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Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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DATE: July 11, 194?
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11r. Tolson
llr. E. A. 'lam
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Clegg
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Mr. Olav1n
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SUBJECT:Ck.ying Diec -
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At 10s45 PM on the evening of July n, 1947, Clerk Pierc-y of the :: ~::a
Washington Field Office called and stated that at t,he im,ttruction Mr.
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Mr. Quinn Tanm
Hennrich he wanted t o pass.-9Jl to the Bureau information he had just re--
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ceived from one Alvin B.,A"arker, 200 6th Street, Laurel, Maryland, to t he ~l::~"';•­
effect that a "flyinf disc" had just landed in Parker's yard "and the
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machinery is still buzzing." Piercy s~ted Parker was apparently so excited he had
a difficult time even getting his name out, and no further detai l could be obtained
from him.
At l0t50 PM I passed the above information on to Captain West, duty officer
at 0-2 wio indicat~d he htd also received the same data from another source, md
110uld pass our i nformation along to appropriate army qu.-ters.
Sid Robe!"ts of the AP called at about 10:55 PM and asked whether t he
Bure~ had received any report on a nnying disc" i n Laurel Maryland. After
checking with Mr. Nichols I told him we had, !"eceived s uch a report and had passed
it on to army authorities.
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