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This section of FBI file 62-HQ-83894 collects Bureau correspondence on flying disks from 1949 and 1950. Most of it concerns a letter to Walter Winchell, passed on by Ernest Cuneo, from Peter Camerlon Jones, who said he saw a top-shaped silver object in the mountains near Los Angeles in August 1947. Los Angeles agents could not find Jones, and Hoover suggested the letter might be a prank. The file also holds a Navy intelligence report on 6 or 7 discs seen over southern Oregon on 27 May 1949, plus letters from members of the public about Chicago and Toronto.
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Miss Laura McClaskey 201 North First Street Geneva, Illinois RECORDED - 50 Dear Miss McClaskey: INDEXED - 58 Your letter dated April 4, 1950, has been received and I want to thank you for furnish ing me the data you related. I am taking the liberty of referring a copy of your communication to the Secretary of the Air Force, National Defense Building, The Pentagon, Washington 25, D. C. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director NOTE: Security Division, Espionage Unit, advised. "Flying Saucer" data is being referred to the Air Force. NJC:0k APR 11 7 19 PM 50 RECEIVED READING ROOM F B I S DEPART OF JUSTICE 24 NOU 11 5199 MO09 1012W 30 1930 2 U
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