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SE SE 62- IHQ~3894 ~IrLS 1-52 1 DO NOT DESTROY FOIPA I 13'.ru,~ ocj w C e,- ·-~ en CW) ·.c ... a: <( I u ca -C I 0 UJ Q -<C (J ·-u,I::l ..., u. 0 (/) ::::, t- w C <t: 0 :E 0 l2: a: I- -<C a: ::::, m a: ;0 LL LU 0 - CJ Vol. Serial # 1 1 0062 83894 8/11/1274199 1 llli1111 11111ill 11RRP0031XHS 11111 111 mlilll 111 ~ -- c..:, ::, 0... ,, . ..... ~ .. z ......") QCI) cw~ 0 LI- en c.) I ■- ~ c::: ca ._ ::c m C ••en CD ca C: c.., ca a., en ~ 0 ~ ~ 52 N ■- I- (. J ~· HQ - HEADQUARTERS Sut., ( I- FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER Class / Case # f-- CD - t- ::, :it: . I.&.. 0 .I I • ::: ,,,,.I ' ( ~ 72055 ~• ~ A.bout Saucers Pitest Finds 'Whirring·' Disc s?'' In. Yard and Holds It for FBI ~ Chicago, July 6 (U.Pj.-A Catho• FBI oftice ~:iid he hadn't lw:3rd . . ~ - d yet about the d1,{' lmt that an offi~pnes~ at Gnfton, Wis., sa1 cial ,•f!~rl might be a.!Jj~ce. tonight th a 1·ound, ffl'e~sc.l 1he flying discs ha, e been re­ wiilch..,.m1g ,e nneo-Y'tlw-Tll'l'i:tcr• po1·tcd "~een'' by pers,ms ill 30 ious \'Jlyi:n!t u rs:-l'ra'd'_:-crnstred States. l>ltt Brasky's disc was the Tnto 1\S P• ' •b~•r,.r anc ftiiit'_Jic tirbl one that actuall~• had been 18 oldln 7frer the ffw.ral found-if that is whal wa· found . Bu ~ <'· lm-est~1• }Lis report cam~ ll few hours he 1) . Jo~eph; ~raskY of St. after a military pl:ine made 1111 J seplfi! t hm·ch at Grafton_. 45 unsuccessful speed oash in an a\• 1 Hes ,,c ·th of :\lilwaukce, said _he tempt to track uo\\ t one o( the! eard swishing ~nd wlurnng discs and the Army and scit'i\fo;LSI (11oise ~hi~ morning. A second later.l 50ught to ascerta111 \\hether coM'· he 1,:ud, he hea1·d a thud and alto-coast l'cporls a icut the d1sc,1mild explosion. zooming lb.rough t:1e sky were fact He in\'estigaled and found a or fancy. ~heel metal disc !\bout 18 inches in Army planes scoured the northdiameter, resembling a circularlwest Pacific skies for them without saw blade. success today and one "eyewitness" •·Tlte object ,-till was warm,1 even reported ha, illf. seen one of weighed about four or five pounds the disc~ take off in Arizona. A and was about one eighth of an St. Louis railroad man exhibited inch thick," he said. some paper "discs·• he ~aiil he had 1 There was a hole about one seen floating over St. Louis. , inch in diamete1· in tbe middle o( . • the disc, he said, and in the open- The flymg saucers which ha,·e Ing were •·gadget~ and some been reported ~}timming tlu·ough wires.'' • Amedca's skin at speeds up lo The priest ~aid l\e did not know l200 mile!I have elucled the usual­ \ i { his disco~ery. were important \lJ keen eye of radar. a • whethe1•. 1t ~ugllt be an _e1ab- Capt. Tom Bi·own of the Army ,rate p1·achcal Joke. He s~hc Air Forces public relations st f :md nQiilled the 'FBI or"Jii~,,.d., J:f.""K. Johnson 0£ the ~mw,m~ee See SA\TCERS, Page 3, Col. 11 L••r.0 ___ Mr. N l. C' Mr. Ros n _ _ _ Mr. T racy Mr. Ca r son Mr . E gan Mr. He ndon Mr. Penn ington_ Mr. Qui nn Tamm Mr. l 0 I l ~ /2y; ~ ( j" .., . 1.~£-R(:-g!!~% 1 _. I 82 JUL 10 1947 ----- JlJL,., WASHHT!'J'GT0 N POW" Page_ _ _ _-=--::... Kmm - ,{fr. Cl egg Mr. Coffey __ ·_ . Mr . Glavi n \' .!!!r. /.p Tolson~ E. A. ! t ' \\ ' .. er ,ussil of 12( "There's t about g•1idec ,:,. Q'.RS-•'ro,11 Pagi . F•ut£l s ' .. rie:st. P+-.-. In Yar,l I said \\ ," he J ( t n d H o ~ lte sa~~\\.ard w Rlakeslee, A :soci. . . ated Prl'ss i-cieuce editor. sal i the 01 ~aid the Army Airway~ Comm um- 1n tbe v.ue we e nr.,w,.e~ t- whole business may be an orUcal . . ] ,tness accounts came a new ~enes -~. . cations Service had reported ate i comment~ and «-xplanatiuns, but illusion. . . •·At a~r .distance .,,1~1ch 1~ close yestHday that ,o far IL~ rada.r most or them were tinged with a scopes throughout the country slight tendency to laugh off the to thr l11111l of ho,~ far a person ca11 ~ee," hi' ,uote, "~11 obJ.~cl,s have been .unable to. pick up any lwhole thing. stra11ge obJecls In ~ltgbt. Dr. Winfred Overholser. nation• app, ar round or near!) ~o. I h ' And in the Pacific Northwest- ally known psychiatrist and super• law of sight covers bolh smi:11 where most of the fl~-happy plat-lintendent of St. Elizabetbs Hos- h I \ 5 seen nearby and large . , ters have been r.eportid-the Ai·mylpital here, said it "has some of the t g has radar equipment which ~an earmarks of being national hys- at gre •l di st an<" • pierct> fog and darkness and pick teria." "Tht> ont> out~tand111g fact 11hout up objects in the sky 200 miles "Everytime someone come, up ,•irtually all the ~au,·ers is that a,, ay. with a sea-!<erpent ~ton·." said Dr. d ~truclure - they .t.Hn so. B10\\n acknowledged Overholser, "other~ with vivid they ha no • that the Air Jo'orces had decided imal(inations are .sure they ha,1' seemed merely round and flat. "there's something to thi!!" andlscen the same thing. That de~<'l'iption fit~ exactly with "The critical faculty ln m~n, thel the trick~ that eyes play. 'l'hi~ had been ehe~klng It f~r 10 days. "And we still haven t the i.llght- Ja~t one he recewed, 1s shll nott . . . . est idea what they could be," he vei-v well developed. Scratc-h the tnckme~s varies. with d_lfference! surface and you find the s~e mas• in weather an_d hghlmg. . added. And a ne\\ wrinkle-the rcp~rt.· hysteria w~ich prrdominat,ed dur- 1 Howe~er, !'.ova Ha.rt. St. L~.ub ed landing of a fleet of eight bktm- ing thP witchcraft scare. Some ,mechanic who was 11 amed du1 ing ming platters-was reported from , persons are quite ready to scr service in the war to spot all types of aircraft, yesterday offered a Idaho in full view of 10 per~ons. A. thing~ and follow beliefs." Dishman. Idaho housewife, said Dr. Overholser •aid that ,1 hen minute descdption of one o( the she and 0U1e1-s In her party had he made his roun<l~ or the mental flying patterns whkh he claimed he ( seen the saucer~ land on a moun- patient, yesterday at St. F.liza- ~aw flying at an altitude oC about! tainside near Sl. Maries, Idaho. I beths not a one cC1mmented on the 300 feet. Reporter Rees One he said they came into view at flying saucers sto•y. a extreme ~pee.d, suddenly slowed. "I think they may ~e a little He described it a~ clrcular with a then "fluttered like leaves to skepticaf." he adUl d. . a ribbed framework and silver to~1·eve~. Dr. O~•erl_1olser ~aid h~ gray in color. He said it appear('d t ground.'' The mysterious part wai; th w . 11 t trymg to dmni~s the mattei to have a motor with a propeller we couldn't se~ them after th a a Joke ''becaus..i the.re arc ~0 attached in the center and that It landed." she said. •·we coul_d ,t any strange thi~!{~ gomg ,?n to- kept. turning Jike an airplane do• them flutter down lnto the limb. ~• t~at one can , be sure. 1. ing a slow roll. :,et \\e couldn't see that they did ~f l, Alexander P. de Sever••y. \ \.It hough ma n y explanations 1 no d aircrart designer, told 'he ha~·e been offered. none has bel'~ anything to the trees." She said she hoped to hike h~to Po l hy telephone from New ork ciwinciug. A Los Angeles news the \lmbe1· tomorrow and search th unhl he ,l'e, a flying ~aucer p. per quoted an unnamed nuclea fo1• the objects which sh~ said were he •·wouldn't like to •pa~~ judg- p ysicist as saying the silveq- di~c saucer-shaped but resemoled wash" r ulled from e:,pcnments m th. .. ransmutation o( a,omic energy.'' tubs more than disks and were ment. "about the size o[ a five-room Ile agreed wi I h Dr'.' OverholRer '\ Thi~ report wa\ rapidly herded house." that mu<'h H not all of the story into the hoax .::olumn by Davld Lilieuthal. chairman of the Atomic Locally. Hazen Kennedy of 2615 may be because uf hysteria. Uh st. ne. reported he had seen "After all,. he said •·we are ' Energy Commi~s,on.. an.d ~everal ' . ' . . ,. prominent atomic &c1ent1sts, • one passing over the :-;ortheast section of the city at about 8:40 mo~·e or less an hflile~1e~l Nation. Starr l'xpects Word p. m l\~aJor de Sever~l<y n1d 1t was p~s- 1 Loui~ E. Staie, national comThis would be the first one re- s1ble that the per~ons who claim ~ mandei· or the Vetrran~ of 1''ore1g11 h0 ported O\'er the DiSlrict, alt ugh to have seen the aerial dis<.'s have Wars, announced Saturday at Co• others have been repo1·tcd oYer nearby Maryland. instead glimpsed the exhaust of )umb~;• Ohio. that .~e ~vas expettmg mo~entari\y rnformat1on Kennedy, who has 125 hours jet-propelled planCF · · t d t ·1 l ·n Ile conceded too , that they from Washington Y.hkh would ex­ might be guided missiles let loo~e ph,:n the dashing.discs. But the flymg timeAi~sFa. s u tenhi p1 o d\' the Army l 01ees o s ere 1 ·, . .• messa!(e never arnvcd. ~aid he belle\'ed the saucer be as part of an expeumenl, but . 1'he A'1r F 01ce~ sa1'd th a t Gc n• • " . 11, addtd· had seen was traveling at we ' • Cnrl Spaatz Air Force« chief was over" 1000 miles an hour at an "I don't think the Government in the Pa~ifie 1'.orth~est \~here al\itude o! between 1200 and 1500 would fire th em so pr~nuscuousl>·· most of the saucers have been re­ !hey would lest them. 111 one spot. ported, but added that hi~ trip fert. "The best way T can describe It," I III an 1so_lated ar~a. like the) did tllere was planned two months ago, long before the ,aucers scare. ~aid Kennedy, "was that it looked 1the a\omic bomb,,' like an orange lamp bulb without )laJ. Gen. Curt1~ E. Le)~ay. who General Spaatz is expected back in the socket. It was going faster than a~ Deputy Chief of Air Staff for 'J'ashington late tomorrow. Rescar~h and Deveio~ment would :'.\luroc Army Ail· Field in Callany jet, plane I've eve1· seen." 11 Ha,zerstown, ~id.. Mrs. J\taj kno_w 1f lbe ~aucers mvolv.cd. ex- i'urnia had a P-80 je~ fighter stanw n Ganoe, 30, ~aid sl1e had ~e<' perunents \11th gmded 1nlss1les, Lig by, and the National Guard e of the discs, racin& in 2-1 commented: <'rcgon had prepart'd six regul r "Whatever these people have fighters tn give chase shou :I •mation at "lenific speed," fro e1· backporch. ''They sounded Ii' seen it hasn't been anyth111~ re- sai•ccn be reported nearby, • a faraway ll'ain,'' she said. ~ulling from experiments by the • • " Anny Air Forces. As tor as I'm concerned there's nothini; to it at all. The whole ~i•=-...: t 1 I t. {vl't'!lli -- - YlJ _T~-V4~_('~ l, ... rw:r~~ . ~ t ~(\IQ ~.~ ~ ~ 7- 8- 47 . J)t!), RE FLYING DISCS, MISCELLANEOUS . REVEhLE1 TO BE PRANK . ·1 WEEKS • I I/ - 0 I- :SND 9 1-24 Pt1 OK FBI WA BW V - ,, Na REPORTEJ FOUND BY F. • ARISTON ~ C\ t....": ~ ' iS:: . ..::, "> • .,,.-:. I ~ -:::, ~ er. c;)• t. .. ct:, 4 U- ::::::-~: ~ . I- "%c::,"') ~ a::. w ~ -- C c., I -..} --f ~~ -. . ..!-IJ Q.) ~ ~ V'> er., ...J ~ -..J" '"'\., ~ ul.---• t.\.. (. c,; f'.... fr) .... ! -1.J 4.... <. ..J 11, 1- 1.._ :rr ~ ~ ~ 0 ,..., "'0 :-, 0 ,._"T; c:: ~ ,- n, - ,,, ,.,., <· c::i::, (\) Vt ;g n c.,, -; ~ l'I"; 0 t:I ;;: r,.,., -f ~ ,..., . ..., ~ c::; ~ . • ~ .,.. - ) BI SPECIAL MESSENGER August 5, 1947 Director of Intelligence War Department aeneral Stat! Tbe Pentagon ashington 25 1 D. c. Attention: Colonel L. R. Forney, Chief, Security Group John Edgar Hoover - Director, Federal Bureau ot Investigation FRED R. Rr.'!801,D • t .. .. t • r •' • • , . ., • • ·.ti1ying Saucer' Just Someone's Pipe Drearn' I The "flying saucer" that fell near 2319 Himebaugh Avenue ' Monday evening was nothing but "ashes from somebody's pipe dream." / So says Dr. C. L. Kenny, head of the chemistry department at the Creighton College of Den­ tistry. He had two students an­ alyze the ashes. They found so­ dium, Potassium, iron, alumi­ n..im, carbonate, suiphate and I.Ill• bul'~_carbon, he said. ' ~nis is the same analysa ;vou would get from ordinary pJpe tobacco,'' Dr. Kenny said. . J (! ~ CENTRAL t TIO~ Mr. J . Edp1r Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investiga~ion U.~. Dept. o~ Justice Bldg . WAshi~fto~, D. C. • .,,. • July 11, 1947. - Dear Sir: 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 I 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, Disc Decipherers and New-Product Introducers. G. I. R. • • • • , &_. ~- {/~~~~ 4 ~ ' , STANDARD FORM NO. 64 • • • Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERN:ENT' . TO , MR. D. II. LAD, FROM /4 SUBJECT: H. B. FLETC~ I DATE: ~ July?, 1942. Tolson . , - - - Ill' , E, .I., Tam. V :::8½:~vn llr, Lad llr, N1c llr, Ro llr. Tra =--- ii:: ~_:on._ __ llr. ourn:= ••===== :::: ll:rnt::---- At 10:45 a.m., July?, 1947, I talked to SAC Johnson of the Milwaukee Office concerning the United Press item appeari~ in the Washington Post for Mond~, July 7, with reference to a flying disc or flying sau allegedly reported to the Milwaukee Office by Reverend Josep asky of st. Joseph's Church, Grafton, Wisconsin. ::: ~~,=-Tele. Roo•·-=== f'+ Ill' , l i e U . : - - - ~= SAC Johnson advised that the Associated Press and the Unittod Press between the hours 1:00 and 6:00 a.m. tod~ had made inquiry 01£ him as to whether anything had been reported to the Milwaukee Offic e, He declined to comment. He stated as a matter of fact the priest haa not made aey 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 i tern in the Milwaukee Sentinel indicates it was believed some prankster had thrO\'fn 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. HBF:cmw • , • • . .. . 111.snr :10 ,.. ·,.d;o ·s·r I• • • • • • ___ __ _:_ - - --------- -· ___ - - ~-~:-...;;__ • _, f ... • • • I • • ' --( - - - - _ a/4...e. 44L--i--, _ _ ;tf1.____ ,-e---,,1,-, -~ - 1- df-P d~ - ~ , ~ - - f , , , q ~' - - - - . ----A- _____._e~- _ AM~~ :~~ ~ --~ -------,- _ _ __,_;;~ - ~ - ~ ~-----'--- - - - - - - - - - - - - - "'t, / -1-r-_ _ _ _ _ _ __ ,. . . • • • V • ed 4 ,I ' -~ ~ - 3 ... .. • I ' . . 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No. 91 'PAGE 1 et Home Boy I FIRST ITS FLYING DISKS - -NOW 0 'Winner In ;say Contest I n ns "FIRE BALLS" PEOPLE SEF. ----~----- ,\ lot of Tcx:•n~ arp ,h,k gnl'llt "a,; the first time th1· arnal e<l 1\it h thr tly111gsaucrl',,, hut chjPct,:; were 1cporh•d i n t hat a­ ! otl1P1;; are ju.,! plain diid,-tnrbed: iea, Residents of the Brn:-lr}~ !'lying balls of fire circled a Cn•ck <·ommunity. l.'> miles nortl:­ sceo11(I t•mc in the p:1,t r wide area arot,nd 'Palestine, and ea,t of Pal 0 :::tine. c:1lled ~heriff me-1th., a 6·wert ll ome E0lll" uerrror.~. bclievin1t t he end Stan t'or<l about 8 :30 las!. niglit, has hro11gl1t honor to his of t he world wa;:; near, bcgau ;;n_v111g- 12 h:ill~ were flying- in a unit,, hy 11 inning h!Pt arjpraying, A white man grabbed <;traight Iinr m·Pr the community. 1olnstic ,ll'l l11w1. a rifle and shot at the myste1·- Thrn, thev r('porte<l. thP hnlls ·t to a<'hie, e h1111~rt f 11a~ ioi•s o1:ijects. formc>d a ci11'\r ,..bieh bc,g-1111 mov­ 111 .\.nthnn, Mat·b~k, Yoa SIH'riff Paul ~;tanford of An- ing toward P11le,-tine. lf1gh ::-rhoul grad11ate• 11 ho <lp1•so11 County ,ksC'ri bed thPm as 8~, !l p. m. hundreds of Palesll ~rhclat~lup to A. and 11. ora111;P hasketbnlls ot fi1·(' tin!' spectators rrported seeing as .C. ~01· I\OJrl H1<'h'" n~ 11nn11J· as i.ln c>e- halls in ll1P '-kr IJ nms 81r!Jtk, dneU•JParFl • nt once, moYing in a cird '· Sh.-r011 ol 1rl'. nu•l .\lr,;. 1-::,<1. ift Slanford disC'ounled irny sngPk ot Swc <'I Hmtlf ,has lwC'n g<'8 tion th:.it tlw ball!l 01·i~ inntcd l'lc>d a priz,, nf-11 $'.?,5 Rndn~s from a ~potlight. I in the KTH ll Fann t•:!;,ay a l a Rud E,·erett, drnggi;.t, ,•lrn~~a ,t. thP111 fnr a hPttcr d-ew. He s-itd 1 11111" "·on sixth placp \\ ilh hi:'1 ~ lhn? finally disnppeared uhont .Jl 0 11 t lw ~11hj,w1 " II011 Hn 1.io 1 1 B0 ,t ~!'I'll' lhC' Fann ,1uri ring rosecut1on p. ) H orace Yalen~in" 1mi-t ~!,-. Ji'arm Home •• !11 couuncntina: saw t,10 p ife•th· rounr 11,, this cs;.a~. GC'Orge Hoesnu , \ r II • t that "nearly scar~d me to bath'' 'JI F 1 I , • , avone ,,·111 u v commum~a • auc falH'•1 Un·c•<'loi • l b c>a 1 mg • ti1e when the,· t1nr • "arm '' • rn 1uionr1a 1011 on ., ap11enred orI I • 10111' e•:;say ronl11me<l i I f tl.i ;f\<Hl)_f' ~hn s•d 1 n • (' , "ila ,t 1 '""" ,, hirh "r ' r or '"'111 ' " l' ' 18 ;OlJ • • SC:"ll "n t, n in hm!' of pear{• 1s b" p1a, mg- ll,lh rnch other, tba to us 11 tllt(ll fnnn 1110- s1 b to u tine of 10,00o nnil w:n they jumped around. s. imp11,;nnment ot ]O rears, H<'~ordHer hnsband nnd Lee C'h:n·er, n11111g· contest,, is not hi11g in~· In 1\ssistant LTnite<l S i nlPS shot II box of .22 rifle b•tllr>ts n Onrni,,, whn, in ,19 lli, 11011 D1,;t rirt Att01·1wr .Ioseph .W ('ash. without a.ny rfl'c>C'I on t he ohje(•ts. 1 tr1nl pig with ai1 (•s~ay II tla pre~P11t 111,rster~ ot tlyMrs. Va lentine said n eighbor,} in the SrR1!'<-R0thuck •m1-1 in~ d1,h an, ,·01111P••ted "itlt 1aing ll€'!-!O families thouf,ht the \[!nin, in 1-'ehruary HJU, he dar or a:mdPi m1,,1lr experi111l!nls, wo1ld was comJng t-0 an end , ,d n <-!Ill' rn 1hr I-Iallelt-,·illr thr lnw mtg-ht upply, hp sa id. !Ind began praying as the balls ('lnh Show, nnd out ol' 12 Th" lan ap1,li!'s whelh1·r thC' of fire gamboled overhead. nwarrlP1( Ji,, took f1 I th infm mu.lion i, r1 J,,:ised 11r•1•1denl ~I rs. LorPJh '-hradN-, Bi~ ally, "through ~ross negligC'nrP, · · F'.1Hinc:s reportrd ,,he saw II fi,,y ,. Hrenek 1,; ~,1eet Jlomr,'s or •• 11 ith intent to injurp the C- red hall str('aking overhead la;t nistrrss. rnfrd States or nirl \OIJlP rorP1g n nig ht. natioll," aecordini:: to lhP ;H·t. J frs. Marian Heed, fam1 wife, Thi' ,\tomir hnPrc,· .Act or J()46 ro1111d what sh" bclieYed was p.nt rrnv1drs eYen ,tri, !Pr pt"ltaltic;; ol II fl) ing <li.,k. ft landed in hc·r for n•Yca!i·ng info rmation, J\lr. ba<'k yard while s he was hangill~ Cash b,llrl . P nblie• Law 58!5 ol' !lie onr thr clothe<; vester da v 11l'!er8c,·rnt~·-Ninth Congress pn idc::. noon. 8he adn;ittPd she wa<, death or life impri~onm!'nt, niter frightrnPrl. She iies<',-ibed it ti ~ a due pror-e"s of lil\\, for disl'lo~ing rom1d piece ot tinfoil Pight inch­ atom,c• 1nformatio11 with intr·nt to <'S wi,ie, ;;corc!IC'd or burni>d a• in,iurc t he CnitPd ~tates. 1·01mf! tlw NlgPs. Both sides Wl're For 11r<'idental disclo,mn•,- a shiny, hut one sirlP w·as m.nkcd , flU<' of 11p to lt\20.000 rtllll llll with hlnck. <.t1•w•ilPel line; 11 n•nll'­ prir,onmcnt 11p to 20 ~-r,ns are !t-r•lll<'h ap111 I. She sa1tl th(!· t.il'­ prm·iclerl, Mr. Cash pointP<l out. foil cll'oppc>d ctrnight dowll from ----►-tltr i;k,v. 1k11m scflhnll teams r-ho1Y:.-<l She lifted it with a stick, 1ntt of good pla~ mg 111 th<' g.1 1w•, it in a tin rnn. and !lrove, fi,·e rl nt the Bnllrlng- 8t:ul111111 mill's to nunte1·, 20 milt•;; , omhwrst of Shermnn. Score,, crowd<!d •:• 'cam,. org11ni,;e<l hi' ,·nrabont lo ::;ep ii. lll! chant,, 111d l'"U~Cl·IIS in oca a on At \JpJissa, Collin County, .Mrs , 111 I' ~ompo ~ t ot tJ11•111l>rr, j .. \la,w Killian an<l .Mrs. Kay Craft 1natPnr "tnnding- who ha,•n 1 --- ..~ -rrporte<l seeing- a stran~e object ~mnc prniu11~ rx pcriener with A gu ,<>line t t·,ul!'t' truck 01 th~ at 8 :40 p. m. :vestcrday. I ] pf or :whr.ol h.111 pl:t\ int~- Trxn~ r'on,;ohdai rd Transpot't Co. Ch:nl"s Calhoun, and his f:tthr\, 1·, uime ol' tlH' pla\c1·.s 1311 into a hcaYy rnpe 11vniJ1t 111 Pr, \V. .T. Calhoun, prominent hown '<ttr h ''"Jl"rt h.tll h 0 1\1 of Rolrnn 'i; ~eiTi'<'P i:;tntHm Grn~ ,on County farmer,. said lhng and q,ortsman,;h• p thut \I'Jn:I,,_,, rlorng "'"111f' damagP to t hl'v '-IIW a <li~k ye;;terday near hard 1 ,. h l' ill•\·p l he,· :n " 1101 th,· stnl 11.n and mn,·e to tht Sh(•rninn. , j trnrk. - -- -<- <- ,.••wna1.. nnl er l'1•lC" '1lw chnl'Jt, "ho ,1 q.:.inJ?~d • th• l>l' Tfip 1r11rk w:i, r<'m•ni-:- from ::rfl <'frtamh dcing th<·ir ·town. alon:::- "·et c-:-iand. nnrl f• to,nn<l Jnm·irl,nc- H'tn•ntinn turnerl mto tll!' i;lation. ,\,, ti)(' lilil's for t he ymmg- prop[p of dJ'i t·e'I' ('Ill t h!' <•n h hR<'k to s \\ ini~ rmnmnnity, ao,l aiP to hP t br I r11i lf'r into pn.-1tiou, th<• !'!lb ph111eutcd •011 thPir fuw 1,mk. skidd,•d into tl•r i:;feel pip~ roof er 'lnrr!'hants or e•onrNn., who ~npport on the r11~l~1 of thn I r1H'k. t n oi·gamzc• a !(>am m•iy rc>ml111~ it r:?ustrlPrabl.,. The C'uc-ro has finally- produced n s n ull t he plll'ti<•ulars r:, 0 111 trnC'k tl:;1•lf ~n ti <' l'rd a bent hum­ first flying d is,•. ph ~Jr.\[a"trr nf the F irPslonc per and a ~nu1slw l feodrr A It wn~ reportl'rl b? Mrs. r'. W . '>11 Lott Strpet. or ltom gn~ohuf• pump din•l'lly belunrl the Haak of 410 <:;to<'kdale str eet, ntid H. l. )hClenr 'on at L:i"k 's UJ>ll!!ht was net damag-c<l by the hot h ,he and hPr hni!band saw it. o~infr 8 tcre on \\"r,;;t Grnnd. cra:;h. However, ::\fr,,. Haak ·s flynlg ho.vs 01· mPn " ishing- to piny ,.__ - - - disr is no partir11la r myster y l o om, of thr> fra'lls mav make hC'r. fthr thi•nk,; she k nOWi ,l11s r. lication at ,hP J'irC'~to~e Stor 0 • 1.-hat causcJ it. k's, Hohan 's ,;;:;c1 viee Station, It l\l.ts simply a reflection froni Hamilton's .Jr11 rlr1· StorP, cle­ an 11irplane, shC' said. din,e- on the pl11~·r;· 's choi<'r of Rit ting on the 11orch with her earn to plav with. Thl're i~ hn"-band about 4 p:m. Run<la~', plrnt:, ot re>o111 for r,001 ---)Ir,. Haak said she h(•a1·,I a l r~. so anynnr intPie,ted is 'l'hr I.ions Clnh Im-; annonnr P<l ~trange noise from the sk~·. and. "d lo contart one of t h,'llf' tki1 al its rrg·nlar noon n1r Pti11~ lookPd np. 80011 nu air planp ,,,1u1e ns. Tuc~duy, .Tnly l .'\lh, it wi ll pre- into i-irw, high in 1he cl oud~. I t · '>f'l1t to LcC' Pan:-111,11111 of Hontc was , r1T small h 11t p lai nlr <li-.­ )11J•; 0 11e ::ame 1~ 1 ce 1111 1", . 1 1~ rrrnablc as a plane, i:he -;11id. h ~d I ., f t k l tl • 1·), tlw phqn" for f. ht• Outsta11elm2: . • , n eu or nrx we"', an, ia 1 1 "[ I • ht Tl ,. Fann• 1· for th" \[tcl<tle Gnattnh1pr was roming from thp east. " OJH av ma: , w 11en w 1• 1r,•- B . • . , . . . 80011 it turnfd nor t h, a nd ,i,1~t ~l • ·11 t "Ilg'I~ WI-11I I11C aslll 801I Ccn,P 11·:•llon Du,t :·1ct. II(' , o r,, 11'1 zalr>, Dr. l'E'('J'l'I,. Tue• da\' 'rhp plaq11r 1s gi1· '11 1'11<'11 : ('Ill' aftrr tha t a p:->1·fr~t disc 11•11,-, \·i,;­ 11t f,Qek · , \ 0<''R!t' ,,(nrc will to thr• llu·,,wr lr<nn Parh ('<>11 <'l'­ ihlP snmr di:<fan<'e from wh,,..,~ y, h11t then· npp'•nent h:i- not 1 ,·atiun <listrirt "ho_ has rontnhut­ tl•e pl11110 disappenred' into the n n11 111r d ,·rt. ,\ L,o, on 'fht1,·s-1 eel 1110.,t to thr ,oil ronsP1Tali.01i clo11<ls. 11i·•hi th~ F in• f1111p tt-nm 11ill r roj,•rff, i11 t he pa rli rular d ii,t 1irt. Tlw disc Hppt·art>c1 bl'i<:1·t and in 7,111y a !! 1)11( hut no ll'illll Th(• 1\1 .,nl is spn11 01 c,1 b,\' II 1111 111- n•1'.\ ,1h·prr. It apptal·od •o 1',, hrrn state,l to oppo <' t hun brr of 01~am;:at,ons, amon~ th m small<'r in s1w tlun1 an orl.in"l:' ( l ,. l riday night of' this \\!•Pk, the I u,n,- Cluh, ot the> Yan1111:s ,tl'0 rtng wh•·el of a C'.ll. hlr~. ,·mw 1. di ); , plnvrcl, hul t !Jp tow 11 .,. :,:;, 11rr t II<' I.ion., ,lo play 1111 H n:tk rP pcrtcd . It ~•·emefl to b~ n, ,,ho ,1il l p;•rtiripatc- Jwv,· arlivP pn rl in sponsorina- t his 11 '' flon I i ng' ' acr,,;;, t he he·1Y"lls. hl'!'II Ji.,trd ,rt. ward, tl,c !oral dnh is g-i, c•n lhP <.;lJp <·alk<l hrr husban,I •~ :t:­ prh il, ~1• ot pn•:sf'lll in:.: the• plaqu~ teuti(•ll to it. Th<'r both "!I" i:. ht•sr• i::-ames 11ill start ahm,l to )Ir. Pargrnann. i\ I!Pr about fh <· H~OtHh th() 1',I< h 1.ight. I·,\ 1•1:,:011(' i~ I 11 HP]l l l'SC'll tatl\'('~ or thr Soil ('on dis,· wa, gon<". T h plane a nd th'.l l to c·omc ancl f'hcrr for his -,errnt io11 Rerv i,·" " ill be> Jtr,'s!'III so1111d rli-.appru1'Pd I, :,{ o Jdt.,is~i< 11 \\ ill hr 1•h11 r to mnk,, ,;horl C'!'ll!!JiltnlatotY 11ml -'In,. Haak i~ ,·onvincNl th:'! rxplanatory ~pf1t'r•hPs on th;, gn­ llyin;.• !Hmc·er ,, ·1s reflecl~•d f ..oll\ i11!! ol the• an1111al award. the airplane. This theory al,o h:,s beeu n,h ancecl h,v othei·s. I ~ evea 1ng R I y1ng '1s May DkD IB P____ ::·s. ! I I I Growing mateurs' Display cellenl Forn1 Gas TruekHI"ts L ISt ti• I Cuero Residents See Flying Disc I Lions To Make Farmer Award r· . I 0 • ,UIUTY MAN HE HERE 11. l};n i~. I iii f reprr.s,•11t ;,1 Han t\11 lon10 Hocial S1·•·111Tie·P, " iJJ hp i11 Yoak um nl tv Hal! at n::10 a .111 .. ,,·(•<!­ • July 23, l!H7, for the p•irpos,• of rr<'Pi,·i11~ 1·lai111s and Tlw flying· ,Ji,;c· my~tcry h11s the ,lisr·n~~in~ O(rl .\~<· :111,f S111:nH>1·,; j •1ati'.m in a. ditlH'r ''.·ith H'port; ln,m1111u·,· with nil who wish to r·n111rn~ trom all s<·d10ns 011 the confild h1111. s t ra n~(• ohjects. ;\I n;. Hank 's <'XJh11 is will 110t ht• ah!<' f o 1'11r- pla'nal iou i~ a:; n•asonablr as any ni,-,h iulonuation e·m1('tT11i11g Olcl y<-1 ]Hit fortl1. :ind may he the Age A:s~i:stauce pcn:siou,,. [ ::.olutiou to the '' viwuouwuou, '' Yoakum YOAKUM 1-{ERALD - TIMES ., Br owned t,y IJOW CAN WAY Norman Thomas <lt)SEPH J. l.U.LEC, , debate about Kussia, 1 Editor-Manager ~. ; ¥ " ' - . . t ) ~ ::i~ ~ mas quest10ns gav~ !.argc;,t g-ui.rameed circulation of,1 John L. Lewis calls the, .ny :publication in tbis section. new labor law a •·slave law" I "T seriously ques .:erald Est. - - - - - -1807 ' T J. t b I ested in world domina ·.:.'in,es Est. - - - - - -18\12 j 'he ~ig _ruS t s_ Iiad u nd0u t- ing to rehabilitate the , , •• • d at ect O<:t . .,z5, 1 9,;,o edly. the same idea about .the 1I, says Wallace, J·ust \'/Ill ,,or,;-;on Wh E:~osc,fiption Ra,,e ___ -$2.50 1 anti trust laws when first I Pr,blisl,ed cvny Tuesday and Fri- introduced. And what are ths I'J at hadppehnctdt "ay i ·rung 810 310 L 0 t' ~• ...ungary, an w a r u ur. • "' l . . . ., trusts comnared to the harm ' t "l • t :for:k~..~- •fexas. . ;.,:. . I coun ry, .,,10uld be b a ., D e \.... C11~cr:.:ng Lavll.ca an., v1tt , the umons Clill do with tJ1eir what the Reds • say' 1 Cou11tieo. strikes? "And, on:!e agai !\1ALEC PUBLISHING CO. - Ev W. M. r~ ~ . " ..;r.ter~;t as sec"nd-class ma.L:ter at~ !'lie Post Cft:ce, Yoakum, Texas, ' mder the Act of March 3, HW'l. t f . ,, If the aew labor laws ference hetween the of Hitler Gennany, are "slave .:aw~", so are in g.'.>vernment struc' WIIEN' ADVERTISING crncu- J the anti-trust laws and aa.y ·w hat Hitler stc LA'I',OH OOUNTS - TRY THE 1 0U1e1· laws fior the p1·-0tec­ HERALD-Tl.MES. simi;le, and far mon ___ ........_ _ _ I ticn ot people agarllSt a­ age. But when Russia buses by any gl'Oup. So far the same. POLITICAL , the people were utterly _L\.NNOUNCEMENTS ! helpless against the lab0tr As to Russian tac For Sana.tor, 18th Dist. they don't difier grea , power. When independence is JOHN J. BELL * l'J -~ and maintained in -Gr,ee l Such labor dictators as ing to Wallace's reasor MOTIRIS ROBERTS - - - - - - - - - - - - - , Lewis, Petrillo, others, have ~~~ 1 a far gr.eater power to harm But since the Rec SPECIALIZE tlus country than the British mocracy, it's very sim1 to suit the purpose. E, 1l1 king ever had. This is juSt Moscow's fifth column, \Vhisldes, Wines I as unfolerable today as it was then. . Wallace talks of h, , a1,d Gins I * r:~ ,,. s1stance and sincere pl1 R. :: • DARLING I La.st Sunday was, for the '- peor le " How ca n. W a 11 t- • P ACKJ~GE STORE British, a nat10nal 'Day of Russia will take , 1 1 ~ra.!!ftm£!1Xlrfi:a:n:i~ni:ltii. ,P·~~~r '1') ~ kini wjth Prima without changing in ti -- ·~-• I Minister Attlee and other 1Anct now can 11e 'Lct.:i'll. -. -• • govel'nment leade:'s went to when there cannot be Chas. Micek St. Paul's Cathedral to pr~y less, ~~iceles~, and cut Your WATKINS with the natwn for help m any Inendsh1p reach t City Dealer ' these ominous times. 1 Wallace is not sc Phone 599-W "' ~ .,. d I polities evidently mea1 Not s.o tong ago Englau helping to divide Ame1 , went tlmough the most most. I de.sperate sb·uggle iu her· r.nll • lnil.ill ' wlrnie history. The peace ~ - - - - ~ - j! is not yet establishe.1 ani e\'cn a greatel' mcnac~ by threatens the people ,of • • Eagland and elsein,here to new home of firesafe j whom f.reedom m€a',1S so j much. In a great da.nge1· brave pe~~•f,~a to G-0d. The ohLst • C';<'n;l~•t t1· ,vE 0 I _uiU,• Mont Man Wii Truck Award I building your COICBETE qwration in thP I ·A house of whatever archi~ t'JJitcd Here, -too many do notl rnrcn,! in the rcrent co1 tectural style or floor plan fitg I fully realize today's danger.· a mm 1-ton rnodd. The , your family requirements will _We suffered comparatively 1rll(•k was lrnilt o'n Oct, have lpng~r life, lower main- I little and the H.ed threa,t ~,91~. i1_1 ~'htnokt's C tenance cost and greater fire• seems to be distant. But 'altrornw p!Hnt. ~ safety if it has concrete walls : that does not minimize it. . Tiu, tl'llek i·, owned aud ~d subftoors and a firesafe 'W need to ra~e the menac-9' bv "\fi-. l.(-- Ju, A. :Storey, I _e . I .1fo11t;n1a; and tlic tntr:v ,, roof. Le~ 'u~ tell you how to I with the same seriousness. mitted thn,n"h Pionu 1. get such a -house bui\t now • the British ~eople with their; the Cbcnolc:; dealer in tl using our quality te~t.ed leaders manifested last Sun- whic-h 1 locatcJ in om S.1 day. For, we cannot c~cape 1I~ ity 7.c11e. concrete bto.::k. F.& Concrete it. I 'l')!f> 1',innEr's ]11'17.(' of :in:. * l'"'! * ,Aclvancc-Dcsian ChPYrokt It cannot be ~aid anymore i11·il! be i;res;nt('d to ,\fr. Products Yoakum. Texas , that the stories of the "fly- b:,- Ch<• 1·rolet :.\fotol' DiYisi, ino· disks" is mec·e fiction. :liore 1 ha 11 l3flU? Ch !!'----t..::,.ffll"-"'l::;,u, c "' . tYncks WNC entcrcJ trow 1 , -. :.. I One disk was found by a tions ol' thP nation, ;.id ~lG i':l. t?i' •• J.le.11 - Phcne 831 I ~elly man, near. Houston. On j hroad pnhli,: iutt rc,;t . . I'.ntl 1t was a warnmg about its dudr-d mor(> tl1a 11 50 191D DR. (.~ R. TUBBS I military secret and that the ~till iu orr\atio11, rnan~ d I Army Air Force at Spokane, 1\\'ere mau_n1artnred. on_ly , v·er~dnarian , ·washino-ton be notified at , mon•li~ a1 lc•r the wmmn,.:- i I 1 "" • once. tarre an~ Small Animals , TliP lar•-. 1nrn1b<•1· of ' t111, lu; cn1 cred L1 th<' be arc' I t1_n.phn,;i:'.e., the qm.Jity an~ I 0 * Offi.;e Phone 831 So the mystmious disks !ht1i!y of C'lwnoll't ln:d,~ Resid~v•-f. !'.none 749-W are not messen?ns from 1\-J.ars ,or some other star. Ou~.:, 'foxas J; Nor are they m i s s i I e s \1 t1tu:u:a:u:e:u:n:nxu:n:u:e:u:a:s:n:u:11:u:8:I~ \ which Red Russia is already showering upon us. They our own secrets She'll Never Forget with are which o u r armed forces are experimeD'ti,11. THIS GIFT What proµels them? How :J! 'P,\ l ,. - ■-■■I '■ 1 far can they fly? What is tlheir purpose? -That is a mighty sec<ret. * lt'l * --...: It is a French paper in I Paris that claims that America has a far more destruc-1 tive bomb than any ever in-1 • vented before. In on~ blow it could destzoy all of Paric;; or Moscow. This is also con­ firmed by Robert l\1. Hut­ chins of the University of Chicago, familiar with what goes on here. We can thank See Us For only the good P~·oviden(•e QUALITY MERCTE' AJ\TnTSE -- that this immense power is in I EXPF RT WATCH our hands. ,, r ,,, I REPAIRING Writes John Fisher in hisl M I ■ l ! book "Why They Behavel HAlVIILTON Like Russians": "Offici'ally religion is still regarded as JEWELRY ~ a deplorable superstition, Yoakum l!i and .church-goers can never ~ ~ l : t ~ hope to gain admittance to the Communist Pa1:t,y.'' I Hornee Wimbe:dy, Jc Lawyer Offices now in Yoakum National Bank Building Phone 50 Yet what do you find in this country'? -:Even cer­ tain church leaders ihave only praise fnr the very rule which exchtdes a Christian, but they con~ demn their fellow Chris­ tians, instead of the Reds. Just Men C • YOf 1 Lava The 'l'h ... _e ••••• i - ------ MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS -- - -- This Paver Is Connected With NCWC Washington New• He:,.dquarters by Direct Leased Wire, Hao International News Service Daily Wires, Its Owl! Special Service, Religious ,News Service, Inter-Catholic Press Agency, Lumen Service of Chin.a, Fide• Service, Religious News Photos, International Illustrated News, NCWC Picture Service, Photo Features (Name Registered in the U.S. Patent Office) lQd.6 SF.f'.TTON TWTO Speaking at Castelgandolfo, his as summer home, Pius XII asserted an that the world today has men who on ignore not only the Church, but the .ed "very rudiments of religion itself;" in. men who see no evil in evil deeds ,rd and lust and would spurn "the .ve primary norms of morals anct jus­ ras tice;" "there are cynics who would 16. deride holy things and weak men 1at who would permit these offenses m- to pass. . . ." tin Despite this turmoil, His Holian ness said, "there are great rays ;he of hope and fields white with har­ in vest for those who labor to bring ;he Christ to the world." He stressed ipe the oath of the Jesuits, which en­ tor ables them to bring "a spirit pre­ [n- pa_red and prompt to obey in all ce- thmgs the true Spouse of Christ . . ,. our holy Mother Church." In another audience, held for the Most Rev. Emmanuel Suarez, O.P., ,rnrl thP. Dominicans who elect,ed U1 at, ve1 Co Ht lat an, fol J tioi anc voi ma, disJ ent the ish, sla1 res· dra u. ma Ita I ' UIU Su~HU of , ...~t:si1 ,11T o u . S, orPARTlllfllTor JU!HICE COMM q C 11n TU WU17 47/46 2 EXTRA COLLECT SAN MARCOX TEX JULY 7 1947 714P WASI-IDC CHECK FILES IN INVENTORS COUNCIL FOR DRAWING OF MULTl~APRING CATAPULT THIS INVENTION SENT BY ME TO WAR. DEPARTMENT IN 1945 POSSIB~E LEAKAG~ OF l~FO~A~IO~ HAS R~SUL~ED MV DEV~~~ OR . . ' .J • VARIATION THERE FROM COULD CONCIEVABLY CATAPULT A DISC AND IN SILENCE FOR SEVERAL MILES ~ E_SORDED 2. - !_j =- 6 WOODSON C COPE CLIFFSIDE HALL ~1 194.5. /. J ..,/ ffo~JJ -~~Nl f. ~ ­ ~~~ 941P v- F 1/ /0 37 JUL1l ~ ~~-c.- ~~~--- Yf . I . "' I • I ' V' cy/i~;"M~morlmtum • ' if TO !) • FR.OM J . P. Coyn SUBJECT: ·:orDsm; 1!• Ladd 1 \ f~ DATB:7- 10-47 Infonnan /. · ~ µ ~ , J ~ There is being attached hCreto a ..Testern Union telegram received f rom the abo, e individual in which information is 1 furnished concerning a 11 disc . 11 This telegram has been aclmowledge . ACTION: It is recommended that this telegram be turned over to the Liaison Section in order that they may make the information contai~ed therein available to the War Department . \ WVC :mn • SYMBOLS , ,< is a fulhate Telegrarr. or Cable, gram un1eu its de,., ferred characte..;, i -1d,cated by a suitable symbol above or pre­ ceding the address. LC-O,-ferred C&blc A , N . WtL L IAMS The filiDg ome shown ,n the"'""° ho~ on t and <by letters is STANDARD T I ME at point of origin. Tune of receipt i• STANDARD T I ME at point~ r <llf,i~3l1cn &r - ABOUT 12 SO-CALL FLYING DISCS PASSED OVER DARLINGTON SC APPROXIMATELY 5:30 PM TODAY •ADVISE IF WISH DETAILS= ;J U ~, ATTS JR• . ., 6 '"' , / ~:: J:1· 1 J J : _ ---:--:----r o~"~ ~~ ~ ., l}t ,'i!J,. ' 1 ,, ... r:tJ) 'IL" I() , fr F E D. BlJ. Qjj ·'.:_' __ ~ _ ' .._. • .- J '/ ~ , q~.( Jc, (l ~P ~ -r, \}J Dl.; if- ,•• J''. JUL 7 t. . 37 J..(JL :n ! EX- o:.·~7 1~4, 12 5:30 p • l''VIStf'\N r - p:: ,,~ i_:___J ~ ti' 1 l JW.., - ~ - "-'.J, "" ...... " • \ - _ ~47 if ' .. GUARD • ADV HAVE M~G DLVD t ' . - lf't. ., \ • I .. ~~-~ ~ • • ~c~..Memorandum . uNITEn sTATEs GovERNMENT -. TO DA.TB: D. M. L a d ~d ~ FROM J. P, Coyn SUBJECT: J, U.-AA.TT , JR. 7- 10-47 ' llr . Tolson Mr. ~. A, TBll'lll b Mr . Clegg_ _ Mr. Gl avin Mr. Ladd.,,..-""-_-_-_ : : ~~;~~ls__ : : ~;~n : : ~rie=a-­ Informant ::::-~-===Mr. P e n n ~ llr. Quinn T8""'- :t ~~•~~~m J.~ls - o~- 8 03ndy-==== There is being attached hereto a ,'festern Union telegram ~ , ~ receiv ed from the above individual i n ~mich infonnation is furnished concerning a "disc. 11 This telegram has been acknowled d ACTION : It is recommended that this telegram be turned ov er to i he Liaison Section in order that they may make the information cont~ine therein available to the liar Department. Attachment 4_,.y ,1v? ~ ~1 ,9- I ; \. ~ -.-,.1;c~ Q- 56 ... .,~: ~£\\Jt.O-LµU\, t: p, 1 ,r\e-· -:'I.. -l il ::t INTERNAL SECURfr " f. B. \. "'=..,,._Of • • • • II'.. . • .. s, 'Saucer·' Stories Disk Found Is ~ toward~ Hloliill and"'a,kppei,.,ed, 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 Tries to Call FBiMan in diameter, over Billy Mitchell field Priest Hears a 'Ban~,,.,..._ at 10:05 p.m. when he alighted from Father Bra.sky said he did not an airplane. He said it was in sight Discovers a C j r CU} a r bother to show the disk to any of his for 90 seconds. parishioners Sunday. He tried to William Humphrey, who Ii v es telephone an FBI agent whom he with his wife in a qUO!l.!let hut at knows. but was unable to reach him 3148 s. 20th st., telephoned police Dl.sks Sunday, he added. Asked whether at 9 p.m. Sunday that ...,..._ , -~,. it could have been the work of a Humphrey had seen a slightly illupractical joker,b 1 Father Picture 011 Picture Page 1• d "Co Id d 'tBrasky know" re- minated disk which appeared to fa!J P 1e : u e. on to earth near Pulaski high school. he "what is it?" which Father The di.sk, apparently of steel, •had Mrs. Humphrey said Monday that Blade With T e e t h,· Other 'Seen' I: eph Bra.sky said he found early a one and three-eighth inch' hole in her husband tried unsuccessfully, to nday on the lawn of St. Joseph's the center. Through it ran a few photograph the disk. wires. To each end of the cluster Catholic church in Grafton may be of wires was attached what looked Changed Colors, He Says p ust another gadget to add to Fa-, like a small condenser about three Erwin Rottman, 1328 N. 19th i · / ther Bra.sky's already sizable col- inches long. The condcnserlike ob- claimed he saw three of them flyi I lection. jects were wrapped in black tape through the air In a northweste y Those who saw it Sunday said which still was d sticky. The h diskd.was t direction at 6 p.m. Sunday. Th greasy an so m e w a t tr y. turned from orange to gold to silv r "what is It?" was a circular saw Stamped on it was: "Approved, bet~e disappearing, be said. blade with a few wires attached. Dunlap." Reports came also from Janes­ Father Bruky, who said he knew .of Father Brasky declined to part ville, where Mr. and Mrs. Alva Sie­ no sawmills in the area, would not with the disk. He showed a num8e1• vert and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Roth claim it,was a "flying saucer" when of items in his trinket collection. reporte.d seeing a flying disk about he called newspapermen to his All of them had something to do 11:35 p.m. Saturday. The Roths home. with fishing, Father Brasky's favor- were leaving the Sievert home when ·'It may or may not be one of those ite sport. They included his "bass Sievert saw it, according to Roth. Iflying disks that have been report- bottles," beer bottles with the head It appeared to be several thousand ail over the country," he said. of a fish - and a fish pole from feet up and about 10 miles away, I t's just call it a 'what is it?'" Manila which folds up into a cane. Roth said. ·He described It as vague{eanwhile, in Milwaukee and When opened, it extends to lZ feet. Jy resembling the moon and as hav­ er points In Wisconsin, sev. "I use it in reaching folks w.'!',....•.,..egular motion in a counter­ sons reported seeing the "fl'y~'.'l"in"."g~~c~a!!'n' t be touched with a 10 foot pole," clockwise, elongated orbit. It apsaucers." Father Brasky's disk, Father Bra.sky quipped. peared to Roth to be moving faster however, was the only case here in Others Report "Saucers" than an airplane. He said it was which the "landing" of a "saucer" yellow on Its face. but when it was reported. Father Bra.sky also passed out turned it looked sliver. 11d copies of h is recent publication, Roth said that the four of them Hears "Ba.ng," Fi s Disk "Fish Tales." viewed the disk for 10 minutes. Father Bra.sky gave the follow"I'm going to revise this thing," ing account of how he found the ob- he expIa1ned. ve got some new • "I' Stopped in Sky, Claim ject. a steel plate 19 inches in di-I and better tales to put in it." "It fluttered around, faded out a.meter about an eighth of an inch There were other reports around and came back again. and once,· thick ~nd with saw teeth. Milwaukee and Wisconsin of "fly- just stopped and bung there fo "I usually get up about 5 a.m. on ing saucers." Mrs. Anthony Hoff- about two minutes," Roth said. "Tb , Sundays. I was at the front door man, 3410 W. Layton av., said she last time we saw it, it had a ve of my house about to take my dog and her husband saw one at Turn to page 3, col. s j out for a ;alk, when I heard a p.m. Su n d a y flying toward B~i~ll~y,,__ 'bang!' like a big firecrac~er.. I Mitchell field from t~e northwest. stepped outside and found this ..,-=,--n It neared the field, 1t veered 1 on the church lawn. "Although the grass was still wet IENCLOSUR f r l the night rain, the disk was too ot to pick up. 1 noticed the gl ball had been knocked off one of e lightning rods on the church, so suppose it struck that in land­ ing." j Uv ~ 1947 7ZL ' • 'Saocer' Tales Lacws 6{ Eyesight Cla~ Buzz in State Reports of Flying Saucers B y H OWARD W . BLAKESLEE A!soclated Press Science Editor Disk Found by a Priest New York, N. Y.-The flying saucers may be explained by cer­ Is Circular Saw; Others tain laws of eyesight. All objects appear r o u n d or Seen by Milwaukeeans nearly so at any distance close to the limit of how far a person can see. It the objects are seen by renoticeable tail. When it disapflected light, as in most cases re• peared entirely, it just popped out." ported, they are almost certain to Janesville police reported a tele• be round, and if the reflections phone call from a Dick Thompson, are sunlight then the sizes report­ who said he saw flying disks about ed are those which would be ex­ pected from distant light reflec• tlons. 12:15 a.m. Sunday. Descriptions of vit'tually all the t Oshkosh, Mrs. L. A. Davis rep ted that she and her husband had saucers as round and flat fit ex­ s hted one of the mysterious disks actly with the tricks that eyes .,. izzing over the city at 6:t5 p.m. play. This trickiness varies with differences in weather and light• Ing. Sunday. 1 She said they were driving on a This writer ha.s seen flying sauctown road six miles west of Osh- ers over Long I sland sound, not kosh, beaded east toward the city, only this year but In previous when they first sighted the object years. They were round, bright "flying very fast and very high." and moving fast. But they were At first, she said, It looked like an no m ystery because th e y were airplane and then loomed larger and light reflected from the bodies of larger until it "appeared as big as airplan es that s o on identified the sun." themselves by changing course Stop, Ca,r, Disk Vanishes and coming near enough to be seen Her husband stopped the car BO.,..._ _distinctly. _ _ _ __ that they could get a •tter look at the disk, which appeared round and silvery, but by the time they got out of the car the object bad dis• appeared, she said. At Green Bay, Eugene Le Plant reported that he and hill 12 year old son, Duane, bad seen a rapidly mov­ ing silver ball or disk about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday while working In bis 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 a i h"~ on watched it for three or to r mi utcs while it moved away t o tt no hwest Le Plant said he cou no estimate the altitude or d tance, but that it "definitely was n ot an airplane." From pag~ I, column 3 i I Many descriptions of m o v e • ments of the flying saucers fit with the common maneuvers of airplanes, s I n g I y 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 w hi I e watching distant airplanes. W hether planes arc guided, pl­ lotless or jct, they all would look the same at great distances. Mirages, Traveler Says Philadelphia, P a. -(JP)- Dr. Aurel Aczel, editor of a H ungarian lan­ guage newspaper, expressed belief that the !lying sau,·ers 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 miragt of ships known to be a great dist ce away. "In July and August, and s e­ times even in June, atmosp ric conditions are especially adapta­ ble to the creation of mirages." • • I • • Sliaip-Eyed Sight Disks, bur anly a Saw Blade f~ Found 1 • • .. • Who, what, where, why are flyinf disks? Th~ear·s bi,t~est mybtery produced these Sunday photos while reports came fro everywhere and everyone that the saucers were everywhere. Top left, a movie amera is fitted to a P-51 fi&hter plane at Portland, Ore., as Oregon national guard planes arc made ready to chase the disks. Lower, Mrs. Walter Johnson (rlght) of Spokane, Wash., and her chil~z n •osc and t,11 how lh,y ,aw th, " " " " land on a mountatn,;d, ;n td,ho Td sappear. Right, is Father Joseph Brasky of St. Joseph's Catholic churct at Grafton, Wis., with the disk he reported struck his church early Sunday. It turned out that th'\! d~~k 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 Mllwaukeet s reported that they saw the saucers traveling past Sunday nigh t. -AP Wirephotos and J ournal Staff • • SEEN IN 86 STATE::s.s,--- Sten1n 36 State • Flrst sighted June 25 and greeted generally with scornful Jet Fighters laughs, the objects have been re­ ported every day since by observ­ Alerted ers In 36 states. Most of the ob­ First, published reports of the Pbenon 1 ■ 111 occurred-June '25. Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Ida., businessman pilot, told of seeing nine of the discs flying In forma­ tion at 1,200 miles an hour over the Cascade Mountains In Wash­ ington, jects were reported seen July 4. A few were reported yesterday. SAN FRANCISCO, July 6-UPI Such competent observers as SEEN Bl' 200 - Milltary aircraft hunted the airline pilots said they had seen Arnold's account was taken es over Pacific Coast states the totally unexplained discs or lightly. Various explanations ay for sight of the mysterious saucers, larger than aircraft and were offered- "reflections," "per­ ] ylng saucers" that for 12 days 1 islstent vision," "snow blindness.'' :fii!'i:as i-, "loose formation" at ve puzzled the entire country. Soon afterward other individ­ uals-In New Me:x:ico, Missouri, Early reports of results were high speed. David Lilienthal, chairman of California and other !.tales-re­ negative. ported they also had seen the Five P-51s of the Oregon Na• the Atomic Energy Commission, flying objects. Sllld they had nothing to do with tlonal Guard cruised over the Then on Independence Day 200 Cascade Mountains oC Washing• atom!<. experiments, and Army persons in one group •and 60 In another saw them In Idaho. Hun­ ton-the area where the strange and Navy officials also entered dreds of others In Oregon, Wash­ objects first were reported sight­ posltlv& disclaimers. ington and other western sites ed. A sixth circled over Portland, Newspaper stories quoting an reported seeing them. In constant rad.Jo contact with the unidentlfied California Institute July 4 also brought firs re­ other five. All carried photo• of Technology scientist as saying ports of the flying discs om graphic equipment. the phenomena mlgh~ have some­ east of the Mississippi. nee Col. G. R. Dodson, command• • then they have been reported seen Ing, described their flight as & thing to do with experiments in n widely separated sections of "routine patrol," but said they "transmutation of atomJc energy" he country-in 33 states In all. had been Instructed to watch !or used a brief sensation late yes­ the flying discs. 'Must Be Insane• rday. The institute quickly de­ t Manhattan Beach, Calif., A. LONDON, July 6-UP)-Don't ed the report. McKelvey took a Mustanl mention those flying saucers on Reports generally agreed that ter plane up above Van Nuys • this side of the Atlantic unless the flying objects were round or two hours he cruised at 35• you're prepared for an argument feet, but "didn't i.ee a thing: oval. Estimates of their speed about your sanity. ranged from about 300 to 1,200 Gen. <'arl Spaatz, commandan Maybe they have been seen by of the Army Air Forces, was on a miles an hour. They were de­ sober citizens over a vast area Pacific Northwest fishing trip. scribed as flying with an undu­ of the United States, but Europe He denied knowing anything lating motion at heights of 10,000 won't believe in them until some­ about the flying discs - or ot feet and less. Some described body lassoes one and has It photo­ them as glowing, or luminous. plans to use AAF planes to look graphed by Frank Sinatra, the for them. British ambassador and five 'PROPELLER IN CENTER' Supreme Court justices. JET 1''IGHTER SET Nova Hart, Sl Louis mechanic "America's reply to the ~och who was trained during service "I've been out of touch with ss monster," chortled today's in the war to spot all types of things for four or five days," nday dispatch, referring 10 he said. aircraft, said he saw one of the italn's hoariest tall story- t e rang objects near Pattonville Louis E. Starr, national com­ rpent that is "seen" romping n esterday. It was flying at 300 mander-In-chief ol the Veterans ~ otland's Loch Ness every ti e et, he said. of Foreign Wars, yesterday In Co­ the tourist trade needs a shot n He described it as circular, with lumbus, 0., said he understood the arm. a Tibbed framework and silver Spaatz had a "group out right now" looking for discs. gray In color. Hart said it ap­ peared to have a motor with a At Muroc Army Air Field In propeller attached In the center California a P-80 jet fighter stood and It kept turning like an air­ ready to take off the moment any flying saucers are sighted Jn that plane doing a slow roll. area. g f l ~ A cautious attitude marked both official and scientific co! - • ments, but Capt. Tom Brown t t~Alr Forces Public Relatlo s st ff In Washington ackno ed ed the Air Forces had decided "t re's something to t his" and ha been checking up on It for 10 days. MILWAUKEE S£NTtNn MILWAUKEE, WIS·':ONSIN o OCl ~ • • . .,. e , a.WI • , I Planes ChaSing DisKS Find Only Empty Sky --•-••"'"a,dio announcement ufti'.t 61S"­ wlf!C"\i Ciut> dusting plane was do­ were flying over Lewiston Idaho ing in the air at da,;,,a bH i-.;Iay. Sunday sent' hundreds into thei; yards for a look. Weatherman Louis , It was the first time any noise had ' been attributed to flying saucers. Krezak said the objects were mov­ J. U. Watts, jr., Darlington (S. C.) ing eastward with the prevailing attorney, said he saw an army pur­ wind and probably were •~reed seedR. sui~ plane chasing a V-formatio\l of Three air transport pilots agreed. flying saucers at 250 miles an hour Searchlights 011 Olouds 3,000 feet high. However, no pilot reported such a chase. Birmingham radio station was Jee • deluged with more th~n 400 call in Saw One With Legs Jokesters Add Some Comedy • Mystery tOAIr EaSt St• LOUIS• Qb• Prove to Be w ashers, one hour by persons who said t ey • W S saw fluorescent balls circling o er ICago Oman pots the city and clearly outlined aga st 5hne W.It h Legs near-by mountains. A carnival at Alabaster, Ala., was playing search- lights on cloud wisps. n argument raged at Lodi, Calif., Army pilots were ready Monday o r the cause of a spectacular glow for another air search for the mys­ • the sky and a roar shortly before terious "flying saucers" now report­ lectrical power went off. Mrs. W. ed seen in 39 states and parts of C. Smith said she heard a noise "like Canada as practical jokesters added to the confusion. Equipped with telescopic cam­ Give 'Em Room eras, 11 army planes searched the Pacific northwest Sunday without Newport News, Va.- Peninsula finding any trace of the flying disks airport here is taking no chance$ which had been reported over scores with flying saucers. Pilots report• of communities the preceding two ing Monday to take out planes days. At Sioux Falls, S. D., a na- ' found this notice on the bulletin tional guard plane already in the air board: ''Two thousand feet ver­ was ordered to investigate a silvery I tical and horizontal clearance re­ disk with a short tail which Gregory quired between aircraft operat­ Zimmer said he saw shoot across ing from this field and any fly• the heavens. The pilot found noth­ ing saucers." ing but empty sky. The army "camera patrol" over four motored bomber" just before the Cascade mountains Sunday in­ cluded eight P-51 pursuit ships an the lights went off at dawn. Erving Newcomb of the Pacific Gas & Elec• three A-26 bombers. tric Co. offered the explanation that Illusions Or Jokes a low flying crop dusting plane There was growing belief that the probably had struck a power lin concentrated aerial search would and b u r n e d out a transforme show the saucers to be optical illu­ However, no planes were reporte sions or the work of practical j~ke­ damaged and no one could explain stcrs magnified by aroused imagi­ nations. A number of "disks" whirled over rooftops in East St. Louis, Ill., Sun­ day. J. T. Hartley, a locomotive eneer, gathered some of them up d f o u n d they were made of p essed white paper, 11 inches in meter and with a two inch hole ln the center. Railroad workers said they looked like locomotive packing washers. By the United Press i I Me an t .i m e, 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 wrs standing on my porch and I th ught for sure it was coming right vn and slap me in the face," s~ 8 i. leorge Kuger of Denver said h 8 , a flying disk with an America fl ~ g on it. Francis Howell, Te m p e, Ariz., claimed he saw a saucer two feet in diameter disappear behind a row of trees near his home. When he ru~hed to inspect it, he said, the flat, thm, alumlnumlike disk took off at a "high r a t e 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 covered mountains. he first. of the saucers over New Y rk State was reported by Mrs. K nneth Wohley of Rochester,f,. Y who said she and her husb d saw an object "about the size of n ordinary saucer" flying above r ba_ck yard at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. I ENCLOSU L 16 • I I New Jersey residents said they I "thought" they saw flying disks over Palisades PaM and ~ear:by 1 Bergenfield Sunday night. Skeptical scientists recalled the mysterious "rockets" seen over Swe. den last year. Eighty 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 ber of persons. r. J. S. Nassau, director of the Mn" & Swu,y al th Case Institute ot Techn gy at Cleveland, said he was incl ed to "think the reports urc fanci s." Capt. Tom Brown, army air force spokesman at Washington, said the art was trying to run the reports to arth. ' e1re not dismissing the possl­ bil y that there's something to it," . he aid, "and we're not dismissing Ithe possibility that it's all a hoax." ! •"'"j'' I I • • tr. S. Planes Hunting DisCS;.Russ T~lls of ~tom Saucers' r $ I }?BJ Pr obes Story ~te ftawilan first !lsked where he could sen 18 polG'oear=t,elts which he received " for very dan­ gerou11 work." He s aid he had been assigned t o go over the route of the radio­ active cloud nea r Lake Baka! (or B aykal ) a nd pick up dead animals. of Soviet Ship Office r \LOS ANGELES, July 6-(Spe­ clal)-Federal agents today In­ vestigated a Jetter 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• i.en, e," and suggested the matter be turned over to the FBI. The letter writer !laid he got the Information from an officer aboard a Russian tanker recently Los Angeles harbor. ALL LIFE D ESTROYED I I LLED EVEN WOR:\IS ,; he Ru~slan, he said, also de· scribed experiments with con­ trolled radioactive clouds In the Arctic, where birds, animals and t\·en worms were kllled. The plane11, as described by the Rus~lan to the w riter, are only 18 Inches thick, With a kidney­ !haped outline and no propellors. The pilot lle11 on hl11 stomach ftnd Is 11.rtt!lclally cooled agal! t the beat developed by air ! c­ tlon. "The outer 11urface I'! hight ollshed,'' the Russian sal Both upper and lower surfa ces re convex, like a gia n t lens, he lilting force ls an entirely diffe rent principle found about 10 years ago among unpublls hed papers of a Russian chemist. " Ener gy Is required only for t'llmblng, but no energy Is need­ ed f or support when the air­ plane goes along the earth's gra,•ltational contour lines." The writer of t he si ange let• er said he met the R ssla n of• ICl'r in Wilmington a n because .e wan ted to hear abo Russia, wiled him to dinner. "They loaded a few 11ma ll s hips wit h a ll kinds of anima ls a nd directed t hf' cloud over the m," the writer said. "During t his experime nt, a viole nt s torm blew the cloud f ar nor t h Into the tundra, but before It dissipa ted It destroyed all life on Its way. "The cloud may be cont rolled f rom la nd, from a pla ne or f r om a robot-piloted 'leader.' '! I unders ta nd It, the control based on electr o-magnetic ave~ and the cloud has t wo m1Jonents : T he carrier and t he killer.'' • l ~. ~wJ 'ENCLO l,tECORDd E._ ,.~ h F J.~ 32 J 16 ~, l .J 60 OCT • Ouu-ks of E'fesight May Explain Disc Mystery By HOWARD BLAKESLEE AP Science Editor Nl!.."'W YORK, J uly 6-{JP)-Certain laws of human eye­ sight will explain much of what has been described about the flying saucers reported from nearly all par ts of the United States. At any distance which Is dose photograph of the oval object to tpe limit of how far a person taken by Yeoman Frank Ryman can see, all objects appear round north of Seattle, Wash. The Long or nearly so. This law of sight Island oval came closer and covers both small things seen turned Into an airplane. nearby and large ones at great Planes at great distances tend distances. to look round when light Is reRegardless of shape, the ob• fleeted from their sides. Many ject near the limit of sight looks descriptions of movements of the round. If the thing is silhouetted flying saucers flt with the com­ against a bright sky, as some of mon maneuvers of airplanes, the flying saucers have been re- singly or In groups. ported, then It Is more likely to They flt also with what birds al Its true shape. look like, flying at a consldei ble , , distance. However the bird lluslon is not very common. me VE NO STRUCTURE the thing Is seen by reflected of the maneuvering repo ted, light, as In most cases reported, which took saucers out or ght It is almost certain to be round, and back Into sight again re­ and if the reflections are sunlight, sembles what can be seen while then the sizes reported are those watching distance airplanes. which would be expected from SPEED MYSTERY distant light reflections. The one outstanding fact about There Is no explanation for re­ virtually aJI the saucers Is that ported speeds of 1,000 or more they ha<.1 no structure - they mlles a n hour. Meteors, although seemed merely round and flat. they go much faster than t hat, That description Cits exactly with do not explain It because the the tricks that eyes play. This saucers mostly appear in daytime trickiness varies with differences and there are not enough dayIn weather and lighting. light meteors. This writer has seen flying Ice crystals forming little round saucers over Long I sland Sound clouds have been suggested. But near his home, not only t his year t hese fall to flt In most cases be­ but in previous years. They were cause the Ice crystals form at round, bright and moving tasL altitudes whlch are higher than most of the saucers reported. NOT A MYSTERY Nothing published in science or But they were no mystery be- atomic studies gives the slightest cause they were light reflected clue to flying sfucers unless the from the bodies of airplanes that objectg are aircraft. soon identified themselves by One scientist today said that at cha, lng course and coming near least a lot of saucers are ex­ plained by the rorce of suggestion eno h to be seen distinctly. L t week this writer also saw which causes a pers,gn to say to one val flying form which for himself: .. a moment looked exactly llke the "Oh, gel', I !tr it too." ! I {CLO u~ ?. ~ :..f_ 16 m~ - • I 'Saucers' Fly Here; Grafton Oise Joke Other pA!lsengrrs with him also saw It, he said. He gave the name of J. W. R'r!den of D•dlt. 1'1!11plte~ So Ing. the 11&ucer was going at great speed, and waa out of sight In a few seconds, he said. Rowden I.a stoppln& at tbe Pl:tr.a Hotel. Dli-lC'S HAO TULS Erwin Rottmrn, 132S ~- 19th St., said he saw three of them with tall- flying nol'thwe•t t~ ~outhea~t. as he ~tood at N. 18th a nd W. Vliet Sts. They turned from golrl to another color and thtn to ,liver, he said. Frank Phifer, stopping at the Maryland Hotel, said he ,aw three ballii of rlre t:hoot 1 rol!~ Lakt' Michigan 11.t 8:20 last lght, arlt a mile I rom 1bor1, 1.nd "gol g at terrlfl<' s peed.'' W at he described u an Illu­ minated ~aucer was 11een last night by William Humphrey, 3148 S. 20th St., he ~aid. It was zig­ zagging directly over the Heil Co. pl11nt, said Humphrey, and seemed to land In a wooded area nearby. What wa'I rt1,orte-J u a " flying dl,c'' "hlch ..truck a c-hun•b In Grafton url) ye..tnday turnt'<I out to hf' a rlrcular aw "Ith hrn i,mall t uhl''I and Nt•veral wlr<'~ attachl'd to It. l•'alht'r Johl'llh Bra,.k), pa,tor of ~t. J osl'ph'" Church, Grafton, hold~ the ''di~<'" nd point, to t ht lli;htnln~ rod on thf' church (arrow), \\hlch 1111 ~aid was 11truck by th<' dlsc. Sonunol Pllolo l)y Ernul Anheuur. , t Ttie myl'tery of the "Clylngl• REPORTED IN JANt':~VILLE Four Janesville re!lldents re­ ported thtY had seen a flying dl~c Saturday night. They arc Mr. and Mrs. Al Sievert and Mr and Mn. Howard Roth. They saw the disc flying In a northwe11terly direction r r<> m Janesvllle at a "tf'rrlflc i.11o-.•d.'' They viewed It ror 20 minute!!. It was yellow-golden, and seemed to turn al times to a silvery color. they stated. An oval flight pattern was followed. Then, they said, t.Alls appeared on the disc and shortly aCterwards It dlsappenred. John Bo~ch, 4.377 S. Adams St.. Milwaukee, a machinist, Insisted he saw two flashing saucer11haped objects pass over Billy tchell Field shortly artl'r midght yesterday. They were ~se ough so he could cieflnltely ~ ate ey were not shoot,lng stars, o-:­ a rplanes, he said, Bosch's h me ls near the airport. Oi;7theory wa~ that prank!<te or belated Fourth oC July eel disc!<,'' 11trange luminous objects brant!I had attached explosives t seen l!peedlng \llCrol'!I Ute -ky in the 1!\llW, and sent It skimming many slates, turned to Wlscon- through U-re air. Father Brasky said he htard a Bin yesterday "hen ,everal persw~hlng ndlse and a sizzling at ,son!' reported them at Milwaukee 5 a. m., followed a second later and Jane1<vllle. with a. thud and an explosion. An nclted re:<lde,,t telephoned My~tery wa!I \lldded to mystery when Father Joseph Brasky, pas- to Billy Mitchell Field, and said tor ot St. Joseph's Church at he saw 15 flying saucers, In U Grafton, Wl!<., reported a mii,l'lle formation, heading north over hurtled through the air early yes- Granville, at 10:05 p. m. He hung terday, knocked the ball orr th,:, up beCore his name could be pro­ church lfS:htnlng rod, and landed cured. on the front lnwn. A passenger abOard a New "IRE . \:'\D TUBF.'I York-Detrolt-Mllwaukee p I an e, .:-. . . _ _....,_,lch landed at Billy Mitchell Itlwn11 a large clrculnr saw- Field at 10:05 p. m., told employes RECORDED nbo t 16 incttes In diameter-and In the office of Northwest Alr-1 1 ,. snll hut when Father Brasky lines. Inc., he saw a flying 11aucer 1 rl pick cl It from the lawn. bobbing up and down over the T re were wires and two tube!I \ airfield just arter he had alighted ~ auache,1 to It. The tubu were an from the RlaD Inch In diameter and three Inches long. ! I I J- /! / 1 "/ ~ --.-----\.,- osu 6 • ... ... t tt-A!- ++ltf­ Wl !vCY--£LL th\ 0 RE lUrui,/ ~+L \',)~ t,' <_) C€1?., ,. ---Tl • --J ' . . .E e_--- / \~ t.r- .---,---. { <;) - I "-- OU Cf\ l'V-1 .,. (::: E ~( 'ffflf t<. Ff D If \J~ ~ ' CJ\;(\_ A (;f r\/1:;· '...... ( tC ,::.. \,_°j l 1 / C f ~ c 'offH UMS'i ... I bb I 1_ I t • ,. r --, A ..l . 4111111!' STANDARD\,oRM NO. 114 • .. Olfice Memoranaum • UNITED STATES GOVERN MENT I DIRECTOR, FBI : FROM ,/& , J.[[IrlAUREE SUBJECT: July 8, 1947 DATE: TO ATTENTION: ~NG DISCS OR SAUCERS l l.IISCEIJ.JIJ1EOU'3 TELEPHONE CALL FROM l.ffi. FLETCHER AT THE BUREAU AT 8 :30 AM, 7/7/47 For the Bureau's information, United Press and Associated Press telephoned me at my residence about three or four times between 1:00 A. JJ. and 2:30 :\.. M., Jul~,1947. The United Press representative informed ne that Father JOSE RASKY had stated on interview by a Mi.1-rra.ukee Sentinel reporter, o BILL 1EEKS, (Phonetic) that he, Father BRASKY, was going to call the FBI concerning the contraption, ,mich apparently was identical with one of the flying discs recently publicized throughout the country. The United Press representative desired to lmrn'if if we had any statement to make on the natter. I infonned him that I had no official comment, other than 11 No Comment. 11 Since I have contacted the United Press representative on various occasions, I asked him w.hat the actual details were, and he stated he did not know except that the intervievr 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 IOO 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 infonned 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 con-anent I had made, and possibly so?ll3 repoz:;er -rras ~ an e11~ass~ "B,OPP.}Jon if a story had gone out over~!iffl services fP :..L.. - _ c.:L.7 - I' A 1 ) l ~ ~ECORDED - I .3 - I then teiepnoned the ll"nited }a.-essrepresentative, who apparently in the meantime had oe1en CalJ.sd'by' the Associated Press in an effort to straighten out the United Press . No reference was nade 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 rA. cJ... 1 touch with an FBI Agent whom he knows . Father BRASKY has neve~con ,' I W--tacted the .lfi.lwaukee FBI Qffice or any Agent concerning his find / 1 r:rry opinion, this is just another hoax story, si ce a p t~grap 1 ~tmr f.RA.~KY with the saw indicates no basis ~"t-J ~ e s ; . t on by • ~ny-~u onty. 11 •uJ!· :JV j))I:. , 'l ~ K J 2J,J 62-0 Enclosures - f f ft' <vi • t .- . ..,, . - , ,.. -- -::. ~ - - ~ - :..... - -::-::=.--- - ~- -~ ....... --------- , ;WS7-o A • • • ·--· -- -- r L0CATE0 IN BU s OISTRtc!-T ~!tlulh .... ... PHONE 636 HOTEL WOODSTOCK WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS -, STANDARO P0AM NO. ~ • • Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ~ ' "' , TO FROM DATE: July 11, 194? 11r. Tolson llr . E. A. 'lam K.C.Howe SUBJECT: Ck.ying !Ir. Clegg_ _ Mr . Olav1n I.Ir. Ladd=-~-_--_ _ Mr". Nl chol s Diec - :llr.: ~~= ~~--=== carso-n !Ir. Egar,=-_-_-_-_ At 10s45 PM on the evening of July n, 1947, Clerk Pierc-y of the :: ~::a Washington Field Office called and stated that at t,he im,ttruction Mr. :Mr.: ~Quinn ~ ffiilton_ Tanm Hennrich he wanted t o pass.-9Jl to the Bureau information he had just re-~~•Ne:~~m--== ceived from one Alvin B.,A"arker, 200 6th Street, Laurel, Maryland, to t he ~ l:: ~"';•­ effect that a "flyinf disc" had just landed in Parker's yard "and the _ __::-_-_-_ machinery is still buzzing." Piercy s~ted Parker was apparently so excited he had a difficult time even getting his name out, and no further detai l could be obtained from him. At l0t50 PM I passed the above information on to Captain West, duty of ficer at 0-2 wio indicat~d he htd also received the same data from another source, md 110uld pass our i nformation along to appropriate army qu.-ters. Sid Robe!"ts of the AP called at about 10: 55 PM and asked whether t he Bure~ had received any report on a nnying disc" i n Laurel Maryland. After checking with Mr. Nichols I told him we had, !"eceived s uch a report and had passed it on to army authorities. - 15 KCHsH i ' STANDARD FORM NO. 8" • • . Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERN MENT ~~o , ~- E. A, T.--.=----~ FROM DATE : July 11, D. M. LADD SUBJECT: SAC John.son 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 p. m., July 10, one Sig Hanson, City Engineer at Black River Falls, Wisconsin, had found a large 17 11 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 ::,chafer advised, however, that Hanson did not want to release the disc without FBI approval. I instructed Mr. Johnson to advise the Air Carps officer to get in touch with Colonel ~cha.fer 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. DML:cmw f EX-56 rl / •' , ,:.l°~ARD FORM NO. &I Office Mem TO • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT MR. LADD DATE: July 12, 19Jf.7Tolaon Mr. E • .l. ""''ram=-- FROM :: g½:~·-n--=--=-= Mr. Ladd F. P. GR Mr. N1cho :""l,.....e_-_-_-_-_ :: ~:~;;;:..-::_-_-_- -_ Mr. Carson SUBJECT: '-1-tYlNG DISC :> Mr. F.gan - - - ::: ~~---Mr. llelldou=-- Reference is made to Mr. Howe's memorandum to you dated July 11, in the above-captioned matter. : :~~,=-- .\~·­ } ~: =··-- At 11:55 P.M., July ll, I took a phone call from ,~ Sergeant Lonis of the Laurel, Maryland, Police Department. S e r g e ~ Lonis said that he had examined the 11 flying disc. 11 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, sor.ie v.ii.res and a buzzer. He asked if the Bureau was sending anyone out to look at it. I told him that we vrere not, that we had referred the matter to the Army, and suggested that he call them. I subsequently telephoned Captain Calvert, the Duty Officer at G-2, and passed on to him the infonn.ation f'urnished by Sergeant Lonis. FPG:jc 6 ' t \. ·- t :;iJllSfl'' -;(• 4d.:l I8j -. ' FBI DALLAS 6- 1 7 Pn 7- 8 - 4 7 /4R2CTOR A:JD SAC, CitJCI:~!MTI FLY~r.:G DISC , INFORMATION CO,,CERIJING . MAJOR CURTAN, HEADQUART[RS EIGHTH AIR EURCi:' PlJRPORTH~C IO BE A FLYING DISC WAS RE COVERED NE,AR ROSHEL L., NEIJ - i1!.:XICO , Ts1=:.!:1i.Q.!HCALLY_AD.Y.ISED THIS QF.El CLTl1t'\Ll;LQBJ~CT TH I S DATS . _ THE DI SC IS HEXAGONAL I N SHAPE AND WAS SUSPENDZD FEiT l{J DIAMETER . '.1AJOR CUP.TA:: FURTHER ADV I SED THt\ T THE OBJECT FOJND RISD:BLES A HI GH i\LTI TUDE T:J£:\THER BALLOON UI TH A RADAR REFLECTOR , BUT TEAT TELEPHOIJIC CO[,J'lERSATIOI--! nETt:EE!J THEIR OFF I CE - .. MJD 1-JRIGET FIEL D HAD NOT-altm!~t=:e~B.OruJE _QfilJJ1 I $ BEL.l~.£ . DISC AND BALLOOI~ BEH:G TRANSPORTED TO 1.JRI GHT F I ELD BY SPECI A_L PL ANE FOR EX!\MI NATI I.tJ.FORMATIO.~ !:B.Q.YI DED n:Is OFFICE :[CAUSE o:;- NATI ON.t\ L INTEREST 11 C.\~r.: _ AND FACT THAT NATI ONAL BROADCAST! tlG COi~PAt--!Y, ASSOC I ATED PRESS, Ai JD OTHERS ATTEMPTING TO BREAK STORY OF LOCATION Of. DI SC TODAY . t1AJOR CUHTAN ADV I SED UOULD REQUEST 1:JRIGHT FIEL D TO ADV I SE Ci i~CI NNATI OFF I CE RESULTS OF E":AMI NATI OfJ . NO FURTHIR INVESTIGATION BEING CONDlJC TED . .UYLY RECORDED E~lD C (':x·: ACK I1J 0~1.:: ~l: UA 9~ FBI CI !1JW BPI H8 8 - 38 Pt: O 14 ~-~ r;. c' C 7 ,Ji RcC{:/\'ED TELETYPE umr JuL 8 .8 22 PM '~l F.a.,. DEPT. or- Jusnc:: ' ,....__ a: C) ;::. ~ Q IL.I > V) "" iu z C> . -:i-- ~ ~ ... ,_ k, (.) V) 1-f ~ .... " ~u..t = CIJ a:l c N :; :.., .,';) . ;, :::,J -- U1 :::e::: 0 0- co .::r co CT) u, l ' c, ,f :.' ' "'" U, S, DEPARTMEIH OF J~"TICE GIMMUHltATIONS SECTION 1 TE~ ....,_ ,.. O.,L .t. S 7- 7 - -, 7 ,.. .: , l T •. ,"\C'' COL.. !\ J~ T::_ "ISC TO !'-..: C...J_Cf o,;E I.!C ! I.l DI ' T,_.. uY 'it C I.JC i.t:..S L01ff , SI"Ii-..I'\n :L'L.:Fy1:,,L.J,_Q,l!L 1 • 11 r r s·· r:••:o.: : :•oF;·iL ) r ~2 ..!, u ..... .... I iJ_ P,._S3 IH , .. ,: • -- .z: i-- -::r ,,. .... Cl> :;:._ ~ c:, ., - :::::, ..:::;: - .,l !.I.. o ('f\ ...J -, C" .- U\ Ln - c.. I.IJ ca I.:.) ~ w • ,~.. o .:: ::, c:: ·§: ._, ;/ ..,i;;; ci,.,, ~ ~ ~ 0 :; •'h -:; . V ..., !.) ._ - ,.._ ::: u-. ; ' & t4-5+i ,-:;,~ ~ L.t. . .:... ..: .-;/\I = -:> _o3 ll ·c.: 8 -5: ,-, Q::, a:> <:.. q} I . ,I Hocrach venue trct/J Jaroey Dear l!r,. HocrDch: Your le'tter da ""ad Ju.1u 6, 29'J7:, 1ia:J !been recctucd and I do wnt tm "than1: you Jo~ na~tn~ this in o tion cu~,1able ~o c. Your interest te cpprccta~e. 1 Sfncaraly yours., J'oh.n FRY: mjo '· MMUNICATIONS SECTION * 11 JUL 111947 P.M. MAILED agar Hoover J;tractor " • ~011Arl0 ,]VIII W UA1!iU8 J>ll3031 ! :l!TBlll W H'31i1TllA'l30 .8 ,0 CH .;.,.3': G" lylA .-REYNOLDS ' • TELEPHONE 2·141 .• ijl;qt ~ac~eunollis 305-307 ~ d !,bm:,u J\shuryz Jarh, ~.efu J).ers.e\? ..3 ~;; ~ !' ~ /1-' " / ,,,f?i,, e_ ✓e Y.f e / e:,,7 z &✓ .I. , ... -t:JIJ $ /II ' ·o .,. I j' • .J . I 8J a~/., ~~3 ~ LP, Hd OS I & I/ S3Hor .ijH • • 1:r • J . Edgar Hoover ~7ash . D. C. Doesn't it seeffi wisest for you to forbid papers - (No not forbid - but ask the co- ooeration of all papers) to keep all news ofthose discs out o~ t~e mms untfilyou- are sure just vrhat they are & uhere fran . Seens to us with all the enerri.es we have, even with:..n our borders, it could be something far more i?:ioortant than may seem at first . I had 2 sons in this war f.: anotl-ier who over- did for his .~crica - & we do want it really protected from danger fro::: now on . Enough are dead ~ maimed - '.rith- out l osing out now as it easily could be . ~-lhy have the papers carried that story if reporters were nade to see how much more sensible not to report - it excert to the F. B.I . Th.ere is too much of danger ahead anyway -­ Hastily / s/ :tJ. T. Norris 1734 Thome Ave Chicago - TRlE COFY .. ST""1>ARD FORM NO. 64 • • ' Office M emorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERN MENT TO FROM D. l'.. Ladd r.O :rt?~ Jr:.,,, ! H. B. Fletc}1er D ATE: Ill', Tol oon•...-=,--111'. E. J., 'ram ::: gi!~'=-n--=-== July u , 1947 :: :ti~~:....1-. - - :: ~:~:=-~-=~- ==- SUBJECT: C)E.'LYING DISC~~ Ill'. caraon::_ lll' , r.«an kl' . Ourn""" ••·===== Ill'. Harbo lll'. Hendo·.n: ..-; ;;;:::== ::: ~~,=-SAC Bannist=~~! the Butte Office· called at noon today and ~~:~~-- ---_stated that a Mrs. Fr sterbrook, 215 7th Avenue East, Twin Falls, ~ aa oaniy , , , Idaho, at 2: 45 a . m. Mountain Time today heard a noise in the back of . - -- ( her home. She thought a collision had occur red and invest:i@ted and found in the back yard of the home next door an object described as follows : kl~ A disc JOi11 in diameter, circular in shape, it is dished like a /"..-..- ~ saucer and actually there is a saucer within a saucer in the manner of "L cymbals . On one surface there is attached a plastic dome described as about 1411 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 col or, which looks like tin. Through the plastic dome can be observed three tubes similar to radio tubes and there is some wiring. The disc generally is 1011 thick and at the point where the domes are located about 1411 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 vnring 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 vras now at the Pol ice Department, Twin Falls, Idaho. He was instructed to notify the local Army authorities of the existence of this disc. t HBF: FES t.A·ti5 a • % ...--ro ·-0 0 <J) ::> ..:-.: ~ .... -· _o C'\.: ·::c~ c::, a:: r-- .... ~4 - 0 (.) .!.I a: a:I 4 -' .. J ~ 1~usnr iO ·.1d30 ·, • I 8 ;i ll1, Wd 60 g 91 li ll3i\1303b N011'.J3S NOSl'll1 03Al303tl I • ' ~~ ,.,_~-mo- • ·orr1"73 R 1/ 1 i r i o t o 11~ 0 ~ ff /r o.cknC11rlod[" r c c e l p t . or your l t ? t t cr r,qatr.: r · , c d J u q 7 , l 9 L 7 . !o nti contmned thoro1n s bef,n care~ re'1'1mrcd n'ld ie c r.ado V a mi.ttcr or eromont rccord ir. thn .fUoa of tbie r w . Yo-..ir interest .in ~ t.\ne tu1 ;rou did ~ s 1ndftod apprcc:1.G.ted. In tful .future aho!1ld you 1nr_o:,nntiml wh( ch ~ti fc-01 mflht be ot intcreot to tni a Bu u yq • t!!.J:ht f1r.d i t convoniont. tQ cont.net t he Spcci nl A,rcnt 1n Cbarc• ot 0 1·r Chl c: gp Ol'fic , mi.ch 1o l.oaat.od t l,900 lknkcm' uil.d:1.n,, Ch1 aato .3• lllinot:,. Sine Nll;,yours, '" ~ John~~ Hoover Directer . • There io no 1denti.t:1ablc in!o:m.nticn in the Bureau's cc - Chicago ~:1.t~om:t~. tiles concerning tho writer of t111e letter. Doop!to tho fa.ct that this letter refers t o "flyir.g diacs", it is not believed t h:l.t the Wormation furniohed is QUi"ficiently importa."lt to refer to M.nry authorities.) WVOrWMJ • • • - • STANDARD FORM NO. 64 • Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO MR.LADD~ FROM Roy E. Wood /v'; SUBJECT: ~J • q DATE: July 10, 12~zl11on ~ llr, E. A, tam 11r, Clegg -- V .YJNG SAUCERS ( DISCS) INFORMA TI ON CONCERUNG : : o~vln llr , N llr, Ro llr. Tr a n y : : ~anon._ __ Irr. Ournca._ __ l::: l:n0~·-n- - llr. Pennington llr, Quinn Tami-- -~, Tele . Roo•--=== At 5:45 AM this date, SAC Hood telephonically contacted the : ;/·•~H~ j~==== Bureau and advised at approximately 11:30 PM, July 9, 194?, the office._.';:.~•~•-u-~ ~~::;~---in Los Angeles had received infonnation from the Resident Agent at Bur,California, that a "flying disc" had landed in or near Burbank and ha been seen to burst into .thme when it landed. Further, that it had been the cause of a fire in some woods, t his fire eithe!' in Burbank or possibly in the cit.-.­ limits of Los Angeles, which Mr. Hood could not be certain. The fire chief at Burbank had called the resident agent at Burbank and told him he w:>uld hold the disc for him. Coincident with the information received from Burbank, the Los Angeles Office received c~lls from the newspapers requesting information. The newspape:-e 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 intendt,d to publish this quotation and belabor same in their firs'tissues. Mr. Hood stated that he had refrained f r om making any statement to the press other than to admi.t possession of '4n 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 disc about 2 1 in diameter weighing about ten pounds, painted with al uminum paint and having some sort of a radio tube in the center of the disc. This object was in possession of the resident agent at Burbank and would be turned over to military authoritig~ (G- 2) in Los Angeles this morning. '1 ~ RECORDED .J. - J / -I -~v Mr. Hood's purpose in ca~li ng was to pl ace tne Bureau on notice regarding the above described object and any further information would be transmitted to the Bureau at once. &? Act ion: None indicated. HE'!f:da ~ ' u 1.1 .S. DEP1. OF JUSTh,t JuL IO IO J1 AH '47 R£CEtVEo- rA !ff.t FB . u.s. iJEPr, OF~usr1:..·c JuL IO r I)I.·. 9 15 AH 14 ,~'(,,'\) .,~ r- •~\Ji= JUS. Hc,c -.>t,.\ ~ \ I 0.\ . ,,,t. "~ " It. 28 PM 'it -l NICA,. ~" e:,v n.¥--f.,>c; \ \ H~" VL 17 .\BORA IOR ' .-• B .I.T · r . .J , I. ~ i,\>. tECEIVFI S. Of:PT 0~ ·/UST!r.F. \ ,e. 'V ..~ ~'\ · \)"' ·vy;. I .. , ) I • -. - u. s. o~i:,- ..,_ ,"l¥- ... • "•' ..~ --,,­ £:CT!nN l•Ut p:. -? 16 n1 '~7 c!;.~(c; n ~ 7 - t ...... • SIDE VI~ BOTTOM VIEW ... .. TOP VIEW ;~:bJft;;M Memorfndum • UNITED STA' S GOVE~NMENT Director, FBI ~M SUBJ ECT: A DATE : July 17, 1947 SAC, Los Angeles J RECOVERY OF 11-FLilNG DISC" - ., .OORTH HOLLYV.00D, CALIFORNIA, JULY 9, 1947 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 disc 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 appr0ximately 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. 11 The "flying di~c" ~hereafter turned over to Major COURTNEY VI. HEMPSTEAD, A.C . , G-2, F;<Srt Mac hur, San Pedro, California, who subsequently reported that the J:>1>-ject w definitely a hoax. and under no circumstances could have flown under its own power. 7 • .:::..:,1s111 :11, .1.a:1u ~ d 10 t.., ., • Director, FBI Re: July 17, 1947 RECOVERY OF "FLYING DISC" , NORTH HOLLY'/K)OD, CALIFORNIA, JULY 9, 1947 On the following day, July 10, 1947, one FRANK v.'"1moWN, 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 ~bove information was also furnished to the G-2 Office at San Pedro, California. MMB:MGM 100-9099 ENC. (3) I \ - 2 - • STANDARD FORM NO. 6' • Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT )' TO Director• FBI SAC. Butte ~OM SUBJECT: 0 FLilNG DISCS ,.. Mr. DA'VE-'":1'0HNSON• 0£ tba Idaho Daily Sta:tesman. Boise., Idaho, tel~­ phonically contacted the Butte Office and asked if the FBI was checking on the £lying discs reported to have been seen by many oitizens. 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 Sun Vall~ Idaho., by reputable oitizens. • /'I'-"' ,.,._ --­ p-..!!a ~ The writer informed Mr. JCIDlSON that this of'.fice was not making an investigation and inquired as to whether he had contacted A.nrry and NaV--.f oi'fioials. He said tha.t he was inquiring of these agencies. • WGB:LB AIR MAIL ✓ AUG 5 \\1947 f<fCt/llf{) 'JL 1 /0 S4 41,f ', 'Ni£R"/L SEcuRrr "I ~ , . 8. I, r "' t- , , ... • • ttLll:HAL BUREAU OF INVESTlliATION U, S, 0£1'ARTr1'!fl TOF JUSTICE r.mAMUNIGATIOHS SECTION JUL 16 1947 - ~ TELETY . 7- 1 - .., 7 -. .... C: ... . ~ •~ r-r -·. - . ....... - --- .' . . .. . I 1.. 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I ,v .I . r L. • ... ... •'-' ... • l H•'-' ... _ . i \ . • 911nr \. lltlr • • PO::SES~IC, ..., .,.... c:; I s::.11 L... • • .- ,-. c:r.; .. ...., c:.. ' ,- STANDA1<0 FORM NO. 64 ! Office Memor ndum • UNITED ST. ,ES GOVERNMENT DIRECTOR., FBI SAC, NEW HAVEN SUBJECT: 'J "FLYillG SAUCERS" EDWIN M....-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., Jr•• 6 Home Court, Stam.f'ord., Connecticut, appeared at the Sta.mrord Resident Agent's office and furnished the following informationallr. BAILEY prefaced his remarks by stating that he is a scientist by occupation and is currently employed at the American Cyanamia Research Laboratories on West Ma.in Street in Stam.ford, Connecticut., in the ~ice 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