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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. 17 …FLYING DISCS
SABOTAGE
Reference is made to Bureau Bulletin No. 42, Series 1947, dated July 30…
- p. 18 …which this office was contacted concerning flying discs. Unless contrary instructions are received from the Bureau…
- p. 19 …DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
AUG 11 1947
## TELETYPE
KAM
FBI PORTLAND
FLYING DISCS. SECURITY MATTER…
- p. 23 …FLYING DISCS
Re Bureau Bulletin No. 42, dated July 30, 1947, Series 1947, wherein information is…
- p. 24 …FLYING DISCS August 8, 1947
his camera and estimated it took him approximately twenty to thirty…
- p. 25 # Flying Disc 'Bigger Than Automobile' Photographed By Youth Who Is Amazed Because No One Else Saw…
- p. 26 …DIX, NJ ON LATE AFTERNOON AUGUST THIRD LAST SIGHTED FROM GROUND OBJECT DESCRIBED AS FLYING DISC…
- p. 28 …NO RECENT SUBSTANTIVE REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS IN THE PORTLAND AREA. SEATTLE VERIFY AT MCCHORD FIELD…
- p. 30 …from the above-captioned individual concerning "flying discs."
letter has been acknowledged and he has been…
- p. 32 …Federal Bureau of Investigation Gentlemen;
Recently I have heard and read about reports of disc-shaped…
- p. 33 …INFORMANTS, FLYING DISC, MISC. REURTEL AUGUST 5 MATERIAL SHOULD NOT BE FORWARDED TO FBI LABORATORY FOR…
- p. 37 …called attention to clippings from various newspapers concerning " disc-like" objects seen in New Mexico and…
- p. 38 …Fitch
SUBJECT FLYING DISCS
Reference is made to my memorandum to you in the above captioned…
- p. 41 …We read and read."Sky Disc Derby Open to All"-"Calls "Saucers"Tr of Vision"-"Believe…
- p. 45 …that a great bulk of those alleged discs reported found have been pranks. It is not…
- p. 46 FLYING DISCS SIGHTED BY TACOMA, WASHINGTON, SM X. REURTEL INSTANT DATE. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT DID…
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(B) FLYING DISCS -- The Bureau, at the request of the Army Air Forces Intelligence…
- p. 52 …The Combined and Amalgamated Committee of Sky-Scanners, Disc Decipherers and New-Product Introducers.
- p. 59 …SAC, Butte
SUBJECT FLYING DISCS
of the Idaho Daily Statesman, Boise, Idaho, telephonically contacted the Butte…
- p. 60 …RECOVERY OF "FLYING DISC",
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA,
JULY 9, 1947
On the evening of July 9…
- p. 61 …RECOVERY OF "FLYING DISC", NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, JULY 9, 1947
On the following day, July 10…
- p. 65 …FELLING SAUCERS (DISCS) INFORMATION CONCERNING
5:45 AM this date, SAC Hood telephonically contacted the Bureau…
- p. 66 …Despite the fact that this letter refers to "flying discs", it is not believed that the…
- p. 67 …papers) to keep all news of those discs out of the news until you are sure…
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