Editing 1947 flying disc craze (section)

====Twin Falls recovered disc hoax====
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[[File:Twin Falls saucer hoax.png|thumb|175px|right|Hoaxed saucer from Twin Falls]]
On July 11, press reported the recovery of a 30-inch disc from the yard of a Twin Falls home. Residents reported hearing a "thud" around 2:30{{spaces}}a.m., but dismissed the noise as a truck.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/566292718/|title=11 Jul 1947, 2 - The Times-News at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref> At 8:20{{spaces}}a.m., a next-door neighbor reportedly discovered a "disc" and summoned police.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8d1EDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA106|title=Crash: When UFOs Fall From the Sky: A History of Famous Incidents, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups|first=Kevin D.|last=Randle|date=May 20, 2010|publisher=Red Wheel/Weiser|isbn=9781601637369 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

Local police arrived and took possession of the object.  The matter was referred to both FBI and military intelligence.  Multiple officers from [[Fort Douglas]] flew in to investigate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/566292842/|title=13 Jul 1947, 2 - The Times-News at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>Two lieutenant colonels, two first lieutenants, and a civilian.</ref>  Authorities "clamped down a lid of secrecy pending the outcome of further investigation".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/566292702/|title=11 Jul 1947, 1 - The Times-News at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  Local press featured a piece on Army "cloak and dagger" during the disc investigation, mentioning that photographs of the object were confiscated.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/566293198/|title=15 Jul 1947, 4 - The Times-News at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  On July 11, the FBI reported the apparently-mundane object had been turned over to the Army.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/393708035/|title=11 Jul 1947, 1 - The Independent-Record at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

On July 12, it was reported nationally that the Twin Falls disc was a hoax.  Photos of the object were publicly released.  The object was described as containing radio tubes, electric coils, and wires underneath a Plexiglas dome.  Press reported that four teenagers had confessed to creating the disc.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/594877292/|title=12 Jul 1947, 9 - Deseret News at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

The Twin Falls hoax, with its nationally published image showing a bemused army officer holding a disc-like object of mundane construction, has been called the "[[Coup de grâce|Coup de Grace]] of press coverage" on the Summer 1947 Flying Disc wave; in the days following the story, "press accounts rapidly fell off".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=81xoS94LSncC&pg=PA39|title=UFO Headquarters: Investigations On Current Extraterrestrial Activity In Area 51|first=Susan|last=Wright|date=August 15, 1998|publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group|isbn=9780312207816 |via=Google Books}}</ref>