FBI File 62-HQ-83894
FBI file from July-August 1947 compiling public correspondence, newspaper clippings, and internal memos regarding the nationwide "flying saucer" phenomenon. Includes witness reports from Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Texas, and official commentary on the events.
Extracted images
Images flagged by the classifier as photographs, maps or sketches.
A political cartoon depicts a man resembling Stalin playing a violin over a crying baby in a cradle labeled 'WORLD UNREST'.
A man, identified in other clippings as Father Joseph Brasky, holds a large circular saw blade.
A man in a military uniform kneels under the wing of an airplane.
A group of four people (one man, three women) appear to be in conversation.
What was reported as a "flying disc" which struck a church in Grafton early yesterday turned out to be a circular saw with two small tubes and several wires attached to it. Father Joseph Brasky, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Grafton, holds the "disc" and points to the lightning rod on the church (arrow), which he said was struck by the disc. -Sentinel Photo by Ernest Anheuser.
Side view of a metallic, disc-shaped object with a large vertical fin attached to the top.
Top or bottom view of a metallic, circular object with triangular cutouts around the perimeter and a central hole.
Photograph showing the bottom view of a circular, metallic object, likely the 'flying disc' recovered in North Hollywood, California.
Bill Turrentine (right) with Ledger-Dispatch reporter George Herbert (left).
Photograph of a flying disc taken by Bill Turrentine.
EXHIBIT I: A dark, elongated, slightly curved object against a light background.