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Office Memor dum ¢ UNITED cM GOVERNMENT ro: De Me LADD FM FROM : J. P. COYNE (ez) / SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS FLYING DISCS Reference is made to the memorandum to you from the Liaison Section dated July 21, 1947, setting forth a request from Colonel Golbranson of the Intelligence Division of the War Department for the Bureau to conduct investigation to determine the origin of the flying discs. OBSERVAT IONSs It is felt that the situation regarding these flying saucers and flying discs is very similar to the situation which was previously encountered by the Bureau during the past war in handling complaints arising out of the sighting of Japanese baloons. You will recall that at the inception of these complaints the Bureau conducted considerable investigation and located numerous baloons as a cooperative measure for the Army and that after considerable work had been done, the Army then informed that these were military weapons and that they would take over the handling of these completely. This they did and in an extremely short time issued a big press release as to the splendid work of the Army in locating these Japanese baloons. From the information available thus far, it does not appear that these discs should be treated other than as a I military weapon. Certainly the Bureau has no way to determine what experiments} / / the Army and Navy are conducting and whether such might be arising out of \ experiments being conducted by them nor do we have any way of determining how | far the Russians have progressed in certain experiments and whether such mi ght be the results of experiments by the Russian Army. It short, it would cértat appear that this is a military situation and should be handled strictly by military authorities. re / In this connection it might be pointed out that our present Portland case arose out of the fact that two Army Intelligence officers were returning from an interview of two individuals who reportedly had seen flying discs. If ithe Army Intelligence officers are handling some of these interviews, it is be- fie d that they should be handling all of these interviews, and it is not believed that the Bureau should be expending its precious manpower on these com- plaints which thus far have no connection with our Russian espionage program. The military authorities certainly are better equipped to kn t they are looking for than we are and have more facilities for handlin any material which it is necessary to examine as a result of its being reported as a remant of a )flying dis: t is believed that the Bureau is merely playing bird-dog for the Arny by us: our manpower to run out these complaints on flying discs oS. In view of the recent Bureau Bulletin #42 dated July 305 1905 hoviver, there is attached a letter to the Chicago Office asking thatQWe$EBondul@t 7t he requested investigation. y/ ~ Attachment Be ROS mae X€