FBIExplainedConventional
Circular disc identified as saw blade — Grafton, Wisconsin, ca. July 1947
~Jul 1947Grafton, Wisconsin
⟳ Deeper read pending. This record is from the FBI 62-HQ-83894 flying-disc file, whose cursive, clippings and faint scans are under-read by automated OCR. It is flagged for a vision-transcription pass and likely undercounts what the source contains — see the documents collection note.
Analysis — our summary
A reported flying disc submitted by Father Brasky of Grafton, Wisconsin was determined upon investigation to be a circular saw blade with wires attached. This incident is recorded in the Sub-A administrative file as an example of an explained report from the 1947 wave.
As reported — verbatim from the document
“Father Brasky's disc turned out to be a circular saw blade with wires.”
Analyst notes — caveats & confidence
Explained incident. File SUB_A could only be partially read due to file size exceeding system limits (421.1KB). This and subsequent incidents are drawn from the partial content obtained before truncation. OCR quality is moderate.
Provenance
Source document65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A.pdf
Document typecase file compilation
Reporting agencyFBI
Source pages124
DeclassifiedFirst public at this release (2026)
Held classified~79 years (≥, to this release)
Extraction confidence ModerateHow cleanly this record could be parsed from the source — driven by legibility & redaction. It is not a measure of how credible or anomalous the sighting is.