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Office Memorandum • uNJ. / FROM SAC, San Francisco SUBJEC frLTING DISCS Reference is made to my letter to the Bureau dated July 28, 1947 entitled as above forwarding a. copy of a report f'urnished to me by Lieutenant Colonel DONAU) SPRINGER, A-2, Fourth .Air Force, Hamilton Field, California, set­ ting forth the results of inquiries made by his office concerning the reported As ot further interest to the Bureau in this regard, theii(..~ v--v: mitted herewith ghotos~atic copies of three letters dated August 4, 19 entitled "Investigation of FlyiDg Discs," furnished to ma by Major WILLIA){ R. GRAHAH, Deputy AC of S, A-2, A.rJq Air Forces, Hamilton Field, California, who is acting in the absence of Lieutenant Colonel SPRINGER, enclosillg 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 inquiries into the reported sightings of flying discs. ~- ~ Copies of these reports a.re being forwarded to ortl and Phoenix Offices for the completion of their files in connection with this subject. oc Portland (with enclosures - 3) Phoenix (with enclosures - 3)

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Office Me orandum SAC' NEi'fARK SUBJECT: !"LYING DISC H.EPOR'.IED AT HACKENSACK, NEW JERSEY Reference is made to tne teletYPe from the Newark Division to tne Bureau dated August 4, 194'7 stating tnat ''Flying Disc" had been repor ted to n~ ~een seen at HacKens;st!New Jersey on August J last by one CHARLES~E6 LIA, JR. and ',VILLIAJ..~UEX. CHARI.E0 CASELIA, JH., 287 Euclid Avenue, Hackensack, upon interview by Special Agent AR'IHUR F. WILLIAMS of this Division, stated that on Au~st J he had been standing with WILLIAM 'IRUEX, a soldier stationed at Fort Dix, obser ving a 11ham11 radio rig atop a two-story house on Simons Avenue, Hackensack. It was approximately 7:45 p.m., and tney were in this vicinity for t he purpose of meeting 'IRUEX1s girlir ieno, one JOYCE Mc FA!t.IAND. 'IRUEX commented to CASELIA that a chil d had apparently lost its balloon. <.;ASELLA looked and about a block or a hal1' block away noticed a rouna, black object moving from south to north and east of the stop wnere he and 'IRUEX were standing. CASELIA noticed tnat it was moving too fast to be an ordinary balloon, but he could not discern wnether 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 aoove the top of the nill at Sumnu.t Avenue and Simons Avenue. I~ proceeded at a steady ra~e, ellll.tted rio rays, and was moving fast enougn to reqUl.I'e tnem to turn tneir heads steadily in order to follow· it. 'IRUEX1s girlfriend came out about fifteen seconds after they first sighted it. They pointed it out to her, and she said that it looked like a bird on tne horizon so small. It faded out of sight shortly thereafter. CASELIA said that a line drawn along its apparent course of f .ligb.t would go from the vicinity of Bentlix, New Jersey to a point west of Westwood, New CASE.LIA also said tna~ a man on tne porch across tne street also noticed it and pointea it out to tne women. CASELIA said that this man seemed excited but did nothing about it. CASELLA. said tna~ he was positive it was no optical illusion. He was not facing into tne sun and saw tne object clearly. He also said tnat ne would have thought no~ning of it except ror the speed at which it was traveling. u coPrEs DES~ntf:lf ED

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Ultter to Bureau August 13, 1947 Miss JOYCE Mc FARIAND, 476 Simons Avenue, upon interview by Special Agent WILLIAMS, stated th.at the event in question occurred at about 7:30 on tne evening of Sunday, August 3. She said thai::. she was in the house when CASELIA or '.IRUEX ca.Lled to her. She went out immediately, and they pointed out the object in question. She saw it just before it disappeared over tne horizon, but she declared that it was in view from that time for appro:x:i.mately one minute. She said it was round and silver-blue in color and appeared to be revolving. She said that she did not recall making any comment that. it nught have been a bird and herself had no idea of wnat it coUJ.d be. In view of tne distance from which she noticed it, she said tnat it could not have been more than six inches in diameter but would have been mucn larger iI. she had been near to it. Miss :Mc FAH.IAND said that sne had never seen anything like it berore. She said that across tne street the BOOTHS, mother and daughter, were the only people sitting on tne porcn and she, herself, did not notice anyone pointing toward tne ooject in question. The only other person around, to her knowledge, was GLORIA '.IRUEX, sister of WILLI.AM '.IRUEX, wno remained in tne house and did not see the ooject at all. Mrs. WINFIELD S. BOOTH, 459 Simons Avenue, stated that she was on tne porch on tne evening in question with her mother but did not notice any unusual object in the sky nor had any man been present tnere to point out the object in question. The follovdng information was received from 'IRUEX through interview by Special Agent T. H01'lARD WALDRON: talion, 47tn Infantry Regiment, 9th Division, Fort Dix, New Jersey, adVised he was born ~pr1112, 1930 at Jersey Cit.y, New Jersey and completed eight and one nalf' years of school. He enlisted in tne United States Army on May 29, 194?. His mother is Mrs. CEA.CE FI~LDS of 88 Wales Avenue, River Ectge, Bergen County, New Jersey. 'IRU~X stated thai::. on Sunday, August 3, 1947, at 8:00 p.m., he was standing