately 1505 July 1947 he was on duty at Preoinot and was in the parking lot back of the Police Station feeding the pidgeons At this time the pidgeons became very excited over something and fluttered in the air all at once Offieer MeDowell stated in lookin eround to see what had disturbed hepa wl he saw five lerge dises in the eir to the Fast of Portland two discs ee and three flying in en Fasterly direction Officer MeDowell stated he could determine no color to the dises but advised they were dipping in an up and down oscillating motion and were traveling at a creat speed He was unable to rive an estimate of the speed or altitude of these dises as they were out of sicht before any detailed observation could be made Officer MeDowell ad- Vised he notified the Police Radio who immediately broadeast an slert Officer MeDowell advised hs saw no indication of any motivating force or heard any sound coming from these disos and could give no desoription other than round This agent interviewed Sergeant Claude Cross Oregon State Police Officer on duty at District Number Station Milwaukie Oregome Cross stated upon hearing the radio alert he went outside and upon looking im an Eacterly direotion he saw three disos “ollowing each other at an undetermined altitude and at terrific speed traveling in a Northwesterly direction Cross advised he noticed a “whitish brown glint to these objects as the sun reflected from them Cross wes unable to give any other description nor could he judge the objects speed or altitude No sound was made by the objects This agent interviewed farl Patterson Patrolman Portland City Police Department and residing at 124 Southeast 13th Avenue Portland Patterson advises he was a former Air Corps pilot during the ware Te that the time the radio alert sounded he was at Southeast 82nd and Foster Road Portland and upon getting out of his car he saw one diso flying ina Southwesterly direction over Portland Patterson advised this dise was alumi- num in color left no vapor trail or smoke trail and wes traveling at a terrie fie speed faster than he has ever seen any flying object before Patterson further advised although not kmowing the exact sise of the object it is diffie oult to detérmine the altitude he estimates altitude at 50,000 feet Patterson further advised the flying disq Yr iy some oan ae craft but he could not give any further descrigtion as i vation difficult He heard no sound emitted the fl lob Keith A Sorensen CIC Sixth Arny SAN FRANCICC cc 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