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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 01

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 69 pages · text by OCR

This is the first part of an FBI file on flying discs, made up of internal memoranda, teletypes, letters from the public and news clippings from July and August 1947. Field offices report sightings and several objects that were recovered, including a disc found at Black River Falls, Wisconsin, and a North Hollywood device that Army G-2 called a hoax. Other items cover a Norfolk boy's photograph and the Tacoma plane crash tied to Dahl and Crisman. Director Hoover forwarded several letters to the War Department.

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p. 21 …AND IS HANDLING THE MATTER AT TACOMA, WASHINGTON. If the intelligence contained in the above message…
p. 26 WASHINGTON 1 FROM NEWARK 8-4-47 5-36 PM EDST JFG DIRECTOR U R G…
p. 30 ## O Director of Intelligence War Department General Staff The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. Attention: Colonel…
p. 34 ## Q August 1, 1947 Director of Intelligence War Department General Staff The Pentagon Washington 25, D…
p. 41 …Hoover.Chief,of the F.B.I. Washington,D.C. ## Dear Sir; Please forgive me for…
p. 46 FLYING DISCS SIGHTED BY TACOMA, WASHINGTON, SM X. REURTEL INSTANT DATE. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT DID…
p. 51 washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Hoover: The enclosed came to my husband yesterday. After reading it…
p. 53 …DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMMUNICATIONS SECTION JUL 18 1947 TELETYPE WASHINGTON FROM BOSTON. 3 18 10-53P…

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Cases discussed

The Maury Island Incident 1947
plane was carrying parts of a disc which had struck a boat owned by Harold Dahl and Fred Crisman, Tacoma
The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave 1947
numerous flying disc reports across the US, July and August 1947

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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 69 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.