UFO Part 2 of 16 (FBI Vault file)

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Offce Memoßndum ,
TO
PROM :
UNITED
GOVERNMENT
DATE:
July 11,
Ebo
—mister f the Butte Office called at noon today and
Twin Falls,
stated that a
Idaho, at 2 ; lb a.m. Yount.ain Time to ay eara a noxse xn the back of
She thought a collision had occurred and and
her home,
found in the back yard of the home next door an object as follows:
A disc in diameter, circular in shape, it is dished like a
saucer and actually there is a saucer within a saucer in the manner of
csmbals, Cn one surface there is attached a plastic dome described as about
in diamier and affixed by 8 bolts in a rather routh manner, The bolts
On the other surface is
can best be described as similar to stovo bolts,
another dome of metal which is gold in color on one • Bide and on the inside Is
silver in color, which looks like tin, Through the plastic dome can bc ob—
served threo 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
IL" in thiclmess, There is object on it similar to electric coil mich
has some type of an am on it and bears the words n Inspected TSil, Some of
the wiring has been burned off and it looks as though something might be
missing,
stated that if this the york of some prankster
he went to quite a bit of trouble, He stated the press is aware of this
incident, He stated that the. disc had been picked up and was now at the
Police Department, Tyin Falls, Idaho. He was instructed to notify the local
Amor authorities ot' the existence of this disc.
RECORDED
IrDEXED
't7 d(fL
I-DP :

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Tåi•on
Olu'in
Rosen
r. Haruo
2947
rocr letter dated J.z2V 2947,
boo bean received and J do vant $0 thank
you tor into rzatiön, cvaS2cb1e
*o me. in±eré8t cpprcc!ated,
Since." el
r,dcar Koo ver
Director
FRY enjo
AMMUNICATfONS SECT'ON
M A ! LED 11
YUL 11 1947 P.M.
OF INVE8T16ATlOX •
U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF JIMICE
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[redacted]  b7C
Asbury Park, New Jersey

7/6/47

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

For your information & for what
ever value it may be I should
like to report seeing one of these
"Flying Discs" on July 4. It appeared
to have started from the dance hall
here at Asbury Park & momentarily
I thought it was a balloon but it
went in a definite direction at an
apparently constant speed &
gradually ascending following a path
similar to the trajectory of a
bullet but more pronounced. It
disappeared in the distance going north
along the shore line. [redacted? / illegible: Mr. Glenn
Miller & Ted Remecki [?] were present]
at the dance hall.
  I hope this may be of some help
to you.
                                Yours very truly,
                                [redacted]  b7C
                                Jersey City 7, N.J.

[stamps: RECORDED; INDEXED; 1947; handwritten notes: "Nmd ack 7/10/47 FRK", initials; "(4)"; file number "62-93894-20"]

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U, & DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
CWUNlCArtCNS
Mr.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Y F THIS DAT:: COMING FROM
DISC
•ICKED UP DISC AT
LINC IN
OUT
ISSUED
AFTER WENT OUT,
DiS3 PICK--'D UP t.tCT
Tt,'EY
T H iN AL Di.bC SIX
COILS TWO INCHES IN AND INCES
. : COILS CCPFD
AT TH'„:
OF
TC TWO
.AC'.:' cclu AND THESE WIRES AT THE CROSSING IN THE
To AN OBJECT CNE IN DIAMETER BY TWO INCHES LONG,
FLCU.QESCENT LICHT,
CENTER
SOUND
SIDE TOWARD In FLIGHT.
OL•JZCT
L IKE A
"HISTLE
- FIELD
1 OF ALL DISC or-
CU'CljRED'. F n LD
PHOTOS. •
FOKWAa.D EQOTOS TO BUREAU.
pazss OF rac-
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FBI DOLLAS
CINCINNATI
_FLYiNG Disc, INFORMATION CONCERNING.
EIGHTH AIR FQRCF., TELEPHON
HEADQUA TERS
PURPORTING TO BE A FLYING DISC WAS RE COVERED NEAR ROSWEIL,
MEXICO, THIG THE DISC IS HEXAGONAL IN SHAPE AND SUSPENDED
FROM A PAI.l.nN BY CABLO EALLOIC 'JAS APPROXIMATELY
FEET IN DIAMETER.
FURTHER ADVISED .THAT THE OBJECT
FOUND RESEMBLES A HIGH ALTITUDE WEATHER BALLOON WITH VA RADAR
REFLECD.R, BUT THAT TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION THEIR OFFICE
WRIGHT DISC AND
EALLOON BEING TRANSPORTED TO WRIGHT FIELD EY SPECIAL PLANE FOR EXA.'fi1UAT
IL".'FORMATION PROVIDED Tills OFFICE BECAUSI• NATIONAL INTEREST IN CASZ .
AND FACT THAT NATIONAL EROADCASTING COMPANY, ASSOCIATED PRESS,
OTHERS ATTEMPTING TO BREAK STORY OF LOCATION OF DISC TODAY.
ADVISED WOULD REQUEST WRIGHT FIELD TO ADVISE CINCINNATI
NO FURTHER INVESTICAt10N $1NG
OFFICE RESULTS OF EXAMINATION,
CONDUCTED,
REØRDED
n D JIG. 22
C.:XXX AC'..IN
FBI •cr MJW
b-22 0K FDI

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Offce Mem
n, IADD
FROM :
SUBJECT:
ndum •
UNITED d>-CES GOVERNMENT
DATE: July 12,
Reference is made to
memorandu.m to you
11, in the above-cap one ma ter.
At 11:55 P.M., July 11, I took a phone call from
of the laurel, Maryland, Police Department, Serge t
said that he had examined the disc." He said that it
ad been made from a Gulf Oil sign and the top of a gaPoage can and
had been painted Yi th altm.ini,m paint. It had been recently painted
because the paint tzs still wet, Attached to it were a dry cell
battery, a flashlight bulb, sone and a buzzer, He asked if
the Bureau was sending anyone out to look at it.
1 told that
we were not, that we had referred the matter to the and
suggested that he call them,
I subsequently telephoned Captain— the Duty
Officer at æ2, passed on to him the infomation furm.ished b
Roo.
Sergeant Lonis,
FPG:Jc
ü',5b
Ji'L i 7 '"7

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Offce Memorandum •
UNITED STArES GOVERNMENT
July II, 1947
DATE:
FROM
SUBJECT:
D. M. LADD —D
SAC Johnson cf the Milwaukee Office called to advise he had
E : Ol.n%—....—-,
Trzey
R.oøa
Suet Cali from Colonel — Reserve
Officer with the Civilian Air Patrol, Black River Falls, Wisconsin,
that at 3:30 p.m., July 10, one—
Colonel
at Black River Falls, Wisconsin, had found a large
17" disc which appeared to have been possibly nade Out of cardboard
painted üth silver alrpiane dope, In the center •as a tube and a Ø /
email motor with a propellor attached to the 'ide. Colonel—
ocpressed the opinion that this diec would not be able to fly by
itself, He advised it would be taken to the Air Crps Headquarters.
however, —id not want to release
the disc without FBI approval.
I Yr. Johnson to advise the Air Corps officer
to get in touch with Golone•nd teii him he saw no reaaon for
the Btreau attZQt to eecure the release of the material since it
vas not In our custody and we had no control. He stated the press was
algo calling concaning mattere I irutructed him to make no
comment to the press,
37 JUL

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Offce Men --:ündum
SUBJECT:
UNITED OTES GOVERNMENT
DATE; Jüy 1.1, 1947
roisoa
G Xavi n
Rosen
Äroo
At 10:45 pu on the of July 11, 1947, the E:
Ash*ngton Held Office called and stated that at the instbuction ur,
to the Bureau information he had just
Roo.
L effect
•and the
was appamntly 80 excited he had
a difficult tire even getting his name out, and no further detail could be obuined
fre
At 10:50 PX I paesed the above Infomatlon on to — duty offic
at GQ indicated he had algo received the ume data from another nurce, md
of the AP caned at about 10:55 PM and Whether üe
Bureaa had received arv report on a "flying discm In l.aurel Mawlana, After
with ur. Nichols I hin we had. received euch a report and had passed
It on to authonties,
KCH:H
JUL '947

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*Liu-a
814
HOTEL WOODSTOCK
WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS
4 Mae-Z./
a.JL-c.Å..e
&4.4--..' 4-a..<..e

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[begins mid-letter] them - total information -

Now this woman may only be
guessing but it should not be passed
up - The name she gave me -
[redacted] [redacted]
Milwaukee, Wis. (W. [redacted])  b7C

Why do we wait till we are destroyed or
nearly so before we act -
If we aren't ready in 3 seconds the
next war will end all - I seem to see it
Ready in there latest event -
Let our war dept. take notice - Its no time
to sleep - We should secretly draft men - have
all of our guns set for a moments notice -
We must be ready. But can we afford
to wait of Russia flew destroying
us in one shot? Why not let the
have it and have it in big doses
final - Thats the only way I can
see us coming out of it at all -
                        Sincerely
                                    2  [initials]

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[envelope, image rotated 90 degrees; 3 cent stamp; postmark "[...]OSTO[...] ILL." 1947 partly legible; large scribbled-out block at left]
Mr. Edgar Hoover.
F. B. I.
Washington, 1, D.C.

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Offce Menpoßndum ,
to
SUBJECT:
.10
DIIECTCR, FBI
ELYING DISCS Oit SAUCERS
UNITED GOVERNMENT
DATE: July 8, 1947
ITTSIJT10118
TELEPHONE CALL FROM
AT 8:30 Alf, 7/7/47
Attached are nevzpaper clippings from
Sentinel }fflwaukoe Joumal of July 7, 1947.
For the Bureau's infomntlon, United Pmss and Associated
Press telephorbd me at residence about thNe or four tings between
1:00 A.M. a-xd 2:30 Jul , 1947, Tho Unitod Press representative
infomed that Father JOSEm had stated on interview by a
kilt?aulcee Sentinel reportor, o BIIJ WEEKS, (Phonetic) that he,
Father was coinc to call the FT31 concexminc contraption,
which apparently was identical with one of the flying discs recently
publicizcd thmuülout the count27, me United Press representative
desimd to if had any statanent to Nke on the netter. I
infomed hin that I had no official comnent, other than ttNo
Since I have contacted tho United Press represantative on
various occasions, I asked him Rhat the actual detdls were, o.nd hc
stated he did not know excopt that the of the priest reflected
that a circular saw had been fourd with some devices attached to it,
The Associated Press called shortly after tlz United
Pross representative did, and on bcir€ advised that I had no conmwnt
to m.alce concerning the story, I asked the Associated Press repNsenta—
tive what the actual facts were, uld infom•ed that as far as
Associated Press was concemed, the facts were that a cimular saw had
been fourd end a story had been obtai1Ed from a priest Tho Yed been
drirddnc quite heavily, The Associated Press repmsentative Infomed
that apparontly the United Pmss deshgd to get a statonent, from
donylnc or affim•dng that the FBI was im.rest.igating the matter, I
infomed the Associated Press representative that apparently someorE
suffering under a misinterpmtation of any cament I Iud made, and
gone out sorvices (O d' a had
I than to op Wned repy€sentat.tva, Who
apparently in tho FEantÜne had b60fi by • Che Associated Presg
in an offort to stmichton out the United Press,
Yo vras
node to the nl in the }.fflraukoo Sontinel article appearing July 7,
1947, but the l,L1waukoe Joumal article, Thich' is attached,
to alleged statersnt by Fat,YBr BMSKY that he attompted to got {r,
touch tdth FBI he knows. Fathor 13FWS}ff has rw.per con—•
tacted the Uilwavkee FBI Office .or any Agent corcominc his find,
Es just another hoax gtoxv, sinc.o a p tograpl /
fies i r • on by
r R*SKY Tith the indicates no basis
62—0

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'SaüCe*tories
Disk Found Is
toward
che said. It wu flying high and
zppeared illuminated, •ceording to
Hottman.
"It looked tike •mall meat plat.
ter," Mrs. Hoffman auerted.
Glenn Rowden ot Detroit Glaimed
he nw a Nsaucer," about 50 inch"
in diameter, over Billy Mitchell field
•t 10:05 p.m. when he alighted trom
an airplane. He •ald it wu in •ight
tor 90 seconds.
William Humphrey. who 1 i v •a
witb wife in quonaet hut at
3148 S. 20th •t, telephoned police
at 9 p.m. Sunday tbd
Humphrey had seen. •lightly iBu-
minated diak which..ppear•d to tan
to earth neat Pulaakl bigh school.
Mn. Humphrey said Monday that
8,
04
Priest Hears a 'Ban
Discovers a Circular
Blade With Tee t h'
Other Disks 'Seen'
Actgrø on Picture Page
be *what it?" which Father
J ph Brasky Bid be Kound early
nday on the lawn of Bt. Joseph's
Catholic church Ia Gratton may be
liut another gadget to add to
ther BrukYo "ready sizable col.
lection.
Thoe caw it Sunday •aid
"what It wu a circular saw
üiLde with a tew wires attached.
Father Brasky, who satd h' knew
no •awrallia In the would Döt
claim ib •u • "flying uueer" *hen
he called mw•papermen .to hiJ
' bome.
"Xt may or may not one or those
, flying disk' that have been report-
Ie all over the country," he •aid.
t" lust call It • •what It?'
Meanwhile, in Milwaukee and
her points in Wiaeon•in, •ev al
rsono reported seeing the "fly ng
saucers." Father BrukY• dl•k,
however, wu the only ease here in
{which the "Izndlng" of a "oaueer'
wu reported.
Hear-o "Bang," Finds Disk
FLther Brasky gave •he follow-
mg •ccount of how he found the ob-
lect. a •teel plate 19 lncbu In dl-
•meter, •bout an eighth of an inch
thick •nd vith •aw teeth.
usually get up ab01R S a.m. on
Sundays. I •t the front door
of my house, •bout to tske my dog
out for a walk, 'when I heard a
'bang!' Ilke • blg tlrecr•ckers I
Itoptkd outside •nd found thia
on thc church lawn.
"Although the grau wu 'till wet
Father Bruky sald b' did not
bother to •how the disk to any ot bia
pari8hionen Sunday. He tried to
telephone an FBI agent whom he
knowa but was unable to reach him
Sunday, he added. Asked whether
it could have been the work of •
practica) joker, Father Brasky re-
plied: "Could bc. X don't know."
The dlak,• apparently of •tee], bad
one and three-eighth inch' bbie in
her buband tried uuucceufull* to I
the center. Through it ran tew photograph thc disk.
wires. To each end of the cluter
of wlrea wu attached looked
Ilke a small condenser about three.
inches long. The condenserlike ob-
Jects were wrapped in black tape
which •till wu 'ticky. The disk was
greuy •nd ' om •what dirty.
Stamped on it •u: "Approved.
Dunlap."
Father Bruky declined to pag
with the di8k. He 'bowed a numBet
of it.ema in his trinket collection.
All of them had oomething eo do
with fighlng, Father Bruky'8 favor.
ite sport. They included hia "bau
bottlea," bear bottlea with the head
of a ti•h — and a fish pole trom
Manila •hich fold' up Into a cane.
Whcn opened, it extenda to 12 feet.
use it in reaching folk' w
can't be touched witb 10 foot pole, t
' Father Brasky quipped.
Others Report "Uuoors"
Father Bruky also pused out
copies of bio recent • publication,
Tale,."
"I'm going to revin thia tbing,"
be explained. "I've got eomo now
and better tale. to put in it."
There •ere other report' around
Milwaukee and Wiecojuln ot "tly•
ing uucera." X". Anthony Hott-
man, 8410 W. Layton 'av., gald 'he
and her hu•band •aw one at :2
p.m. Bun day flying toward Bi y
Mitchel! field from the
.n It noared the tiold, vered
fro
too
ot
ins "
the night rain, tba dl•k wu
ot to pick up. the
ban had been knocked Ott one
e "ghtnlng rod' on the church,
nppou it •truck that In land-
Obanc•ed Colors, He
Erwin. Rottm.n, 1328 N. 19th
claimed he •aw three of them flyi
througb air in a northwe.te y I
urection at p.m. Bunday. Th
turned from orange t.o gold to •ilv
betee dirappearing, be •aid.
Report' came aloo from Jann.
Ville, where Mr. and Mrs. Alva Sie.
vert and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Roth
reported •a•lng a flying disk about
11:35 p.m. Saturday. The Roth*
wert luving thc Sievert home when
Sievert uw It, according to Roth.
It appeared to be oevera) thouund
feet up and about IO milec away.
Roth "id. He described It as vague.
ly ruembling the moon and u hav-
egular motlon in a • counter.
clockwise, elongated orbit. It ap-
pezred to Roth to be moving faster
than an airplane. He •aid it
yellow on it.' face, •brt *ben it
turned It looked •Ilver,
Roth cald that the tour ot them
viewed the diak for 10 minutu.
ID Sky, anim
"It fluttered around, taded out
and came back again. and onee t
just 'topped and hung there f
about two iiinutea," Roth
'ut ume we it, It had I
Turn to page 3, cot. S
4.4
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o
Laws-of Eyesight Clarify-
Reports of Flying Saucers
Buzz in State
IDisk a Priest
I Is Circular Saw; Others
I Seen by Milwaukeeans
From page i, column 3
tan. When it diaap-
pear•d entirely, ft just out."
Januvlile police reported a tele-
phone eall from a Dick Thompson,
who said he tiying disks about
12:15 a.m. Sunday.
t O'bkæh, Mn. L A. Davis re•
rted that 'be and her husband had
hted one ot the mysteriou.' diaka
tzzing over tho city at 6:45 p.m.
Sunday.
Bhe gald they vere driving on a
town road •ix milea west ot Ogh-
• kæh,• beaded eut toward the city,
•hen they tlrzt 'Igbted the object
"flying very fut and very high."
At fiut, she said, It looked like an
airplane •nd then loomed larger and
larger until "appeared u big u
the aun."
Stops (hr. Diak Vmiohes
Her huband •topped the car •o
that they could get a *tter bok at
thc disk, which appeared Nund and
•Ilvery, but by the time they got out
ot tho car the object bad dis-
appeared, •he •aid.
At Green Bay, Eugene In Plant
reported that he and 12 year old
•on, Duane, had •een • rapidly mov-
I ing •ilver bail or disk about 6:»
p.m. Wednesday while working in
hia garden on the western edge of
the city. Plant he saw the
object Silhouetted against a dark ;
cloud to the north and that be a d •
h son "tched It for three or fo r
ml ute wblie it mowd away to
no hwut 1.4 Plant •aid he eo
no utlmate the altitude or d
tan , but thct It "dalinite)y not
an airplane."
By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE
Agoclatea Preaa Selene. Editor
New York, N. Y.—The. flying
s•ucers may be explained by eer-
taln jawa of eye.igbt.
All objects appear round or
nearly 00 at any distance to
the limit or how fu a person can
aee.
It the oblecta •aen by re-
nected )tght, u in moat cues re•
ported, they are almost certain to
be round, and if the reflections
are sunlight then the •iza wport•
ed are those which would be ex-
pected from diatant light reflec-
Uons.
Descript]ons of virtually all the
saucer• u round and tlat fit ex-
actly with the trick' that eyes
play. Thi' trickine•• varies with
diftereneu In weather •nd light-
ThiJ writer hu •een flying nuc-
ere over long sound, not
only this year but in previous:
years. They wem round, bright
and moving tut. But they were
no mystery because they were
light reflected from the bodle• ot ,
airplanes that soon identified
themselves by changing cour•e
and coming near enough ao be
seen distinctly.
Many decriptions of mov
menu oe tbc nylng aaucera fit
with tho common maneuwrs of
airpluw, sing I y or in groups.
ot the maneuvering report•
•d, •hich took oaucer• out of Bight
and bzck into aight again, reem-
blu what ean be . •h f Je
watching distant airplanea.
Whether planu are guided, pl•
lotless or Set, they all rould look
the ume 't great diatancu.
Mirages, Traveler Says
Phil.delphia, PL. Dr.
Acwl, editor ot a Hungarian ian•
guage expreued belief
that the flying zzucer• weæ mi-
rages—pæ8ibly circularly distoR•
ed reflections of real airplanæ
many milea away. A World-wide
traveler, Dr. Aezel said:
"Yearg ago Z have gen Jlmllzr
thing on the Ewptian deaert and
on the Bunta (Hungarian plain).
At sea I have also •een mirag ot
ships known bo groat diz ee
•way.
"In July and Augut, and e. i
times even in June, atmosp ric
condltlorg are especfally adapta-
blo to the creation of mirage."

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[newspaper photograph: bald man in dark jacket holding a large circular saw blade, examining it with a small tool; no caption legible. Black bar across bottom of page.]

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Shüü-Eyed Sight Disks, but-Ünly a Saw Blade fS¯Foun
.04
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Who, what, where, why are flying disks' The ear's biggest mystery produced
these Sunday photos while reports came fro everywhere and everyone tbat
the saucers were everywhere. Top left, a movie amera is fitted to a P-5i fighter
plane at Portland, Ore., as Oregon national guard planes are madc ready to chase
the disks. lower, Mrs. Walter Johnson (right) of Spokane, Wash.. and her chil-
dren
and tell how they saw the saucers land on a mountainside in Idaho d
sappear. Right, is Father Joseph Brasky of St. Joseph's Catholic churc a:
Grefton, Wis., with the disk he reported struck his church early Sunday. It
turned out that 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. whole lot of Milwaukee
traveling past Sunday night.
reported that they saw the •aucers
—AP Wirephotos and Journal Staff

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4
Safin 36 State '
Jet Fighter
Alerted
SAN FRANCISCO,
— Hilltary Llrcrut. hunted tho
s es over Pacific Cout statu
t ay tor •Ight of the mysteriou•
lying saueer•" that tor 12 day' I
ve puzled the entire country.
urly report' ot maulta wero
negative.
Five P-51* ot the Oregon NL
Llonal Guzrd cruised over the
eucade Mountain: • of Wuhtng•
'-on—the are. where the 'trann
object' first were reported 'Ight.
ed. A 'ixth ctrcled over Portland,
tn constant radio contact with the
other five. • All carried photo•
graphle equipment.
Col. G. R. Dodeon, eommand•
,ng, described their flight u • a
"routine patrol," but scid they
had been Instructed to, watch for
(he flying dies.
t Manhattan Beach, Callt.,• A..
McKeivey took Mustan
ter plane up above Van Nuys
two bour• he cruised at 35;
teet, but "didn't thlng.
Gea. Carl Bputz, commandan
.t the Army Alr Forces, was on a
' 'a Cilic Northwe•t ft8h1ng trip.
He denied knowing anyt.Nng
'bout the flying discs
— or ot
to use A.A.P plaoe• td look
; or Utern.
'ET FIOHXER SET
"I've been out of teuch with
things for tour or five
IÆui8 E. Starr. natlonal eom-
of the Veeranz
Foreign War•, yuterday in Co-
umbw, 0., •ald he understood
•paatz had "group out right
looRlng for dlaea.
At Muroc Army Alr meld fn
'alttorni' a P-n Set fighter nood ,
'bdy to take oft the moment any
lying saucer• are sighted ia that
A cautious attitude marked •
0th ottlcl•l and •cientltlc co -
'lent', but Capt.. Tom Brown t
h Afr Forces Public
t ft in Waahlngton ackn
ed the Air Forces had declded
SEEN STATE8..-..-...—
First afghted June 25 and
eetod generally with scornful
laughs, the objects have been re•
ported every day •ince by observ-
ero in 36 nates. Most of the ob•
lect* were reported seen July 4.
A few were mported yesterday.
Buch competent observers u
airline pilots •ald they had neo
the totally unexplained disea or
saucers, larger than aircraft and
400B
high •peed.
David Lilienthal, ehatrman„ ot'
the Atomic Energy
am had nothing to do with
atomic aperimentß, and Army
and Navy officials •loo entered
positive dlsclslmer•.
Newnaper 'tort" quoUog an
unidentltied California Institute
I of Technology selenU?t aa saying
the phenomena migh'. have some-
• thing to do with experiment' In
"transmutation 'f otomlc energy"
used brief senzatioo late yes-
rday. The institute quickly dea
led the report-
Reports generally agreed that
the flying object* were round or
oval. Estlmatu of their •peed
ranged trom about SOO to 1,200
miles •n hour. They were de•
scribed at flying with •n undu-
'ating motion at height' of 10,000
feet and leas. Bome described
them u glowing, or iumtnoua.
'PROPELLER IN CENTER'
Nova Hart, St. IÆuls mechanic I
Who wu trained during service
in the war to opot all types ot
•Ircraft, nid he •aw one of the
trang obiects near Pattonvllle
esterday. It wu flying at 300
et. he "ld.
He described it circular, with
a . ribbed framework and silver
gray io color. Hart nid it LP•
, toyhave a motor with •
propeltår {n the center
and it kept tdrning like an Lir•
doing" 'Io..roll.
O
Fluti publi•bed nports of the.
Xenneih
d. • Idc,
buslnenman of oeaing
nine of the diaca flyi In forma-:
tion at 1,200 mlieo an our over
the Cascade Mountain.
ingion,
SEEN BY
Arnold" account was taken
ilghUy. Varioue explanation.
were offered—areflecUons," "por-
VISIO n,"
•now blindness."
Soon afterward other individ-
nalø—in New Mexico, Nissouri,
California and other
ported they also' had gen •me
flying objects.
Then on Independenu Day 200
peéiohi - In one CO in
: another saw them in Idaho. Hun-
dredg of others in Oregon, Wuh-
• ington and other western tea
reported seeing them.
July 4 algo brought fin re-
ports of the ny:ng diaca om
•east ot the Mluluippf.
nee
then they have been reported seen
n widely •epar•ted •ection• of
country—in 33 •tatu io an.
'Must Be Insane'
LONDON, July
• mention thoee flying •aucero on
thiz •Ide ot the Atlantic un)ess
• you're prepared for •n zrgument
about your aanity,
Maybe they have been teen by
•ober citizen' over vast area
ot the Unmed States, but Europe
won't believe in them unUl some,'
body lassoes one and has it photo-
graphed by Frank Binatr., the
Briti•h ambassador and five
Supreme Court lugUce•.
"America's reply to the Loch
N moniter," chortled today's
nday digpatch, referring o
rftain'• hoarfeat tall story— e
erpent that f' "teen" romping n
cotlandiß Inch Neu every e
the touri't trade need' L shot n
the arm.
BECOODÄ
MILWAUKEE
UILWAUKEE,
SENTINEL
WISCONSIN
re'• somethlng this" and
6 0 OCT 1-
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i
Planes Cha3ing Disrs
FinåOnly Empty sky
Jokesters*dd
were flying over I.æwiston, Idaho,
Sunday •ent• hundreds Into their I
yard' for a look. Weatherman
Some Comedy
Krezak •aid exe objects were mov.•
ing eutward with the prevailing
wind and probably were Veed •eeda.
to Air Mystery
Three air transport pilot' agreed.
Searohlight' on bonds
A Birmingham radio station Wu
East St. Louis deluged with more than '00 eal in
rove to Be Washers; one hour by per•on• who "ld t ey
sav fluorucent ball' arcling er I
Spots the city and clearly outlined ago t I
ne With Legs
By the Unlted Prus
Army pilota were ready Monday
for another •ir •earch for the mys•
terlous "flying saucer"' now report,
ed Been in 39 •tatu •nd paru or
u preetical jokesters added
to the confusion.
with • telescopic earn-
eru, ii army plane •earched the
Pacific northwut Sunday without
finding any trace of the flying di8k.8
which had been reported over wore•
of communitie the preceding two
days. At Sioux Fall', S. D., a na-
tional guard plane already in the air
wu ordered to investigate a silvery
di•k with a •hort tail which Gregory
Zimmer said he naw shoot •crou
the heaven'. The pilot found noth-
ing but empty sky.
The army "camera patrol" over
the Cucade mountains Sunday In,
cluded eight P-51 puruit chips an
three 'A-26 bombers.
Ultuions Or Joke
There wu growing belief that the
eoneentr•ted aerial search would
show the saucen to optical iiiu•
•iono or the work of practical $pke•
•teu magnified by •roused imagl.
•aeons.
A' number ot "disk'" whirled over
rooftop' In Eut St. i.nui.', Ill.. gun•,
dny. J. T. Hartley, a locomotive en•
incer, gathered some of thcm up
d found thcy were made ot
p ex•ed white paper, II Inches in
d meter and with a • Inch hole
in the center. Rallroad workers
•aid thcy looked Ilke locomotive
packing waaher•.
near-by mountains. A carnival at
Alabaster. AIL, wu playing search.
ughu on cloud wiap•.
n argument raged at Lodi, Calif,
o r the cause of n •pectacu)zr glow
the 'ky and a roar shortly before
lectrieal power went off. Mn. W.
C. Smith nid abe heard a noise "like
Give 'Em Room
Newport News, VL—Peninoula
alrport here i' taking no chances
with (lying •aucers. Pilot' report-
Monday to take out planes
found thia notice on the bulletin
board: 'Two thousand feet ver.
tical and horizontal clearancc re-
quired between aircraft operat•
ing from this field and any tty•
ing •zucer•."
four motored bomber" Suat before
the light.' went off at down. Erving
Newcomb ot the P•eiflc Gas & Elec•
tric Co. offered the explanatlon that
a low flying crop dusting plan
probably had •truck a power lin
and burned out a transforme
•However. no planes were reporte
damaged and no one could expwn
-..7/-2./±7.-
dusting plane wu do-
ing in the air at
It wu the tint time any noin had
' 'been attributed to flying sauce".
J. U. Watts, 'r, Darlington (S. C.)
attorney, satd he •aw an army put-
•uit plane chasing a V-tormatioo of
flying uueert •t 250 milea an hour
8,000 feet high. However, 00 pilot
reported ouch • chase.
One With
Mean ti me, authorities were
plagued with report' that bordered
on the fantutlc. An excited Qli-
cago woman reported that •he had
•een a flying saucer with legs.
wu atanding on my porch and I
thought for •ure it wu coming right
wa •nd •lap me in the face."
id.
orge Kuger of Denver said h
a flying disk with an America
on It.
Francis Howell, Tempe, Ariz.,
claimed he saw a saucer two teet
in diameter diuppear beblnd a row
ot tree near hia home. When he
ruahed to inapect it, he said, the tlat,
thin, alumlnumlike diak took off at
a "high rate ot •peed" toward
Phoenix, nine milea away.
•Mra. Walter Johnson returned to
Spokane, W88h„ after vacation
near St. Maries. Idaho, and after
reading new•paper reports ot tbe
flying saucers nid •he and •everal
others had •een •peeding ahlny ob•
Secta "u big u a four or five room
house" disappear the toreat
covéred mountains.
he fir•t of the saucers over New
Y rk State waa reported by hire.
nneth Wohley of Roche•ter, N.
, who •aid 'he and her husb d
nw an object "about the •Ize ot n
• ordinary nueer" flying above r
back yard at 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
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New Jer•ey raident• •aid they
•thought" they •aw flying di•ks
over Paliaadu
Bergenfield Sunday night.
Skeptical scientiata recalled the
mysteriou "rocket"' seen over Swe.
den Ian year. Eighty per cent of
the "Choat rockets" proved to be
meteor', •nd Swedlab official' cald
the other could be discounted u
pure imagination.
Scientictz ueerted that the ob-
Sects in order to be aeen clearly at
10,000 feet-Ahe level at which moat
or the saucer. bye been reported—
would have to be 20 feet in diameter,
would require large mus ot metal,
•ould be more oonzpicuous at night
and would be seen by a tar greater
D ber ot persona.
r. J. B. Nunu, director ot the
arner & Bwuey observ ry •t •
th Cue Inatltute of Techn gy at
Cleveland, nid he was incl ed to
'think the report' are fanci 8."
Capt. Tom Brown, army air force
opokæman at Washington, nid the
ar y wu trying to run the report'
to arth.
e're not dismiuing the poül-
b') y that there" something to it,"
.'he aid, 'tand we're not dismiuing
• the poa•lbllity that it'. all Shoax."

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Ü: S, Zanes Kunting Discsr
Russ-Tells of'_Atom Saucers'
FBI Probes story
of Soviet Ship
Officer
8 ANGELES, July '—(8pe.
agents today in-
•e:Ugated a letter to the Exami•
ner describ/ng Ruuian supersonic
Atom-powered planu reaembling
• 'he "flying •aucers."
A top flight atomic scientist to
•,nom the Examiner referred thei
?tter cafd it "not all •on.
and •ugge.ted the matter
.e turned over to the . FBI.
The letter writer said he got
.c Information from an oftieer
board • Rungian tanker recently
Ina Angelu harbor.
LLED EVEN WO*MS
he Ruscian, he "ld, also de•
".rlbed experiment' with oon•
coned radioactive cloud' in the
\ cctlc, •here birds, animals and
ven worms were killed.
The planes, de•crlbed by the
:uaman to the writer, are only
q inches thick, with kidney-
naped outline and no propellors.
The pilot Itu on hf' •tomach
na is artificially eooled
he beat developed by air f c.
'on.
"The outer ourt•eo L' •Ight
U•hed," the Russian
B9th upper •nd lower •urtaee•
re eonvex, Ilke • slant lens.
he litting force entirow
Altferent principle found •bout
JO years •mong unpobll•hed
papers of ebem&a
*Energy i' requlrød only for
••limblng, but no energy need-
d 'or support Thea the
"lani gou •long tbe eorth'•
«r•vltatlonzl contour llaes,"
The writer of the ange let•
•r •aid he met the R Jian of'
cer in Wilmington an because
e wanted to hear abo Ruuia,
• ,vited him to dinner.
tlrst asked where
• be eouid sell' 18
. which he received "for very dn-
gceou• work."
He nid he had been auigned
'to go over the route ot the radio-
sctive cloud near lake Bakal
(or Baykal) and pick up dead
•oima18.
ALL LIFE DESTROYED
"fbey lo•ded few •mall
shlpa with kinds of •nimaig
•nd directed the cloud ever
them," the writer •aid.
"During thia experiment,
violent storm blew • the doud
fu north Into the tundra, but
before It dlsslpsted ft deatroyod
011 Ilfe on iCa
Clond may be
from "nd, from • plzne er
from o robot-piloted qeader.'
I understand It, the contrd
i based on electro-magnetso
•ves •nd the cloud has two
mponentß: The carriu •nd
the killer."
BECORD
60 OCTI

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Quirks of "sight May
Explain Disc Mystery
By HOWARD BLAKESLEE
AP Editor
NEW YORK, July laws of human eye-
eight wili explain much of what has been described about
the flying saucers reported from nearly all parts of the
4
United Stat".
At any distance which i' dose
h Pie Umit of how far a person
can iee, objects appear round
or nearly so. This law ot sight
coven both •mall things oeen
nearby and large onu at great
distanees.
Regardless ot shape, the ob-
lect near the limit of 'Ight looks
round. If the thing allhouetted
against a bright sky, u •ome of
the flying saucers have been re•
ported, then ft is more likely to
rev al ita true 'hape.
E 'NO STRUCTURE'
f the th'øg is seen by reflected
light, at In most cue' reported,
It t' almoet certain to be .roundJ
and If the reflections are sunlight,
then the cisea reported are those
which would be expected from
distant light•refleetions.
The one outstanding tact about
virtually all the •aucerg is that
they had no •tructure — they
seemed merejy round •nd flat,
That description fit' exactly with
the trlcka that eyes play. Thlc
tricklne•s varies with differeneu
in weather •nd lighting.
Thia writer hu yen flying
oaueerg over Inns Xs)and Sound
near hl' home, not only this year
but in prevlouo years. They wen
round, bright and moving tan.
NOT A
But they were no mystery be,
cause they were light reflected
from the bodles of airplane' that
soon Identlfled themselves by
cha Ing couree and coming near
eno h to •een di•tlnctiy.
st week thig writer •loo •aw
one val flying form which for
a moment looked exactly like the
photograph of the oval obiect
taken by Yeoman Frank Ryman
north of Beattie, Wash. The Long
Island oval came c)ooer and
turned into ao airplane.
Planes at great diatances tend
to look round when light i' re•
flected from their aides. M•ny
deocriptiona ot movements of the
aying zucer• tit with the com•
mon maneuvers of airplanu,
•Ingly or In groups.
They fit alto with what bird.
look like, nying at a consider ble
distance. However the bird h.l-
•ion ie not very common.
me
of the maneuvering repo tea,
which took •aucer out ot ght
and back into 'ight again re-
•embles what can be seen while
watching distance airplanes.
SPEED MYSTERY
There no explanation for re-
ported speeds of 1,000 or more
måle• an hour. Meteors, although
they go much taster than that,
do not explain it because the
•aucer• mostly appear in daytime
and there are not enough day-
light meteon.
Ice crystal' torming little round
cloud' have been •ugguted. But
these fail to 11t in most cues be-
caute the Ice cry'talz form at
•Jtltudea which are higher than
moot or the •aucero reported.
Nothing published in •clence or
atomie •tudSea gives the 'lightest
clue to flylng 8fucer: unlen the
object* are aircraft.
One •clentl't today •ald that at
lent a lot of saucers are ex.
platned by the torce of gugguti00
which c.u•e• L pere
himself:
"Oh, gee, •ee it too."
rwcoRDÜ.
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-4
ISäucersl Fly Here;
Graft07'Disc Joke
1
hut wa-a reported as • "flylng dl'd" which •truck • church
ar•f'o» early ye.ferday turned out to be • circular •aw with
two •mall tubes and several Wires attached to lt.• Father Joseph*
pastor of Bt. Joseph" Church, ar•fton, holds the "disc'*
nd points to the lightning rod
•ald was •truck by the disc.
Th'e myatery ot •the "flying
.sco," "range luminous objects
"en speeding acro" ure sky tn
nany nates, turned to Wi•con-!
yesterday when •everal per-
-ooa reported them at Milwaukee
.nd Janesville,
My:tery added to mystery
vhen Father Joseph Brasky, pag•
or of St., Joseph" Church at
;rafton, Wis., reported a miasfle
,urtled through the •Ir early yes-.
erday, knocked the ball oft the '
hurch lightning rod, and landed
the front lawn.
AND TUBES
It waz a large circular •aw—
t 16 Inch" In diameter—-and
hot when rather • Bruky
cx d It from the lawn.
T re were wires and two tubes
I Ltached to it. The tube: were an I
ncb io dlameter and three inch"
oa the church (aryow), which
Bentlnel Photo b' Anh•uer.
ne theory was that prankste
or belated Fourth o! July cel •
brant8 had attached explosives
the saw, and sent it skimming
through ure air.
Father Brasky said he heard a
swi•hfng nage and a 'Izzling at
5 m., followed a •econd i'ter
with thud and an explosion.
An excited resident telephoned
to Mitchell Field, and
he •aw 15 flying saucers, In
formation, heading north over
Granville, at 10:05 p. m. He hung
up before hl' nuna could be pro-
cured.
A passenger aböard a New
York-Detroit-Milwaukee p I a n e,
ich landed at Billy Mitchell
Field at 10:05 p. m., told employas
in the office ot Northweet Air-
line', Inc., he saw a flying nucer
bobbing up and down over the
I Other passengerg Vith him
saw it, he Bald. He gave the name
of J. W. of
the gaucer was
going at great •peed, and was out
ot sight in a few seconds, he
said. Rowden i.' 'topping at, the
Plaza Hotel.
DISCS HAD TAILS
'Erwin Rottman, 1328 N. 19th
•Ct., gald be gaw three of them,
'with tall', • flying northwest to
southeast, a: he •tood Lt 18th
and W. V net Sts. They turnec:q
from gold to another color andi
then to •ilver, he said.
Prank Phifer, 'topping at the
Maryland Hotel, •ald be nw
three balls of fire shoot
ross
lake Michigan at 8:20 last ight.
ia C mile *rom ahoro, zad
"goi g at terrific speed."
W at he described u an illu•
minated saucer wu seen
night Sy William Humphrey, 3148
S. 20th St., he wid. It was zig,
zagging direétly over the Hen
Co. plant, •aid Humphrey, and
geemed to lahd in a wooded area
nearby.
REPORTED IN JANESVILLE
Four Janesvllle residents re-
ported they had •een a flying disc
Saturday night, They are Mr.
and MN. Al Blevert and Mr. and
Howard Roth.
They saw the disc flying in a
northwesterly direction f m
Jznesvllte Lt a "terrific speed."
They viewed it for 20 minutes. It
was yellow-golden, and Beemed to
turn at times to a 'Ilvery color.
they 'tated* An oval flight pattern
was followed. •Then, they
taile appeared on the dise and
•hortly afterwards it disappeared.
John Bosch, 4377 8. Adam. St.,
Milwaukee, a machinist, insisted
he saw two flashing oaucer-
shaped objects pag over Billy
Itchell Field ahortly atter mld-
ght yesterday. They were oge
e ough so he could definitely ate
t ey were not shooting stars, or
rplane:, he Bald. Bosch" h me
i' near the airport.
ZECORDQ
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[stamp, diagonal at upper left: "ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION / KEEP ENVELOPE ATTACHED"]
[marginal note at left, rotated: "Flying disks"]
[struck-out first line: "HA! HA!"]
HA! HA!
WINCHELL
HAS REVEALED
THE "SAUCER"
SECRET.
YOU CAN'T
HIDE ANYTHING
FROM US &
OUR AGENTS
LIKE WINCHELL
COMMUNIST
[stamp: RECORDED; EX-56; 37 JUL 15 1947; file number "62-83894-12"; handwritten note "Anonymous Nonsensical" [?]; page number "166"]

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ondum ,
FROU
J. P. coyn
SUBJECT:
roman t
UNITED
OES GOVERNMENT
roleon
Clagg
aravln
Mun
Roon
Neag.
There 15 being attached hereto a Western Union telegra•n
received from the above individual in which infomation is
furnished cotE eming a "disc This telegram has been aclaxowl
ACT ION:
It Is recomended that this telegram be turned over to the 'ft
Liaison Section in order that they may make the infomation corékin
therein available to the War Department.
Attackmart
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Page 26

pm unleg de•
terred
dieted by a wirable
ayrnbol above or pre
ceding the addres•..
The time •bown in the II" on
(YES ILY
A. N. WIE-LIAM'
IDENT
SYMBOLS
DL • D"
n — Lee.er
LC Cabi.
Sblp Rod".
* •nd' day let"n STANDARD TIME of erigin. Tiu. ot receipt STANDARD TIME ac point of
Q.CNA32 PDEDARLINGTON SOCAR 6 630P
US DEPT OF JUSTICE* An
iW A SHDCs
ABOUT 12 SOZAU- FLYING DISCS PASSED övéR SC
•APPROXIMATELY PM T DAY .ADVISE IF NiSH DETAILS*
FED. BU. ON v.
DEPART* N 5
DIVISTDN
37
GUARD HAYE S
a APPRE(NATä ivNS FROM • PATRONS C.O.SCER#ING BER VICE -

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+ Üzce Mémmtydum ,
, N. Ladd
nou
Infoman
UNITED GOVERNMENT
oan:7-iO..07
•Inn
There is being att hed h reto a Western Union tei%ran
received from the above Individual In which ig
. furn.lshed oonceming a . This telegram has been •chow edge .
ACTION;.
It recmruended that this be tumed over to the
Liaison Section in order that they nake the Informtion
therein available to the War Departunt.
Attachmmt
63JUL
37 T

Page 28

COMM'*
WIT COLLECT
SAN LARCOX TEX JULY 7 194T 714P
WAS!-DC
CHECK FILES IN INVENTORS COUNCIL FOR DRAWING OF MULTI'APRING
CATAPULT THtS INVENTION SENT BY ME TO WAR DEPARTMENT 'N 1945
POSSIBLE LEAKAGE OF INFORMATION HAS RESULTED MY DEVICE OR
VARIATION THERE FROM COULD CONCIEVABLY CATAPULT A DiSc IN
SILENCE FOR SEVERAL MILES
RBdORDD
HALL b '7(—
941P
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[stamp: JUL 15 8 44 AM '47 / MAIL ROOM / WASHINGTON; stamp: RECEIVED JUL 15 1947; stamp partly legible: [...] DELIVERY SERVICE [?]]
Yoakum, July 12, 1947,
R. M. 1.
Gentlemen!
[stamp: "FLYING DISC" [?]]
I do send to you
someting new from
Texas.
Flying of fire cir-
led around the Pa-
lestine and the peo-
ple are afred of it.
And erunde Cuero,
not far away from
Yoakum, fell down so-
meking light from
a airplas.
Anyway got in
that Pandy enamy
or Nazi mob and I
want I ruind the
Texas,
[stamps: RECORDED & INDEXED 54; 34 JUL 17 1947; file number "62-83894-9" [?]; initials]
[stamp: ENCL. ATTACHED [?]; handwritten marginal notes lower left, illegible]

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4
and with the Old
Arbishops residence,
and with the Cate-
drale priests.
The Alamo Brood
casting is operate with
by two german old
men, I And the [illegible]
are now sick, [illegible]
from the elecktric
and they talk with us
And there are two men
more and they are fi-
ting and fosing toget[?]
and we can heare them
The Arbishop is bad
man and [illegible]
and working nothing.
All work is don by
the Cathedral Board.

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5
In the old arbi-
shops residence are
some priests,
One its name Morkov-
sky, hy is bad man
to!
Hi was in care vreck
with arbishops care and
his Mother is kild.
and from that time he
is leave in the old re-
sidence, and tolking
with us.
His brother is priest
in Hallettesville and
talcking with us too
All the people look
somkind like trash,
are no citizen United
States, no speak, En-
glish, they say they are
coming from Checko-
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6
The Cathedral
Board are men in
priests german and
they all are working
for Germany
I see such trash peop[le]
we got in Texas and
name the Alamo, place
that is saint, to Te-
xas people, fiting
against the Mexican
Santa Ana.
And I am ending with
warlds;
Remember Alamo
and Texas City.
Mr. [redacted] b7C
Mr. [redacted] b7C
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o innis, Who, In •1946, Ihst Attorne.'.• Jo«ep.i Cash.
pig with essay
Rears-Roebuek eon-
•d
Aga:tl, February 1947, he
d a calf in tbc Hallettuville
:lub Shom and out Of 12
atrardod be took fifth
Brenek ig Sweet Hmne.'s
nistres8.
Growing
nateurs' Display
aknm "*Oftb21. teami ihovbd•
f edod playing in ibe games
•d Bulldog Stadium
e •e' .e&ns, orgnniæd by var-
neo-chants and concerns in
are ot membera
anzteur st.nding vbo have
pr•viQ05 experience with
If thc r
of ny-
ing dtsks are nom
A-'til ra-
dar or guided
e) uments,
t.br might apply, maid.
The law wheüaer t.he
information is released aeaident.
Ltly, gro. negligence,
or '(with intent to imure the V.
nited States OT aid omne foreign
nation," aeoording to the •ct.
The Atoanic Enersy Aet of 1946
pmvides even stricter pan)ties
for revealing information, Mr.
Cub said. Public Law 585 of t.be
Seventy-Nintb Congress providec
desth or life imprisonment, after
due • process of law, for
Ltmiio information witb intent to
injure the United State.
For •c.eidental disc106ure;8 a
'to 20 ymrs are
Cash' pointed out.
Gas Truck Hits
Local Station
A gasoline tmiler truck of • the
Mra. Valentine neRb
ing negro families thought
vorld vac coming an
and began praying as the.
of fire sunboled overhead.
Mrs. TA)rens Shrader.
Springs she saw
red ball •tre•kirg overhead
night.
Mn. Marisa Reed, tam
found she be.ieved was
Of flymg disk It landed i!'
baek yard while Che WA8 hr•
out tbe clothes yesterday
noon. She admitted Sbe
fnghtened. She dew•ibed il
round .piece of. tiafail eight
ea wide, seorehed or burnt
round the edges. Both sides
shiny, but one Bide n
Qing.s—a
ter.inch apart. She tb
foil dropped ctraight down
the sky.
She lifted it with L 8ti(
it in a tin can, •nd drovc
miles to Ountpr. 20 miles
west of Sherman. Soorea
about to see it.
At Melissa, Collin Count}
Texas Cpnsolidztcd Transport Co.
or. •chool ball playing.
ran intota heavy pipe upright in
•ot: the ' playm
expert tropt ot •Rohan's Service Statin
.tbå 'doing somn damage to
the station and more to the
vas .. coming .. from
••West Grand, and
. thc
—b bad to sri*
tbCeab
rod
f tn • "am mov
it The
truck itself ft'crcd n bent bum-
n Che part fram
•h ileaMastor nt• the Firestone and a I
c on l.Ä)tt Street, or from gasoline pump directly behind tbe
R. C. McClen&on at Lack's upright not damaged by tbe
oeiate Store cn West Grand. crab.
hoys or men Tishing to play
I Make
of Lhe teams may make
lication at 'be mrestone Store,
x '8, Rohan Service Station,
Hunilton'a Jewelry Store, de- r
•avnp
Mane Killian and
reported seeing a strange
at 8:40 p. m. yesterday,
Charles Caiboun. and his
er. W. J. Calbmn, pron
Grayson County farmers
they dink y—terda
Sherman.
Cuero Residen
See Flying Dis.
Cuero finally
ing dise.
mprted by
Haak of 410 Stockdale str•
both 'he and her husband
Hovever, Mrs. Haak
disc is no partieular myt
her. 8be thinks she kno
rbat it.
It was simply a reneat.i'
an airplane, •he "id.
Gittinz on the poreb

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Paper i' Connect.d NCWØ Wuhlnrtoz Direet Eaa Newa
Sortie Daily Wires. I" OVO Special Eeligiou Nam Beviee. interOtboJie Ageneyp Lumen Serviet
Ervice, Eoiigiou Nen NCWC
REGISTER
(Nzme Reig
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-TIMES
6 PER COPY. No. 91
PAG* • 1
J FIRST DISKS-NOW
ITS "FIRE BALLS" PEOP
Winncr In
:ontesb
•put
ooorrto• hic
Tinning
.t Ld ubiete
, u ' Anthony Natuek,
*Lsh Scbool
R Rhclarship to A. and N.
...'(. ow word • rraehos us
Dennis Brenck, eleven-year-
:.on of Mr.
*In. Ed.
of Se •et Hogne .hts been
- od a pritc of a
in tbQ K TRH Farm Essay
..ni8 "'On sixth place witb bis
on the bubjoct ' 'How Radio
Beet Serve thc F ann and
trm Homo " In commenting
8 essay. George Roesner,
4.rcIod"LV 15 miles nor*h-
of . tho neu,': begn•
'epraying•. A •hite grabbod
a rif)a and •hot
iou obJEU.
Sheriff Paul Stanford of • An--
deNon County deocribed them u
orange buketbDllß of fire.
Revealing Flying
Disk Data May
Bring Prosecution m
, Anyope willfully communic•t-
..Farm eod Rzn('ii Director
exsay ccmtnined Ing information bearing on the
nr c,oouri+•• nf t
ot: •Palestine, ealled 'Sheriff
Statoed t about • 8:30
saying 12 'banc •ere flying in
ntnigbt uni ova tho-. eommanity,
Thet& . they reportd, the.' • bai!s
formed a eirele whieb begap njov.
iog towaR Palestine.
By 9 p. u. hundreds of PRIN-
tino gpqctators renorted geeing as
many three balls in the sky
at once, moving in a circle. Sher•
iff Stanford discounted any •ug•
gestion that the ball' originatoa
from .potlight.
Bud Everett, druggist,
them for a better view. He said
they finally dinppeared •bdyt
Mra. Horace Valentine she
saw two pcrfectly round balls
that ('nearly •cared me to kiuth
when they appeared ov»r her

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Offce Men. C.vndum
D, M. LAD
PROM
SUBJECT:
UNITED
OES GOVERNMENT
DATE: July 7, 1947
rouoa
At 10:45 a.m., July 7, 1947, I talked to SAC Johnson of
Blvtaukee conca•ning the Urdted Press Item appeariQg in üe
Washington Post for Nonday, July 7, with reference to a flying disc
or flying sauc , allegedly reported to the Llwaukee Office by
Revaend Josep &uky of St. Joseph' 8 Church, Crafton, Wiscongin.
SAC Johnaon advieed that the Aeeociated Press and the
Hess between the houre 1800 6:00 a.m. todqe had made inquiry off
as to whether anything rnd been reported to the Liwaukee Offieéc
He declined to comment, He stated as a nttc• of fact the P'lest had
not Nde atV contact with him, he learned from the Prese
that the priest vag Intoxicated u far as the Associated Press was
eoncz•ned they wa•e not releasing the Btry beeauee all that •as involved
wag a circular •awe Johnson stated the Liwaukee Sentinel appÜentiy
eaut the reprt out and that they United Presa ez•vice, He 8tated
a photograph of the priest wu in thig Dorningt8 papa holding a circular
gaw which apparently covers the of ue Fiest from arm pit to pit.
Attached to the saw are geveral Tires and two small tubes described as
about three Inches long and one inch in diameter, The newg ita in Oue
Milwaukee Sentinel irdicatu it was believed gome prankster had thrown It
into the yard, pahapg with a firecracke attached, Johnson stated the
Milwaukee Sentinel had the priest would make a report of thie natter
today to the Elvaukee Office. I SAC Johnson in the event the
priot made a repm•t to furnish detaile of the report inediately, but in
vla of the nature of the Information in hig possession, no Irqulr•y should
be corducted at the g•egent,
OH JUL

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July 11, 1947.
- Dear Sir 8
Have you zeen one of the mysterious 'Sauoers•t
What did it look like?
Do you think these strange, celestial manifesta—
tions are harbingers of a better dayt
Do you believe it means that a new and revolutionary
ådvance Is coming?
Will it make your life brighter, happier, nore
useful
We believe one of these startling discs iB on its
vay to you, Then the secret vili be out.
The Combined and Amalgamated Committee
of Sky—Soanners, Disc Decipherers ana
Nev—Product Introducers.
BECOI.:

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[envelope, image rotated 90 degrees; 3 cent stamp; partial printed matter "CENTRAL [...] ATION"; postmark "NEW YORK, N.Y. JUL 11 9:30 PM 1947"]
Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
U.S. Dept. of Justice Bldg.
Washington, D. C.

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[envelope, image rotated 90 degrees; AIR MAIL stamp; postmark "CENTER LINE, MICH. JUL 7 10 AM 1947"]
Mr. J. Edgar Hoover
Washington, D.C.
Personal attention.

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Front
Director of Intelligence
War Department Cnncral Staff
Tlz Pcntacon
%ashington 25, D e C.
Attention: Colonel L. R. Forney, Chief, Security Group
Joym Edgar Hoover — Director, Fedorel Bureau of Inveatl cat
r. Nicho
arn
[iubJec
'Ihcre are attached hcrct,o copiJU of o Icti,ør roccived fro•2 the
above-captl oned Individual, tot"'ther Titl•. cop.feo of a newspaper a?pping
euclosure, concerning n.CIyjng ditco,n
le e hac been acYnovi1edC2d and has been advise'.
that oplea oi hig c •oer hqvo been furni$hcé to you for yoftr *cotiddcration.
, 11
62-83894

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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington D. C.
Gentleman:
On July 7th 1947, 10:30 P.M.
[redacted] my mother in law
and I witnessed a flaming object
which dropped in street in front
of our house at [redacted]
Omaha Nebr.
Upon examination, the object
was solid and had form of round
circular disc, approximately the
size of a silver dollar and
1/4" thick, burning with extreme
heat.
The World Herald Newspaper
was notified and reporter was
sent out.
In the mean time, a boy picked
[marginal: b7C]
[stamp: RECORDED / INDEXED; file number 83894-; 37 [...]; initials; handwritten date note at lower left, illegible]

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the object up and it fell in
pieces.
When the reporter arrives he
scoops up the fragments and
said he would have them analyzed.
Your attention is directed to
attached analyses.
There were six people who
actually saw the object and
can testify to the extreme heat
at which it was burning.
We did not claim it was
one of the so called "flying saucers"
or any such phenomena but we
did want some kind of a reasonable
explanation because if the object
had dropped on a roof top it
would have certainly set fire.
We can definitely say it

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was not tobacco ashes as
inferred by [redacted] b7C
It burned with such extreme
heat as to scorch pavement on and
near pavement where it lit
Possibly this could have
been a late Fourth of July
Firework or something similar
but at any rate we are calling
it to your attention as the
answer the "learned" [redacted] b7C
gave as hung pipe ashes is full
of ridicule an entirely unsatisfactory.
Yours sincerely
[redacted] b7C
Omaha Nebraska

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Q
'Flying. Saucer' Just
Someone's Pipe Dream'
ne "flying saucer" that fell
near 2319 ' Himebaugh Avenue
Monday evening was nothing
but "ashes from somebody's pipe
dream."
So says Dr. C. i. Kenny. head
o! the chemistry department at
the C•eighton College ot Den.
tistry. He had two student' an-
alyze the ashe8. They tound so.
; dium, rntauiurn, iron, alumb
narn, carbonate, sulphate and—
'This ig the same analy•ls.you
would get from ordinary#e
bacco,ft.Dr. Kenny said:

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Mr. L, A.
M Gili'. in
Tamm.
FBI E,
CTOR
OUT IN
*E.utRÅl 'l
8 1947
TELETYPE
11-22 AM
DISC.
RE FLYING DISCS, M SCELLANEOUS.
REVEALED TO BE PRANR.
WEEKS
END
1-24 PM 0K FBI WA BW
301
REPORTED FOUND DY
? 9 JUL {C rc:.-,

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[stamp: ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION / KEEP ENVELOPE ATTACHED]
Dear F. B. I.:
It is my opinion about
those "flying discs" reported
seen over, Kentuky, new mexico,
California, Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, Colorado, South Carolinia
and Eastern Canada that some Europe-
an Country is using them by filling
them up with germs or highly
explosives, and after a couple thousand
miles they drop their contents and
dissappear.
I suggest that you keep
[stamps: RECORDED; file number 83894-[?]; 32 JUL 8 1947; 63 JUL 16 1947; 33; initials]

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lots of disenfectant on hand.
Or else something might happen
to us in the United States.
From:
a friend
[some words obscured by black spots from scan]

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[envelope, image rotated 90 degrees; stamp; postmark "NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. JUL 5 2 PM 1947"]
The F. B. I.
Washington
District Columbia

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Ur.
r.
ADOUL
IPI test Finds 'Whirring' Disc .
Yard and Holds It for FBI
Chicago; July 6 FBI once said he hadn't heard
lie prfest at Grafton, Visa, sald
is o ee.
e dying ave en re
POt•ted "seen*' by persons in 30
dise was the
J hel
iis
n
par
ane that actually had been
that Is qrbat w" found.
r uvest ati
ea
His report came few bourg.
Joseph, Brasky ot Si
he
atter a military • •plane made am
J seph'$ Church- at &anon, 45
iies •th of Milwaukee, said heiU11SUcceß5ful epeed dash in an
tempt to track dowe one of the '
ear* ; swishing whirring discs and the Arntv and scieiitisis
noise ttdß A second later,
sought to aggert*tn whether coao•
he safd, he heard thud and a
to-coast repoN.c about the discs
m]ld explosion.
zooming through the sky were tact
He investigated and found a,or faney.
sheet metal disc about 18 Incheo inl Army planes noured the north-
diameter, regembiing i
west Pacific ides
saw blade.
success today and one *eyewitness'
'The object still was warm
' even reported havinr'aeen one ot
weighed about four or Ave pounds the discs take off in Arizona. A
and about one eighth Of an St. Louis railroad man exhibited
incli thick," he satd.
some paper "d*sci' he said he had
Thera was a hole about one seen floating over S' Lovis.
inch in diameler in the middle ot
the disc, he said, and in the open• The flying nucers whlch have
Ing were "gadgets and •ome been reported *imming through
wire."
America's skies at speed' up to•
The priest ga5d he did not know
discovery were important11200 mile have eluded the usual•
Capt. Tom Brown of the Army
- *rate praetlcai joke. He said be
Nd tiRe the FBI Air Forces public relat.ipns st•
. Johnson ot the Milwaukee Sea SAUCERS, Page 3, Col.
Clegg
Coffey
Glavin
Nic
Ros n
Tracy
Carson
Egan
Rendon
Pennington
Quinn Tama
Nene
Migg
d
Z' 64 "Z
40
JUL 7 1947
WASHHIMGTON POST
page
N OT
JUL 10 1947

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Priest Finds
In Yard and a
said {.he Army Airwayn Communi- - --tfii¯ware or n
sure"
about guidec
aald.
'h said
Howard W.
e, Ass;ef-;
ated Prese science said the
cation' Servlce bad reported late accounts came a new gnes
comments, and explanations, but
iyesterday that so far It' radar
ost ot them were tinged with a
scopes throughout the •country light tendency laugh off the
have been unable to pier up any hole thing,
objects in flight.
Dr. Winfred Overholset% nation
known pgychiatrist and iijøet-
whcre most of .thc
intendent of St. Elizabeth8 Hos-
ters huve been reported—the Army here, said it "hag some of the.
: has radar equipment which can
earmarks ot being national hys-
ipierce tog and darkneu and pick ceria."
•up objects the sky 200
"Everytime someone comes up
witb a se•-xerpent story," •aid Dr.
iaway.
Even so. Brown "others with vivid
ithat the Air Forces had decided Imaginations are sure •they haw
'Uthere's something to this" and
seen the same thing.
bad been checking it for 10 days.
' The critical faculty In man, the
"And we 8tf11 haven't the slight- last one he received, 'till not
! est idea what' they could be," be
very welt developed. Scratch the
euusu.
And a new wrinkle—the report-t hysteria which predoinina d dur-,
ed landing of a meet ot eight skim- the witchcraft scare. Some.
ming platters—wu reported from persons are quite ready • to geel
Idaho in full view OE 10 persons. A. things and follow beliefs."
Dishman. Idaho housewiCe, •said Dr. Overholser that whenl minute description of one 02 the '
she and others in her party had' he made hie rounds of the dying patterns which he elaimed he
been the saucers land on a moun• patients yesterday at St. Eliza•' saw flying At an altitude ot •bout
hole business may be an op&al
illusion.
*'At any distance ,vbtcå close
ito the limit of how tar n person
can see,". he wrote, ."all objec
ap ar cound or •nearly so.
thi gs seen nearby and large o
•t great distances.
"The one outstanding fact about
virtually ail the •aucers is
they had no 'tructure —they
seemed merely round •nd dat. :
That description fits exactly with
the tricks that eye' play. Thia'
trickiness varies with diference•
i. •nd liahtina.••
However. Nova Hart, St.
mechanic wb0*vas trained during.
:service in the war ie spot all typesi
of aireraft, • yesterday offered a;
tainside near St. Mari". Idaho. not a one eommented on the'
he satd they came into view at aying saucers story.
"i think they may ke a utue
extreme speed. suddenly slowed,
then "Buttered like leaves tq skeptied." he added.
a
owever, Dr. Overholser said he
It grouod."
couldn't see them after th a loke "because theN are so
800 feet.
Beporier Sees Ona
He described (t as circular with
a ribbed frameWork and BUver
gray in color. He said It appeared
have a motor with a propeüer-
attached in the center and that ft
Ikept turning like an airplane do-
iing a slow roll.
Wthough m any explanations
I landed." she said. 'We could se
them nutter downr into the timb
iyet we couidn't.æe that they did
anything to the
She said abe hoped to hike Into
the tfmber tomorrow and search •
for the objects which she said were
saucer•ahaped but resembled wash. i
tubs more than disks and were
"about ibe Bize of a Ave-room
I bouse."
Locally, Hazen Xennedy ot 2615'
4th •t. ne. reported he had •een
i
one passing over the Northeast:
any Strange thing going on to-
y that one can't be aure."
Alexander P. do Sever .Y,
have been offered, none has bee
no d aircraft dexJgner, told 'he
Po t by *from .New ork
c wincing. A Los Angeles news
th until he •seeg a eying saucer r quoted •n •unnamed nuclea
he "wouldn't like. to pass ysiüt as saying the silvery disc
i r ulted trom experiments in th
meat."
ansmutation of atomic energ."f
He agreed wilh DEC Overholserl This report was rapidly herded,
that much if all of the now into the hoax column by David!
' Lilienthal. chairman of the Atomic'
may be because ot by•teria.
Energy Commission, and several
"After all," he •aldi "we are
prominent atomié scientigt8.
section of the eiiy •t about 8:40 more or jeu an hysterical Nation."
Starr Word
I Maior de,Seversky nid it was pov
Louis E. Starr, national eom-
This would be the Rut one Sible that the perton• who claim
ported over the District, althoughl
mander of the Veteran' of Foreign
to have seen the aerial 'discs have iWars, announeed Saturday at Co•l
! otfiers have been reported over'
instead glimpsed the exhaust of {lumbus. Ohio, that he was expect-
nearby Maryland.
information
; ing "momentarily"
Kennedy, who hu 125 hours let-propelled plancs.
flying time •s a student pilot in : He conceded, too, that they* Ifrom• Washington which would ex-
Ahe Army Air Forcea to his credit, might be guided missiles let plain the dashing discs. But the
tnid he believed —the gaucer he as part 01 an ixperiment, but message never arrived.
geen v•• traveling at '"eil added:
"I don't think the Government 'Carl SPaatz, Air Forces' chief. was
rover" 1000 miles an hour at •n
in the Pacific Northwest where
altitude ot between 4200 and 1500 wou!d are them •o promiscuously.
rmogt of the saucer: have been re-
,LTbey would test them in one ipot,i
b "The best way i can describe *t," In an isolated area, did Iported, but added that hil trip
there planned •two months
Xennedy, "was that it looked the atomic bomb,"
an orange. lamp bul> without Mal. Gen. Curtis Z LeMay. who,
socket'. It going {uter than Deputy Chiet ot Alr Staff for
search and Development would
tnyået plane •I',ve• eve seen."
la Mra. M. now if the nucert involved ex•
Ganoe,t30, 'said had see beriments with guided miuUes,•
O. ot -thc racing In commented:
eon at "terrihc need." fro : "Whatever •then people ' have
"They "unded een it hasn't' been • anytbing•
ul#ing from experimenta by the
a ghe •aid.
4rmy Nr Forces. As tofu I'm '
concerned ,there'• nothing ito it
at ail. The whole
tdfÄ
ago, Long before the saucers •care.
General Spaatz is expected back
IWashington late tomorrow
Muroe Amy Air Field in Calf-
f'ornia had P40 jet fighter Etan
ihg by, and the National Guard
Oregon had prepared six reg
ßehters • to rive chase chou
tsa-ucen be re'orted nearby. i;

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[section divider, handwritten: "UFO SECTION 2"]

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b0F,
- altimom_
SUBJECT:
DISCS
V.1SCSLLiüEOtTS--••
- Tfie Ettachea- J'
Ing 4ppeared in the "Morning Newsn of \'lilmington
1 123 Rehoboth
Delavare, July 8, 19b 7 •
Avenue, Rehoboth Beach, an aircraft pilot, had
past ten months he had trice seen flying discs. which _be was reperted to have
Rfivinz mayonnaise Jars, n He was reported uve seen tne
mrqt, flying disc during September, 19246, and to have noted anotler such
object on June 2, 19b 7,
ur. WENYCN was quoted cs having called the Federal Bureaü of Investigation
and was advised that the Bureau was not interested, whereupon he notified
the Eastern Airlines and the Civil Aeronautic Authority of the objects
he had seen. Both agencies are reported to have accepted the infomation
stating they would investigate, The clipping further stated that; ur,
rm•JYON had received no answer to date from either agen%,
This clipping was submitted to me by the resident agents' office at
Wilmington together with the advice that no agent in Wilmington had been
contacted by ur. WQIYON, I directed be interviewed to detemine
the full facts,
ur, WENYON was Interviewed and it was determined that his correct næe• is
HORACE P- ur. WENYON advised that he had been an airplane pilot
approximately thirty years. He stated that in Septæber of 19146, flyi
at an altitude of feet, two or three miles south of Rehoboth Eaach,
Delaware, he noticed a projectile approxGate1y fifteen inches diameter
which crossed his course at right, angles and -teas moving in a west—to—east
direction, According to 'PEN'!ON, several Jets of flane were spurting
frem the obåect and it was traveling at a very high rate of speeds 1,000
to I, a-O miles per hour, He stated that in October of 19146, he observed a
similar projectile while flying over Rehoboth Beach at feet, _ mis
gas also traveling from west to east,
b'. WZNION stated that there is little question in his mind but tkBt fihat
he sav was some sort of rocket being tested. He stated that he wished to
call the matter to the attention of the appropriate authority iresmach as
he thought that the series of airplane crashes that have occurred recently
might in part be explained by what he had observed. He stated that he had
reported the infomation to th9 Civil Aeronautics Authority and had been
telephonically intervieæq by a peporter from the Wilmington "Horning Newsn ,
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rayonnatse Jars'
•q bv Rehoboth Pilot
on Believes Mystery Discs,
d, May Have Caused Big
rash on Memorial Day
pilot. Forrest Wenyon of 123 Rehobotb Avenue,
sed )ast. night that in the past 10 months he has
being loosely described 8s "hying saucers" but
mayonnaise jars."
erence between mvsterious nhleet-a of Mr
ilose which have now been observed In some
40 stgtes In that tne former. accord-
ing (o the pilot. held * true course
until they disappeared from sight.
This would indicati a
•'11 st an aimed missile while the
c rse of the "saucers" has been
d ribed by observers as erratic.
r, Wenyon said last night that
h first what loosely resembled
a "fiying mayonnaise jar" one after-
I noon last September while flying at
about feet. It was late in the
afternoon and WES
north,
Suddenly. at •n estimatea distance
of 2,000 feet in front of his plane
and traveling from west to east„ Mr.
Wenyon saw the "jar."
t was going
'at tremendoUs speed the pilot
was able to note sever tnings.
The most important f these ob-
h
servetions* insofat as ar xplanation.
is posslble. is that the "jer" appeared
to have some sort of rocket com-
bustion. Mr. Wenyon said that
s- fnurt.s of silver name from the taill
udi emed to provide the propulsion.
Carrying out the description of
e "flying mgyonnaise jar." Mr.
Nenyon said that the tail appeared
to be B lid •which had been per-
forated and that from these per-
D forations the nemes escaped.
In matter of two, at the most
•I three, seconds the object had dis-
appeared over and past Fort Mi.ies.
The pilot did not see it land and.
doesn't know whether it did or not.
•l Then on June 2 while flying at
:.re, 1.4W feet in e Stinson four• passen-
ds, ger IShip Mr. Wenyon, ; pijoc of 301
ry Discs——
Continued From Page
from the theory that they
R,ere radio controlled ilviTtz missile*
sent aloft by U. S. scien-
. t.ists to the suggestion that they
might be merely sun light reflected
on wing tanks ot Set-propelled
planes.
A. B. Cross of Chattanooga, Tenn.
a 34-year•old watchmaker. an-
nounced he invented the "flying
saucer" and *submitted it to the War
Department in 1943 but hls idea was
rejected as not practical "at the
present, Ume."
Later, he said. he became con-
vjnced that the deoartmen*.
rated on his plan. His model was
powdered with a rubber band. Cross
said. but. he belicxed aton-üc power
nov is being used.
A Spokane, Wash.. woman insisted
the objects she saw were of such
size thab together u•aey would take
u '-he space af five-room house
if they landed. but Clearwater,
F] woman said the disks she ob-
se ed resembied "pie pans."
Rutland, Vt.. woman e-
she and her husband
nessed brilliant ohiprf. in
night sky which she to e
'*flying saucer" although it v
stationary.
But at Cambridge. Mass.' a hotm- '
wife said she saw • 'a group of Whiti.
flying saucers whirling around and
going at tremendous speed."
The Massachusetts and Vermont
ireporbs brought to 40 the-number
Of states in which the objects have
been observed.
With New &igland gettlng into
Lhe game. the Harvard University
astronomical observat.nrv
of the reports but gald had had
no luck so far fn photographing one i
of discs.
e mysterious saucers fir% were
re ••ted June 25 in the State q
Wa ington. but Charlie T. Har
let, • of the Kine
port' Tenn., Times News composirf
room, said yesterday he had
the discs two years ago.
•mey vete "01 bright. ahaminum
color" •nd "were going at terrißc
speed*" Mamkt said, apiain.ing he
kept aulet about them -.5

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T./når-- FRT
5/füi,i' -
Flying Disce
Miscellaneous
ur. WENYON stated that what he had seen traveled at such a high rate
of speed that it was verv difficult to describe it, but the description
"flying mayonnaise jars n was concocted by the newspaper reporter,
This infonnation has not been brought to the attention of arv Arl!V
sources in view of the fact that only a preliminary inquiry was con—
ducted on the basis of a news article which sets forth essentially
the facts obtained fran Mr. WENYON.
No further action in this matter is contemplated by this office unless
advised otherwise by the Bureau,
SB:arf
62—0
Attachment
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Page 61

Offce
c
Memorand
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
. F I üGrCIJ'CO
FROM
SUBJECT,
Colonel —s r o c
e, r •ield. California.
tele -'honically advised. ..pecial ngent
the Jan .x•anci..c
Uffice at 10:40 on 27, 19/47, a
•rsan.-al lotter had been
received by his or-car:izat.ion from
ecitor ox ...attle
Tizes, which stated in effect that because t}. ere 30 stories going
around relative flyin.•• discs and r' _ at
.uaüucrs, tilat staff of
report.erc. i,ad at Lemnt•lv,
reliable Infor,' F trion auch
stori2s, ne yae
•r.nethcr
? s' i ble for
to r,v.-uke an official eat relatÄve ta the
-•-is m.' '.)orters f.o interview
t?
relative to
Colonel
definitely clear
cer.sor,ezhj-
crce
such in. oc- .ation
si.at,ed that t,h.3 abo
on .•.u •ust 25, 191B,
I .-as conc erned I.;hv
had
no
daw Ion • ac
:i-nt.ervlev.•
in t:
*Iterest
l•.ot out ever
lead
. at as
. as
, t.%rat
' ard tm- •arenbl•..r re lab] c i i
oeld be -ivea attenticn.
of this
s bein,t
± ter
cop:
for. n;
62—293
act.i.on dee.r:.erü
sable

Page 62

CANOARD
Offce Memorand
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
DATE:
FROM
SUBJECT:
--:irec
ban Trancisco
FLYING DISCS
Assistant Director
Reference is rndc to my letter of Aucust
brmnsni t.ted photosta bic copies of three lettars dated ioazust; 4
antitlod. '
Investi.ff.a 'ion of Fly it'""
the ft] II in q one
xn to
1347 ,
E:nclos inr a
Col o nel
randun en
obte.ino:l in
32-2933
me Io suras
duly
133
78

Page 63

fernib'j'l•. F.pce. .bbjé#s• tke
'14 Oji
Student
an :.üed
.qeévc iookfat• west•.gtrd
.t'c•.i8rd
O 'fe•iw p It; —
:hti .
ud d.
sei fé t
Aee fie uy.. .r,ere
Xa-ne'B
evel
cn-•.o eldtude,• # t qce:-.eu
_•urrü
r •hat
åe ueh ly
red o-)or Caz: - " r.'a
Ka64åtÆerå ye oceani'•a 1
—20 •no: • POGI d ; ':.eard From
_the DOI s ,.Nxe
. åbåeois d Y.ei. trei13
éÖoÆ?d' ho he/ ?.ö+eptoiä' nr.yor.e ahue
'flyln?. •:obåe •;ould ehånk he ns ,crazy,
throu;hout, tho
tswer4nc ur q?e'9t ceptlon assuY91ce,
.1dL«3s 4tiF

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Transcribed by Claude (AI) from the page image. Check against the scan.

HEADQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE
Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, A-2
Intelligence
Hamilton Field, California
28 July 1947
AFDO-1
AAF-1208-1 [?]
SUBJECT: "Unidentifiable Objects"
TO: Special Agent in Charge, FBI, 111 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California.
Enclosed herewith is information copy of MOIC [?], subject as above, dated 15 July 1947 [?].
DONALD L. SPRINGER
Lt Col, CSC
A C of S, A-2
1-Incl
Info by MOIC,
dtd 15 Jul 47 [?]
[stamp: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE JUL 30 1947]
[handwritten initials; file number "62-83894-[illegible]" at bottom]

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c;
cor
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Nonda
jYößUb.iaf bbY50éo tou* otoiock,
120
v ire flyi.D8
dita obJicC
has no cone
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Offce Memorandum ,
FROM
SUBJECT:
Director, nx
SAC, Francisco
REPQTS OF DISCS
UINITED STATES GOVERNMENT
DATE: Septaber 4, 1947
,9ECIL DELIVERI
Alciosed is a copy of a 14ter dated August 28, 1947,
from of A-2, Field, Calif.,
67 c
with an attachment referring to üe s hting of a flying object
by capt and his co-pilot,
, near Bethel,
Photoetatic copies of letter and attachmmt are
being for*arded t o t YE Anchorage Field Office. In aecordance
with Bureau Bulletin 442, dated July 30, 1947, Anchorage is
requested to interview Captain —and his co—pilot, —
p•eferably separately, in order to Otain all details of
their reported Bighting of a flying object on Auæst 191+7,
Sen Fru•icisco Field Office should be tvo copies
of the results of tkzse interviews for distribution to the Sixth
A.r•my Intelligence,
62-2938
cc Anchorage (mcls. )
USD
RECORDED

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81aA.K 000
. SYSTbT,
SoaHie % shinctoa
19 1947
SIGNAL CORPS
'b'eott or Yatlonal Intere•t
Cormnnd
Fourth Air ?broe
Egn Franoi soo, Cali forni'
the • *ached letter hau boen received from the XCOIC or
the Alaska Cot-stuntoation Syctem 'tattoo
Xt oubm.i#ea for your infonaUon.
For tho Comandinz Officer 8
cy fr XCO:C
at to Bq,
ACS,
sss, 5/1209-1
at Bethol,
Svond C
,wasen
SEI,'I.) C.
Captain, Sie-noi Corps
k.zoeutive
4 AEDA
Cali rotata, 23
AIR F.-at.•., *
Dop'rt-æaz ot J•oUcu, Room 422
to: Spoolai Atene Ia Charce, YBX, V. 3.
. Federal Off ico San Franetsoe, Colt
Forsardod ror your
DONALD L. SPRG.G.:.R
IA, Colonel, CSC
'LOERA,
uS •
194/
ROUXEO 80

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, ihÖF
aoa roti—a ia
.thn, ihe
an
den .
ouch
"Manon
E E L O IP7.
. S' -FJSUCE

Page 69

Offce Meønorund
um
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
65-481
TO
FROM
SUBJECT:
Director FBI
SAC Butte
FLYING DISCS
Remytel August 20, 1947,
DATE:
September 2, 1947
With reference to the above—described teletype, Zlr,
FA . +.hA source i of' i.nfor—
ration, who the Executive Director of
a neighbor. •ære
explained that and his wife and k•s,
gittmg on tkEir front poroh at approximately 9:30 P. August 19, 1947. He
said that Mrs —suddenly Bhouted and pointed to t sky and thereafter
that Bhe had seen an object traveling at a terrific rate of eoeed in a
and
direction, object wae out of sight before
could see anything.
Mrs.
Mrs- —-xad seen. EDDroxixnAteIv
ten minutes ali tyree saw ten 8å..må1ar objecte proceeding rapidly in the
seme direction in the fom of a Ag the group of objects dig—
apyaaring, three of the objects on the left flank peeled off and proceeded in
a nnre northerly direction, The remaining obje to close ranks and
proceeded in a northeasterly
From three to five minutes later tlz se sang individua'ls saw another
group of three objects proceeding in san:e direction, uld again in the shape
a From three to five minutes later all three observed anotlsx•
group in a triangular consisting of five or six objects. They
proceeding ...in the sarz direction.
A few minutes later the three persons Baw a large group of objects
eétirnated at from thirty—five to fifty flying in B triangular forrzti«k in the
sarae tænty or twnty—five minutes after the large
group of objects was observed, eitniiar objects were noted caminz back over
city in a gouthTR3tzrIy direction. These objects være geæraily in groups of
three. five and eeven and Col Imad each ot}-er at approxinztely ive mi.nute inter—
valse
of the Twin Falls
police a next door neighbor, who was then accanpa.nied by —
aleo Rønbers of •tlz Twin Falls Police Departrnnt,
The three officers watched for a few minutes and observed a group of about
obåects flying in fomation over the city in a eouthwstzrly direction,
Thc mtnbez.s oc Police did not conti.n'& watching, although Mr.
—later groups, which were algo eeen by —and Mrs.
also o led her husband, who saw eæe 'Of. tas objects.
7.
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BT 65-481
On the night in question the sky was overcast ard üe objects could
not be seen closely; however, they were distinct enough 60 that all porsons
could observe zvkBt they & scribed as a glow going through the air, They said
that the objects appeared to be lighted from the insi& and yore of a color
8imiIar to regular electric lights,
Detective—xnd IS.r, —both 8tatod tmt they could not
be or comets, Qu t they flew on a IiN and did not aprgar to
drop, They flex at a terrific rate of speed and visible for only a few
minutos at a tins , Both persons intervie•æd said taint the objects could not
havo boon goose or ducks and tlz t the lights YEre not a reflection of the city
lights on object or objects,
None of the persms intervieri8d noticed any or anything except
Üxe of lights, None of persons who claimed to have seen these objects
drinking at the time, No other perscme in Twin Falls reported seeing the
objects npntioned herein; hovåever, —nd Mr. —stated that it
purely by accident that tk•sy had seen the objoct8 and tYBt they would not have
seen unless they were iooking for them, because of the at which they
traveled, account of the overcast 'ky tiwy itere unable to egtiaxate size
Of objects or height at vrhich f lev.
No further investigation is being conducted by Off.ice, and
the case being closed,
RJG8FOtS
-2-

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Gffce Menøorandum •
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO
FROM
SUBJECT:
Director, FBI
— Attention: Assistant
Director D. M. LADD
DATE: July 28,
1947
SAC, San Francisco
.FLYING DISCS
There is transmitted herewith for the of the Bureau
a report received from A —2, Hamilton Fie d,
California, containing the results of an iuvostigation by his office concerning
the reported sißhting of flying discs.
In addition to containing the detailod descriptions of what was
a liegedly seen by geveral peraons, the Bureau's attention is particularly called
to the firet memorandum setting forth the notes Of Agent CIC
Fourth Air Foree, concerning an interviow he had with Mr. — Box 7 C
387, Boise; Idaho, who reported that on July 12, 1947 he had seen 'nine stnnge
obdoct8 flying over the Cascade Mountain Range of Keshi.nrton State ,
noted that CIC Agent thathlr, —is very outspoken and somewhat
bitter in his opinions of the leadere of the United States Army Air Forces and the
FBI for not havi.ng made an investigation of this matter sooner, n
The thought has occurred to that the Bursau mie,ht dosire to have
an agent of the Butte Office contact Mr. —nd explain to him our lack of} I.C
Jurisdiction in such matters,
HXX temb
Enclosure

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Of f ice
Fl.vtnr. Discs.
FMLE No. _(4A?-EOB-1)
18 *fly _ 1947
DATE
REASON FOR INVESTIGATION:
• Staff.
Field*
AT
Field.- Cnlifornlm---..-..-----
CONTUOLLIBC, OFFICE __Air_.Pefen.se- -C.orwna,nå.----•—---.---
CASE CLASSIFICATION . *Incident..
Pendi ng
STATUS or CASE
Investiftation initiated et tho request of Headquarters Air Defense Command
reference letter Headquarters Air Defense Com:nand, dated 7 July 47, File D3SS.6 ID.
Investi=ation of Fiying Di sese
subje ct.
by
by
\lhscs
"nidentificd
ünidentified
first reported in this eren 24 June 1947 near
(Incl 1, A)
0b •ect ranorted July 1947 at approxiwuktely 1277
Idaho Dn.ily Statesman. (Incl 2,
TJnited Air
obåects reported by
minutes out of Boise, Idaho. (Incl 3 HOIC. Inel 7
Rainier, Wash. ,
near Boise, Idaho,
axhibit B) /
Lines Pilot,
Newe Clippings
4 July 1947, eight
dated 5 July 1947)
Record check
rovep led no record
pnblic utilities, and local residences
nf en orc.0'*'nnå, agencie
(Inci 4)
in Gprinr,s.
P July at 1245, traveling northeast over
F.xhibit I)
(Inel 5
Fig•ld bv
Unidentified objects reported over arnnd Canyon, Ari zona 0910 MST b
(Incl G) And in vicini ty of Lake Mead by
*Arooks Field, Texas. (Inel 6).
(Incl T)
of' i city in local area indicnted by press clippings.
COPIES
2
ADC
4AP
Arpnoveo:
DONALD L. SPIUNGER
ICE
JUL 24

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Incident
4AF 1208 1
16 July 1947
FOR OFFICER CHARGE:
1. On 12 1947,
•eve. s interviewed 3 n rec.ard to {jho report bv
strange objects over tho Ca gondo : Toununin nnre of Washington
State on July 25th.
voluntari ly screed to givo the intervierer
a written report exact y what hc had "en on the above mentioned date.
The written renort attached to this report as Exhibit A,
i e; a .mnn of' 32 years of etc, boine rurried and
the father 0.0 '
i 8 v.•oll thought of' in the cc»tmunåty in
ch he 1 LV03,
much the ftv lib' mon end from All appearances
B very cood nrovi for hie far.)ilv.
18 s recently purchased
our z lased a
in
to conduct his business to thc extent of Which Is explained n the
attached exhibit.
It is the personol opinion of the intervi ewer thet
saw whet he stated that he saw, It i 8 difficult to bel%ve
that, a npn of —eharscter "nd apparent integrity muld state
thnt he object Q A nd n•rite up a rc port to the extent that he did if he
did not. gee them, 'Jo ro further, if —cnn write e report of the
chnrecter h" d ; d aot høvir• seen the 0b iects t.hRf, he claimed he
it is tho opinion of' the interviewer that
s in the wrong
busines«
t.h?t he should be tyritinr, anck P.oc.sr6 Cict.ion.
vory oui.spo)ren nnd somewhat t ter in his opinions ot thc leader 8 of the
U.S. Arms h j. r Force e n nd Fodernl aureeu of' Investigetion f'or not having
medo an invoFf.i of this netter snoner.
To pu4., ell of the statements
nado bv
this report would make it B voluminous volume. However,
nftcr h!' vin;-, checked nn aeronautical mnp ot the area over which —
c IA i ns he saw obåocts it ms d9tnrmincd thnt a 11 stRtsments mede by
regard to the stmces 'f•vnlvcd, spood of tho objocts, couree
n" objects cnd s i 'O of tho objects, could verv possibly bo facts.
The
distnncefi mentioned b —in his report are Yi thin a short distance
on octunl disl,nrv•
on
never conan I tod
tod thn t.
his
on Ju I v 25.' duc to tho r n ct
00 worn
to quote
ecronnuti chort5 or this area, although
aoronnuticel charts of the type the Army uses.
business hf'(l sufforod •ren t lv g inep hi8 report
thnt Rt every
stop on his hut; inoss routee, large
him to Just what ho had seen.
ho. , n f, an" timo in the sr•.w
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O
ident
1208 1
n due to the
fly Inm throuf',h the air I woul.{ ncvor say e word about it
fact that he has been ridiculed bv tho press to such an extone that he
is practically a moron in thc eves of' the ma,lority or the population or
the Unftod States,
Exhibit "AR
Incl:
PRATIK BRO
crt,
4th

Page 75

thør's name
I wms
•noved to
cai
n Lonp:
entered snout in;-
he tor
T AS r ourtpen.
'i C trials in
p. t and th
Univerci of Firme 50t•
n nd 0] n•red football
v•as un• to continue
S football eon
y- err nd 'e ther
prad becr.,.,
quite in DO
h i r.h school B t : linot, Forth bakota.
1
end ochiyved t)vs rank of Eacle scout
for" ? r e y.ecative
now a
Cit". Y.ansas.
. * in Ypns.QS
i c s nd s
noel
I entered the
tnught swinvning and diving
north DRkctRe
I went to the
'*'id did fenc.i' divine under
o n r t' •r bocpuse en in$ured knee.
IS nor.'
I ho •.t I i f; t 10 OT no finances, and
in Pnrtherirr• r II' in collot,e v,ras throuc,h mtr• athletics.
in
rer of'
I took First
Grept F a 'I -
T d d rood deal doc sled racing
vænt to for
a
nutomatir• re fi ru-- r nnnra
In 1932
I wns made
•or t o f' •hhe western stntes, and in 1940 1
e x e ±nrtod es e bey in
North Dakota, where
was originally from
f.o the high cost Rt +.l:at time, I was unable to
o lyin- nnd (tid not r Iy of n rpr —reat conr;equonce until 1943.
pi .T.ot cart! f i cate
insoector Of
Port 1B nd, Oretrou, n nd for t 'ne ) r
coverinm mt' ant, ire wi th gnd flying ft•om or ty to one hundre
hours oer mont,h since. to the fgct the t I use • rnlano entirely in
'Or k, in Jnnunv * or thia
votr I purchn
my
irplane, which
is rn eirplane de: i fined for h i :-.h n Ititude n nd short rough field use.
In tho type t Lvinr do,
f' rrep•t don I ot practice and
hut) r •nnnt. l."
f' n ' l,uro ond get out without
i n,iuriuff, your no; thn r •ritvn•••; vr•r.V ted and tho altitude i e
vory hirh in some t•'f' f i n I ds nrid
J to to in •my work. To
dat g,
I in 823 cow no stores tn mountnin meadows, end in over
e thousnnd hours n flat tire hns
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Tho following, story of' whet I observod over the Cascade mountains,
I nevor asked nor wanted
as impossible as it seam, is positively true.
notnriet,',• for .insl. eccidon+.lv be in- in the r} $-ht spot et tho r j.ght time
I renorted soma thin? I How " ny nilot would
to observe 1 did.
I don't thin". thRt in nny uny ny observe t ion was due to any
hove reonrted,
sensivitv or e.'.•e sj or äudc:neat t;hnn whet is oonsi dered normnl for any
Cn Jl.nne 24th, Tnesdg•r, 1947, I htd finished my work for the
•Tashinr,ton, and at ebout two o'clock I off from
R t Chehal i S ,
girpnrt the intention of xoin,". to Yakima, fiash,
Chehalis,
trip wes dela•red for en hour to search for large mmrine transport that
supposedly won t; down Itenr or eroun•l the southwest s idc of Ra inier in the
stRte of and to dnte has nevor been found.
I flew directly toward \ •.t. Rainier after reachinr, en altitude of about
9,500 feet, which is 'Vha npproxinnte elevation of the hi!.h plateau from which
I had mndo one sweep of this high plateau to the westward,
T. •pinier rises.
searchin-, of' tho ver ious ridges for this marine ship and flew to the
down ond near th3 side of thn canyon whore Ashford, Washington, located.
Unnble to see nn•rthine• tho. t lookr.'1 1 ike the lost ship, I nrtde a 360 degree
turn to tho ri"ht ond obovo tho little c_it:.' of Nineral, starting again toward
I climbed back u o to P n of approximately 9,200 feet,
.',lt, Reinier,
Tho air •en s so smooth that doy thQt, it v.•as a real pleasuro flying and,
as most "i lots do when th9 nir is smooth end they are fly inz at htc,her
I trimmod out ny eirplanc in the direction of Yakima, Washington,
altitudn ,
which elmost directly east of my position end Simply sat in nv plane ob—
sorvin:y, the sky end the terrain.
Thoro was a DC—4 to the le ft end to the rear of me enproximately
fifteen '"Iles distqncn, end I. should at 14, 000 foot elevntion,
Tho sky end air Ras as clear as crystal.
I hadn't flown more than
two or three minutes on my course When a brixht f l" sh reflected on
T thoue,ht I mas too close to some ot.her air—
It startled me P c
a f rplc.na.
I looked every D lec• in the sky nnd couldn't find where the refleo—
t ion had come from until I looked to thq left end tho north of • 't. Rainier
where I observed a chain or nine peculiar lookine aircraft fly int- from north
to south 9t 9,500 feet elevation and going, seemingly, in a
definito direction of' about 170 decrees,
Thnv were eppronchinr, "t. Rainier very rapidly, and I merely assumed
{they wore jet p Innes, Anyhow, I di scovyred that this was where the refleo—
t ion hap. comr• from, es two or three of them overy few seconds would dip or
just enouth for the sun to striko them at an
chmnge courso sli rht17,
an:lle reflected bright, I on my plnn•.
ob,iects bc Ing, qu ito far awt:.', I wes unable for a few seconds to
make their she po or their foryntion, Very shortly thev approached
Rainier, end I obsnrvcd their outline e.r.8inst the snow quite ploinly,
I t.hou•ht it was ver" oeculipr that couldn't find their tails but
I was determinod clock their
I had d':
T cnuld clock tham b" •
tho air 80
it was vor•• to sec 0b incts end determine their approximate
s;.npe nn •i a I mos4, f i fit. y milos day,
sncond hand on m" eight dny clock,
ich is loee.t.ed on instrumen'
rced one minuto to 3 P.' • ,
f i r s t ob.ir ct or this formation 02 s.e,sd the southern edge of T ft, Rainier.
i'AtchR'l these object 3 th •prent- inf.orest, as I had never before obeerved

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airplanes flyit•t- so close the rotintair tops, flyi nx directly south to
I would estimate their
southeast do-em thc. horic back or P. mount.ein rante.
elevntion could hpve voricd n thou.e.gnd feot ono or another u o or down
but tho-e v;erc nrett•r much on tl't? to mo '.Q!hich would indicnte thev
'torc HAR r the some elovnå: inn as
like many ti'vns I have obscrved gecse to fly in rather
dieøonal chain—like as if thc-r were linked top,ether. They seemed to
hold a definite direction but rather swerved in and out of the high mountain
Their Rt. f.he f. i rne did not {moress me nnr±icularlv. because I
knew that our army and air forces lind p Iones that; v.rent very fast.
?IhRt kept bother inc me as I v:ntched them flip and flesh in the gun
thrt I couldn't make out any tail on
rirht along their path •em s t ' f-
them, and I em sure thot eny pilot would Justify moro than a second 100k at
such a plane.
I observed them nutte DIR inly, end I estimate my distance from them,
which was almost at r i '*ht ancles, t.o be between twenty to twenty-five miles.
knB* thev must be vent lerr;e to observa their shnpe at that distance, even
In fact I compared e zeus fastener
•.hFt Tur:sdov.
cn as clenr e it m s
— holding it. up on them and
or CQW1h• tool I hpd mv "ocket ' •i t h
Ehat I could observe et quite P. dtstqnce to my
holding' up on the DC—4
left, nnd the.' Geened stnnller then the üC—4; but, I e.hould Judge their span
V.'OUIC.- have been es wit-io P s engines on ooch side oc' the
fuselage of tho DC—d.
the nore upset 1 beceme, as I am
Tho pore I observed se obj.•cts,
accustomed and Carnilfer v. if*h nost 911 object;s flying; whether I em close to
I observed the chain of these objects
-t" aer udes.
the around or at h • I
ridte iti between Vt. Rainier and Adams
passing another hirh
south crest 01' this ridge f,he last
and as first. cne V.P.G
ITori;l'-2rn crr•st ot the rid':o
o')jcct E
As vm.s Fl vir:r in the dåraction of' this particular ridge, I measured
pproxi"tt€ly Pive miles so I could safely assume that
it end foend to be
chain of thc st 11]: * ohioct.s '.ycrc at least five niles lonc.
1
cculd quit n dotcrr-ino t ir due to the fact t.hat there
Lilt t. were a litG1e this side of them as as
wc. ro several hir-h
hirhcr peot.*.s cn the other side o? their pathway.
, ion oasged the southern most high snow—
As tho
unit of' thir f'orpr.
covered crost of Ade,'2s, I loo)ced at; sweep seccnd hand and it shoæd
thet they bad travelled the distence in cne minute end forty—two seconds.
the tine this timing, e. id not me es I felt confident after I
would land thero would bl.' explepp of what saw.
number of news nen end exoeri,f svstgested thet might heve been
I know to be absolutely false,
seeir.E reflections or eve--.T' c Ft rate.
9 s I observed c'us only the glass of my Birplane but
turned my r.irplnno sidev.nvs whore I roulé. open mv window and observe them
(Yi + hout F.un glasses
C!ith unobst- ructml v; ewe
very short to one on the
hw •n thoufth two nn in 5 sect"$
cround, in the pir in minutcz; timo a iilot cen observe e greet many
sight of' vision orobpbly as many es fifty or
Chinr,fi end with fn hic
si xtry times.
I continued my sacrch for th• marine plane ror enothor fifteen or
s.onrchinl-• f or Chi $ tnarine plpne, what I had dust
twenty mir.utes v.•hilc
bocene morc disturbed. so after
observed coin;: r,y• mind.
t;elr.inr-. a I.&3t. look n t; Tie400n Reservoir I headed for Yakima.

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observ"t.ion of
jects, •hieh I
coule even follow bv the ir f.ho•.' passed Adems, was around two
R nd one—he If or Miree mi nutes
—— a i f,hourh, by thc time they roached Mt. Adams
thn.y wore out; of n," renr.c-• of vision s ns d.9t,ermining shape or form. Cf
e!' I '-•cted fron on' or two or three of these units, they
course whey
abili ty, whieh I including, as +.Q tho
shppe I observed these objects to
as they passed the coverod ridges n s well ns ..t. Roi nier.
Äien these ob.iects r:ere f' l"ing; approxinetclav strri pht gnd level, they
wero dust a black thin lina and whon thc•y flipped was the only time I could
.e.et a Judgment as to thc* r size.
Thege objects were holdinr, en ost constr.ttt elovni:ion; they did not
seem to be {toinr; up or to be cont n G dovnl, such es v;oulä be the case of rockets
or artillery shall s.
I convinoed in my ovm mind thc t they were some type
of airplane. oven thoueh thev didn't conform with the aspects of the
conventicnal type of planes that I know.
Although objocts have boen reported by many other observer'
throus:hout the United -;t.e+.ee
there hpvo been Bix or seven other accounte
wri tten by some of t II', 3c observers I ca.n truthfully sev must have ob—
i v: t.,xüiiS Oz
from Oklahor19 City and the locomo—
tive enrineer in 111 plus —end CD—Pilot —of United Air Lines.
Sone descriptions could not ver 'T eccurate tal:cn from the ground unleas
these saucer—like di sys wgre at quite n rreat he 1 (T,ht and there Is a possibiity
thet all of the people who observed peculiar obéects could have seen the seme
int I did; but, it would have been very difficult fr.om the ground to observe
these Por no-e then four or t ive secondG
nnd there is Alweys the poseibility
of atmospheric moisture gnd duat near ground Thich could df stort one's vision e
who profess t htt the.e.e objects have beer cbserved over other portions of the
World, principe.lly Sweden, 3erynud" and Cpl i forni R
I would have r, i vcr- 8 Inost, nnythin;• the t dey to have had e movie
ctmerr• with r telephoto lens end from now,' on I will never be •ithout one — —
"hen ipnded at the Yaki2R, fiash.,
but, f.a c--nt,i nue further with
ei rport I described r.ihnt; had scot-. to verv p_ood rriep.d, AI Baxter, •ho
listen 3d
conrteous but a Jokinc we y didn't believe ne.
nod ver••
I did not eccvrnf;elv •ensure thc di r, tance v.?en these two mounta1n8
until I I pnd' d at Oror,on. ti*f semo de_v where I told a number of
pilot friends of' mi nn
I hod observe ond they did nct scoff or laugh but
they mi rh4. he
'*'2ided •mtssile-, or somethint•; no 7.
In fact several
former Armie —i lots
ccnbet
I quoth'
vi ncod,
o? bc i. tost,3d
'•rorld*
the--
hn baen briefed before toinz into
sec objects of similar Rho pe and design as I
Air oil ot who is now
, n V.Y.at you observed, I am eon—
•c I led ship the t is in the process
by onr æcv 'rrment, or it, could nossiblv be by sono foreign
I hnd observ•• d these soread verv rnoi
and
befort- •ve.; ovnr rat, 2
onhone calls fro:n all parts f
to I recoi ' ' nd one telephone cell or one letter
printed in
I look 'Ari s
mede it be.
rii T *A4-:
someUlinp runny as some people have
riauc. tnd since 1 evidently did

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-r. John 'I. on tho straot corner or Peto
nnr'•rews on t, b.e rnnch hnG never : 2" r rd ahont, {s no rent,on it does not
thc: Armr and thc
n 4-4
rr f. v: d interec.t from those two important
I 11 rp so for as f.0 8 sgume that any
Press and over the redio on two
set the nation buzzing, if' our T!ilitery
Intelli gence vas not of 1 observed, they would be the very first
people •that I could expect as visitors.
I ve received lots of' requests Cron neople who told me to make a lot
I he ve based I hpve written here in this article on
of wild guesses.
much a mystery to me RS it is 4 0 the rest of the wor
. '-y pilot's license is
plgce single enrine lend shio tb'ftt Is designed manufactured at Afton,
Wyoming as nn c. x tremel'* h i rh
h i r.h altitude Rirplane thet
The nr'vionnl oertiticste of my plnne is
rande for •nount o in work.
c
observc that; least
Rs to
pro%ective forces 01' our ccnntr: ;
renor+; I
to the IIn*.tBd t nd
different occnsj ons which
O
-31
i
They soemed lonr,er than Hide, their
thickness was 2 bout I/ 20th or their width
pin but seemed in fixed po: itior.,
Thct: did not
as
nppcc.r
I hnve
J,-o whirl
to
mede