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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

JUL 16 1947

TELETYPE

10 15 AM

FBI SEATTLE
DIRECTOR

7-16-47

URGENT

RE: FLYING DISKS. MRS. T. L. KREMMER, TWO SIX NAUGHT EIGHT DASH TWENTY THIRD AVE., WEST, SEATTLE, REPORTED FLYING DISK HAD LANDED ON about NINE FORTY TWO PM LAST NIGHT, THAT IT WAS BURNING AT IMMEDIATELY EXTINGUISHED. SHE ALSO ADVISED ONI, AND DISK FELL SHORT about NINE FORTY TWO PM LAST NIGHT, THAT IT WAS BURNING AT IMMEDIATELY EXTINGUISHED. SHE ALSO ADVISED ONI, AND DISK FELL SHORT distance from their offices. AGENTS IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED TO SCEN and RECOVERED DISK TAKEN ONI OFFICES AND EXAMINED BY NAVY BOMB AND ELECTRONICS EXPERTS AND AGENTS. DISK DESCRIBED AS ABOUT TWENTY EIGHT INCH CIRCULAR PIECE THREE SIXTEENTH INCH PLYWOOD COPPED UP ON TWO SIDES AND HELD THIS POSITION BY WIRE ACROSS ITS CENTER. DISK NEWLY PAINTED LIGHT GRAY OUTSIDE AND RED INSIDE, AND INSIDE OF DISK WAD PRINTED LETTERS IN WHITE PAINT AS FOLLOWS QUOTE U.S.S. R. UNQUOTE, ALSO QUOTE E. Y. R. UNQUOTE, WHICH WOULD APPEAR TO BE RYE PRINTED BACKWARD and a HAMMER AND SICKLE. MOUNTED ON PIECES OF BAKELITE IN THE CENTER of the inside of the disk WERE TWO RADIO TUBES, WHICH WERE WIRED UP and also so MOUNTED WAS ABOUT A QUART TYPE CYLINDRICAL SHAPED OIL CAN TO WHICH WAS FITTED A SHORT PIECE OF RUBBER TUBING RUNNING FROM CAN TO ENTRANCE TO A PIECE OF ONE INCH PIPE ABOUT FOURTEEN INCHES LONG. THE PIPE EXTENDED THROUGH THE DISK AND AT THE OUTER END OF THE PIPE WAS ABOUT A SIX INCH PIECE OF CLOTH, WHICH WAS WOUND ABOUT AND STUCK INTO THE END OF THE PIPE. THE ENDS OF THIS CLOTH WERE CHARRED FROM BURNING. THE CLOTH WAS SATURATED WITH SOME SUBSTANCE

RECORDED

62-83894-26

INDEXED

FX-57

cc: Mr. Ladd

58 AUG 1 1947

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