65 hs1 834228961 62 HQ 83894 Section 1

Summary

Section one of FBI headquarters case 62-HQ-83894, covering serials 1-52 across 185 pages of 1947 memoranda, teletypes, press clippings and correspondence. Items include a July wire story about a priest near Grafton, Wisconsin who found a metal disc, remarks by psychiatrist Dr. Winfred Overholser, and a teletype reporting a hexagonal disc recovered near Roswell, New Mexico that resembled a high-altitude weather balloon and was being sent to Wright Field. Also present are John Edgar Hoover's acknowledgments to correspondents and contact with counterintelligence staff of the Fifth Army in Chicago.