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Pi iest Finds ‘Whirring’ Dise
In Yard and Holds It for FBI

Chicago, July 6 W.P).—A Catho-
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fonight that a round, wmetal tse.)

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after a military plane made an

Wis, said’ Yet abo ut the

FBI office said he hadn't heard
he dise but that an offi-

cial report mi Tat his office.
he flying or have been re-
ported “seen” by persons in 30

it Brasky's dise was the
first one that actually had been
found—if that is what we found.
His report came @ few hours

afton, 5 unsuccessful speed dash in an. ate

ofth of Milwaukee, said he;

swishing and whirring)

noise this morning. A second later,

he said, he heard a thud and a
jmild explosion.

He investigated and found a
\sheet metal dise about 18 inches in}
\diameter, resembling a circular,
igaw blade.
| “The object .still was warn,
weighed about four or five pounds!
jand was about one eighth of an
inch thick,” he said.

There was a hole about one
linch in diameter in the middle of
the dise, he said, and in the open-
ling were “gadgets and some
| wires.” .

The priest said he did not know!
if his discovery were important}

- whether it might be an elab-

wate practical joke. He said he
had_ notified the FBI_of his snd.
H. K. Johnson of the Milwaukee

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JUL 7

tempt to track dowr one of the
dises and the Army and scientisis|
sought to ascertaul W hether coas*|
to-coast reports about the discs
zooming through the sky were fact)
or fancy. j

Army planes scoured the north-|
west Pacific skies for them without]
success today and one “eyewitness” |
even reported having seen one of
the dises take off in Arizona. A
St. Louis railroad man exhibited
some paper “dises” he said he had
seen floating over St. Louis. i

The flying saucers which have.
been reported skimming through
America’s skies at speeds up to

1200 miles have eluded the usual-
ly keen eye of radar.

Capt. Tom Brown of the Army
Air Forces public relations st t

See SAUCERS, Page 3, Col.

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— Coen Tae —
BY SPECIAL MESSENGER
August 5, 1947

Director of Intelligence

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 Investigation

FRED R. REIBOLD

There are attached hereto copies of a letter received from the
above-captioned individual, together with copies of a newspaper stipping
enclosure, concerning "flying discs."

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Mx. Reibold's letter has been acknowledged and-he has been advised

that gopies of his letter have been furnished to you for your consideration.

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