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+ * STANDARD FORM } “ = Gffice Memorandum + onirep ¢_..._3 GOVERNMENT DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: August 12, 1947 JX FROM osha, MILWAUKEE SUBJECT: | COF Q ESTROYED 2 270 NOV 18 1964 (4 YING DISCS SABOTAGE Reference is made to Bureau Bulletin No. 42, Series 1947, dated July 30, 1947, Section (B), which advises that all reports concerning flying discs should be investigated by field offices. Prior to the receipt of these instructions, two instances were Called to the attention of this office concerning flying discs. One report was received July 7, 1947, the details of which are set forth in Milwaukee letter to the Bureau dated July 8, 1947, entitled, "Flying Dises or Saucers, Miscellaneous, Telephone Call from Mr. Fletcher at the Bureau at 8:30 a.m., 7-7-47." No investigation was conducted concerning this report. The second report was received by this office at 1:20 p.m. July 11, 1947, from Lieutenant Colonel HARRY W. SCHAEVEX, who is in charge of the Civil Air Patrol of Wisconsin, an auxiliary of the Army Air Forces. On that occasion Colonel SCHAEFER, calling fron Black River Falls, Wisconsin, telephonically advised this office that an object in the shape of a ic, nineteen inches in diameter had been found July 10, 1947, by one SIG SON, city electrician on the Jackson County fairgrounds, near Black River Falls, Wisconsin, about 3:30 Pele The disc might be made of a substance such as cardboard covered ba silver airplane dope material. The contraption has a small wooden tail like a rudder in the back and inside of the disc is what appears to be an ROA photoelectric cell or tube. Also inside the disc is a little electric motor with a shaft running to the center of the disc. At one end of the shaft is a very small propeller. In Colonel SCHAEFRR's opinion that contraption might possibly have been made by some juvenile. Colonel SCHAEFER stated that he desired to return the contraption to Milwaukee and eventually turn it over to the Army Air Forces, but that the finder, SIG HANSON, apparently wanted to get some publicity on his find and wanted it returned to him. This information was telephonically called to the attention of Assistant Director De M. LADD of the Bureau on July 11, 1947. Subsequently, SAC H. Ke JOHNSON telephoned Colonel FRED SIEBERT in charge of Counter Intelligence, Fifth Army, Chicago AC of S G2 Headquarters Fifth Army, East Hyde Park Aveme, Chicago, Illinois, who stated he would contact Colonel SCHAZFER of Black River Falls, Wisconsin. No further investigation was conducted in this matter. GS