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Office Mem
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: 8IRECTOR, FBI
FROQ .JU JsAc' NEW ORLEANS
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LYlliG DISCS
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DATB: March 31, 1950
Special Agent H. WARREN TOOL, JR., of the New Orleans Division, has a
brother, J. K. TOOL, of the Wayne Welch, Inc., advertising agency, 202
Keith Building, 1025 14th St., Denver, Colorado.
J . K. TOOL has advised
Special Agent TOOL that an employee of the Wa;yne ;@lch, Inc. , JEFF'ERSON
B/4RMSTRONG, has been contacted by one G~ORGE ifKOEHLER, 315 Franklin
Street, telephone SPruce 2563, Denver, Colorado, regarding Flying Discs.
KOEHIER is alleged to have told ARMSTRONG in January, 1950, that he
(KOEHLER), lmows a prominent Denver oilman named SILA~VTON, also lmown
as a~vsterious Mr. X", and an official of the Newton Oil Co., Equitable
Build:iiig, Denver, Colorado.
NE\'ITON is claiming that he l eased land in
the Mojave Desert in California and that on this land a :flying disc had
been :found intact, with eighteen three-foot tall human-like occupants,
all dead on it but not burned.
Further, that the disc vras alleged to be
of very hard metal and near indestructible.
KOEHLER is said to have
exhibited a radio set to ARJJSTRONG purported to be a souvenir of the
space d±sc.
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According to ARllST?"l~!G, KOEHL~R has been' telling of this story o:fi' and
on for the three month period prior to January, 19.50, and is said to have ✓
notified ARMSTRONG of it weeks prior to the publication of a flying disc
article published in the True Magazine, and one by FRANX"'"SeULLY published
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in the Variety lJagazine in January, 1950. KOEHIER claimed to have been
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,\f'' visited by DONAI.J.}.--ftEHOE, author of the article in the True Magazine.
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.. \9 \ t \..,Further data was furnished that KOEHLER had been telling the tale so
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proli.fi<.:ally in Denver that he claimed to have had telephone calls from
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Wc~shington, D. c. and from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in which he
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v;as requested to keep the information to himself and that, thereafter,
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he became mysterious about the entire matter.
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rt is noted that considerable publicity regarding these discs has been
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~r· i found in Denver and other papers.
This information is being furnished the Bureau and the designated offices
for informational purposes.
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