Case file · Retrieval claim
Twin Falls saucer hoax
On 11 July 1947 a 30-inch 'flying disc' turned up in a yard in Twin Falls, Idaho; the FBI and Army took it, and within a day four teenagers admitted they had built it as a joke.
1947 CE · 42.56, -114.46 · status: hoax
The account
The Army released photographs of the object on 12 July. Coming three days after the Roswell 'flying disc' press release, the episode is often credited with deflating the national press frenzy over saucers.
The sceptical view
A confessed hoax; it matters as a snapshot of how the military handled 'recovered discs' in July 1947.