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In Yard and Holds It for FBI

Chicago, July 6 U9).—A_Catho- FBI_oflce said hhe_hadn’t_heard
|lie priest at Grafton, Wis. sala| Yet About the. at What a gf
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BL Nson ie flying discs have been re-

One OF the MYSer’) ported “seen” by persons in 30

bit fy "put Brasky's dise was the
; and that he frst ome that actually had been
ound—if that is what wor found.
: report came a few hours
asky of Stlagter a military plane made an
Srafton, 45\ynsuecessful speed dash in an at
ofth of Milwaukee, said He tempt to track down one of
Reatd 4 swishing and whitringldises and the Arniy and scigntisis|
hoise this morning. A second later|sought to ascertain whether coa* |
j jhe. sald, he heard thud and @to.coast reports aout the di
jmild_ explosion. \zooming through tie sky were £
He investigated and found aloy fancy,
cheet metal dise about 18 inches in|” army planes scoured the north-|
|diameter, “resembling cireulat| west Pacific skies for them without
{saw blade. success today and one “eyewitness” |
|srvrrne object still was Warm/even reported having ‘seen one of
weighed about four or five pounds|the dises take off in Arizona, A
and was about one eighth of anist, Lo yailroad man exhibited
jinch thick,” he said. some paper “dises” he said he had
| There was a hole about, one|seen floating over St. Louis.
inch in diameter in the middle of}
ne he said, and in the open-| ‘The flying saucers which have
| were “gadgets and somelbeen reported skimming through
| wires.” * vica’s ski
ot select said.be vd mot enol as ec aiey Sa pec ata ‘i
it his discovery were important) "yo bat salhcrne pa
a ee pier. Capt, Tom Brown of the Army
4 Saance th ‘Air Forces public relations st ‘t
‘teaukee| See SAUCERS, Page 3, Col.

JUL 7 1947
WASHHINGTON posit

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Priest Finds ‘
In Yard and

said the Army Airways Communi-
cations Service had reported late
yesterday that so far its radar]
scopes throughout the country |
have been unable to pick up any
strange objects in flight.

And in the Pacifie Northwest—)
where most of the fly-happy plat-
iters have been reportéd—the Army
has radar equipment which can.

pierce fog and darkness and pick |;,,.

up objects in the sky 200 miles
away.

Even so, Brown acknowledged}
that the Air Forces had decided}
“there’s something to this” and)
had been checking It for 10 days. |

‘And we still haven't the slight-|

t idea what they could be,” he
added.

And a new wrinkle—the report-
ed landing of a fleet of eight skim-
ming platters—was reported from!
Idaho in ful} view of 10 persons. A.|
Dishman, Idaho housewife, said
she and others in her party had
seen the saucers land on a moun-
tainside near St. Maries, Idaho, |

he said they came into view at!
aifextreme speed, suddenly slowed,
ard then “fluttered like leaves to,
t ground.” |

“The mysterious part was thi
we couldn’t see them after th
landed,” she said. “We could se}.
|them flutter down’ into the timbe®!
yet we couldn’t see that they did
\anything to the trees.”
| She said she hoped to hike into
the timber tomorrow and search
for the objects which she said were
saucer-shaped but resembled wash-
tubs more than disks and were
“about the size of a five-room
house.” |

Locally, Hazen Kennedy of 2615
4th st. ne. reported he had seen
one passing over the Northeast
section of the city at about 8:40

p.m

This would be the first one re-
ported over the District, although
others have been reported over,
nearby Maryland.

Kennedy, who has 125 hours)
flying time as a student pilot inj
the Army Air Forces to his gedit
said he believed the saucer he’
had seen was traveling at “welll
over” 1000 miles an hour at an|
altitude of between 1200 and 1500,
feet.

“The best way I can describe it,”
said Kennedy, “was that it looked
like an orange lamp bulb without
the socket. It was going faster than]
any jet plane I've ever seen.” |

In Hagerstown, Md., Mrs, M:

Ganoe, 30, said she had

e of the discs, racing in 2-1.

rmation at “terrific speed,” froi

 backporch. “They sounded liife
a faraway train,” she said.

é

H. :

accounts came a ne\

comments, and explanations, bu’
most of them were tinged with a}
slight tendency to laugh off the)
whole thing. |

Dr. Winfred Overholser, nation-|
ally known psychiatrist and super-|
intendent of St. Elizabeths Hos-|
pital here, said it “has some of the’
earmarks of being national hy:

“Everytime someone comes up}
with a sea-serpent story,” sai
Overholser, “others
imaginations are sure they hi
seen the same’ thing.

“The critical faculty in man, the
last one he received, is still not}
very well developed. Scratch the
surface’ and you find the same mass
hysteria which predominated dur-
ing the witchcraft scare. Some
persons are quite. ready
things and follow beli

Dr. Overholser said that when
he made his rounds of the mental
patients yesterday at St. Eliza-
beths not a one commented on the
fl

ave

I think they may be a little
skepticaf,” he added.

However, Dr. Overholser said he!
w4§sn’t trying to dismiss the matter,
aga joke “because there are so
‘nfany strange things going on to-

y that one can’: be sure.”

Mpi. Alexander P. de Seversf-y,
nofed aircraft designer, told Whe
Poft by telephone from New York
thgt until he sees a flying saucer
he “wouldn’t like to pass judg-
ment.”

He agreed with Dr/ Overholser
that much if not all of the story
may be because of hysteria,

“After all,” he said, “we are
more or less an hysterical Nation.”
Major de. Seversky said it was pos-
sible that the persons who claim
to have seen the aerial discs have
instead glimpsed the exhaust of
jet-propelled planes,

He conceded, too,‘ that they
might be guided missiles let loose
as part of an experiment, but
added:

“I don’t think the Government
would fire them so promiscuously.
They would test them in one spot,
in an isolated area, like they did
the atomic bomb.”

Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, who
as Deputy Chief of Air Staff for

esearch and Development would

know if the saucers involved ex-
periments with guided missiles,
‘commented:

_ “Whatever these people have
Seen it hasn't: been anything re-
sulting from experiments by the
Army Air Forces. As for as I’m
concerned there's nothing to it
at all. The whole thin;
lofteratet Z

“At any distance which is close
to the limit of how far a person
can see,” he wrote, “all objects
apprar round or nearly so, Th’s
law of sight covers both small
|thiljgs seen nearby and large ois,
at great distances.

‘he one outstanding fact about
virtually all the saucers is that’
they had no structure —they
eemed merely round and flat.
‘That description fits exactly with
the tricks that eyes play. This
trickiness varies with differences
in weather and lighting.”

However, Nova Hart, St. Louis
mechanic who was trained during
service in the war to spot all types
of aircraft, yesterday offered a
minute description of one of the
flying patterns which he claimed he
saw flying at an altitude of about)
300 feet.

Reporter Sees One

He described it as circular with)
a ribbed framework and_ silver!
gray in color. He said it appeared

| to have a motor with a propeller,

attached in the center and that it
‘kept turning like an airplane do-,
ing a slow roll, |
Although many explanations}
have been offered, none has been!
\efnvincing. A Los Angeles news},
'pfper quoted an unnamed nucleay
plysicist as saying the silvery disc!
_rgulted from experiments in thi
/“fransmutation of atomic energy.”
This report was rapidly herded
jjinto the hoax column by David
|| Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic
||Energy Commission, and several)
|prominent atomie scientis!
Starr Expects Word
| Louis E. Starr, national com-|
| mander of the Veterans of Foreign.
||Wars, announced Saturday at Co-
lumbus, Ohio, that he was expect-|
ing “momentarily” information|
\from Washington which would ex-|
plain the dashing discs. But the|
message never arrived. |
The Air Forces said that Gen. ||
Carl Spaatz, Air Forces chief, was |
in the Pacific Northwest where |
most of the saucers have been re- |
ported, but added that his trip]
there was planned ‘two months |
ago, long before the saucers scare.
General Spaatz is expected back in
| Washington late tomorrow. S
. Muroe Army Air Field in Call-
jornia had a P-80 jet fighter
ing by, and the National Guard
©regon had prepared six re;
fighters to give chase sh
saucers be reported nearby,

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BY SPECIAL MESSENGER
August 5, 1947

War Department General Staff
The Pentagon
Washington 25, D. C.

Attention: Colonel L, R, Forney, Chief, Security Group
John Edgar Hoover - Director, Federal Bureau of Investigat
FRED R. REIBOLD
There are attached hereto copies of a letter received from

above-captioned individual, together with copies of a newspaper g¥ipr
enclosure, concerning "flying discs." ; e

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July 11, 1947.

Dear Sirs
Have you seen one of the mysterious "Saucers"?
What did it look like?
Do you think these strange, celestial manifesta-

tions are harbingers of a better day?

Do you believe it means that a new and revolutionary

advance is coming?
Will it make your life brighter, happier, more
useful?
We believe one of these startling dises is on its
way to you. Then the secret will be out.
The Combined and Amalgamated Committee

of Sky-Scanners, Disc Decipherers and
New-Product Introducers.

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TO : MR. D. M LaD) DATE: July 7, 1947
FROM : H. B. FLETCHER

SUBJECT: YK

At 10:45 aeme, July 7, 1947, I talked to SAC Johnson of the
Milwaukee Office concerning the United Press item appearing in the
Washington Post for Monday, July 7, with reference to a flying disc
or flying saucer allegedly reported to the Milwaukee Office by
Reverend JosepiKBrasky of St. Joseph's Church, Grafton, Wisconsin.

SAC Johnson advised that the Associated Press and the Unitééd
Press between the hours 1:00 and 6:00 asm. today had made inquiry of
him as to whether anything had been reported to the Milwaukee Offices
He declined to comment. He stated as a matter of fact the priest had-
not made any contact with him, and he learned from the Associated Press
that the priest was intoxicated and as far as the Associated Press was
concerned they were not releasing the story because all that was involved
was a circular saw. Mr. Johnson stated the Milwaukee Sentinel apparently
sent the report out and that they handled United Press service. He stated
a photograph of the priest was in this morning's paper holding a circular
saw which apparently covers the body of the priest from arm pit to arm pit.

\ Attached to the saw are several wires and two small tubes described as
about three inches long and one inch in diameter. The news item in the
Milwaukee Sentinel indicates it was believed some prankster had thrown it
into the yard, perhaps with a firecracker attached. Mr. Johnson stated the
Milwaukee Sentinel had stated the priest would make a report of this matter
today to the Milwaukee Office. I instructed SAC Johnson in the event the
priest made a report to furnish details of the report immediately, but in

view of the nature of the information in his possession, no inquiry should
be conducted at the present.

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bonito X

fig Re@ona’ dine tn ebe past

of menths a Sweet Home

has brought honor to his
unity by winning literary
holastie acclaim,
st to achieve himself was
in Anthony Matusek, Yoa.
High School graduate who
a sehelarship to A, and M.
ge. Now word ~ reaches us
‘Donmis Brenek, eleven-year-
son of Mr, and M
iek of Sweet Home ,has been
ded a prize of-a $25 Savi
lin the KTRH Farm Essay

won sixth place with his

y on the subject ‘How Radio

Best Serve the Farm and

Farm Home.’’ In commenting

this essay, George Roesner,

tH Farm and Raneh Director

: “Your essay contained

excellant ideas. whieh

st to use in future farm pro-
‘

we

is nothing
who, in 1946, won

with ap. essay

od in the Sears-Roebuek con-
Again, in February 1947, he
ed a calf in the Hallettsville
Club Show, and out of 12

s awarded he took fifth

. Brenek ‘is Sweet Home’s

‘Growing

ateurs’ Display
cellent Form

akum softball teams showed
of good playing in the games
sd at the Bulldog Stadium
week.

te tedms, organized bs
mezehants and concerns it
1, are composed of members
amateur standing who he
some previons experience with
Hot or seool ball play
, some of the player
such expert ball-
iling and sportsmanship that
hard to believe they are not
The

ne.

éssionals out ef , place.
chants Who organized these
a8 ave certainly deing their
“6 toward providing recreation
lities for the young people of
community, and are to be
plimented on their fine work.
er merchants or concerns who.
h to organize a team may
n all the particulars from
ph MeMaster at the Virestone
re on Lott Street, or from
R, C. McClendon. at Lack’s
ogiate Store on West Grand.
boys or men wishing to play
one of the teams may make
tone Store,
k’s, Rohan’s Service Station,
Hamilton’s Jewelry Store, de-
ding on the player’s choice of
eam to play with, There is
| plenty of room for good
so anyone interested is
ed to contact one of these
ns.

Inly one game is definitely
eduled for next week, and that
Monday night, when The Fire
ne Store will tangle with the
wales Dr, Peppers, Tuesday
ht Lack's Associate Store will
yy but their opponent has not
n named yet, Also, on Thurs-
night the Firestone team will

in play a game, but no team
been stated to oppose them

On Friday night of this week,

+ played, but the

cipate have

ese
each iy

1 to come
No ad:

games will start about
ht. Everyone is in-
and cheer for his
sion will be charg

SAME REIN
,URITY MAN
BU HERE

H. Davis, field representa-
¥ San Antonio Social Seeu-
fice, will be in Yoakum ut
ty Hall at 8:30 am. Wed-
, duly 23, 1947, for the

A lot of Texans are disk-gust-
ed with the flying saucers, but
others are just plain disk-turbed:
Flying balls of fire circled a
wide area around Palestine, and.
some neproos, believing the end
of the world was near, begau
praying, A white man grabbed
a rifle and shot at the myster-
ious objects.
Sheriff Paul Stanford of An-
derson ‘County deseribed them as
onenge. basketballs: of ee

Revealing Flying
Disk Data May

Bring Prosecution

Anyone willfully communicat-
ing information bearing on the
defense or security of the nation.
— even in time of peace —, is
subjeet to a fine of $10,000 and
imprisonment of 10 years, accord-
ing to Assistant United States
District Attorney Joseph .W C;

Tf the present mystery of fl
ing disks are connected with ra-
dar or guide missile experiments,
the law might apply, he said,
The law applies whether the
information is released aceident-
ally, ‘‘through gross negligence,”
“with intent to injure the U-
nited States or aid some foreign
nation,’? aceording to the act.
The Atomic Energy Act of 1946
provides even stricter penalties
for revealing information, Mr.
Cash said. Public Law 585 of the
Seventy-Ninth Congress prévides
death or life imprisonment, after
due process of law, for disclosing
atomic information with intent to
injure the United States.

For accidental disclosures a
fine of up. to 420,000 and im-
prisonment up to 20 years are
provided, Mr. Cash pointed out.

Gas Truck Hits
Local Station

Ogata alex gmichione the
Texas Consolidated Transport Co.
van into a heavy pipe upright in
front of Roban’s Service Station
Monday, doing some damage to
the station and more to the
truck,
The tick was coming from
town, along West Grand, and

‘ned into the station, As. the
driver ont the cab back to swing
the trailer into position, the cab
skidded into. the steel pipe roof
support on the right of the truek,
bending it considerably. ‘The
trek itself suffered a bent bum-
per and a smashel fender, A
gasoline pump directly behind the
upright was not damaged by the
crash,

a ee

Lions To Make

Farmer Award

The Lions Club has announced
that at/its regular ‘noon meeting
Tuesday, July 15th, it will pre
sent to Lee Pargmann of Route
5, the plaque for the Outstanding
Farmer for the Middle Guadalupe
Basin Soi] Conservation District.

The plaqne is given each
to the farmer from each conser-
vation distriet, who has econtribut-
ed most to the soil conser
proj n the particular d
The award is spongored by a numi-
ber of organizations, among thom
the ions Clubs of the various
towns, Sinee the Lions do play an
active paul in sponsoring this a
the local elub is given the
privilege of presenting the plaque
fo Mr, Pargmann,

Representatives of the Soil Con-
servation Service will be present
to make short congratulatory and
explanatory speeches on the giv-
ing of the annual award,

ward,

purpose of receiving claims and
diseussing Old Ago and Survivors
Insurance with all who. wish’ to
contact him.

Dayis will not be able to fur-

‘FIRST ITS FLYING DISKS —NOW
ITS “FIRE BALLS” PEOPLE SEF,

Ip was the first time the aerial
chjects were reported in that a-
rea, Residents of the Brushy
Creek community, 15 miles north-
east of Palestine, called Sheriff
Stanford about 8:30 last night,
aying 12 balls were flying in a
straight line over the community,
Then, they reported, the halls
formed a eircle which began mov-
ing toward Palestine.

By 9 p. m. hundreds of Pales-
tine spectators reported seeing as
many as three balls in the sky
at once, moving in a eirele. Sher-
iff Stanford discounted any sug:
gestion that the balls originated
from a spotlight.

Bud Everett, druggist, chased
them for a better view. He said
they finally disappeared about, Wy
p.m.

Mrs. Horace Valentina said sho
saw two perfectly round balls
that ‘nearly seared me to death’’
when they appeared over her
Lhome. Sho. said fey” seemed (co
be playing with each other, the
way they jumped around.

Her husband and Lee Chavers
shot a box of .22 rifle bullets
without any effect on the objects.

Mrs, Valentine said neighbor-
ing neero families thought the
world was coming to an end,
and began praying as the balls
of fire gamboled overhead,

Mrs. “Lorens Shrader, Big
Springs reported she saw a fiery
red ball streaking overhead last
night.

Mrs, Marian Reed, farm wife,
found what she believed was part
of a flying disk, Tt landed in her
back yard while she was hanging
out the clothes yesterday after-
noon. She admitted she was
frightened, She deseribed it as a
round. piece of tinfoil eight inclt-
es wide, scorched or burned a-
round the edges. Both sides were
shiny, but one side was marked
with black, stenciled lines a ayar-
ter-inch apart. She said’ the tin-
foil dropped straight down from
the sky.

She lifted it with a. stick, put
it in a tin can, and droye . five
miles to Gunter, 20 miles south-
west of Sherman, Scores crowded
about to see

At M Say Collth County, Mrs.
Marie Killian and Mrs. Kay Craft
reported seeing a strange objéet
at 8:40 p. m. yesterday.

Charles Calhoun, and his fath-
er, W. J. Calhoun, prominent
Grayson County farmers, said

aw a disk yesterday near

Guero Residents
See Flying I Dise

Cuero has Dae prodieéd its
first flying dise,

Tt was reported by Mrs. P. W.
Haak of 410 Stockdale street, aid
both she and her husband saw it.

However, Mrs. Haak’s flying
dise is no particular mystery, td
her. She thinks she knows just
what caused it.

It was simply a reflection froth
an airplane, she said.

Sitting on the poréh with hér
husband about 4 pm. Sunday,
Mrs. Haak said she heard a
strange noise from the sky, and
looked up, Soon an airplane came
into view, high in the clouds. 1
was very small, but plain i
cernable as a Plane, she said. tt
was coming from the east.

Soon it tumed north, arid just
after that a perfect dise Was yis-
ible some distance from where
the plane disappeared into tHe
clouds.

The dise appeared bright aid
very silvery. It appeared
smaller in sizé than an o1
steering wheel of a ear,

Haak reported. Tt seemed to be
‘floating’? aevoss the h

She called her husband
tention to it, They both saw it,

After about five seconds the
dise was gone, The plane and ths
sound disappeared,

Mrs. Haak is convineed tha
flying saucer was reflected from
the airplane. This theory also has
been advanced by others.

The flying dise mystery has the
nation in a dither with reports
coming from all sections on the
strange objects. Mrs. Haak's ex
planation is as reasouable as any

nish information concerning Old

Age Assistance pensions,

yet put forth, and may be: the
solution to the ‘“phenomenon,”?

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HOW CAN

Norman Thomas
debate about Russia.

mas juestions gave
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“8 |ing to rehabilitate the
\ edly the same idea about the | | says Wallace, just w!

| anti- trust laws when first)

What happened
introduced. And what are the| Hungary, and what t,
| trusts compared to the harm} jcountry, should be b.
{the unions can do with their; what the Reds say, i
strikes?

Join L. Lewis calls
new labor law a “slave law”

“And, once agai

ference between the
Tf the « vs ae
Cie es of Hitler Germany,

ore on Haw, 805. ate |in government struc’
the anti-trust laws and aay | = p
| other laws for the protec- Pe ve st
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tien of people agaiast a- age: Bub when Russia
buses by any group. So far the same.
the people were utterly
helpiess against the labor
power.

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As to Russian tac
they don’t differ greai
When independence is

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and maintained in Gre
Such labor dictators 8 \ ing to Wallace’s reaso:

| Lewis, Petrillo, others, have
a far greater power to harm
this country than the British)

But since the Rec
mocracy, it’s very simy

as untolerable today as

was then.
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Wallace talks of h
| sistance and sincere pl

Last Sunday was, for the | POR: How can Wall

ee a national Day of} Russia will take :

Beaver. The king with Prime) without changing in
| Minister Attlee and other | And How Gan he tatc.c
| government leaders went to! when there cannot be
St. Paul’s Cathedral to pray| less, voiceless, and cu
| with the nation for help in) any friendship reach t
| these Anno Us Wallace Geena

| politics evidently mea:
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So the mysterious disks
are not messengers from ;
Mars or some other star.
Nor are they missiles
which Red Russia is al-
ready showering upon us.
They are our own secrets
with which our armed
forces are experimenting.
What propels them? How
far can they fly? What is
their purpose? —That is a
mighty secret.

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rica has a far more destruc-|
tive bomb than any ever in-

could destroy all of Paris
or Moscow. This is also con- |
firmed by Robert M. Hut-
chins of the University of
Chicago, familiar with what
goes on here. We can thank
only the good Providence
that this immense power is in!

our hands. |
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book “Why They Behave)
| Like Russians”: “Officially|
| religion is still ‘regarded as)
a deplorable superstition,
and chureh-goers can never
hope to gain admittance to
j the Communist Party.”
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Yet what do yeu find in
this country?-—Even cer-
tain church leaders have
only praise for the very
rule which excludes a \
Christian, but they con-
demn their fellow Chris-
tians, instead of the Reds. |

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men who-see no evil in evil deeds
and lust and would spurn “the
primary norms of morals and jus-
tice;” “there ave cynics who would

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vest for those who labor to bring
Christ to the world.” He stressed
the oath of the Jesuits, which en-
ables them’ to bring “a spirit pre-
pared and prompt to obey in all
things the true Spouse of Christ
. .'. our holy Mother Church.”

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‘Saucer’ Stories
Disk Found Is

‘Tries to Call EBE Man”

Priest Hears a ‘Bang;
Discovers a Circular

Blade With Teeth;
Other Disks ‘Seen’

Picture on Picture Page
‘he “what is it?” which Father
eph Brasky said he found early
nday on the lawn of St. Joseph’s|
Catholic church in Grafton may be!
just another gadget to add to Fa-,
jther Brasky's already sizable col-
lection.

Those who saw it Sunday said
“what is it?” was a circular saw
blade with a few wires attached.
‘Fathet Brasky, who said he knew of
no sawmills in the area, would not
claim it was a “flying saucer” when
he called newspapermen to his

1e.
“It may or may not be one of those|
\flying disks that have been report-
| all over the country,” he said.

|“Wfet’s just call it a ‘what is it?’”
Meanwhile, in Milwaukee _and|

er points in Wisconsin, sev,
ns reported seeing the “flying|
saucers.” Father Brasky’s disk,
however, was the only case here in
which the “landing” of a Reaurcer*)

Father Brasky said he did not
bother to show the disk to any of his
parishioners Sunday. He tried to
telephone an FBI agent whom he
knows, but was unable to reach him
Sunday, he added. Asked whether
Jit could have been the work of a
|practical joker, Father Brasky re-
plied: “Could be. I don’t know.”
The disk, apparently of steel; had
{a one and three-eighth inch'hdle in
the center. Through it ran a few
wires. ‘To each end of the cluster

| |of wires was attached what looked

like a small condenser about three
inches long. The condenserlike ob-
jects were wrapped in black. tape)
which still was sticky, The disk was
greasy and somewhat dirty.
Stamped on it was: “Approved,
|Dunlap.”

Father Brasky declined to part
with the disk. He showed a number
of items in his trinket collection.
All of them had something to do
with fishing, Father Brasky’s favor-
ite sport. They included his “bass
bottles,” beer bottles with the head
of a fish—and a fish pole from
Manila which folds up into a cane.
When opened, it extends to 12 feet.

“I use it in reaching folks whg4
Can't be touched with a 10 foot pole.”
Father Brasky quipped.

Others Report “Saucers”

was reported.
Hears “Bang,” Finds Disk

Father Brasky gave the follow-
ing account of how he found the ob-

ameter, about an eighth of an inch
thick and with saw teeth.

“I usually get up about 5 a.m. on
Sundays. I was at the front door
of my house, about to take my dog
out for a walk, when I heard a
‘bang!’ like a big firecracker. I
stepped outside and found this dj
‘on the church lawn.

“Although the grass was still wet
from the night rain, the disk was
|too fot to pick up. 1 noticed the
gl ball had been knocked off one
of lightning rods on the church,
so J suppose it struck that in land-
ing.”

ject, a steel plate 19 inches in di-|

Father Brasky also passed out
copies of his recent. publication,
“Fish Tales.”

“I’m going to revise this thing,”
he explained. “I've got some new
and better tales to put in it.”

There were other reports around
Milwaukee and Wisconsin of “fly-
ing saucers.” Mrs, Anthony Hoff-
man, 3410 W. Layton ayv., said she
and her husband saw one at

toward atreeouth ant red,
she said. It was flying high and
appeared illuminated, according to
Mrs. Hoffman.

“It looked like a small meat plat-
ter,” Mrs. Hoffman asserted.

Glenn Rowden of Detroit claimed
he saw a “saucer,” about 50 inches
in diameter, over Billy Mitchell field
at 10:05 p.m. when he alighted from
an airplane. He said it was in sight
for 90 seconds,

William Humphrey, who lives
with his wife in a quonset hut at
3148 S. 20th st., telephoned polic
at 9 p.m. Sunday that h
Humphrey had seen a slightly illu-
minated disk which appeared to fall
to earth near Pulaski high school.
Mrs, Humphrey said Monday that
her husband tried unsuccessfully, to
photograph the disk.

‘Changed Colors, He Says

Erwin Rottman, 1328 N, 19th
claimed he saw three of them flyi:
through the air in a northweste:
direction at 6 p.m. Sunday. Th
turned from orange to gold to silv
before disappearing, he said.

Reports came also from Janes- |
ville, where Mr. and Mrs. Alva Sie-
vert and Mr, and Mrs. Howard Roth
reported seeing a flying disk about
11:35 pm. Saturday, The Roths
were leaving the Sievert home when
Sievert saw it, according to Roth.
It appeared to be several thousand
feet up and about 10 miles away,
Roth said. He described it as vague
ly resembling the moon and as hav-

egular motion in a’ counter-
clockwise, elongated orbit. It ap-
peared to Roth to be moving faster
than an airplane. He said it was
yellow on its face, ‘but when it
turned it looked silver.

Roth said that the four of them
viewed the disk for 10 minutes,

Stopped in Sky, Claim
“It fluttered around, faded out
and came back again, and once iy|
just stopped and hung there
about two minutes,” Roth said. “Ti
last time we saw it, it had a vel

pm, Sunday flying toward B
Mitchell field from the northwest.
it neared the field, it veered |

aes Turn to page 3, col. 5

‘Saucer’ Tales

Buzz in State

‘Disk Found by a Priest
Is Circular Saw; Others
Seen by Milwaukeeans

From page 1, column 3

noticeable tail. When it disap-
peared entirely, it just popped out.”

Janesville police reported a tele-
phone call from a Dick Thompson,
who said he saw flying disks about
12:15 a.m. Sunday.

t Oshkosh, Mrs, L, A, Davis re-
rted that she and her husband had
sighted one of the mysterious disks
izzing over the city at 6:45 p.m.
Sunday.

She said they were driving on a
town road six miles west of Osh-
kosh, headed east toward the city,
when they first sighted the object
“flying very fast and very high.”

At first, she said, it looked like an
airplane and then loomed larger and
larger until it “appeared as big as
the sun,”

Stops Car, Disk Vanishes

Her husband stopped the car so
that they could get a getter look at
the disk, which appeared round and
silvery, but by the time they got out
of the car the object had dis-
appeared, she said.

At Green Bay, Eugene Le Plant.
reported that he and his 12 year old
son, Duane, had seen a rapidly mov-
ing silver ball or disk about 6:30
p.m. Wednesday while working in
his garden on the western edge of
the city. Le Plant said he saw the
object silhouetted against a dark
cloud to the north and that he ai
hid son watched it for three or fot
mibutes while it moved away to tl
noihwest Le Plant said he co
notLestimate the altitude or di
tance, but that it “definitely was not
|an airplane.”

Laws-ef Eyesight Clarifs.
Reports of Flying Saucers

By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Editor

New York, N. ¥.— The flying’

saucers may be explained by cer-
tain laws of eyesight.

All objects appear round or
nearly so at any distance close to
the limit of how far a person can
see,

If the objects are seen by re-
flected light, as in most cases re-
ported, they are almost certain to
be round, and if the reflections
are sunlight then the sizes report-
ed are those which would be ex-
pected from distant light reflec-
tions.

Descriptions of virtually all the
saucers as round and flat fit ex-
actly with the tricks that eyes
play. This trickiness varies with
differences in weather and light-
ing.

This writer has seen flying sauc-
ers over Long Island sound, not
only this year but in previous:
years. They were round, bright
and moving fast. But they were
no mystery because they were
light reflected from the bodies of
airplanes that soon identified
themselves by changing course
and coming near enough to be
seen distinctly,

Many descriptions of move-
ments of the flying saucers fit
with the common maneuvers of
airplanes, singly or in groups.
Some of the maneuvering report-
ed, which took saucers out of sight
and back into sight again, resem-
bles what can be.seen while
watching distant airplanes,

Whether planes are guided, pi-
lotless or jet, they all would look
the same at great distances,

Mirages, Traveler Says

Philadelphia, Pa. -(?)- Dr. Aurel
Aczel, editor of a Hungarian lan-
guage newspaper, expressed belief
that the flying saucers were mi-
rages—possibly circularly distort-
ed reflections of real airplanes
many miles away. A world-wide
traveler, Dr. Aczel said:

“Years ago I have seen similar
things on the Egyptian desert and
on the Buszta (Hungarian plain),
At sea I have also seen mir: of
ships known to be a great distdnce
away.

“In July and August, and sdme-
times even in June, atmosphpric
conditions are especially adapta~
ble to the creation of mirages.”

Sharp-Eyed Sight Disks, but-Only a Saw Blade is-Found

Who, what, where, why are flying disks? TheWear’s biggest mystery produced
these Sunday photos while reports came from}everywhere and everyone that
the saucers were everywhere. Top left, a moviekamera is fitted to a P-51 fighter
plane at Portland, Ore., as Oregon national guard planes are made ready to chase
the disks. Lower, Mrs. Walter Johnson (right) of Spokane, Wash., and her chil-
dren pose and tell how they saw the saucers land on a mountainside in Idaho and

sappear. Right, is Father Joseph Brasky of St. Joseph’s Catholic church at
Grafton, Wis., with the disk he reported struck his church early Sunday. It

turned out that the 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. A whole lot of Milwaukeedns reported that they saw the saucers
traveling past Sunday night. —AP Wirephotos and Journal Staff

Seerin 36 State
Jet Fighters
Alerted »

SAN FRANCISCO, July 6—U)
— Military aircraft. hunted the
sklfes over Pacific Coast states
tqday for sight of the mysterious
“flying saucers” that for 12 days

ve puzzled the entire country.

Early reports of results were
negative.

Five P-5is of the Oregon Na-
tional Guard cruised over the
Cascade Mountains of Washing-
ton—the area where the strange
objects first were reported sight-
ed. A sixth circled over Portland,
in constant radio contact with the
other five. All carried photo-
Sraphic equipment.

Col. G. R. Dodson, command-
ing, described their flight as a
“routine patrol,” but said they
had been instructed to watch for
the flying discs.

t Manhattan Beach, Calif., A.

McKelvey took a Mustan;
fighter plane up above Van Nuys
Fd two hours he cruised at 35;

feet, but “didn’t see a thing,

Gen. Carl Spaatz, commandan
of the Army Air Forces, was ona
Pacific Northwest fishing trip.
He denied knowing anything
about the flying discs — or of

Plans to use AAF planes to look
for them,

JET FIGHTER SET

“I’ve been out of touch with |
things for four or five days,” |
he said. |

Louis E. Starr, national com-
mander-in-chief of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, yesterday in Co-
lumbus, 0., said he understood
Spaatz had a “group out right
now” looking for discs,

At Muroc Army Air Field in

California a P-80 jet fighter stood.

ready to take off the moment an;

flying saucers are sighted inthat —

area,

A cautious attitude marked
both official and scientific com-
ments, but Capt. Tom Brown pf
the Air Forces Public Relatiogs
st}ft in Washington acknovw)-
edged the Air Forces had decided
“tiipre’s something to this” and

nad been checking up on it for 5
10 days.

First sighted June 25 and
greeted generally with scornful
laughs, the objects have been re-
ported every day since by observ-
ers in 36 states. Most of the ob-
jects were reported seen July 4.
A few were reported yesterday.

Such competent observers as
airline pilots said they had seen
the totally unexplained discs or
saucers, larger than aircraft and

uingaia “loose formation” at
high speed. —-

David Lilienthal, chairman, of
the Atomic Energy Commission,
Said they had nothing to do with
atomi¢ experiments, and Army
and Navy officials also entered
positive disclaimers.

Newspaper stories quoting an
unidentified California Institute
of Technology scientist as saying
the phenomena might have some-
thing to do with experiments in
“transmutation of atomic energy”

used a brief sensation late yes-

day. The institute quickly de-
ied the report.

Reports generally agreed that
the flying objects were round or

oval. Estimates of their speed
ranged from about 300 to 1,200

miles an hour. They were de-
scribed as flying with an undu-
lating motion at heights of 10,000
feet and less. Some described
them as glowing, or luminous.

‘PROPELLER IN CENTER’

Nova Hart, St. Louis mechanic
who was trained during service
in the war to spot all types of
aircraft, said he saw one of the
trang objects near Pattonville
esterday. It was flying at 300
et, he said.
He described it as circular, with
a_gibbed framework and silver
r Hart said it ap-
ave a motor with a
ed in the center
ing like an air-

anal
businessman pilot, told of seing
nine of the dises flying in forma-

tion at 1,200 miles an ‘hour
the Cascade Mountains
ington,

SEEN BY 200

Arnold’s account was taken
lightly. Various explanations
were offered—“reflections,” “per-
sistent vision,” “snow blindness.”

Soon afterward other individ-|
uals—in New Mexico, Missouri,
California and other states—re-
ported they also had seen the
flying objects.

‘Then on Independence Day 200
persons in one group and.60 in
another saw them in Idaho. Hun-
reds of others in Oregon, Wash-
ington and other western sjates
reported seeing them.

July 4 also brought firs!
ports of the flying discs from
east of the Mississippi. Since

* then they have been reported seen
in widely separated sections of
he country—in 33 states in all.

re-

‘Must Be Insane’

LONDON, July 6—UP)—Don't
mention those flying saucers on
this side of the Atlantic unless
you're prepared for an argument
about your sanity. |

Maybe they have been seen by|
sober citizens over a vast area
of the United States, but Europe
won't believe in them until some-
body lassoes one and has it photo-
graphed by Frank Sinatra, the
British ambassador and five
Supreme Court justices.

“America’s reply to the Loch
Npss monster,” chortled today’s

inday dispatch, referring fo

fritain’s hoariest tall story—the

lerpent that is “seen” romping |n

cotland’s Loch Ness every tire

* the tourist trade needs a shot An
the arm.

RECOE {DED |

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MILWAUKEE SENTINEL

|LWAUKEE,

WISCONSIN

Planes Chasing Disks
Find Only Empty Sky

Jokesters A d dente announcement tHRE tse.

' Some Comedy
to Air Myster
East St. Louis Objec'

Prove to Be Washers;
hicago Woman Spots
ne With Legs

By the United Press

Army pilots were ready Monday
for another air search for the mys-
terious “flying saucers” now report-
ed seen in 39 states and parts of
Canada as practical jokesters added
to the confusion,

Equipped with telescopic cam-
eras, 11 army planes searched the
Pacific northwest Sunday without
finding any trace of the flying disks
which had been reported over scores

of communities the preceding two |

days. At Sioux Falls, S, D., a na-
tional guard plane already in the air
was ordered to investigate a silvery
disk with a short tail which Gregory
Zimmer said he saw shoot across
the heavens. The pilot found noth:

ing but empty sky.

The army “camera patrol” over
the Cascade mountains Sunday in-
cluded eight P-51 pursuit ships an
three A-26 bombers.

Illusions Or Jokes

There was growing belief that the
concentrated aerial search would
show the saucers to be optical illu-
sions or the work of practical joke-
sters magnified by aroused imagi-
nations.

A number of “disks” whirled over
rooftops in East St. Louis, Ill, Sun-
day. J.T. Hartley, a locomotive en-

ineer, gathered some of them up

id found they were made of
plessed white paper, 11 inches in
dikmeter and with a two inch hole
in the center, Railroad workers
said they looked like locomotive
packing washers.

were flying over Lewiston, Idaho,
Sunday sent* hundreds into their
yards for a look, Weatherman Louis
Krezak said the objects were mov-
ing eastward with the prevailing
wind and probably were ‘eed seeds.
Three air transport pilots agreed.

Searchlights on Clouds

A Birmingham radio station was
deluged with more than 400 calf in

one hour by persons who said they
saw fluorescent balls circling oper
the city and clearly outlined agafhst
near-by mountains. A carnival at
Alabaster, Ala., was playing search.
lights on cloud wisps.

n argument raged at Lodi, Calif., |
x the cause of a spectacular glow |
the sky and a roar shortly before |
lectrical power went off. Mrs. W.|
IC. Smith said she heard a noise “like |

9)

Give ’Em Room

Newport News, Va.—Peninsula
airport here is taking no chances
vith flying saucers. Pilots report-

g Monday to take out planes
found this notice on the bulletin
board: “Two thousand feet ver-
tical and horizontal clearance re-
quired between aircraft operat-

ing from this field and any fly-

ing saucers.”
—— al

four motored bomber” just before |
the lights went off at dawn. Erving
Newcomb of the Pacific Gas & Blec-
tric Co, offered the explanation that
a low flying crop dusting plan
\probably had struck a power lini
and burned out a transformer
However, no planes were report
damaged and no one could explain

wifit wtrep dusting plane was do-
ing in the air at daw: lay.
It was the first time any noise had
been attributed to flying saucers.

J. U. Watts, jr, Darlington (S. C.)
attorney, said he saw an army pur-
suit plane chasing a V-formation of
flying saucers at 250 miles an hour
3,000 feet high. However, no pilot
reported such a chase,

Saw One With Legs

Meantime, authorities were
Plagued with reports that bordered
on the fantastic. An excited Chi-
cago woman reported that she had
seen a flying saucer with legs, “I
wes standing on my porch and I
th ught for sure it was coming right

ig and slap me in the face,”

orge Kuger of Denver said

a flying disk with an Americai

on it.

Francis Howell, Tempe, Ariz.,
claimed he saw a saucer two feet
in diameter disappear behind a row
of trees near his home. When he
rushed to inspect it, he said, the flat,
thin, aluminumlike disk took off at
a “high rate of speed” toward
Phoenix, nine miles away.

Mrs. Walter Johnson returned to
Spokane, Wash. after a vacation
near St. Maries, Idaho, and after
reading newspaper reports of the
flying saucers said she and several
others had seen speeding shiny ob-
jects “as big as a four or five room
house” disappear into the forest
covéred mountains.

the first of the saucers. over New
Yfrk State was reported by Mrs.
Kjnneth Wohley of Rochester, N.
Y} who said she and her husband
saw an object “about the size of bn

fl

ordinary saucer” flying above Her
back yard at 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

ee Co,

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fey

Ja, BL-

New Jersey residents said they |
“thought” they saw flying disks
over Palisades Pafk”awehear-by
Bergenfield Sunday night, i

Skeptical scientists recalled the
mysterious “rockets” seen over Swe-
den last year. Bighty per cent of
the “ghost rockets” proved to be
meteors, and Swedish officials said
the others could be discounted as
pure imagination.

Scientists asserted that the ob-
jects in order to be seen clearly at |
10,000 feet—the level at which most |
of the saucers have been reported—
would have to be 20 feet in diameter,
would require a large mass of metal,
would be more conspicuous at night
and would be seen by a far greater
nymber of persons.

r. J. 8. Nassau, director of the
rner & Swasey observi

tha Case Institute of Techn
Cleveland, said he was inclfned to
“think the reports are fanciés.”

Capt. Tom Brown, army air force
spokesman at Washington, said the
army was trying to run the reports
to farth.

‘We're not dismissing the possi-
bil@y that there's something to it,”

Jhe aid, “and we're not dismissing |

the possibility that it’s all a hoax.”

». Pl

anes Hunting Discs;

Russ Tells of ‘Atom Saucers

FBI Pies Story]
of Soviet Ship
Officer

LOS ANGELES, July 6—(Spe-
cial)—Federal agents today in-
vestigated a letter to the Exami-
ner describing Russian supersonic
atom-powered planes resembling
'the “flying saucers.”

A top flight atomic scientist to
‘whom the Examiner referred the
letter said it was “not all non-|
“sense,” and suggested the matter |
be turned over to the FBI. |

‘The letter writer said he got
the information from an officer
aboard a Russian tanker recently
i Los Angeles harbor.

ED EVEN WORMS

‘Whe Russian, he said, also de-
scribed experiments with con-
trolled radioactive clouds in the
Arctic, where birds, animals and
even worms were killed.

The planes, as described by the
Russian to the writer, are only
18 inches thick, with a kidney-
shaped outline and no propellors.

he pilot lies on his stomach
| is artificially cooled against

‘ihe heat developed by air fric-
ition. ¢

“The outer surface is highl|

jolished,” the Russian said

upper and lower surfaces
convex, like a giant lens.

‘She lifting force is an entirely
different principle found about
10 years ago among unpublished
papers of a Russian chemist.

_ “Energy is required only for
climbing, but no energy is need-
ed for support when the air-
plané goes along the earth’s
gravitational contour lines.”

The writer of the sfange let-
er said he met the RI sian of-|

hvited him to dinner.

reReesian first asked where
he could sell 18 pol Seapets
which he received “for very dan-

gerous work.”

He said he had been assigned
to go over the route of the radio-
active cloud near Lake Bakal
(or Baykal) and pick up dead
animals,

ALL LIFE DESTROYED

“They loaded a few small
ships with all kinds of animals
and directed the cloud over
them,” the writer sald.

“During this experiment, a
violent storm blew the cloud
fat north into the tundra, but
before it dissipated it destroyed
all life on its way.

“The cloud may be controlled
from land, from a plane or
from a robot-piloted ‘leader’

ls I understand it, the controt
i] based on electro-magnetic |

faves and the cloud has two |

mponents: The carrier and
the killer.”

RECORDED “©

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Quirks of Eyesight May
Explain Disc Die Mystery

By HOWARD

AP Science Editor

NEW YORK, July 6—(P)—Certain laws of human eye-
sight will explain much of what has been described about
the flying saucers reported from nearly all parts of the

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United States.

At any distance which is close
tothe limit of how far a person
can see, all objects appear round
or nearly so. This law of sight
covers both small things seen
nearby and large ones at great
distances.

Regardless of shape, the ob-
ject near the limit of sight looks
round. If the thing js silhouetted
against a bright sky, as some of
|the flying saucers have been re-
|ported, then it is more likely to
|revfal its true shape.

VE ‘NO STRUCTURE’

f the thing is seen by reflected
light, as in most cases reported,
it is almost certain to be round,
and if the reflections are sunlight,
then the sizes reported are those
which would be expected from
distant light reflections.

‘The one outstanding fact about
virtually all the saucers is that
they had no structure—they
seemed merely round and flat.
‘That description fits exactly with’
the tricks that eyes play. This
|trickiness varies with differences
in weather and lighting.

This writer has seen flying
saucers over Long Island Sound’
near his home, not only this year
but in previous years. They were
round, bright and moving fast.

NOT A MYSTERY

But they were no mystery be-
cause they were light reflected|
from the bodies of airplanes that
soon identified themselves by
chai§ging course and coming near
enowgh to be seen distinctly.

t week this writer also saw
one Joval flying form which for
a moment looked exactly like the

BLAKESLEE

photograph of the oval object
taken by Yeoman Frank Ryman
north of Seattle, Wash. The Long
Island oval came closer and
turned into an airplane.

Planes at great distances tend
to look round when light is re-
flected from their sides. Many
descriptions of movements of the
flying saucers fit with the com-
mon maneuvers of airplanes,
singly or in groups.

They fit also with what birds
look like, flying at a considerable
distance. However the bird flu-
sion is not very common. Spme
of the maneuvering repofted,
which took saucers out of ht
and back into sight again re-
sembles what can be seen while
watching distance airplanes.

SPEED MYSTERY

‘There is no explanation for ré-

ported speeds of 1,000 or more
les an hour. Meteors, although

they go much faster than that,
do not explain it because the
saucers mostly appear in daytime
and there are not enough day-
light meteors.

Ice crystals forming little round
clouds have been suggested. But
these fail to fit in most cases be-
cause the ice crystals form at
altitudes which are higher than
most of the saucers reported.

Nothing published in science or
atomic studies gives the slightest
clue to flying sfucers unless the
objects are aircraft.

One scientist today said that at
least a lot of saucers are ex-!
plained by the force of ey
which causes a person to say to)
himself: eed z

“Oh, gee, I see it too.”

273-

RECORDED.

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What was reported as a “flying disc” which struck a church in
Grafton early yesterday turned out to be a circular saw with

two small tubes and several wires attached to it
Brasky, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Grafton, holds the “

Father Joseph
lise”

nd points to the lightning rod on the church (arrow), which

~ fhe said was struck by the dise.

le mystery of the “flying
discs,” strange luminous objects
seen speeding across the sky in
many states, turned to Wiscon-
sin yesterday when several per-
sons reported them at Milwaukee
and Janesville.

“Mystery was added to mystery
when Father Joseph Brasky, pas-
tor of St. Joseph’s Church at
Grafton, Wis., reported a missile
yhurtled through the air early yes-.
terday, knocked the ball off the
church lightning rod, and landed
on the front lawn.

WIRES AND TUBES

It, was a large circular saw—
aboit 16 inctres in diameter—and
still} hot when Father* Brasky
pickjd it from the lawn.

re were wires and two tubes)

attached to it. The tubes were ai
linch in diameter and three inches
Ho:

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Sentinel Photo by Ernest Anheuser. 1}

"One theory Was that prankstals|
or belated Fourth of July celq-|

brants had attached explosives tb|
the saw, and sent it skimming|
through the air.

Father Brasky said he heard a

swishing ndise and a sizzling at
|5 a. m., followed a second later
| with a thud and an explosion,
An excited resideut telephoned |
|to Billy Mitchell Field, and said|
|he saw 15 flying saucers, in U
‘formation, heading north over
| Granville, at 10:05 p. m. He hung
up before his name could be pro-
cured.

A passenger aboard a New}
York-Detroit-Milwaukee plan e,|
"Which landed at Billy Mitchell
Field at 10:05 p. m., told employes
in the office of Northwest Air-
lines, Inc., he saw a flying saucer |
bobbing up and down over the
airfield just after he had alighter
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of J. W. Royden of Deteott-Dt-

spice BoRbing, the saucer was)
going at great speed, and was out|
of sight in a few seconds, he|

said. Rowden is stopping at the!
Plaza Hotel.

DISCS HAD TAILS

Erwin Rottman, 1328 N. 19th
St., said he saw three of them,
with tails, “flying northwest to
southeast, as he stood at N. 18th
and W. Vilet Sts. They turned
from gold to another color and
then to silver, he said.

Frank Phifer, stopping at the
Maryland Hotel, said he saw
three balls of fire shoot across
Lake Michigan at 8:20 last fight,
‘abdpt a mile from shore) and

“goidg at terrific speed.”

What he described as an illu-
minated saucer was seen last
night by William Humphrey, 3148
S, 20th St., he said. It was zig-
zagging directly over the Heil
Co. plant, said Humphrey, and
seemed to land in a wooded area
nearby.

REPORTED IN JANESVILLE

Four Janesville residents re-
ported they had seen a flying disc
Saturday night. They are Mr.
and Mrs. Al Sievert and Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Roth.
They saw the dise flying in a
northwesterly direction from
Janesville at a “terrific speed.”
‘They viewed it for 20 minutes. It
was yellow-golden, and seemed to
turn at times to a silvery color,
they stated. An oval flight pattern
was followed. ‘Then, they said,
tails appeared on the disc and
shortly afterwards it disappeared.
John Bosch, 4377 S, Adams St.,
Milwaukee, a machinist, insisted
he saw two flashing saucer-
shaped objects pass over Billy
itchell Field shortly after mid-
ight yesterday. They were cose
ough so he could definitely sfate
they were not shooting stars, fnor
airplanes, he said. Bosch’s hi

is near the airport.

RECORDED

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Office Memora dum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: July &, 1947

From M/§ac, MITAUKER yo
SUBJECT:"RLYING DISCS OR SAUCERS ATTENTION: MR, HJGFLETCHRR.
EAUCEES :

TELEPHONE CALL FROM MR. FLETCHER
AT THE BUREAU AT 8:30 AM, 7/7/47

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Attached are newspaper clippings from the wh raukee
Sentinel and Milwaukee Joumal of July 7, 1947.

For the Bureau's information, United Press and Associated
Press telephoned me at my residence about three or four times between
1:00 A.M. and 2:30 A.M., Julyyj, 1947. The United Press representative
informed me that Father JOS Susi had stated on interview by a
Milwaukee Sentinel reporter, oh@’BILL WEEKS, (Phonetic) that he,
Father BRASKY, was going to call the FBI concerning the contraption,
which apparently was identical with one of the flying discs recently
publicized throughout the country. The United Press representative
desired to know if we had any statement to make on the mtter. I
informed him that I had no official comment, other than "No Comment."

Since I have contacted the United Press representative on
various occasions, I asked him what the actual details were, and he
stated he did not know except that the interview of the priest reflected
that a circular saw had been found with some devices attached to it.

The Associated Press called me shortly after the United
Press representative did, and on being advised that I had no comment
to make concerning the story, I asked the Associated Press representa-
tive what the actual facts were, and he informed me that as far as the
Associated Press was concerned, the facts were that a circular saw had
been found and a story had been obtained from a priest who had been
drinking quite heavily. The Associated Press representative informed
me that apparently the United Press desired to get a statement from me
denying or affirming that the FBI was investigating the matter. I
informed the Associated Press representative that apparently someone
was suffering under a misinterpretation of any comment I had made, and

possibly some reporter was in an ey ies 4) on if.a shoey had
gone out ake +) bigatoed C B77 = 13 t ar

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apparently in the meantime had beén éalled’ by the Associated Press
in an effort to straighten out the United Press. No reference was
made to the FBI in the Milwaukee Sentinel article appearing July 7,
1947, but the Milwaukee Journal article, which is attached, referred
to an alleged statement by Father BRASKY that he attempted to get in Tet
touch with an FBI Agent whom he knows. ‘ather BRASKY has never con:
tacted the Milwaukee FBI Office or any Agent concerning is find,
Ey opin on, this is just another hoax story, we a hes

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DeMe. fee DATE: July 11, 1947

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FROM : K,C.Howe F

SUBJECT: Gaying Dise
(inks ion SO aoe

At 10345 PM on the evening of July 11, 1947, Clerk Piercy of the :
Washington Field Office called and stated that at the instbuction Mr. Rema
Hennrich he wanted to pass to the Bureau information he had just re» ole, Room
ceived from one Alvin B rker, 200 6th Street, Laurel, Maryland, tothe iiss ae
effect that a "flying disc” had just landed in Parker's yard "and the a
machinery is still buzzing." Piercy stgted Parker was apparently so excited he had
a difficult time even getting his name out, and no further detail could be obtained
from him.

SESEESEER

At 10:50 PM I passed the above information on to Captain West, duty officer
at Gu2 who indicated he had also received the same data from another source, md
would pass our information along to appropriate army quarters.

Sid Roberts of the AP called at about 10:55 PM and asked whether the
Bureau had received any report on a "flying disc" in Laurel Maryland, After
checking with Mr. Nichols I told him we had received such a report and had passed

it on to army authorities.
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Office Memo anau * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Wl : MR. E. A. TAMM Ug pare: July 11, 1947
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SUBJECT: é

SAC Johnson of the Milwaukee Office called to advise he had
just received a telephone call from Colonel Harry Schafer, Reserve
Officer with the Civilian Air Patrol, Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
Colonel Schafer reported that at 3:30 peme, July 10, one Sig Hanson,
City Engineer at Black River Falls, Wisconsin, had found a large
17" disc which appeared to have been possibly made out of cardboard
painted with silver airplane dope. In the center was a tube and a
small motor with a propellor attached to the side. Colonel Schafer
expressed the opinion that this disc would not be able to fly by
itself. He advised it would be taken to the Air Corps Headquarters.
Colonel Schafer advised, however, that Hanson did not want to release
the disc without FBI approval.

BERR BS SREEEEE

I instructed Mr. Johnson to advise the Air Corps officer
to get in touch with Colonel Schafer and tell him he saw no reason for
the Bureau to attempt to secure the release of the material since it
was not in our custody and we had no control, He stated the press was

also calling concerning this matter, I instructed him to make no
comment to the press.

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At 11:55 P.M., July 11, I took a phone call from b
Sergeant Lonis of the Laurel, Maryland, Police Department. Sergeai
Lonis said that he had examined the "flying disc." He said that it
had been made from a Gulf Oil sign and the top of a garbage can and
had been painted with aluminum paint. It had been recently painted
because the paint was still wet, Attached to it were a dry cell
battery, a flashlight bulb, some wires and a buzzer, He asked if
the Bureau was sending anyone out to look at it. I told him that
we were not, that we had referred the matter to the Army, and
suggested that he call them.

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Officer at G-2, and passed on to him the information furnished by
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Office Memorandum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : OD. M. Ladd ok DATE:
FROM : H, B. Fletcher }/ i July 11, 1947

SUBJECT: Ormume DISCS.

SAC Bannister of the Butte Office called at noon today and
stated that a Mrs. FredMeesterbrook, 215 7th Avenue East, Twin Falls,
Idaho, at 2:5 a.m. Mountain Time today heard a noise in the back of
her home, She thought a collision had occurred and investimted and

found in the back yard of the home next door an object described as follows:

FER SFFSRSSEEGGEREEE

A disc 303" in diameter, circular in sh pe, it is dished like a
saucer and actually there is a saucer within a saucer in the manner of
cymbals. On one surface there is attached a plastic dome described as about
14" in diamter and affixed by 8 bolts in a rather rough manner. The bolts
can best be described as similar to stove bolts. On the other surface is
another dome of metal which is gold in color on one side and on the inside is
silver in color, which looks like tin. Through the plastic dome can be ob-
served three 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
14" in thickness. There is an object on it similar to electric coil which
has some type of an arm on it and bears the words "Inspected TS", Some of
the wiring has been burned off and it looks as though something might be
missing.

Mr. Bannister stated that if this were the work 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, Twin Falls, Idaho. He was instructed to notify the local
Army authorities of the existence of this disc.

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® f x wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter postmarked July 1
INDEX Bho information contained therein has been carefelly reviewed and ony BL =
6 @ matter of permanent record in the files of this Bureau. Your interest in
writing ag you did 1s indeed appreciated.
In the future should you have inforne hich you fecl might be
interest to this Bureau yor nt fi ntact the Speci seal
% harge of our Chicago Office, which is located at 1900 kors* sid : i
Chicago 3, Tllinols. : ee

Sincerely yours,

Johm Edgar lioover

pee. Direetor

cc = Chicago cnt neoming. There is no identifiable information in the Bureau's
files concerning the writer of this letter. Despite the fact that
this letter refers to "flying discs", it is no’ believed that the
information furnished is sufficiently important to refer to Amy
authorities.)

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MR. LADD DATE: July 10, 1947
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INFORMATION CONCERNING

25SSRESSEESRES

At 5245 AM this date, SAC Hood telephonically contacted the .« a
Bureau and advised at approximately 11:30 PM, July 9, 1947, the office / Mise agen
in Los Angeles had received information from the Resident Agent at Burbésl
California, that a "flying disc" had landed in or near Burbank and had been
seen to burst into flame when it landed. Further, that it had been the cause
of a fire in some woods, this fire either in Burbank or possibly in the city f
limits of Los Angeles, which Mr. Hood could not be certain. The fire chief 4
at Burbank had called the resident agent at Burbank and told him he wuld
hold the disc for hime

Coincident with the information received from Burbank, the Los Angeles
Office received calls from the newspapers requesting information. The newspapers
stating they had called the Army Air Force Intelligence who had stated "we are
not interested", According to Mr. Hood, this comment had aroused the newspapers
and they stated they intended to publish this quotation and belabor same in their
firstissues. Mr. Hood stated that he had refrained from making any statement
to the press other than to admit possession of an object and that it was being
turned over to military authorities in the morning (this AM), it being Mr. Hood's
opinion that he did not want any quotes in the press and certainly not one to the
effect that we were not interested,

As described to him, Mr, Hood stated that the object was an aluminum a
disc about 2' in diameter weighing about ten pounds, painted with aluminum paiy
and having some sort of a radio tube in the center of the disc. This object S
in possession of the resident agent at Burbank and would be turned over to
military authorities (G2) in Los Angeles this morning.

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Mr. Hood's purpose in calling was to place the Bureau on regarding
the above described object and any further information would be transmitted to the
Bureau at once. . i

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” Office Memofadum * UNITED ae GOVERNMENT
3D 3 Director, FBI DATE: July 17, 1947
rb, : SAC, Los Angeles

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SUBJECT: RECOVERY OF "FLYING DISC",
’ NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA,
A JULY 9, 1947
v

On the evening of July 9, 1947, a report was received at the Los
Angeles Office that a so-called "flying disc" had landed in the vicinity of
Radford and Magnolia Streets in North Hollywood, California, the contraption
being briefly described as approximately 30 inches in diameter, all metal,
disc shaped, and having a radio antenna. It was reported to have burst into
flames upon landing. At the time of the report the disc was being held at
the Valley Fire Department in Van Nuys, California,

SA RICHARD D. AUERBACH went to the fire department immediately at
which time it was found that a number of people had gathered including news-
paper reporters and photographers who were taking pictures of the disc,
Battalion Fire Chief WALLACE E, NEWCOMB advised Agent that at approximately
10:30 P.M., an unknown woman called on the telephone and excitedly reported
that the dise had dropped into her garden where it began to flame, her
residence being located at 11858 Magnolia Boulevard, North Hollywood. A
fire department truck was sent there and put out the flaming object with the
fire hose, after which the object was taken to the fire station. SA AUERBACH
thereafter arranged to transport the disc to the office,

The device is briefly described as consisting of two convex steel
discs approximately 2 feet in diameter, fused together at the outer edge
and fastened together in the center by a hollow cylindrical connection, A
vertical galvanized iron fin was screwed to the top of the disc, and a short
length of pipe closed at one end ran from the outer circumference into the
interior of the contraption. What appeared to be a radio tube was installed
in the center of the top side. The contraption had a total weight of
approximately 20 pounds,

At the Bureau Office a series of photographs were taken of the
device from various positions, and a set of these photographs are being
forwarded herewith for the Bureau's inspection and information,

The "flying disc" waés ‘thereafter turned over to Major COURTNEY W
HEMPSTEAD, A.C., G-2, Fort MacApthur, San Pedro, California, who subsequen
ly reported that the, ‘ioiect was definitely a hoax and under no circumstances
could have flown under \its/own power.

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Director, FBI July 17, 1947

Re: RECOVERY OF "FLYING DISC",
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA,
JULY 9, 1947

On the following day, July 10, 1947, one FRANK V.ABROWN, 6552
Teesdale Avenue, North Hollywood, reported that on this morning he was at
the North Hollywood Service Station eating at which time there was
considerable talk about the flying disc having been found in the vicinity,
A number of what appeared to be young high school students were present
and were having quite a laugh about the excitement caused by the finding
of the disc. BROWN stated that he received a definite impression that
these young students either had themselves or knew of someone who had been
working for the past two weeks making this "flying disc", BROWN was
unable to furnish the names of any of these young men but identified one
of them who was making the statements as being employed in a Chevron
Service Station at the corner of Victory Boulevard and Whitsett Street.
He described the youngster as about sixteen years of age.

The above information was also furnished to the G-2 Office at
San Pedro, California.

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To : Director, FBI DATE: July 34! ate

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FROM : SAC, Butte JA pM

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SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS

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Mr, DAVE/SORNSON, of eo ase Daily Statesman, Boise, Idaho, tele-
phonically contacted the Butte Office and asked if the FBI was checking on
the flying discs reported to have been seen by many citizens. He advised
that so many had reported having seen them that it undoubtedly was not a
figment of the imagination, He said that these discs had been seen on July

1, 1947, in the vicinity of Trail Creek near Sum Valle, Idaho, by pepe
citizens, fr

The writer informed Mr. JOHNSON that this office was not making
an investigation and inquired as to whether he had contacted Army and Navy
officials, He said that he was inquiring of these agencies.

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Office Memor, ndum * UNITED ones GOVERNMENT

DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: July 18, 1947
SAC, NEW HAVEN

SUBJECT: Pogremic SAUCERS"
EDWIN Ma-BAILEY, JR.
STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, INFORMANT
ATOMIC ENERGY ACT

For the information of the Bureau this is to advise that on July 7, 1947,
EDWIN M. BAILEY, dre, 6 Home Court, Stamford, Connecticut, appeared at the
Stamford Resident Agent's office and furnished the following information:-

Mr. BAILEY prefaced his remarks by stating that he is a scientist by
occupation and is currently employed at the American Cyanamid Research
Laboratories on West Main Street in Stamford, Connecticut, in the Physics
Division. Mr. BAILEY further indicated that during the war he was employed
at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Radiation Laboratory which Labora-
tory is connected with the Manhattan Project. BAILEY advised that he is
thirty years of age and is a graduate of the University of Arizona.

Mre BAILEY stated that the topic of “flying saucers” had caused considerable
comment and concern to the present day scientists and indicated that he him-
self had a personal theory concerning the "flying saucers". Prior to
advancing his own theory, BAILEY remarked that immediately after the conclu-
sion of World War II, a friend of his, RENATOMFECHETTI, allegedly observed
the "flying saucers" from an observatory in Milan and Bologna, Italy. He
stated that apparently at that time the "flying saucers" had caused a little
comment in Italy but that after some little publicity they immediately died
out as public interest. Mr. BAILEY stated that it is quite possible that
actually the “flying saucers" could be radio controlled germ bombs or atom
bombs which are circling the orbit of the earth and which could be controlled
by radio and directed to land on any designated target at the specific desire
of the agency or country operating the bombs. He stated that one of the
items of interest which he personally has observed is the fact that the
saucers have been observed in Mexico City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, New
York, Boston, Halifax, Newfoundland, Paris, Milan, Bologna and Yugoslavia
as well as Albania. By placing a string around the globe of the earth 2
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Re: “FLYING SAUCERS"

EDWIN M. BAILEY, JR.,

STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, INFORMANT

ATOMIC ENERGY ACT

would be noticed that all of the above-mentioned cities forma
direct orbit or circle around the earth and would be more or less
in line of any path in which the saucers could be circling.

Mre BAILEY further stated that he had recently talked with RICHARD
PERKIN, one of the owners of Perkin-Elmer Company in Glenbrook,
Connecticut, and had been informed by Mre PERKIN that his company is
making a large powerful telescope to be used in searching the strato-
sphere fa atom bombs.

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Pennington

Dear Mr. Hoover: ,
The enclosed came to my husband yesterday’.
After reading it aloud to the family, as a good example -
of crack-pot-ism, advertising or what have you, he threw \
it into the wastebasket. I retrieved it, thinking it might (
better go into your wastebasket than ours, examined by
your department en route thither, as of possible value,
I presume several thousand have been mailed, and you may
reveive numberless duplicates. I will risk thet. Mr. Clark
as an economist at Columbia University receives many strange
missives, This is as strange a one as has come for some
time, and very appropriate to the present moment,

Quinn Tamm

Sincerely yours,

Mrs. J. -orark
July 17, 1947

Home address: 41 Wright St. Westport, Conn.

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Dear Sirs

Have you seen one of the mysterious "Saucers"?

What did it look like?

Do you think these strange, celestial manifesta-
tions are harbingers of a better day?

Do you believe it means that a new and revolutionary
advance is coming?

Will it make your life brighter, happier, more
useful?

We believe one of these startling discs is on its

way to you. Then the secret will be out.

The Combined and Amalgamated Committee
of Sky-Scanners, Dise Decipherers and
New-Product Introducers.

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Mr. Woodson 2; Cope
Cliffside fall
San Marcos, Texas

Dear Mr. Coper

I wish to acknowledge receipt of your Western Union telegran
dated July 7, 1947. Your interest in making this information available
to me is greatly appreciated.

Inasmch as the contents of your telegram appear to be of
interest to the War Department only, I have taken the liberty of
making the information furnished by you available to that Department.

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover
Director

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Mrs ds U./Watts, Jr.
Darl. » South Carolina

Dear Mr. Vabtear

I wish to acknowledge receipt of yout Western Union telegran
dated July 6, 1947. Your interest in bringing this information to ny
attention is greatly appreciated.

Tnavwuth as the contents of your telegram appear tobe of
interest to the Yar Department only, I have taken the ifberty of
tarnibg this information over to that Department.

Sincerely yours,

John Eagar Hoover
Director \

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‘FLYING DISCS SIGHTED BY FRED*CHRISMAN AND HAROLD A*DAHL, TACOMA, 7)

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WASHINGTON, SM X. REURTEL INSTANT DATE. PLEASE BE ADVISED THA” f a

DAHL DID NOT ADMIT TO SMITH THAT HIS STORY WAS A HOAX BUT ONLY

STATED THAT IF QUESTIONED BY AUTHORITIES HE WAS GOING TO SAY IT WAS

A HOAX BECAUSE HE DID NOT WANT ANY FURTHER TROUBLE OVER THE MATTER.
COMPLETE REPORT NOW EN ROUTE TO BUREAU AMSD, WHICH INDICATES

PROBABLY CHRISMAN OR DAHL MADE THE ANONYMOUS PHONE CALL IN THE

HOPE OF BULDING UP THEIR STORY THROUGH PUBLICITY TO A POINT WHERE

THEY COULD MAKE A PROFITABLE DEAL WITH RANTASY MAGAZINE, CHICAGO
ILLINOIS. DAHL AND CHRISMAN WILL NOT BE REINTERVIEWED UNLESS

ADVISED TO THE G@NGWRHMX CONTRARY BY THE BAER ie Gs KG + =3n
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has agreed to cooperate in the investigation of fiping =r dae apes Intelligence,
confidentially advised that it is possible to release three ae mors Yr Forces have
numbers, attached together by a wire, i e discs in oda
these discs would od%in tremendous sp

earth in an arc, ‘he Army Air Forces

that the reporte Sightings might have

7-30-47
BUREAU BULLETIN NO. 42
Series 1947

You should investigate each instance which is brought to your attention
of a sighting of a flying disc in order to ascertain whether or not is is a bona
fide_sighting, an imaginary one or a prank, You should also bear in mind that x
individuals might report seeing flying discs for various reasons. It is conceivable~y

that an individual might be desirous of seeking personal publicity, causing hysteria:
or playing a prank, ¢ |

5 The Bureau should be notified immediately by teletype of all reported =
sightings and the results of your inquiries. In instances where the report appears -
to have merit, the teletype should be followed by a letter to the Bureau containing re}
in detail the results of your inquiries. The Army Air Forces have assured tho =
Bureau complete cooperating in these matters and in any instances where they fail tom
make information available to you or make the recovered discs available for your ‘:
examination, it should promptly be brought to the attention of the Bureau,

Any information you develop in connection with these discs should be
promptly brought to the attention of the Army through your usual liaison channels,

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BOPIECT! <i euLU ie DISES =

At request of Brigadier General George F. Schulgen, Chief of
the Requirements Intelligence Branch of Army Air Corps Intelligence,
Special Agent S, W, Reynolds discussed the above captioned matter with him
on July 9, 1947, General Schulgen indicated to Mr. Reynolds that the Air Corps
has taken the attitude that every effort must be undertaken in order to run down
Pand ascertain whether or not the flying disks are a fact and, if so, to learn
La about them. According to General Schulgen, the Air Corps Intelligence are
liging all of their scientists in order to ascertain whether or not such a
Mom@non could in fact occur. He stated that this research is being conducted
fa the thought that the flying objects might be a celestial phenomenon and with
view that they might be a foreign body mechanically devised and controlled,

General Schulgen also indicated to Mr. Reynolds that all Air Corps
fallations have been alerted to run out each reported sighting to obtain all
tole data to assist in this research project. In passing, General Schulgen
ed that an Air Corpe pilot who believed that he saw one of these objects was
roughly interrogated by General Schulgen and scientists, as well as a psy-

Whologist, and the pilot was adamantfwe in his claim that he saw a flying disk,

General Schulgen advised Mr. Reynolds thatthe possibility exists that
the first reported sightings of the so-called flying disks were fallacious and
prompted by individuals seeking personal publicity, or were reported for political
reasons. He stated that if thi's was so, subsequent sightings might be the result
of amass hysteria, He pointed out that the thought exists that the first reported
sightings might have been by individuals of Communist sympathies with the view to
causing hysteria and fear of a secret Russian weapon,

General Schulgen indicated to Mr, Reynolds that he is desirous of
having all the angles covered in this matter, He stated that reports of his
scientists and findings of the various Air Corps installations will be available
in his office. He advised that to complete the picture he desired the assistance
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in locating and questioning the individuals
who first sighted the so-called flying disks in order to ascertain whether or not
they are sincere in their statements that they saw these disks, or whether their
statements were prompted by personal desire for publicity or political reasons.
General Schulgen assured Mr. Reynolds that there are no War Department or Navy
en research projects presently being conducted which could in any way be
tied up with the flying disks, General Schulgen indicated to “Mr. Reynolds that.

facilities of hie office as to results ghtatens in the effort to identify LAS

Fu Gown this matter, = I FOC
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Mr. Reynolds advised General Schulgen tha® his request would be made
known to the Bureau and an answer made available to him as soon as possible,

if the Bureau would cooperate with him in this matter, he would offer all the

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Mr, Reynolds also discussed this matter with Colonel L, R. Forney of MID.
Colonel Forney indicated that it was his attitude that inasmuch as it has been
established that the flying disks are not the result of any Army or Navy experi~
ments, the matter is of interest to the FBI, He stated that he was of the opinion
that the Bureau, if at all possible, should accede to General Schulgen's request.

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I would recommend that we advise the Army that the Bureau does not believe it
should go into these investigations, it being noted that a great bulk of those
alleged discs reported found Have been pranks. It is not believed that the
Bureau would accomplish anything by going into these investigations.

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Mr. George J. Pluskat
907 Seneca Avenue
Brooklyn 27, New York

I desire to agknowledge receipt of your letter dated July 14, 1947,
end to express my appregiation to you for bringing this matter to my attention.

The informatian set forth in your letter has been carefully reviewed
and is being maintained in this Bureau as & matter of records

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover
Director
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Mr.J.Edgar HoovereChief,of the F.B.1.
Washington,D.C.

Please forgive me for taking up your time,with this itemeIt really is "t
necessary.Yet,although everybodys tongue was wagging from the East and to the
West coast,I couldn't resist putting my oar ine

Dear Sir;

4 wG saucers in the SkyeHeading for the Milky WayeFunny?I dont knowe
} pf .

We read and read and reade"Sky Disc Derby Open to All"-"Calls "Saucers"frick
of Vision"="Believe it or not,27 States see those flying saucers"-"Who saw: the
Saycers?40 States in the Game"-"Celestial Dishes sought between the Raindrops"-
"Pind 'Disk'is weather kite"="Disks called chunks of Mirage"-"Report new Red
Planes resemble'Flying Saucers'".-Air-liner crew reports seeing 9 flying diske
for 12 minutes".That's the way it went on,for days and dayse

Please,dont remind me that this id a military problem.Soldiers fight the en-
emy out in the open and away from home if possibleeThe Federal Agents(the unsung
heroes)fight the ememy under cover and in their home groundseSoeHere I am.

These so-talled saucers may be kites,but according to reports,these things
didn't flutter or float,they sailed and kites don't sailythe stmanges part is,
they all sailed in the same direction,from West to Haste

Rewards were offered,no collectors.sPlanes chased them,none capturedeThey had
to land,no finderseSoeAs long as the Military,Scientist and Civilians deny,being
respomsible for this.Were doed it lead tofdn enemyeA little while back,it was
mentioned somewhere that Russia had or has a contraption for their next war,em-
itting sound(like a silent whistle for dogs)what it'skxxto do,th their enemy,1
don't knowelf a country was experimenting such a weapon,the brave people of the
U.Sewere not scaredeThey only informed the so-called enemy how successful they
shakx weree

It could be an optical illusion,or;supposing some wnwelcomed persons,planted
a few well chosen words,here and there and left the rest to am confused mind.
These innocent people reporting the phenomenae

What confuses me is,that when we became too curious and determined to find f
out what they really are,those things disappeared and we found substigutes,callea
kites-These things resembling description as near as possible to the real thing/
Why couldn't these things have been directed t& ck home again like a homisig pigeon?

To make sport of this thing,is md tasteeIt sort of reminds me of the boy that
oried WOLF.When the wolf really cameeTwas sadeHe,was o Bicebey «there s?oalé be a
iaw,against such jokes or experiments ints ««vurgeThey should bé ”
jn iseleoxeduva,snould be tried Bsr to the proper authoritiessthess
less or ridicules.We can't take any eka meee | the so-called joke seems
This POOH POOH businesssis no sober AenceseAt this age,Time is sloweMan,is

I had in mind that the floods were
rushing waters of the Mississippi, isso
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Ridge in the East and the Rocky Neuntelaetee in the Easterly North, The Blu
were went from West to EasteHence the Disksti ne yer tanae lotions, or whateve
69 — 9 28%r%-

Respectfully

2Plette,Columbia and Ohio Rivers.!

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There is attached a Bureau Bulletin to the Field for their
assistance in handling this matter.

Attachment

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : OD. M. IADD ( ; pate: 7/24/47
FROM : E. G, Fitch,

SUBJECT: ee ahaa DIS¢s _

Reference is made to my memorandum to you in the above captioned
matter dated July 10, 1947, indicating that Brigadier General George F.
Schulgen of the Army Air Corps Intelligence had requested that the Bureau
coopsrate with the Army Air Corps Intelligence in connection with the above
captioned mtter. The Director noted on the referenced memorandum, "I
would do it but before agreeing to it we must insist upon full access to

discs recovered. For instance in the Ia. case the Army grabbed it and would
not let us have it for cursory examination."

This is to advise that Special Agent Reynolds has recontacted
General Schulgen and advised him in comection with the Director's notation.
General Schulgen indicated to lir. Reynolds that he desired to assure Mr.
Hoover of complete cooperation in this matter am stated that he would issue
instructions “to the field directing that all cooperation be furnished to the
FBI and that all dises recovered be made available for the examimtion by
the FBI Agents. General Schulgen pointed out to Mr. Reynolds that he will
from time to time mie the results of the studies of his scientists available
to the Bureau for the assistance of the FBI Field Offices, General Schulgen
indicated to Mr. Reynolds that there has been a decrease in the reported
sightings of the dises which might be because of the fact that it has lost much of
its publicity value. He indicated, however, that he believed it necessary to
follow this matter through to determine as near as possible if discs were in
fact seen and to determine their origin.

General Schulgen inquired of Mr. Reynolds the method by which the
Bureau would make the information obtained from the Bureau's inquiries, known
to the Air Corps, in the Field as well as at the War Department level. Mr.
Reynolds pointed out to General Schulgen that the best procedure appeared to
be through the regular established channels. It was pointed out to General
Schulgen that the Bureau Field Offices maintain close liaison with the
Intelligence Divisions of the various Armies as well as close liaison with the
Intelligence Division of the War Department. bed after Schulgen indicated that he
would be satisfied to receive information thro reel meanee | (22. ~ Old 7 2 —

General Schulgen indicated to Mr. Reynolds that he believed that there
was a possibility that this entire matter might have been started’ by subversive
individuals for the purpose of creating a mass hysteria. He suggested that the
Bureau keep this in mind in any interviews comlucted regarding reported signtings.
General Schulgen stated to Mir. Reynolds that he would make available to the Bureau
all informtion in the possession of the Air Corps regarding the sightings va, ch
were first reported so that the Bureau could conduct sone investigation re ing
these individuals to ascertain their motives for reporting that they had observed
flying discs. When General Schulgen mkes the information available regarding
these individuals, it will be promptly brought to your attention.

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TO : DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: July 22, 1947
FROM :(K’g0, EL PASO

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SUBJECT: yrs, GHYNNE MS@RCHANT, Informant etl
FLYING OBJECTS IN AIR

Mrs. GWYNNE M, MERCHANT has come to the resident agency at Santa Fe,
New Mexico on several occasions to report that she has received information
concerning flying objects passing through the air. Some of the reports that she
has received concern light objects seen at night which have allegedly been follow-
ed by explosions. She advised that one of such objects was reported by FRANK
) -(BURTRAM, Forest Ranger, who works near Canjilon, New Mexico, She claims that
‘others were seen near Park View and Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico.

Mrs. MERCHANT called attention to clippings from various newspapers
concerning "disc-like" objects seen in New Mexico and other parts of the country.

Mrs. MERCHANT claims to be a student of radio waves and ray forms, and
contends that the above mentioned objects may be missiles similar to those appear~
ing over Sweden some time ago.

Mrs. MERCHANT has discussed the above with officials of the Atomic
Energy Commission, and has written the Secretary of War and other government
officials concerning her theories. Mr, SIDNEY NEWBURGER, Chief of Security and
| Intelligence for the A.E.C.,has advised that officials at Los Alamos consider Mrs.
|| MERCHANT unreliable and possibly not well balanced mentally. She has mentioned to
agents of this office that she was struck by lightning when a child.

On July 15, Mrs, MERCHANT came to the Santa Fe resident agency and
advised that she had written to WALTER WINCHELL, promising him a story in connection
with the "flying discs."

The foregoing information is being submitted to the Bureau, inasmuch as
Mrs. MERCHANT has written to several government officials and Mr, WINCHELL.

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attached teletype. He wanted to know what policy the Bureau was following tele.

in connection with reports concerning these "flying discs" which were being. a
received,

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I told Mr. Weeks that, unless advised to the contrary, he should,
particular case at hand, allow G-2 to handle md not take any jurisdiction forthe
FBI, He was told the Bureau would be interested in being kept advised of develop~
ments, and in copies of the photographs he said G«2 would make of the object
found, but that he should not allow himself to be jockeyed into a position where
investigative responsibility, if any were entailed, wvid fall on us. Mr. Weeks said

he would so handle unless I called him back immediately with instructions for
specific action,

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Fron : John Edgar Hoover, Director - Federal Bureau of Investigation

Subject : MRS. ARTHUR DOUGLASG\ANDERSON

There are attached hereto copies of a letter received fron the
above-captioned individual concerni flying saucers."

Urs. Anderson's letter has been acknowledged and she has beén
advised that copies of her letter have been furnished to you for your con-
sideration.

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WERE KILLED. THE WRECKAGE WAS SCREENED BY AAF INTELLIGENCE FROM

MCCHORD FIELD. THE TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE AND THROUGH THEA THE UNITED

PRESS PUT OUT A STORY THE PLANE WAS CARRYING PARTS OF A DISC WHICH

HAD STRUCK A BOAT OWNED BY HAROLD DAHL AND FRED CRISMAN , TACOMS
RICHARDS ADVISED THAT TODAYS ISSUE OF THE OREGONIAN CARRIES A UP STO!
STATING THAT DAHL DENIES SAYING THE METAL FRAGMENTS HE FURNISHED W.
FROM A DISC, AND ANALYSIS OF THE fF S SH THEM TO BE FROM A
TACOMA SLAG MILL. NO AAF INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL AVAILABLE PORTLAND.
NO RECENT SUBSTANTIVE REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS IN THE PORTLAND AREA.
SEATTLE VERIFY AT MCCHORD FIELD AND SAN FRANCISCO V. FY AT AAF
HDQRTS.:'SF, SUBMITTING TELETYPE SUMMARIES TO THE BUREAU. NO FURTHER
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