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DATE:
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FORM NO. 114
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Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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Director, FBI
SAC, Salt Lake City
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FLYING DISCS.
Remytel tenth instant.
On September 10, 1947 an ite~ relative to flyin~ saJcers appeared in
\l.-- . ~e Salt La~e Tribune indica'ting~J two younr couples, Mr . and Mrs. GA}'LON
1' hfLDWELL and Mr. am.Mrs~ RICHA~
RSOM, Lo1<an, Ctah, who had been playing
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bridp:e, reoorted that they saw three brief flip.hts of saucers, the first at
10:40 p.m. and two more before 11 :10 p.m. the eve~i~
Septe~ber 8, 1947.
This news·article~~ contained the narriesof KEITJr1fiJGHES, JO~.KSTON, and
Mr. and Mrs. F~ruNELL of Logan who had likewise.made separate renorts of
havin~ observed these flyinr discs.
Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD ANDERSON, when interviewed by an Afl'ent of this
office, advised that they, in company with Mr. and Mrs. GAYLON CALD'.'JELL, observed
apnr oximatel~• a dozen objects f'lyin_g in p:roup formation at about two or three
thousand feet i~ the air. They stated that they ~irst observsd these o~jects
on Sentember 8, 1947 at 10:30 p.m. when their bridge game broke uo and both COlDles
went out on the porch.
The A~l'DERSONS believed these obiects to be similar in
size to nip-eons and stated that they seemed to be rather ·nhite and illuminated.
T~ey infor~ed t hat the obiects could have been birds; however, they appeared
to be ~ovin~ faster than birds as they circled the city in aryoroximatqly one to
two minutes, and then disappeared in a northern directio.
Mr. and Mrs . ANDERSON claimed to have observed no wing movement during
the flight, and are unable to make up their minds as to exactly what they saw.
Mr . A~JDERSON informed that Mr. and Mrs . CALDWELL are presently en route to an
unknown city in Nebraska.
Mr. KEITH HUGHES and JOAN CROOKSTON both advised that they ware unable
to state how their names appeared in the newspaper as havin,,. observed f l ying
sa..ioers inasrnuch as neither had ever had the op_oortunity to view ~he~e- f.Vin
objects, and the newspaper report was erroneous.
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Mra FRED THUNELL advised that she, her husband,and five other oeople
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had observed flying objeots between 10:30 and 11:00 p.rn. on the evening of
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September 8, 1947.
She stat~d that they saw five iioups, each containinr
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thirt~r-five to sixty small objects, which we~e rather yellowish white in color
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and were circlin~ the city at a hi~h rate of soeed.
Mrs. THUNELL stated that
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these objects Nere several t • o~sand feet in the air and it was i~possible for
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the~ to determine the aze due to the distance. sneed and 9-oudy-z.~
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