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FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 5

Department of War · 209 pages · text by GLM-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…

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OFFICE OF DIRECTOR

GENERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Mr. Tolson___

Record of Telephone Call or Visitor

r. Clegg___

Mr. Ernest Cuneo thru. opr. from eaHed-phoned. NYC

Mr. Glavin___

Hour 10:29am Date July 12, 1949

Mr. Ladd

Phone No.___

Mr. Nichols___

Mr. Rosen___

Mr. Tracy___

Mr. Egan___

Mr. Gurnea___

Mr. Harbo___

Mr. Jones___

Mr. Mohr___

Mr. Pennington_

Tele. Room___

Mr. Nease___

Miss Holmes___

Miss Gandy___

## REMARKS

When informed that Mr. Hoover was not in his office, Mr. Cuneo asked to speak with Mr. Ladd, and after checking the call was transferred, to Mr. Ladd.

Mr. Ladd advises that Mr. Cuneo was calling about the matter he discussed with Mr. Ladd on last Saturday re a flying saucer in California. Mr. Cuneo asked if he could release the story. He was told that this was up to him

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