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STANDARD FORM NO. 64
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Office Memorandum + vn:

TO : ) Director, FBI - Attention; Assistant
Director D. M. LADD
SAC, San Francisco

suBjEcT™ \) FLYING DIscs _—

ference is made to my letter to the Bureau dated July 28, 1947
_ entitled as above forwarding a copy of a report furnished to me by Lieutenant
‘\ Colonel DONALD SPRINGER, A-2, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California, set~-
ting forth the results of inquiries made by his office sensereine the reported
or of flying discs.

As of further interest to the Bureau in this regard, ae RET.
mitted herewith photostatic copies of three letters dated August 4, 1 a7
entitled "Investigation of Flying Dises," furnished to ms by Major WILLIAM R.
GRAHAM, Deputy AC of S, A-2, Army Air Forces, Hamilton Field, California, who is
acting in the absence of Lieutenant Colonel SPRINGER, enclosing copies of reports
of additional reported sightings of flying discs by persons in Oregon and Arizona, —
together with the results of their investigations in that regard.

It is noted that these investigations were conducted prior to the
time Bureau instructions were issued that our own Bureau would conduct inguiries

into the reported sightings of flying discs.
Copies of these reports are being forwarded to 6 Portl a

Phoenix Offices for the completion of their files in connection with this subject.

HMK semb

Enclosures = 3

cc Portland (with enclosures - 3)
Phoenix (with enclosures - 3)

» SS ANDARD FORM NO, 64

f Office Memorandum + vuNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO “ : DIRECTOR; FBI DATE: August 13, 194’

Yohom : SACs NEWARK

SUBJECT: FLYING DISC REPORTED AT
HACKENSACK, NEW JERSEY
AUGUST 3, 1947 — MISCELLANEOUS

Reference is made to tne teletype from the Newark Division
to the Bureau dated August 4, 1947 stating tnat a "Flying Disc" had
been reported to been seen at Hackens , New Jersey on August 3
last by one CHARLESYWASELIA, JR. and TELIAIRUEX.

CHARLES CASELLA, JKk., 287 Euclid Avenue, Hackensack, upon
interview by Special Agent ARTHUR F. WILLIAMS of this Division, stated
that on August 3 he had been standing with WILLIAM TRUEX, a soldier
stationed at Fort Dix, observing a "ham" radio rig atop a two-story
house on Simons Avenue, Hackensack. It was approximately 7:45 pom,
and they were in this vicinity for the purpose of meeting TRUEX's
girlfriend, one JOYCE Mc FAXLAND.

TRUEX commented to CASELIA that a child had apparently
lost its balloon. VUASELLA looked and about a block or a halt block
away noticed a round, black object moving from south to north and
east of the stop wnere he and TRUEX were standing. CASELIA noticed
that it was moving too fast to be an ordinary balloon, but he could
not discern whether it was globular in form or a disc. He said it
was about thirty to forty inches in diameter moving north in a hori-
zontal plane about two hundred yards above the top of the hill at
Summit Avenue and Simons Avenue. It proceeded at a steady rate,
emitted no rays, and was moving fast enougn to require them to turn…