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S GOVE~NMENT
Director, FBI
DATE :
July 17, 1947
SAC, Los Angeles
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SUBJECT:
RECOVERY OF 11FLilNG DISC"
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.OORTH HOLLYV.00D, CALIFORNIA,
JULY 9, 1947
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On the evening of July 9, 1947, a report was received at the Los
Angeles Office that a so-called "flying disc" had landed in the vicinity .of
Radford and Magnolia Streets in North Hollywood, California, the contraption
being briefly described as approximately 30 inches in diameter, all metal,
disc shaped, and having a radio antenna. It was reported to have burst into
flames upon landing. At the time of the report the disc was being held at
the Valley Fire Department in Van Nuys, California.
SA RICHARD D. AUERBACH went to the fire department immediately at
which time it was found that a number of people had gathered including news­
paper reporters and photographers who were taking pictures of the disc.
Battalion Fire Chief WALLACE E. NEWCOMB advised Agent that at approximately
10:30 P.M., an unknown woman called on the telephone and excitedly reported
that the disc had dropped into her garden where it began to flame, her
residence being located at 11858 Magnolia Boulevard, North Hollywood.
A
fire department truck was sent there and put out the flaming object with the
fire hose, after which the object was taken to the fire station. SA AUERBACH
thereafter arranged to transport the disc to the office.
The device is briefly described as consisting of two convex steel
discs approximately 2 feet in diameter, fused together at the outer edge
and fastened together in the center by a hollow cylindrical connection. A
vertical galvanized iron fin was screwed to the top of the disc, and a short
length of pipe closed at one end ran from the outer circumference into the
interior of the contraption.
What appeared to be a radio tube was installed
in the center of the top side.
The contraption had a total weight of
appr0ximately 20 pounds.
At the Bureau Office a series of photographs were taken of the
device from various positions, and a set of these photographs are being
forwarded herewith for the Bureau' s inspection and information.
The "flying di~c" ~hereafter turned over to Major COURTNEY VI. 117
HEMPSTEAD, A.C . , G-2, F;<Srt Mac
hur, San Pedro, California, who subsequent­
ly reported that the J:>1>-ject w
definitely a hoax. and under no circumstances
could have flown under its own power.