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FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 5

Department of War · 209 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 26 …51 To correspond with SUBJECT given below. Sea O. N. L. Index Guide Make separate report…
  • p. 29 …Sources could see Kerney Lake, 60 miles east of sea smoke rising from the sand mills…
  • p. 41 …I was at 3450 ft above sea level at the time. I was flying a compass…
  • p. 43 …above sea level at the time. "I was flying my ship ... and was traveling about 100…
  • p. 146 …Plains and Delta.) From D.J.C/17:3D Managrophyphotography@sabbox No. (Sea note 2) Slip…
  • p. 156 …Newspapers speculated that they were Soviet guided missiles being tested over the Baltic Sea, either from…
REGORDED·5

62-83894-230

EX-32

Mr. DeVayne B. Johnson Graduate Department of Journalism University of California Los Angeles 24, California

Dear Mr. Johnson

Your letter dated June 2, 1950, has been received, and I appreciate the interest which prompted your communication.

While I would like to be of service, this Bureau has no information available for distribution with regard to the subject of your letter, and I suggest that you may wish to direct your inquiry to the Secretary of Defense, National Defense Building, Washington, D.C.

Sincerely yours,

Tolson___

John Edgar Hoover Director

ARA:mvs

Tel. Room___ 56JUN221950

Nease___

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