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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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COMMUNICATIONS SECTION APR-81950 TELETYPE Mr. Tolson ___ Mr. Ladd ___ Mr. Clegg ___ Mr. Glovin ___ FBI BUFFALO Mr. Nichols ___ Mr. Brown ___ Mr. Tracy ___ Mr. Hoopo ___ Mr. Edmond ___ 4-8-50 12-52 PM Mr. Mohr ___ Tele. Room ___ Mr. Nease ___ DIRECTOR, FBI URGENT Miss Gandy AerClutch FLYING SAUCER COMPLAINT. INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM ELMIRA PD. THAT FLYING SAUCER HAD LANDED NEAR ELMIRA, NY AIRPORT. RESIDENT AGENT AT ELMIRA ADVISES "FLYING SAUCER" WAS CORRUGATED CARDBOARD BOX, FORTY INS. IN DIAMETER, ONE FOOT THICK AT CENTER. ENTIRE BOX PAINTED ALUMINUM, CROSLEY RADIO TUBE ATTACHED TO CENTER OF BOX WITH LOOSE WIRES HANGING FROM EACH SIDE OF TUBE, TRUCKER-S RED FLARE CONNECTED TO BOTTOM OF BOX, WHICH FLARE HAD SCORCHED GRASS AREA BENEATH BOX. NO WITNESSES AS TO ACTUAL FLIGHT AND BOX IS DESCRIBED AS TOO FRAGILE TO WITHSTAND FLIGHT. BUREAU BEING ADVISED AS PRESS INQUIRIES HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AND ARE BEING ANSWERED ACCORDING TO THE ABOVE FACTS. MAYNOR CORRECTION FIFTH LINE FORTH WORD SHOULD BE "ATTACHED" ORIGINAL--DIRECTOR 12-55 PM OK FBI WA LIR memo from mw. Brookering 418/50
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