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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 04
Federal Bureau of Investigation · 77 pages · text by OCR
This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section collects 1947 records on flying disc reports, including field office memoranda from Butte, Seattle, Salt Lake City and San Francisco on sightings in Washington, Montana, Utah and Idaho. Several were attributed to burnt paper or weather balloons, and Wright Field judged debris from a Danford, Illinois farm a hoax unconnected to Project Mogul. After the Army Air Forces described FBI work as chasing "ash can covers, toilet seats and whatnot," the Bureau discontinued its flying disc investigations and referred reports to the Air Forces.
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- p. 2 …Director, FBI
SAC. Butte
DATE: September 27, 1947
SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS SIGHTED MAY 5, 1947 BETWEEN…
- p. 3 …Francisco 2, California September 19, 1947
Director, FBI
Attention: Assistant Director D. M. LADD
HE: REPORTS…
- p. 6 …DIRECTOR, FBI
FROM : SAC, SEATTLE
DATE: Sept. 12, 1947
SUBJECT: FLYING DISKS Reported by BRUCE ARLSTRONG…
- p. 10 …UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO DIRECTOR, FBI
FROM : SAC, SEATTLE
DATE: September 13, 1947
SUBJECT: FLYING DISC…
- p. 13 …Director, FBI
FROM : SAC, Salt Lake City
SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS.
Remytel tenth instant.
On September 10…
- p. 15 …McCoy, which were obtained by the FBI and given to Lt. Col Garrett, were examined to…
- p. 16 …This information and attached photograph may be transmitted to the FBI to inform various agencies throughout…
- p. 19 …Forces would interview responsible observers while the FBI would investigate incidents of disos found on the…
- p. 20 …This letter is entitled "Cooperation of FBI with AAF on Investigations of 'Flying Disc' Incidents."
This…
- p. 21 …Cooperation of FBI with AAF on Investigations of "Flying Disc" Incidents.
TO: Commanding Generals, First, Second…
- p. 22 …Director, FBI
DATE: September 18, 1947
WEROM : SAC, Philadelphia
SUBJECT: FLYING OBJECT REPORTED OVER PHILADELPHIA AUGUST…
- p. 25 …Director, FBI
FROM : SAC, Anchorage
SUBJECT: Flying Disks
DATE: 9-17-47
Reference is made to…
- p. 26 Letter to Director, FBI Re: Flying Disks
In conclusion, the second officer pointed out that one…
- p. 27 …Director, FBI
DATE: September 20, 1947
FROM : SAG, Chicago
-SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS
Informant 67C
Reference is…
- p. 30 …WILCOX
END
SHOLD PLS
9-28 PM OK FBI WASH DC GAR
- p. 39 …notor FBI
FROM SAC Butte
SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS
Refer teletype to the Bureau dated August 15…
- p. 45 …Nease
Miss Gandy
WASHINGTON 17 FROM PHILADELPHIA
9-30 PM DST
DIRECTOR FBI URGENT
FLYING OBJECT…
- p. 48 DIRECTOR FBI ROUTINE $\textcircled{1}$
BRUCE ARMSTRONG. M. A. NICHOLS. FLYING DISCS INTERNAL SECURITY.
NEWSPAPER SEATTLE…
- p. 49 …Director, FBI
FROM : SAC, Butte
SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS SIGNED BY 67C
TAGOIA, WASHINGTON
SECURITY MATTER - X…
- p. 50 Director, FBI Fe: Flying Discs - Tacome, Mn.
of the information available regarding the disc fragments and…
- p. 51 Director, FBI Re: Flying Discs - Tacoma, Wn.
stated he received a telephone call from the press…
- p. 52 ## C
Director, FBI
Re: Flying Discs - Tacoma, on.
He stated that the next morning he received…
- p. 54 Director, FBI Flying Discs - Tacoma, Wr.
get to the bottom of the flying discs story as…
- p. 68 …DIRECTOR, FBI
FROM : SAC, SAN FRANCISCO
DATE: August 28, 1947
SUBJECT: REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS
67c…
PRICE: 5 CENTS
# 'Flying Saucers' Reported From 39 States, But Seem To Be Concentrated Here
## City Is Baffled By Dazzling Display Of Spooky Discs
The strange things that have been in night skies since June 25 were over Birmingham last night.
On one thing everyone who has seen the mysterious objects agree they are round, saucer-like. After that, every story differs. Each of the hundreds of callers who reported witnessing the baffling sky demonstrations here last night had a different version of what they saw.
Some said the objects were large, some small. They were moving at great speed. They were suspended in the air. There was sound along with their movements. They moved noiselessly through the black sky. They were at great distance from the earth. They had fallen to the ground. They were in perfect formation. They were colliding with each other.
But whatever the things are that have set the nation agog since first reported 12 days ago by a man in Washington State, they definitely were over the Magic City last night. It seems, in fact, that more Birmingham residents saw the objects than in any other place.
REPORTS BEGAN coming into the Age-Kerald city room around 8 o'clock last night. For more than an hour thereafter, the place was bedlam. The switchboard operators were swamped with calls. Report
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