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Twin Falls, Idaho 'flying disc' found and exposed as a teen hoax

Name: Twin Falls, Idaho 'flying disc' found and exposed as a teen hoax
Start: 1947-07-11
Location: Twin Falls, ID

When: 11 Jul 1947
Where: Twin Falls, ID
Sources: 2 public sources

Twin Falls on the Snake River, near the Idaho town where the hoax flying disc was found in 1947 Albert William Stevens, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

A 30-inch metal disc with a plastic dome turned up in a Twin Falls yard during the 1947 saucer wave. An FBI agent alerted his office and Army officers flew in to take it, but police then said four local teenagers had confessed to building it from radio and phonograph parts as a prank.

Sources

PressTwin Falls, Idaho, July 11 (AP) (Lewiston Daily Tribune, July 12, 1947) (opens in a new tab)Associated Press (reprinted by Project 1947) / 1947-07-12
OtherJuly 11, 1947: Twin Falls UFO Hoax (opens in a new tab)Museum of Hoaxes (Alex Boese)

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