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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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Assistant Attorney General James M. McInerney March 14, 1950 Criminal Division Director, FBI CONFIDENTIAL Dulenafad 2040813177 m UNKNOWN OBJECT OVER OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE, MARCH 1, 1950 STUART ADCOCK. INFORMANT STUART ADCOCK, INFORMANT VITAL FACILITIES INTERNAL SECURITY Stuart E. Adcock, operator of Radio Station WROL, Knoxville, is reported to have detected an his radar equipment an object directly over Oak Ridge, Tennessee, at an altitude of 40,000 feet at 11:15 p. m., March 1, 1950. On March 2, 1950, he advised that his radar equipment recorded an object about 100,000 feet high and approximately 18 miles from his home in Knoxville at 11:15 a. m. on that date. It was reported that Naval Reserve radar equipment at Knoxville, Tennessee, did not detect an object on any occasion but stated that the equipment was not considered efficient for aircraft at extreme altitudes. It was further reported that qualified persons at Oak Ridge questioned Adcock and examined his radar equipment. They reportedly found his equipment not too reliable and felt that Adcock was technically wrong on some of his radar theory. The reliability of Adcock was also questioned due to some degree of inebriation. No investigation is being conducted by this Bureau but in the event additional information comes to our attention you will be promptly advised.
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