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Office Men
um • UNITED'
GOVERNMENT
TO
DTRE~TOR, FBI (62-83894)
DATB: March 21, 1952
FROM
SAC, CHICAGO (100-18999)
SUBJECT:
FLYING DISCS
KA1tbtffYQUIST, INFOrulANT
Mr . KARL NYQUIS~, an artist living at 2417 North Burling Street,
Chicago, Illinois ( telephone LI- 9-1479) advised S~ MYROU H. TRETER
on March 11, 1952 that he saw a 11.yinf disc at 9 ::00 AM on March
6 , 1952.
NYQUIST stated that he -,,as looking out of a window at h:.s home
which window faces south, when he saw a flying disc at approximately
7,000 feet above Fullerton Avenue . The angle of elevation of the
disc above the horizon was about 45 degrees .
The disc came out
of a cloud in the east, stopped and hung JllOtionless in mid-a.ir
for a split second, then flew due south at great speed.
He described the disc as approximately six feet in diameter, circular,
white in color with a bluish tinge.
The disc, he said, appeared to
have been constructed out of a metal similar to aluminum.
He also
stated that he saw no exhaust, lights, or heard no sound connected
with ita movement:,.
He notE:!d nothing on 1t as to how 1t could maintain
its even f11ght and believed it to have been radio controlled.
He
said it uisappeared out of sight in aporoXimately three seconds,
estimating the speed at 600-700 miles per hour or more .
He said it
went so fast it appeared to flutter .
Nhen the disc disappeared from
sight it woe about the size of a golf ball on the southern horizon.
NYQUIST made a sketch of the disc and the sketch and the above
infonnation were furnished to the local offi ce of the Office of
~ecial Investieations.
MHT :BJB
RECORDED -79 ,
INDEXED - 79 1
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