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Qffice Memorandum •. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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: Director, FBI
DATE: August 8, 1947
: SAC, Norfolk
CT: I FLYING DISCS
Re Bureau Bulletin No. 42, dated July 30, 1947,
Series 1947, wherein information is set forth pertaining to
flying discs.
There is enclosed with this letter a newspaper
clipping from the "Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch", dated July 9, 194-7.
The photograph appearing on this clipping is a.lleged to represent
a flying disc which was observed by BILLH'URRENTINE, a Norfolk
school boy, who was successful in photographing the object with
his small camera.
BILLY was interviewed on August 8, 1947 by Special
Agent (A) THOMAS J. OONNOR, at which time BILLY informed that the
original negative was given by him to a Mr. BROWN of the Photo
Craftsman Service, who in turn furnished the negative to the
International News Service. BILLY advised that he has an agree­
ment with.Mr• .BROffl whereby the latter will. share equally in any
profits derived frpm the use of the negative by conmercial firms
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or newspapers. As of August 8, 194-7 BILLY has notreceived any
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remuneration for the use of this negative.
He informed that he was sitting on the front porch
of his apartment which is located on the third floor at 410 West
14th Street, Norfolk, Virginia, around noontime on July 8, 1947.
He had re~ numerous newspaper articles pertaining to flying discs
and decided to sit on his front porch in the hopes of seeing one
and attempting to photograph it. On July 8, 1947 BILLY observed
a large, b~ack object moving rapidly through space proceeding from
the southwest to a northeast direction. He said the black object
was foUowed by two smaller objects which also proceeded in the
same direction. BILLY explained that the objects were moving at
a very fast speed which appeared to him to be much faster than
the speed of an airplane, and further, that the objects appeared
to be extremely high.
He said that they were much higher than the
average plane travels in the City of Norfolk and appeared to be
above the clouds, and that a white mist followed e~ch of the three
objects. BILLY was \lllable to state what the black objects repre­
sented, but admitted that they could have been large balloons.
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indicated that he has observed small, toy balloons flying through
the air, but that definitely these were not the toy type bal loons.
He said that when he first observed the objects they werekat'i"s_ych,
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a great distance from him that it was not necessary that ~--raise
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his head in order to see them from his porch on the third n-oor-
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of the apartment building.
He iomediately turned around tQ. oote.in .
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