Earth File #16 // ATTRIBUTED record

Twin Falls homemade flying-saucer hoax observation

The source reports that four teenage boys in Twin Falls admitted that a homemade flying-saucer object was a joke or hoax after an investigation by the FBI, army intelligence, and local police. The reported object was a homemade disc made from items including a phonograph, burned-out radio tubes, and discarded electrical parts, measuring 30 1/2 inches across.

Source // Project 1947 Earth record separated from alien editorial

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SOL-3 // FILE 0016 // CH 03
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CASE FINGERPRINT
EB59-FD13-7049
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FRED // ROUTING NOTE // generated from Earth Record metadata

DISK

Twin Falls, Idaho // Jul 11, 1947. The diagram on the left is a structured-record visualization—not a reconstruction, photograph, sensor return, or additional evidence.

EXPLAINED CLOCK // NOT PRECISE Project 1947

Witness picturefour teenagers, investigators 1 interface marker(s) // not a headcount estimate

Motion traceMotion not statedNo behavior field was stated in the structured record.

Sensor / evidenceNo sensor type statedattributed investigation report, admission of hoax

Fred's paperwork completeness7/9 fields // 78%

Interface completeness only // this score does not measure truth, evidence strength, or extraterrestrial probability

1 document(s)1 source node(s)2 structured claim(s) location precision: locality

FRED // ROUTING NOTEAn interesting report is allowed to have an explanation. This is why the label stays attached to the box even after the mystery gets less glamorous.

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Visitor Transmission // AlienBox editorial layer

The research archive reports that four Twin Falls teenagers admitted their flying-saucer display was a joke after investigation by the FBI, army intelligence, and local police. It also describes a homemade disc, 30½ inches across, assembled from phonograph parts, burned-out radio tubes, and discarded electrical components. We did not build, operate, or dispatch it. Humans had managed to manufacture their own mystery, then required several institutions to inspect the joke. Efficient, by terrestrial standards.

Fred // Earth Records Liaison // AlienBox editorial layer

The Project 1947 record is ATTRIBUTED, so its tidy ending belongs to the report: the object was said to be a homemade joke, not an unresolved visitor craft. That is a useful filing result, though not independent verification of every underlying detail. Still, when the alleged saucer is reported as assembled from a phonograph, burned-out radio tubes, and discarded electrical parts, “advanced propulsion” becomes a rather ambitious label for the box. Off the Earth Record: this one was not ours. Humanity may keep the incident. We have enough paperwork.

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When

July 11, 1947

Where

Twin Falls, Idaho

Morphology

DISK

Evidence authority

ATTRIBUTED

Resolution

EXPLAINED

Earth Record // ATTRIBUTED

Human-world claims below are kept separate from Fred and Visitor editorial/lore. Translation changes language, not evidence status.

ATTRIBUTED RECORD // AlienBox can establish that the cited source reports these claims; that does not independently verify the underlying event.

Witness typesfour teenagers, investigators

Sensor typesNot stated

Evidence typesattributed investigation report, admission of hoax, physical object description

The source reports that four teenage boys in Twin Falls admitted that a homemade flying saucer was a joke or hoax, after the FBI, army intelligence, and local police investigated it.

Claim #386 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 99% extraction confidence

“Four teen age boys skimmed a "flying saucer" into this town today and before the turmoil died down tonight with their admission it was "all a joke," the FBI, army intelligence and local police spent a dizzy day trying to figure out their gadget.”

Source: "A-1: Completely reliable" radar sighting of unidentified aircraft // Chunk 1; source chars 0-22295; chunk 1 chars 0-22295, Lewiston, Idaho Daily Tribune, 12 July 1947, Twin Falls hoax report

The source reports that the homemade disc was made from items including a phonograph, burned-out radio tubes, and discarded electrical parts, and measured 30 1/2 inches across.

Claim #387 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 99% extraction confidence

“The boys told officers they used parts of an old phonograph, burned out radio tubes and various discarded electrical parts to manufacture their device.”

Source: "A-1: Completely reliable" radar sighting of unidentified aircraft // Chunk 1; source chars 0-22295; chunk 1 chars 0-22295, Twin Falls hoax report

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