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when ufos were flying discs by charles

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lear hoaxes have been part of the flying

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saucer ufo mystery from its very

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beginning shortly after kenneth arnold's

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sighting report on june 24 1947 people

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started coming forward with physical

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disks they claimed to have found in

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their yards and fields or to have

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actually seen flying through the air in

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flames and then crash claimants ranged

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from school children to professional

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adults and there is even a report from a

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catholic priest that received a good

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deal of press the priest's case as well

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as others of this sort ended up in fbi

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files the disks that were displayed were

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obviously homemade sometimes quite

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crudely but there was the possibility

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that these could be responsible for

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valid sightings reports by people who

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were truly mystified besides the

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attraction of getting one's name and

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picture in the newspapers various

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organizations began offering rewards to

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anyone who could bring in a disc that

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would prove flying saucers were real

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according to the article here they are

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early crashes of flying saucers a short

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visual history in the italian magazine

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cielo encelito number six march 2018

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from which much of this blog is sourced

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the rewards were as high as eight

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thousand dollars in late 1947 a flying

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object of any shape still qualified as a

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flying disc people came forward with

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pieces of weather balloons in the radar

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targets and the newspapers reported on

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them as discs the majority of the

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reports showed up in the papers during

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the first three weeks in july one case

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from circleville ohio hit the newswires

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and went national on july 5th 1947

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sherman campbell found the foil covered

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radar target shaped like a six-pointed

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star on his farm a blog from the saucers

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that time forgot on saucer pinup girls

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has a picture of campbell's daughter

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jane holding the target the picture was

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published in papers all over the country

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and the writer points out that many

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papers on that same day and in the days

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that followed had pictures of pretty

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young women allegedly searching for

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saucers or posing with bogus ufos or

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sometimes no saucer at all just

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mentioned in the caption

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father joseph braskey a catholic priest

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in grafton wisconsin reported that on

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july 6 he heard a whizzing sound

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followed by what sounded like a

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firecracker going off he said he went

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outside and saw a 1 8 inch thick 18 inch

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diameter metal disc with a hole in the

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middle and jagged edges he said it was

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warm when he picked it up and weighed

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about four or five pounds in the hole

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was a cluster of wires with something

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that looked like a condenser that was

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about three inches long and wrapped in

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black tape there is an fbi file on this

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case due to the fact that brassy told

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reporters that he was going to call the

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fbi about his find a memo dated july 8

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1947 to the director from sac milwaukee

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informs the director that the agent had

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been called at his home by

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representatives from the associated

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press and the united press who asked him

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for a comment the agent wrote that he

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responded with no comment he says he

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asked the associated press

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representative what the facts were and

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that he responded with the information

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that a circular saw had been found and a

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story had been obtained from a priest

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who had been drinking quite heavily the

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july 8 1947 shreveport times has a story

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of a local man fg happy harston who said

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he saw a flaming disc fly over a

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billboard and land in the street on july

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7th when he picked it up it was cold it

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was a 16 inch diameter aluminum disc

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with some copper wire radio tubes and a

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fluorescent light starter mounted on it

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according to the cielo insalito article

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it was examined by an fbi agent the

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local police and then turned over to a

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military base on july 9 a case from

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north hollywood california was covered

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in hundreds of newspapers often on the

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front page and it also generated an fbi

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file according to an fbi memo dated

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august 27 1947 the agent was told by the

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valley fire department van nuys

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california fire chief that a woman most

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of the papers reported that it was a man

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called and told them that a disk had

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fallen in her garden and burst into

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flames a truck was sent out and the fire

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was extinguished with a hose the disk

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was taken back to the station and a

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picture of it sitting on the fire

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chief's desk was used in many papers and

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magazines including the saturday evening

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post the disc is described in the fbi

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memo as being made of two convex discs

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made of steel fused at the outer edge

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and held together at the center by a

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hollow cylindrical connection the

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galvanized steel fin was screwed to the

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top and a radio tube was mounted on the

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top as well the memo concludes with the

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information that the flying desk was

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turned over to a major at fort mcarthur

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san pedro california the major informed

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the agent that the object was definitely

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a hoax and under no circumstances could

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have flown under its own power there is

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a case where a reward was actually paid

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out on july 13 1947 the spokane athletic

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roundtable paid out one thousand dollars

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to four boys from a children's home in

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spokane washington they reported hearing

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an explosion and then finding a crashed

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disk among some nearby trees the july 14

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1947 spokane chronicle ran the story

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with a picture it was later announced

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that the money was to go towards the

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construction of a new gym at the

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children's home it is speculated in the

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cielo insalito article that the payout

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was actually a pre-arranged donation and

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that the saucer story was cooked up as a

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publicity angle hopefully the dod and

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the fbi weren't compelled to spend any

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time at the expense of the american

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taxpayers on this particular case

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available june 2022 from flying disc

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a book about the people involved in the

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mystery covering the golden age of

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flying saucers

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using newsletters magazines case files

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official documents and more

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sure to leave even the die-hard skeptic

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wandering

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by charles lehrer new york usa

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the flying saucer investigators

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available on amazon from june 2022

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