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Event · Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947

FBI Newark teletypes Washington about the Hackensack disc

Urgent teletype at 5:36 pm: an object 200 yards up, revolving slowly, moving rapidly, neither a kite nor a balloon. Its wording becomes the Air Force's whole record of the sighting.

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Mysteries Department. (2026). FBI Newark teletypes Washington about the Hackensack disc [Event EVT0DFY6B5N39SY]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVT0DFY6B5N39SY
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