Norfolk, 1947: menino fotografa objeto preto seguido por dois menores

Office Memorandum. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. TO: Director, FBI. FROM: SAC, Norfolk. DATE: August 8, 1947. SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS. Re Bureau Bulletin No. 42, dated July 30, 1947, Series 1947, wherein information is set forth pertaining to flying discs. There is enclosed with this letter a newspaper clipping from the "Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch", dated July 9, 1947. The photograph appearing on this clipping is alleged to represent a flying disc which was observed by [name of minor omitted], a Norfolk school boy, who was successful in photographing the object with his small camera. [The boy] was interviewed on August 8, 1947 by Special Agent (A) THOMAS J. CONNOR, at which time [he] informed that the original negative was given by him to a Mr. BROWN of the Photo Craftsman Service, who in turn furnished the negative to the International News Service. [He] advised that he has an agreement with Mr. BROWN whereby the latter will share equally in any profits derived from the use of the negative by commercial firms or newspapers. As of August 8, 1947 [he] has not received any remuneration for the use of this negative. He informed that he was sitting on the front porch of his apartment which is located on the third floor at [address omitted], Norfolk, Virginia, around noontime on July 8, 1947. He had read numerous newspaper articles pertaining to flying discs and decided to sit on his front porch in the hopes of seeing one and attempting to photograph it. On July 8, 1947 [he] observed a large, black object moving rapidly through space proceeding from the southwest to a northeast direction. He said the black object was followed by two smaller objects which also proceeded in the same direction. [He] explained that the objects were moving at a very fast speed which appeared to him to be much faster than the speed of an airplane, and further, that the objects appeared to be extremely high. He said that they were much higher than the average plane travels in the City of Norfolk and appeared to be above the clouds, and that a white mist followed each of the three objects. [He] was unable to state what the black objects represented, but admitted that they could have been large balloons. He indicated that he has observed small, toy balloons flying through the air, but that definitely these were not the toy type balloons. He said that when he first observed the objects they were at such a great distance from him that it was not necessary that he raise his head in order to see them from his porch on the third floor of the apartment building. He immediately turned around to obtain [continues]. [Stamps:] RECORDED, INDEXED, 62-83894-45, 60 OCT 4 1947, COPIES DESTROYED 270 NOV 18 1964.

Letter to Director, FBI. Re: FLYING DISCS. August 8, 1947. his camera and estimated it took him approximately twenty to thirty seconds, at which time the discs were almost directly over his apartment and it was necessary that he stoop and look up almost perpendicular in order to obtain the photograph, which accounts for the porch railing being shown in the newspaper clipping. [He] pointed out that the day on which he took the picture, the weather was hazy and somewhat cloudy and there was a slight breeze blowing from the southwest in the general direction of the northeast, which is the same direction traveled by the black image which he photographed. Inasmuch as the Army authorities in the Tidewater Area of Virginia are cognizant of the above information, no further investigation will be conducted by this office in this matter. Enclosure. TJC:lab 62-182. - 2 -