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SUBJECT: !"LYING DISC H.EPOR'.IED AT
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DATE: August 13, 194'/
HACKENSACK, NEW JERSEY
AUGUST J, 1947 - 1USCELLA.NEOUS
Reference is made to tne teletYPe from the Newark Division
to tne Bureau dated August 4, 194'7 stating tnat a ''Flying Disc" had
been repor ted to n~ ~een seen at HacKens;st!New Jersey on August J
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last by one CHARLES~ELIA, JR. and ',VILLIAJ..~UEX.
CHARI.E0 CASELIA, JH., 287 Euclid Avenue, Hackensack, upon
interview by Special Agent AR'IHUR F. WILLIAMS of this Division, stated
that on Au~st J he had been standing with WILLIAM 'IRUEX, a soldier
stationed at Fort Dix, obser ving a
11ham11 radio rig atop a two-story
house on Simons Avenue, Hackensack. It was approximatel y 7:45 p.m. ,
and tney were in this vicinity for t he purpose of meeting 'IRUEX1s
girlir ieno, one JOYCE Mc FA!t.IAND.
'IRUEX commented to CASELIA that a chil d had apparently
lost its balloon.
<.;ASELLA looked and about a block or a hal1' block
away noticed a rouna, black object moving from south to north and
east of the stop wnere he and 'IRUEX were standing.
CASELIA noticed
tnat it was moving too fast to be an ordinary balloon, but he could
not discern wnether it was globular in form or a disc.
He said it
was about thirty to forty inches in diameter moving north in a hori­
zontal plane about two hundred yards aoove the top of the nill at
Sumnu.t Avenue and Simons Avenue.
I~ proceeded at a steady ra~e,
ellll.tted rio rays, and was moving fast enougn to reqUl.I'e tnem to turn
tneir heads steadily in order to follow· it.
'IRUEX1s girlfriend came
out about fifteen seconds after they first sighted it.
They pointed
it out to her, and she said that it looked like a bird on tne horizon
so small. It faded out of sight shortly thereafter.
CASELIA said
that a line drawn along its apparent course of f .ligb.t would go from
the vicinity of Bentlix, New Jersey to a point west of Westwood, New
Jersey.
CASE.LIA also said tna~ a man on tne porch across tne street
also noticed it and pointea it out to tne women.
CASELIA said that
this man seemed excited but did nothing about it.
CASELLA. said tna~ he was positive it was no optical illusion.
He was not facing into tne sun and saw tne object clearly.
He also
said tnat ne would have thought no~ning of it except ror the speed at
which it was traveling.
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