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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. 1 …Is Baffled By Dazzling Display Of Spooky Discs The strange things that have been in night…
  • p. 2 …FLYING DISCS SIGHTED MAY 5, 1947 BETWEEN ELLENSBURG AND SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 22112 Montana State Prison, Doer…
  • p. 3 …REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS Dear Sir: Grace I am transmitting herewith copies of a "restricted" letter…
  • p. 5 (D) FLYING DISCS --Effective immediately, the Bureau has discontinued its investigative activities as outlined in Section…
  • p. 8 …L. & R., by des Aro Foundation; sale of information on flying discs. Reference is made to…
  • p. 9 …L. & R., by the Arc Foundation; sale of information or flying discs. Federal Bureau of Investigation…
  • p. 10 …FLYING DISC SIGHTED July 29, 1947, near CANYON FERRY, MONTANA. BY SECURITY MATTER - X 67C Enclosed…
  • p. 12 …above the ground, a bright disc hovering and fluttering in the air. Descending and rising through…
  • p. 13 …FLYING DISCS. Remytel tenth instant. On September 10, 1947 an item relative to flying saucers appeared…
  • p. 15 …with the so-called "Flying Sancer" or "Disc". These specimens, therefore, are considered as part of…
  • p. 19 …the investigation of reported sightings of flying discs. My attention has been called to instructions disseminated…
  • p. 20 …FLYING DISCS The Bureau was requested by the Air Forces Intelligence to assist the Air Forces…
  • p. 21 …Cooperation of FBI with AAF on Investigations of "Flying Disc" Incidents. TO: Commanding Generals, First, Second…
  • p. 27 …FLYING DISCS Informant 67C Reference is made to your letter dated August 11, 1947 in the…
  • p. 28 …It is possible, therefore, that the entire flying disc theory was conceived by 67c OAG:lab…
  • p. 29 …Flying Discs. Internal Security August Fourteen Nineteen Fortyseven Seattle Post Intelligence Published Article to Effect that…
  • p. 31 …the first to sight the alleged flying discs. He indicated that he desired that the investigation…
  • p. 32 …Flyind Disc. On 25 July 1947, was interviewed at his residence, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, relating to…
  • p. 39 …FLYING DISCS Refer teletype to the Bureau dated August 15, 1947. Enclosed please find the newspaper…
  • p. 41 …scription of the flying discs seen by him and his son, Keith, 8, and Billy, 10…
  • p. 42 …speculation has ranged from mention that the disc could be army or navy guided minile experiments…
  • p. 48 …FLYING DISCS INTERNAL SECURITY. NEWSPAPER SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER CARRIED ARTICLE ON AUGUST TWELVE OF REPORT OF…
  • p. 49 …FLYING DISCS SIGNED BY 67C TAGOIA, WASHINGTON SECURITY MATTER - X Re Seattle tels August 7, 1947…
  • p. 50 …Flying Discs - Tacome, Mn. of the information available regarding the disc fragments and that he understood…
  • p. 51 …Flying Discs - Tacoma, Wn. stated he received a telephone call from the press upon returning to…
  • p. 52 …Flying Discs - Tacoma, on. He stated that the next morning he received a call from a…
  • p. 53 …to continue his investigation into the flying discs. This letter is also being enclosed to the…
  • p. 54 Director, FBI Flying Discs - Tacoma, Wr. get to the bottom of the flying discs story as…
  • p. 68 …REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS 67c ATTENTION: ASSISTANT DIRECTOR D. M. LADD On August 27, 1947, Lt…
  • p. 69 …AT GREAT HEIGHT, WHICH APPEARED TO BE DISCS, AND AT SAME TIME HEARD ROAR SIMILAR TO…
  • p. 70 …REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS Reference is made to my letter dated August 26, 1947. Enclosed is…
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# '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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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. 77 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.