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August a, 1947
FLYmG 'DISCS
Ini'o:nnation was received fl-om the n>w Chemical Company, lfidlona,
Michigan, that on July 10, 194?, one ~m:md »3:ward Lane, an ~loyce of'.
Dow Chem.cal Company since about 1922., brouetit some mater~ to theu­
J'hy:sics laboratory.
He stated that about 5:15 p .m. , July 9, he and h1.s
wife, Leura, were l'ralking in a !ield. when they heard a pll.ff noise about
one hundred feet e:vrgy.
ThEU turned and saw n ball of -white about the size
of a b.lshel basket blming appr(>ximate'.cy a foot ott of the fll'OU.lld.
The fire
died out immediately and 'later Lane scooped up a three inch areu of l\iaod
eand into a can tor examination at -their labora1:,<>u.
Upan irtterv:Lew t,y FBI Aeents, ~nd told subetantio;Lly the sam.a
story, blt lira. Lane was reluctant to talk and rveey indefin1te o.bou.t what
hnppcned. There were marked discrepancies in thoir stories.
Lbw authorities oonsidered the .story- tantastic but have exailltned
the mateial and state contents ares ordinary ~and, not radio active, rut
,gt'Ving orr amm:>nia caoJ a StlalJ. silver nugget nlir.ost pure excep1;, for sand
m.xcd in it, not radio active; molted or fused eand "ffllioh gives off ru:imonia
odor and little droplets of silver melted in sand and soI!le gr~sh color
caterial which is radio active.
The level of radio activity 1n this znaterinl
is ext.rei:iely· low.
An emplczy-ee of Dow, formerly employ,ed by the Oovern.men.t at
Los Alanxls Project, stated tho fused B£Uld luus some characteristics of Los Alnnx:,s
sand but he does not believe it 1o the same.
Raym:,nd Lane ia lmom to have in his possesSion a ~
quantity of
luJiilnouo pa1nt, radio active, to be an llr.lateur photographer and to have a
limited knowledge of chem!.ctry and ,Ph;;lfaics,
He io described na very peculiar,
aurl~•, antagonistic to plant protection o.rticars and interested 'ill photography
and olectric1ty.
Lane ie rrhito, wns b::>ni ~
7, 1902, at Freesoil, W.ohigan.
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He is 5 '
, weighs 145 pounds, has dark brown he.:l.r:, porlly bald, served in
the U,6 . Ar.:qr trow 1918 to 1923.
He was arrested for hlrglary in :Midland County,
W.chigan, in 1924, for which ho served a sixty day sentence.
Noithc:r Rnyllt)nd Lane nor hts wife w.l.11 admit their story is a prank.
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0 ver, neither ai.·e able to point out tho exact location of thts incidsit,
The -ArJSU Airforce Intelligence at Solf'ridge Field, Ui.ohigan, has been
ed and the material has been turned over to them.
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