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Continues the 1947 flying-discs file. Field reports include a Hackensack, New Jersey sighting of a round black object moving too fast to be a balloon, and an Army request that the FBI check out Richard S. Shaver of Lily Lake, Illinois -- the pulp-fiction figure behind the 'Shaver Mystery' -- on a tip he might know the discs' origin. A pilot's detailed account of a 'flying mayonnaise jar' emitting silvery rocket-like flame from a perforated tail is relayed via newspaper. The section closes (per the sampled last pages) with routine correspondence between the Bureau and Army Air Forces field offices confirming ongoing liaison arrangements as of late August 1947.

Why this rating All sampled incidents rest on a single uncorroborated visual witness with no instrumentation; the file itself treats the Shaver inquiry as a long shot, and none of the sampled descriptions rule out conventional aircraft, meteors, or balloons.

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  A Hackensack, New Jersey witness and a soldier companion watched a round black object move too fast and too steadily to be a stray balloon.

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  Army Air Corps Intelligence asked the FBI to investigate whether pulp writer Richard Shaver, whose 'Shaver Mystery' stories predated the 1947 sightings, had genuine information about the discs' origin.

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  A pilot reported a fast-moving object shaped like a perforated jar emitting silver flame from its tail, which he took for a form of rocket propulsion.