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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. 99 …That project then was taken over by the Navy in wartime. Much more advanced models now…
  • p. 101 …It all points to a big advance in the science of flying. Surface indications, then, point…
  • p. 157 …Many theories have been advanced to explain these reports of aerial phenomena over the US. These…
  • p. 160 …official attitude toward the matter? I wish to thank you in advance for your interest and…
RECEIVED TELETYPE UNIT

JUN 30 1 31 PM '50

F.B.I. DEPT. OF JUSTICE

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