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This section of FBI file 62-HQ-83894 collects Bureau correspondence and memoranda on flying saucers from 1952 to 1954. It holds letters from the public, which J. Edgar Hoover forwarded to the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations, and a 1952 teletype about a saucer-shaped light over the Savannah River Plant. It also includes an FBI Laboratory examination of the burned cap of scoutmaster D. S. DesVergers, which found no identifying residue, and instructions to field offices to refer disc reports to the Air Force.
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IJOHNSON COUNTY
•DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL DEFENSE
M □ NR □ E AN D JACKSON STREETS
FRANKLIN, INDIANA
ROBERT D. WOLF
Director 20 January 1953
Mr. J. Edgar Hoover
Director Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D. C.
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Dear Sir:
I would first like to apologize for writing to you direct, however, I have
cleared this morning with our State Director and he suggests this procedure.
fie have been having some success with our Ground Observation Cor ps as vre have
four ( 4) posts here in the coun~ f. , r , r ,/
Last Fall I was contacted by on~ of our local business men wanting to know if
I would be ir.terested in joining ~nternational Flying Saucer Bureau. I told him
that I would ~nd did join with the idea fully in mind of having the local peopl e who
are interested in Flying Saucers also work in our Civil Defense Program. We are
only too willing to co-oper&te i n any way we can with Civil Defense. The city of
Franklin is approximately twenty (20) miles southwest of Indianapolis. on the dual
lane highway US :{f:31.
I ~ enclosing a letter which was received last October, as well as the current
• issue o~ACE REVIEW. Would like to know if this organization has been cleared or
is subversi ve in any way.f- ----.I would appreciate your expediting this information back to us so that we will
know what steps to take in further enlisting interested persons in our program.
If you do not r equir e the enclosures please return them.
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